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Does the Claymore qualify as a mine in the strict sense of the true function of mines as devices which channel forces, or deny territory or act as permanent barriers around hard installations. Really they are more an infantry "weapons system", emplaced in key locations temporarily, and designed to be used again. Unlike true mines which are usually buried and become "a friend to no side" when they are left in place and are a hazard long after a particular conflict is over. I think the Land Mine Moratorium was only dealing with "dumb land mines" IMO the Claymore does not fit that definition. I understand the moral implications on the use of landmines throughout the world. As far as the game is concerned, I do agree that Claymores should be a part of the US Army weapon selection. Probably for the Russians and Ukrainians as well.

Again sounds made by flying projectiles are more distinct when they are over your head. In Vietnam my experience with mortars was usually at fairly short range, especially during a night bombardment you could sometimes hear the shells leaving the tubes. Unless the bombs were landing really close by you couldn't hear them in flight only the sound of the impact. The favorite mortar of the NVA was the 82mm variety, pretty large, and when targeted really close to you they made a whooshing or whistling sound as they passed. It was always said that as long as you could hear them they weren't going to land right on top of you. When they landed, the explosion made a sound as if the air was being ripped apart, what was really loud was the sound of the fragments zipping through the air. VC and NVA usually had FOs directing fire during the day, so the mortar fire was often very accurate and scarey.

Good question, most audible sonic booms are created by aircraft flying at altitude. A high velocity bullet will make a cracking sound overhead if it passes near someone. (not a pleasant sound). I would guess that the trajectory of a Khrizantema is fairly flat, and the range is within a mile, so for anyone on the ground when one passes by it would probably give off a small boom when in supersonic flight. Probably would not even break glass.

Hiya Patch . Please do something neat with Heckle and Jeckle and poopy hats. Show these twits what its all about!!

The chatter of children.

Vielen dank, Scipio, your hard work is appreciated.

Loads of fun so far, into mission two now. I have learned that Javelin Missiles don't work too well in the forest. Thanks Imperial Grunt for all the hard work! Semper Fi!

Emrys has never even been a Squire, let alone an exhalted Knight or even a Knight of any kind exhaulted or otherwise. I'm surprised Shaw didnt make that point, but we all know his mental acumen has increasingly faded over the years. If you ever expect to raise your status here young Panzer Mike, you had better study up on MBT history and lore.

Sometimes? Analog is better than digital all the time, since digital is not a real sample of sound but an electronic representation of a sound with the higher and lower frequencies discarded. For someone with really fine tuned hearing, listening to digital music especially can be a disappointment.

http://community.battlefront.com/topic/26109-face-hardened-armor-on-german-tanks/ Found this old discussion....very technical, but answers some of the questions posed here.

Probably thinking the game will actually tell him what it is.

Hmmm that is a good idea, I think I'll try it at the Woroblin Bridgehead

How sad....and you actually call it civilization?

John your point is well taken, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail operations involved more aircraft than artillery anyway. However is your point to push BFC to improve Russian arty targeting times in the game by pointing to an account that is over thirty years old and not quite substantiated.

I'll never tell.

Heckle is always on the left, twit.

Heckle and Jeckle strike again.....

Wonderful, a city I have always wanted to visit.

I think you are rather too enamored with doody, perhaps it was some slight during your childhood, or parental neglect. Slide on over there, I'll give you your shot.

As someone earlier said that Panther G is in excellent condition. Almost as if it rolled off the assembly line right into this guys garage. There is hardly any wear at all on the road wheels, except that caused by the Bundeswehr dudes dragging the tank across the road to the flatbed.

Persephone would be proud of you dopes. At least she operated out of the dung heap. You two revel in it!

Afghanistan has not really been a country as we know one to be. My in depth knowledge of its history is limited. They have been a highway from Asia to Europe for centuries. Never really establishing a national identity. We should have beat feet after crushing the Taliban. We just love nation building. I'll try the book, thanks.

Not my words, but yours. The country was not always Islamic, granted the Mujahideen are relatively new players, but yet the people in that region have been fighting forever, against who really doesn't matter at this point in time.

Sure they were tough, in their way of thinking, the VC were fighting for the freedom of their country, North Vietnamese were fighting to reunite their country, artificially divided by meddling Westerners. They saw it as elephants versus grasshoppers. All the USA saw was Red. We never seem to learn the lessons of popular uprisings, even though we fought one against the English. Since we are talking about Afghanistan, how long have the Mujahideen been fighting against various colonial powers? Yet they are still fighting.

In what context John? The US was doing basically the same thing back in the 60s along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Our game takes place in 2017, there are far more sophisticated mechanisms in place to establish fire missions on unobserved targets. Plus in today's world who is actually unobserved?