I can see the sense in more firepower organic to the infantry freeing up the artillery to prosecute longer range targets, while retaining the ability of the heavier guns (and missiles) to support the infantry where needed. Even back in WW2 there were the 25pdr regiments providing close support and the larger guns for longer ranged work, but both could turn their efforts to other roles when needed and possible.Tempest414 wrote: ↑11 Nov 2023, 17:00 As I said before for me I would change the infantry Battalion maneuver group to have a 120mm mortar platoon and a Brimstone overwatch platoon and then give each rifle company 2 x 60mm mortars this would allow the infantry to fight from 100 meters to 30 Km's in turn allowing the Artillery to get on with the deep fight and if needed backing up units as needed
If we take a Light Mech battalion it should have IMO
Infantry weapons working from 0 to 800 meters
company support group = 12.7mm , 40mm GMG , javelin , 60mm mortar working from 1 to 3 Km's
Battalion maneuver group = 120mm mortar , Brimstone working from 3 to 30 km's
Artillery = 155mm and M270A2 working from 20 to 500 km's
Being a picky type, I'd suggest the infantry fight is from 0m to 5km from the forward infantry platoons with those assets. Further would be either extending the mortars too far forward or purely Brimstone.
Brimstone in the infantry battalion I'm always torn on because it's range is so much greater than all the other assets and likely the ISTAR assets available to the unit. On the other hand it's still effective at short ranges (up to always including all values below) and modern data links allow higher level ISTAR assets to provide concentration of lower level assets.
(as an aside, I figured I'd link this as the WW2 method for concentrations, which was in my head when thinking about artillery support in general: https://britishartillery.co.uk/maindoc. ... %20Targets)
I guess the minimum ranges cited are about desirable ranges and from the asset itself? Since there will always be a scenario where firing at targets less than those value can crop up.