![]() The artillery unit will fire rounds indirectly into an area where the tanks are and it is primarily the splinters of the shells that will defeat the tanks and a certain number of direct hits to the roof. To keep it simple high explosive (HE) artillery defeats tanks via the level of fire concentration and statistics. And I'm not sure if we still have them but NATO had artillery deployed mines, so as to slow an enemies advance by having to clear and recover disabled vehicles and sweeping for mines constantly. I never say any when I was on Paladin's, but we have specialized anti-tank rounds as far as I'm aware. One thing I would say is that if a conventional conflict ever occurred between NATO and Warsaw Pact for RS, given the massive amounts of tanks and artillery on both sides, massed artillery fires would have been even more effective at killing tanks in the open than they were in WW2. I'm not too familiar with its use in the various Arab Israeli war(s), Korean War, or Gulf wars. Even later at Bastogne American howitzers trapped in the town used their limited ammo to engage with some effectiveness German AFV's. During the Allied landings in Sicily, the Allied landings at Salerno and then later at Anzio, the Normandy landings, principally around the Caen sector where German panzer formations were focused. After the initial rout, the Americans put up a last ditch defense on the road to Allied supply dumps at Tebessa. Army was at the Kasserine Pass in western Tunisia. ![]() ![]() The first use of howitzers stopping tanks WW2 on that I know of was done in the U.S. Ill avoid writing an essay by giving details i know but here are some instances were howitzers have engaged tanks with considerable effect. ![]()
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