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Coming Soon! From the CoC True Artillery

Hi all we just thought you would like to see a taster of the CoC's latest addon. As you know we have been working hard on the MLRS Project with UK Forces but what you may not know is that that is just the tip of the iceberg.

In conjunction with some of OFP's  top MODs We have developed a Unified Artillery (UA) system.

For some time the one great thing people thought was missing from OFP was real indirect fire weapons. Considered by many as the queen of the battlefield (Chess allusion). It is why the coalition forces in the second Gulf War were happy to leave large enemy armies "Fixed" in position and go round them. Once the enemy ability to move was interdicted by air power, the enemy can either give up or die; as the vast power of artillery destroys them piecemeal.

The other major use of artillery is battlefield preparation. If you know where the enemy is going to be, as was in the case in the first Gulf War, then your simple solution is to fire on them from long range to soften them up before your attack. 

Those are just two examples of how the CoC UA can and is (by the beta test team and developers) being used.

CoC Unified Artillery screenshots: May 25

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1) The DKM M109 Paladin 155mm Howitzer in Modrava

2) M109 Platoon takes aim at Loukov (range: 9500m, up 100m)



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3) M109 by lighthouse, southeastern Nogova


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4) Their target: the mountaintop castle in northeastern Nogova (range: 8500m, up 400m)


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5) spot round hits its mark



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6) Firing for effect



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7) SEB M252 81mm Mortar in action



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8) The target: the fountain in Loukov



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9) The view from above Loukov



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10) Radar feature: Black dots indicate the current position of mortar shells inbound from the SSW



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11) Loukov suffers under the barrage



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12) A section of mortars is in defilade 2500m to the east of Trosky and 200m below. This fire mission is without precision error (=dispersion), to demonstrate UA's true accuracy. Note that all six mortar shells have the same vector.


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13) So before we apply dispersion, we are hitting about 3m long of the target



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14) The UKF MLRS in action

 

 
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