TRADOC Bulletin 1: Range and Lethality of U.S. and Soviet Anti-Armor Weapons

Abstract

This bulletin presents basic data on the principal US and Soviet tank guns, antitank rockets, and antitank guided missiles. They illustrate that on today's battlefield: what can be seen can be hit; what can be hit, can be killed Curves and tables have been derived from information supplied by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the US Army Materiel Systems Analysis Agency. Each graph or table describes the best expected performance of the weapon: its capability under optimum conditions of full daylight, ease in target acquisition, complete target visibility during firing sequence, and operation by a skilled crew. Obviously, weather, terrain, combat stress, and inadequate training will degrade performance. But as both sides discovered in the recent Arab-Israeli War, modern weapons are terrifyingly destructive, and resourceful commanders can find ways to employ them to effect no matter what the situation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1975
Accession Number
ADA392784

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Training and Doctrine Command

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Anti-Tank Weapons
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Army Training
  • Doctrine
  • Guided Missiles
  • Hit Probabilities
  • Projectiles
  • Rocket Propelled Grenades
  • Rockets
  • Second World War
  • Tank Guns
  • Training
  • Warfare
  • Weapons
  • Wire Guidance

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Library and Information Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design