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RE:��NGP^85: Range fire Soviet and NATO tanks?
Sorry to tell you this, but whoever gave you that info needs to be put on the drug and alcohol program, because he is obviously high!
A moving M-60 series or M-48 series tank, especially in the early 1980's could not hit the broad side of a barn if moving more than 10 mph on a smooth road! The stabilization system sucked! It only worked in the horizontal plane and not that well. When we did gunnery in the moving tank engagement, we would drive 6-7 mph on a dirt road and be fortunate to hit the target.
The normal engagement technique was firing from the short halt, which is how they did it in WWII.
As I mentioned above, the odds of a stationary M-60A1 of hitting a stationary tank-type target at 3000 meters on the first round was 10% (as per the FM of the time). The ranges presented for first round hit look as if they are more like maximum engagement ranges.
Regards,
CptCav
Edmund Burke (1729-1797): "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Ronald Reagan: “Détente: isn’t that what a farmer has with his turkey until Thanksgiving Day?â€
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