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US military tank capabilities have fallen after two decades of fighting insurgents.
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“Many teams are fighting the principles of tank artillery,” an armored expert wrote.
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The US military focuses on training its teams to make the most of their advanced tanks.
The US military may have the best tank in the world. But it has problems: the rusty tank artillery.
“There is a gap today between the capabilities of the tank weapons system and the capabilities of the teams to use them for the greatest impact,” Robert Cameron, a historian of the US military armored branch, told one of them. matter For Arzuer Magazine, the Vocation of the Army tank forces.
“tanks have the ability to connect various goals, whether it is stable or moving in a longer distance,” Cameron wrote. “Many teams are still fighting the principles of tank artillery.
For two decades, the importance of anti-rebellion in Afghanistan and Iraq has affected the ability of the US military in the mechanical war. For example, Iraq began on an armored charges into Baghdad, but turned into an anti-rebel warfare that included high-traited tank teams. used as pedestrians for the foot patrol. Now the US military must prepare for the kind of war, which is the characteristic of World War II and Cold War: Operations by the major mechanisms — brigades, divisions and celebrities — against armed opponents such as Russia and China.
“We have a new or strengthened focus on large fighting operations, which include a longer range and the range of participation, and most training to use the full capacity of our fire, ammunition and visual control system,” said Steve Crivitsky, head of the arms and artillery branch.
But this requires brush on initial skills such as Topchi. Cameron referred to a 2019 study, as well as the results of the 2022 Sullivan Cup, a two-year-old army contest in Fort Benin for Best M1A2 Abrams main war tank tank Teams. “The creams were fighting with Borisite, finding goals and recognition, participation of machine guns and a sense of goal,” he wrote.
To hit a tank with the main pistol of the target — a 120mm ball for Abrams — a few steps are needed. The goal (or several goals) must be determined and identified, and the proper explosives must be loaded. Teams need to know how to deal with problems such as estimates and a moving goal.
The Sulivan Cup, which is being held in Fort Moore, Georgia, assesses the capabilities of the tank teams. A team of M1 Abrams, the first battalion of the 66th armored vehicles, the third brigade fighting team, the fourth part of the infantry, participated in the 2024 competition.Sartip. Woodlinny Escarn/US Army
This is not the first time the US military has a tank with tanks. The massive expansion of the US armored power in World War II required rapid training.
In the 1960s, the artillery artillery of the army tanks and its demands. Vietnam Warwhere tank teams were used as alternative shoes on the ground. Until the 1970s, the army was forced to face a surprising Soviet attack against NATO armored vehicles. “For tank units in Central Europe, this horizon was really terrible, because the popular predictions of the expected age of a tanker were measured in hours and a few days,” Cameron wrote.
In the 1980s, it was much better for the introduction of strict artillery tests, better united tank teams, better sympathy, Laser’s location, and better training institutions such as the National Training Center in California. These attempts in the Gulf War in the 1990s were of a lot of fruit, when US tanks Iraqi armored vehicles demolished In the latest major armored war on armored vehicles.
But again, the artillery skills in the 2000s bowed to the demands to fight rebellion. “The armored brigade fighting teams, faced by temporary lines and recurrence, have found short time for traditional artillery and mixed weapons maneuvers,” Cameron wrote. “The artillery flow from half-year to perhaps once or twice in three years.
Over the past 25 years, US military mission teams have been allowed to set fire to 102 bullets from the main tank pistol a year. Each tank company has a 18-day direct training for each company, with additional opportunities at home and abroad, and four hours of simulitor hours a month (which “equally operates about 2,000 2,000 main weapons in their simulity”, according to Krivitsky.
The result is that the US military is stuck in a contradiction. His tanks are better than ever. M1A2 SEP (System Implementation Package) V3 and Future M1e3 — A tank designed by the army and the global dynamic system, creator M1 Abrams — Be proud of the force of fire and protection that makes a lion lion in the 1940s or the 1960 Patton tanks that look like Flyentston’s cars.
The tank teams are also not incapable. “I think our teams are currently playing a lot of standards,” Krivitsky said.
Cameron warned of much reading of competitions such as the Sullivan Cup. “It doesn’t have to be a sign that the entire tank’s strength cannot work,” he told Business Insider. “She simply means that a certain team struggles with a skill at that time.
The real question is whether they are able to benefit the most. vibes. It is clear that the battlefields are becoming less friendly to tanks: Russia. estimated They have lost more than 14,000 armored vehicles, including tanks in three years of fighting in Ukraine.
But trained tank teams can get a lot despite the terrible possibilities, because Israel is on it. Golan Heits In 1973. The US military requires tankers that can shoot at the long distance — 1,800 to 2,400 meters (2,000 to 2,600 yards) — and quickly covers several targets and destroy them. “In general, the average time to defeat a threat to our teams is about 31 seconds,” Crivitsky said.
US Army Armored Armored Strategy Strategy plan The goal is to improve skills and training. A new artillery manuscript — the last was released in 2015 and is scheduled to be released within the next four months.
The modern army tank power is useful that is not previously in World War II: a comprehensive program for tank artillery. “You didn’t have a standard top-tank program that enters World War II,” Cameron said. “Often, often, basically, you had units that did their jobs.
The chance to blow the ball alone is an incentive. “I loved to be a tanker,” Krivitsky said. “Dameri made me want to stay in the US military. That was the best thing I had so far.
Michael Pek is a defense writer whose work has appeared in Forbes, Defense News, Foreign Policy Magazine and other publications. He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Rutgers. follow it on Twitter Twitter and Linkedin.
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