ORIGINAL: nikolas93TS
ORIGINAL: PzGrenSam
Very good! When you need some detailed information about "planned artillery delivered mines", feel free to contact me.
You are German, right? Could you give me an overview of artillery and MRLS deliver mines used by Bundeswehr; eg. when they were introduced in service?
Also, any insight on DPICM is highly appreciated, as this argument is notably hard to research, with most of the sources are treating post-Cold War period. The Dutch company Eurometaal NV was licensed by a US manufacturer to produce M483A1 155mm DPICM for NATO nations in its facility in Zaandam, but first deliveries were made to the Dutch Army in 1989, which is presumably when the plant entered operation.
While I know German stockpiles of cluster munitions include 155mm DPICM artillery projectiles, M26 MLRS rockets, 110mm LARS artillery rockets etc. I don't know much when cluster ammunition was actually adopted by Bundeswehr and when Rhinemetal acquired the licence for production.
I don't get some production information about the DPICM right now, but the german version of the M109 can fire the M483A1 from (1975) and M864 from (1987). But LARS and MARS have to fire smash/suppress enemy tank formations.
LARS 1 - 110 mm, 1971 with AT-1/AT-2 scatterable mines (Diehl production spring 1976/1978 (AT-2)) and fragmentation
LARS 2 - 110 mm, 1981, 36 Tubes in 18 seconds, with three types of ammunition are available: fragmentation, anti-tank mines (AT-2) and smoke.
I only know that the german M109 used fragmentation, long-range HE-FRAG, smoke and combat-lighting
MARS - M270, 12 tubes, 1993/1994 the German Armed Forces get 154 MARS and 9360 Rockets with 262k AT-2 Mines
The normal M26 (with M77 (DPICM (Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition))) is forbidden (Ottawa Convention from 1999). The new BAT (Brilliant Anti-armor technology) is only for the NATO Alliance Case. Furthermore the old rockets from LARS can fired.
Ammunition: AT-2 (german developed), XM31 (GMLRS, with different warheads SMArt or FRAG-HE), LAR (with adapter RPC's), M30 (new Cluster M85, like M77), MSTAR, M26 (with M77 DPICM)
Information about the AT-2:
Range: 10-38,5 km
28 Antitankmines in one AT-2
336 mines with only one MARS (12 AT-2 = 336 Antitankmines)
Example zone: 400 x 1000 m
with different 6 time settings (max. 96 h) and self-destruction
(3h, 6h, 12h, 24h, 48h, 96h)
Preparation time for a new antitankminefield with AT-2: 30 minutes
Time to activate the antitankminefield with AT-2 (and to fire the AT-2s: 5 minutes
The zone size and number of mines can be calculated from the MARS crew. You can -disrupt-, -turn-, -fix- and -block- the enemy with this scatterable mines.
I hope you can do something with it.
Cheers
Sam
P.S. I get the error:
You are not allowed to post links, emails or phone numbers for 7 days from the date of your tenth post. When I write: "
...can fire the M483A1 from (1975) and M864 from (1987)..." without the 2.
from... and more for other reasons...