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To: Chainmail

15 tons for towed artillery is lighter than the same size self-propelled.

Towed artillery is *always* lighter, always able to be carried further by helicopter and cargo jet/turbo-prop aircraft than will self-propelled artillery.

Towed artillery will *always* require less maintenance than self-propelled artillery, and will always have more flexibility (e.g. pull up a different truck to tow if one truck breaks down).


43 posted on 05/16/2013 6:30:09 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Yup. And the bigger towed stuff is unusable on a modern battlefield. Simple fact.


45 posted on 05/16/2013 6:40:58 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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