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I think he is right, Mountains are Strategic assets which provide tactical benefitsI am sure you mean to say tactical areas !
I think he is right, Mountains are Strategic assets which provide tactical benefitsI am sure you mean to say tactical areas !
My Dear asianobserver,Mountain locations are often strategic areas.
Also the Op Maps being discovered by the Germans. It was a wipe out. 4 Airborne Divisions of the Allied Airborne Army were para dropped which were to meet the XXX Corps Advance. But a lot of things went into its failure like, communication break down etc.If i am not wrong the ignored Intel about the level of German presence in the area..
XXX Corps suffered fewer than 1,500 casualties, which stands in stark contrast to the 8,000 casualties suffered by the 1st Airborne Division. On several occasions, units of the flanking British Corps made contact with paratroopers before units of XXX Corps, and fought on to support them until the end of the operation. The higher toll by the 101st Airborne Division reflects the reality that aside from contending with the local German defenders, they also had to combat German troops retreating from XXX Corps advance
Ray Sir agreedOpen a map and check Skardu.
Use this interactive map:
Skardu satellite view
Now check the mountain ranges and its height and see how long that link up would take place, if indeed it can take place.
If the link up does not take place, how long will the Paratroopers who have done 'deep penetration' last? Will there not be very strong reaction from the Pakistanis?
Let us say air drop of replenishment is contemplated to increase the 'staying power' of the Paratroopers who have 'penetrated deep'.
Will the PAF, which would be active like hornets, allow every IAF aircraft through its airspace? If not, how much will actually go through and in the correct quantity and correct type?
On the problem of fighting in HAA and translating plans, one may check the 1965 War records of the Kargil Sector.
Not likely, those roads have bridges, that can take only a specified amount of load. If the bridges on those roads are designed to take loads of only 15-20 tons then your tanks will collapse those bridges. At best you can take BTRs or BMPs for convoy protection.Looks like cakewalk for T-90, BTR-80, BMP-1/2, perhaps even for Arjun (not sure), if it is a one way thrust.
weren't the tanks used during the 1947 war...?Armour requires manoeuvre space or else it is a sitting duck!
Yes indeed, but these are very small, smaller that BMP, We don't have any thing like that now..weren't the tanks used during the 1947 war...?
Infantry all the way..Not likely, those roads have bridges, that can take only a specified amount of load. If the bridges on those roads are designed to take loads of only 15-20 tons then your tanks will collapse those bridges. At best you can take BTRs or BMPs for convoy protection.For any mountain blitz, the fighting will be infantry/ heliborne intensive, with heavy mortars and howitzers leap frogging for support as fast as they can.
Thank You sir.@shubhamsaikia,
Its a very good topic you have started, though it is better to think abt current situation from what we have already, 81mm mortar ( Not rapid fire auto mortar ) mounted on a Jeep is a flexible idea..