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That's An Engineer Speaking
"Most certainly, I do not want to support SPHs in a fire support base. That's way too much digging."
Hard to have overhead cover for a towed system and still shoot 6400 mils out of a star formation on a FSB. If I have to take incoming and can't displace, make mine S.P.
Still, OoE, the operational mobility of towed cannon is critical to guys like the 101st in particular. The 101st was able to leap 200+kms with a brigade during Desert Storm into an FOB. Guns were shooting within 20 minutes. That's unbelievable operational mobility and the firepower provided by that F.A. battalion air-assaulted in just behind the initial lifts was critical to mission success, IIRC.
Towed is perfect in Afghanistan. The counterfire threat is minimal and all the other towed-skewed advantages abound.
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