Airmobile units

[Don Maddox]

Here is some info that some of you may find of interest (in case you have't already seen it).

Col Lunsford,

I have a suggestion regarding airmobile units such as the 101st. I cannot figure out how to transport such units which are part of an airmobile division like the 101st such as the Div HQ units, Eng, FA, supply. I would suspect that all units in an airmobile div could be transported by helo. However, in DA I can only get the battalions and brigade units which were designed to be airmobile to load onto helo. Is there anywhere this could be implemented? Or am I missing something.


Thanks

Charles Belva


And Jim's reply.

Charles,

Yes, any unit that is not tracked or aviation can be air assaulted. The key is to place the PZ within 5 kms of the unit footprint.

Jim


Is anyone working on any air assault oriented scenarios?

[CPangracs]

Here is some info that some of you may find of interest (in case you have't already seen it).


And Jim's reply.


Is anyone working on any air assault oriented scenarios?
I've done a couple of scenarios with Air Assaults, and the main things you need to remember:

1. Avn Support Units (UH-60; CH-47; etc.) have almost zero RCP (Relative Combat Power).

2. ANY and ALL enemy ground units WILL engage your air assault with small arms if it crosses the footprint of the ground unit.

3. It normally only takes being engaged by small arms fire from one unit (type immaterial) to abort an air assault.

4. Keeping the above in mind, realize that the chances of a deep air assault going through without abort are VERY slim without excellent intel of the battlefield!

Hope this helps

PS - You can also airlift supply convoys to create FARP's and caches!;)

[Don Maddox]

3. It normally only takes being engaged by small arms fire from one unit (type immaterial) to abort an air assault.Which isn't all that far from the truth. You wouldn't intentionally plan an a major assault operation to go over significant air defenses, that's for sure. Having said that, a major air assault will probably run into a least some ground fire from either small units that were previously unknown during planning, or scattered remnants of broken enemy units. The reason for doing air assault in many cases is to outflank/outmaneuver the enemy and get into his rear in order to disrupt his operations and seize key terrain. If a small enemy unit on the ground could abort a whole air assault, we never would have had the huge operations that did take place during Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom.

4. Keeping the above in mind, realize that the chances of a deep air assault going through without abort are VERY slim without excellent intel of the battlefield!

Well, it's unlikely that a commander (from the US anyway) would want to plan an air assault unless he felt pretty good about the available S2. On the other hand, I have been on some big assaults where we had AH-64 or AH-1 aircraft that flew with us. Their job was to respond to any unexpected threats.

PS - You can also airlift supply convoys to create FARP's and caches!;)
Yeah, I've been thinking of doing a scenario which made extensive use of a FARP. Pretty cool feature.