Sadly.
We’d done workups on having helicopters fly our equipment sling loaded to a location, setup somewhere else after drop off, fire, then scoot.
How practical it would have been, meh.
Not for me to say but it was an idea in the 90’s.
We did find a need for 105mm howitzers in Afghanistan, this immediately after the push to drop the M119 system in favor of the m777 or paladins.
I was out by then.
“We did find a need for 105mm howitzers in Afghanistan”
A Vietnam Vet buddy of mine said the troops preferred support from the 105’s as 5 RPM support when in contact was better than 1-2 RPM from the bigger guns (155/8 IN/ 175).