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Impact Tolerance?
The range of time in which all projos must impact the target?
Battalion ToT per ARTEP in early-mid eighties, +/- 2 seconds.
Never shot MRSI as an ARTEP task in a 155 or 105 battery.
As to target effect, at lower ranges (i.e. shorter ToF) a 24 gun battalion is still putting 48 to 72 HE M107 on tgt +/- two seconds of ToT.
That's a lot of rounds and hardly a limited effect. We still mass fires and this is no different. If I'm engaging MRSI, I'd expect to do so as nothing less than a battery and, preferably, as a battalion fire order.
Commander's intent drives my engagement criteria as a Battalion FDO but damn near every Field Artillery appendix to a Fire Support Annex in an OPORD typically specified battalion-directed engagements unless a battery had been dedicated to a specified task-force (not done in my day AT ALL except in regimental armored cav squadrons w/ an organic HOW btry).
Beyond that, who cares? Nobody's shooting enough these days to justify any of this crap.
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