[RatSlayer]

Actually, I think that link tended to support my case.

Many of the problems with CAS are real but solvable. However when your howitzers are 100 Km behind the lines waiting to be moved forward, they are useless. This was very evident in Iraq, where the artillery was left in the dust by the spearheads.

Towed artillery batteries are also very suseptible to CNB weapons. So instead the Pentagon buys enormous, heavy, SPA weapons that have CNB protection, but these are even more difficult to get into a theater than towed artillery.

That is why I think these new mortars will be a good thing, IF they travel with the spearheads then the troops will have some heavy weapons support when the CAS is late to the fight.

[RedlegCPT]

Were are you getting your information? We fired over 5000 artillery rounds in the DS fight in OIF.