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                          FIRE SUPPORT

    TOPIC:  Less Sophisticated Gunnery Methods.

    OBSERVATION:  The field artillery must be proficient in
delivering fires using older,  less sophisticated gunnery
methods, such as observed firing chart, executive officer 5
high-burst registration, ranging round, and mark center of
sector techniques.  Because of the wide open areas with
relatively no relief and many times no accurate maps, the
Allies in North Africa found that the artillery had to use
basic gunnery techniques to provide the necessary support.   Our
situation should be a little better with modern position
determining and survey systems, coupled with automated compu-
tational devices, because equipment fails through exposure to
heat, dust, sand, and enemy action.

    LESSON LEARNED:  Units should practice the basic gunnery
techniques.

    VIEWER NOTES:


    TOPIC:  Use time and variable time-fuzed munitions to kil~
and point-detonating fuzed munitions to screen.

    OBSERVATION:  The Allies in North Africa and the Israelis
found that point-detonating fuzed munitions very often buried
themselves in the sand prior to bursting, drastically reducing
the casualty producing effect, but the bursts raised large
clouds of dust/sand which effectively screened units move-
ments.   The air bursting munitions were more effective casualty
producers.

    LESSON LEAWNED:  Artillery units must prepare to use
point-detonating high-explosive ammunition to screen unit
movements when smoke/white phosphorus ammunition is depleted.

    VIEWER NOTES:     -


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