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Originally Posted by Blitzzz
All of these are direct fire. Not that you can't do "plunging" fire. Plunging fire is done with a direct fire weapon, but will normally be beyoud the max effective range of the round. ie. Ma duece out beyoun 2500 meters, if you knew the right elevation you could "lobb" rounds in on troops over 4000 meters. You wouldn't get much feed back at that range but would likely get some heads down.
Blitz
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Manuals from WWI timeframe have extensive coverage of machine guns utilizing plunging fire. Massed, plunging fire. walking ahead of infantry. I remember thumbing through one at the Infantry School some time back. A google search also turns up quite a few references to MG's being used in this way during WWI
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Last edited by abc_123; 11-17-2008 at 23:58.
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