i've been on a NATO exercise in Poland (Drawsko Pomorskie) with German 155 SPG's doing the business, didn't seem to be any problems then, though apparently they were verboten from mentioning that it used to be in Germany...
there seems to be some confusion over the definition of training areas - the stuff where we used to bomb around ripping up roads, crashing into houses, tearing up crops and throwing claim forms out the back of the AS90's wasn't on training areas, it was on civi owned fields that the German government had recieved permission for us to train on or public roads - training areas are military owned ranges where you drive where you like and blow shit up willy-nilly.
very large training areas are rare in Europe, Salisbury Training Area is one of the biggest (actually, i think it is the biggest..), and full on Bn group manouver warfare with Cav, lots of Artillery and CAS/AH while perfectly doable on an area that size, does benefit from a larger stage... Sennybridge, six times the size of the Glen of Imaal, is less than half the size of Salisbury Plain...
there seems to be some confusion over the definition of training areas - the stuff where we used to bomb around ripping up roads, crashing into houses, tearing up crops and throwing claim forms out the back of the AS90's wasn't on training areas, it was on civi owned fields that the German government had recieved permission for us to train on or public roads - training areas are military owned ranges where you drive where you like and blow shit up willy-nilly.
very large training areas are rare in Europe, Salisbury Training Area is one of the biggest (actually, i think it is the biggest..), and full on Bn group manouver warfare with Cav, lots of Artillery and CAS/AH while perfectly doable on an area that size, does benefit from a larger stage... Sennybridge, six times the size of the Glen of Imaal, is less than half the size of Salisbury Plain...
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