Mountain Strike Corps - 17

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Artillery Distinctions in the Indian Army.

Light - Mortars
Field - 105 MM or 122 MM
Medium - 130 MM/155 MM (Heavier Guns)
SATA Battery for Brigade Level
and SATA Regiment for Division Level or Corps Level Directly

Speaking of the Artillery Division. The Division shall have 2-3 Artillery or Composite Artillery Brigades.
A regular Arty Brigade has about
2/3 Field Regiments,
1/2 Medium Regiments,
1 Light Regiment and
1 SATA Battery

Composite Artillery Brigades have a Mixture. They might directly hold a SATA Regiment as well. However
it generally includes
2/3 Rocket Regiments Pinakka/GRAD BM or SMERCH MBRLS,
1 BrahMos Regiment and
SATA Battery.
On occasions the Brigade might also have Field/Medium Regiments.
 
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105 MM IFG


However I feel the M777 are going to be the desired gun for the mountains.



These Guns can be air dropped or taken under copters under sling. In case we do the Artillery Brigade of the Airborne Division should be equipped with these.
 
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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.

Tactics will consist of fients and main thrusts by infiltration (so logistics will have to depend on animal transport for the assaulting units.

Also to understand what it means to capture a 200 km axis - the distance from Jammu to Punch is about 170 km.
Now imagine Jammu as the start point - capture Aknoor/ Sundarbani - capture Nowshera - capture Rajouri - capture Manjakote - capture a major pass called Bhimber Gali - capture Surankote - capture Punch.

In 1947-48, capturing Jhanger to Punch, took a whole year. Today a war cannot last more than a few weeks, due to a number of factors.
True.

I did not think about bridges.

Light armour all the way, along with infantry and massive involvement of airborne troops. No point sending in armour columns without securing the heights.
 

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Arty such as 105mm are main as these are most numerical so does 122mm D30, Though at the end of day 120mm & 80mm motar are the one mostly provide close support, India also have 160mm Mortars specially for mountains..
 

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Arty such as 105mm are main as these are most numerical so does 122mm D30, Though at the end of day 120mm & 80mm motar are the one mostly provide close support, India also have 160mm Mortars specially for mountains..
India has 160 mm but they are obsolete, and very few Light Regiments have 160 mm left. Most are 120 mm currently. I think for a Mountain Strike Corps, the Engineers Brigade is going to play a major role
 
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I too have the film.

It was, as per some, a bold plan. Possibly, too bold for coordinated planning that it demanded!

Had Operation Market Garden, worked out as planned, it would overcome the last natural barrier to the German hinterland and the Allies would have been in Berlin before the Russians.

At Arnhem, the British 1st Airborne Division encountered far stronger resistance than anticipated. The troops holding one end of the Arnhem bridge could not be relieved and were defeated in detail. The remainder of the Division were trapped in a small pocket on the West of the Bridge. And then the whole operation became a disaster and a total failure.
Why can't the supplies be air dropped as well.?
 

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Why can't the supplies be air dropped as well.?
I think the Germans got a lot of Allied air-dropped materiel because the DZ was so close to the line between the opposing forces.
 
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