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Iterator said:While in AAP (TOW platoon) in Bosnia in the late-90s, our platoon received a briefing from GEO TECHs about GEO TECH capabilities. The GEO TECHs related a story about an incident during a previous deployment (I do not recall which roto) concerning a tank firing in a village. The GEO TECHs said their trade was able to provide AAP with grid locations from which a TUA could engage the tank - but was out of the tank's range (the story ended with a near-miss and the tank fleeing).
Can anyone, with first hand knowledge, confirm the incident and the use of the TOW missile?
Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of incidents where Support Weapons have been used by a CF unit (something other than personal weapons or sniper rifles)?
Note: I'm wondering more about the weapons/systems used rather than the incidents themselves.
During our tour in Croatia in 94 (1 PP on OP HARMONY), C6s were fired a couple of times to discourage random pot shots by bored Croat Home Guardsmen at our OPs. We also staged a full-blown TOW firewpower demo for the local Serb command structure, using their own anti-tank range outside Benkovac (near Zadar). TOW Platoon shot up a bunker, some old hulks, and topped it off with the good old standby of a tank (old T-34) filled with POL and C4. Afterwards we let the Serb officers take a look at the systems. They were very impressed: the TOW II that AAP was firing was a far more powerful system than the little Sagger the Serbs had. TOW also ripped up the tank hulks quite nicely.
In my company we deployed all our support weapon forward on our line: C6, .50 cal, 60mm and Karl G, either mounted at the OPs or in hte APCs. I also had a sniper team. Fortunately we never had to open fire.
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