[neverdem]

Plus Motars are not aprroved for overhead fire unlike the "KING"

What do you mean by "overhead fire", friendly units under the trajectory? What about danger close fire missions? It's been over two decades since I was junior enlisted FDC.

[RedlegCPT]

You can not fire over the heads of friendly units with mortars. This is a training resriction, that may or may not be lifted during combat. I would have to defer to the gentlmen that hvae just come back from OIF. As far as DC I would much rather have 105mm howiters firing DC that ANY mortar.

I have placed steel on target with a 81mm and watch the next three rounds walk off the target. All 4 were from the same tube with absolutly no change in the data sent to the tubes.

BY the way OIF retaught all the crunchies and CDATS that Artillery is the "KING" when they found out that they could prep the objective and have very little left to fight them. This is coming out in AAR/Lessons Learned form OIF.