jhungary
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Now you start mixing up things. First my problem with your post was NOT the range of the javelin!
Second: You talked not about a fight tank vs. tank, no, but tank with HE-Frag against infantry. If you miss a tank even by few cm you missed it completely. If your 120/125mm HE-Frag shell hits 1-2m near the center and not exactly in the center of the group ... well, you know what happens.
Oh my god, do you have comprehension problem??
This is what I wrote
This is what you wrote3.) Sorry was meant to say flat land. The problem is that Russia still have not control the air even after day 6, running large Armor Column in open field is going to make it easy prey on Ukrainian Air Asset.
Also, it's worth notice that the tradition engagement distant for Javelin is 800-1200 meters, somewhat within T-80/ T-90 gun range (Which is about 1500), technically, you can engage Russia Armor with Javelin (Not sure what is the spec of N-LAW) outside T80/T-90 Gun range at 2000 meter, but the operator would have to be very skilful, because there are a lot of adjustment to make, and I am not sure if Ukrainian are that skilled on using Javelin. So I would suggest that they are probably engaging Russian Armor at range about 800 to 1000 meters
Lol, you as a "military expert" really believing the gun range of a T-90 is 1500m? I repeat: 1500m? From were you got this utter nonsense?
First of all, I NEVER even mentioned the word "Range" any where, Engagement Distant is NOT a range. So by quoting my word and then said "Range", that's MISTAKE #1
Engagement distant vary by A LOT OF DIFFERNET FACTOR, in the field, we call them "comfort zone" a minimum distant I felt comfortable to engage an enemy, it could range from how you adjust your system, calibration, or even weather. Range on the other end is the lower/upper limit of things. Like Minimum Range is the lowest number you can engage, for example, the minimal Range of a 40mm Grenade is 10 meters because it won't armed unless it spin that many rotation, Maximum Range of an Aircraft is the maximum number of miles (or km or nm) it can travel with maximum fuel on board.
In the case of Javelin, the MAXIMUM RANGE FOR a Javelin missile is 4000 meters (If I use CLU Light Weight Missile) but you probably will not be able to hit that target at 4000 meters practically. Because to do that, you would need to adjust for gravitational pull, weight compensation, and also how you follow the missile with your scope, for a trained operator, like me, I can hit a target between 1500 - 2000 meters. That is the engagement distant for most of the Javelin Operator. For less trained guy, I gave them800-1200
A Tank is a different thing. And actually at distant, it's easier to hit a tank than a human size target. Have you ever go to a gun range and fire a gun? The Further away from a target, the Minute of Angle change, for a 1 degree angle you missed to the left or to the right, at 10 meter, that MOA is going to be about 1 centimetre. at 100 meters, the MOA would be at 10 centimetre, at 1000 meters, if your rounds are 1 degree off target, you are talking a miss my 1 meter. Hence you have a better chance to hit a bigger target. Use of explosive HE or Anti-Personnel round does not deviate that degree of inaccuracy, you just compensate by having a blast radius. And tank don't do 1MOA.
And finally, just because your tank gun can shoot 2700 meters, that does not mean you will hit anything at 2700 meters, there is a minimum engaging distant between different target, the furthest is against Hard Target (building and so on) that's because that IS THE BIGGEST TARGET, the next furthest is another Armor, because that is the next biggest target, and finally the closest is human target. That's because it's the smallest. Effectively if you are aiming at a dude at 1500 meters or more, you WILL miss more than you hit, because you are trying to hit the smallest target at a large distant.
Not familiar with how a tank work is your Mistake Number #2.
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