John Kettler Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Was trying to find a good writeup on the Soviet conclusion that Direct Fire was 10 x as effective as Indirect Fire (called by them "Fire from covered positions"). As I result I found this, the translated notes. of the Voroshilov Academy introductory course on Soviet Artillery. It is replete with detailed info, explanations of Soviet artillery related acronyms, types of fire and more, including a bunch of norms in the form of tables. When it comes to counterfire from US and NATO, can tell you the planning figure from, I believe, Sidorenko's The Offensive they were using in assessing time before counterfire landed was 4 minutes, and that was from the generation of counter mortar and counter battery radars before the far more capable TPQ-36 and TPQ-37 Firefinder radars. Thus, the figures in here are conservative to say the least and presumably reflect much older data.http://www.xenophon-mil.org/archivevoro2/lesson1.htm Regards, John Kettler 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeondTheGrave Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) Looking at the 'Homework'/Recommended reading section on your linked article I found this: https://paxsims.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/sustainability-of-the-soviet-army-in-battle.pdf Which others may find of interest. Just some nice 700pg new years reading, lol. Somebody should create a 'research and document repository' thread where we can pool all the great reading that gets posted here. I for one would appreciate it! Edited December 28, 2021 by BeondTheGrave 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 BeondTheGrave, Welcome aboard! Skimmed my find, but kudos to you for your discovery, a discovery I very much wish was a book, not a PDF! Brutal for me to have to read even 20 pages of a PDF, let alone such a monster as you found. Emphatically agree with your proposal for a dedicated thread on our research and doc discoveries. We have things like that in other forums and have found them valuable and useful. It's amazing what's available now if you know how and where to look. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireship4 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 (edited) Thanks John. I found three volumes of the lectures in pdf: https://fuldapocalypsefiction.com/2021/11/22/review-the-voroshilov-lectures/ Edited December 28, 2021 by fireship4 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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