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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
Interesting technique. I have heard of a creeping barrage before but not this one. Using the flash from the gun and the resulting boom to determine location, usually figured out within 3 minutes. Pretty damn impressive for a time that had no computers at all. Used all the way up to the Vietnam war.
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Artillary at that point was mostly fixed. It was difficult to tear it down, hook it to a truck or horse and drag it to the next location. so the idea of shoot and scoot didn't exist. So it was pretty academic in terms of the biggest threat to your troops being artillery, there fore it had to go.
For the most part with WW2, because of concepts like the Blitzkrieg and the advent of both lighter guns with heavier shells, and self propelled mortars and artillary, it became more difficult to fix and destroy artillary because for the most part you'd fire three or four barrages and then get moving to keep up with your army.
By the end of the second World War artillery had caught up to Infantry and armor in terms of its mobility, The Katushka was the ultimate in terms of WW2 artillery.