3 Tochka-U ballistic missiles are about to hit your M109 Paladin in a counter-battery strikes at the same time. What do you do?
3 Tochka-U ballistic missiles are about to hit your M109 Paladin in a counter-battery strikes at the same time.
3 Tochka-U ballistic missiles are about to hit your M109 Paladin in a counter-battery strikes at the same time. What do you do?
laugh as they fail catastrophically and kill the operators
watch as they miss by a couple miles and then return fire with intelligence provided by the 3 billion western intel-gathering aircraft and satellites assisting me
Staying put is probably the safest option.
these are just rebranded SCUDs that operate by minute of grid zone good enuf
Laugh about the fact that a missile as big as that has the same CEP as my 155mm howitzer at max range and hope that my armor holds up against the fragmentation, but if it doesn't i will die knowing that the absolute state of the Russian industry is incapable to bear the setback of wasting three ballistic missiles on a self propelled howitzer battery lmao.
stay still because with 150m CEP the missile is no threat to my armored vehicle
Seeing as the odds are against their even getting a near miss, carry on with the current fire mission. Then move about a half a klick.
>first one explodes during launch killing the operators
>second one fails to denotate upon impact harmlessly burrowing intothe ground right next to me
>third one does successfully explode, but it lands like a kilometre away from my position
safest bet is to just do nothing
I find these ballistic missiles peak comfy tbh. Reminds me of RA2.
Tactically shit myself and put in a prayer to the big man upstairs
Then laugh my ass off when they miss. Fear is irrational.
Have driven away 4 minutes ago? What do you think the time-to-target is for those heaps of shit?
With the dispersed fires doctrine, my M109 battery has each gun about half a click or more from the others, so the three missiles have the ability to hit three guns max. And the CEP of the Tochka U is larger than its kill radius, so even if the Russians programmed our locations perfectly, there’s a kp of like .2 for each missile, which means there’s a 49% chance anyone in the battery gets hit at all if no evasive actions are taken.
But we’ll be in contact with a counterbattery radar which can provide incoming hit location estimates, and that will allow anyone unfortunate enough to be endangered by the incoming missiles to know that they are endangered and take cover.
So there’s like a 10% chance these three missiles knock out a gun or cause a casualty.
drive away.
You fell right into the russian trap then.
Driving a mile away means that you are now actually more likely to get hit by the tochka that they sent on your original position that you would have been if you just stayed there.
i dispersed my artillery before firing because i'm not a moron and it's standard doctrine for everyone. then i wonder why my adversary would think of using a weapon that keeps demonstrating a 300m CEP in the counter battery role and not against stationary targets like it's designed for
Deploy a decoy kindergarten and stay put. Even if the Russians ignore the decoy, unlikely, the chance of them hitting me is lower than the chance of them hitting themselves.
Good thinking, the standard decoy maternity ward would not suffice against a tochka.
Close the hatches and start moving.
Also should be pointed out Tocka-U has no antiarmor warhead it's effect against M109 and APCs would be marginal.
Breathe a sigh of relief as I'm not in an orphanage, children's hospital or crowded shopping mall.
I watch them land in a large radius around my vehicle while wondering why the frick I stayed in one place for what must've been several hours it would take to call in a ballistic missile in counter battery role.
Dude in pic related looks like me in the Air Force. Gloves on and all.
>First Sgt.: Please get a haircut before the 4-star gets here on Friday...