Longer range, more easily moved.
Counter battery fire makes fixed guns just about obsolete.
A foolish thing.
Patton said something like, fixed fortifications are monuments to stupidity. So are fixed guns on the modern battlefield.
True that.
“Patton said something like, fixed fortifications are monuments to stupidity. So are fixed guns on the modern battlefield”.
Patton learned a lesson at Metz. Metz was fixed and we had a terrible time with huge losses before that was taken.
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man. If mountain ranges and oceans can be overcome, then anything built by man can be overcome.” General George S Patton
And counterfire radar makes even mobile installations problematic.