Hmm... sorry for digging this one out, but it seems nobody yet did...On 2002-12-11 23:31, Hellfish6 wrote:
Well... MLRS units should have outstanding anti-armor capabilities. That's what they were designed for.
As far as I know, MLRS units are meant for fire saturation, not anti-armor support artillery. I copy here the stats for the MLRS, taken from The Operational Art Of War, Volume 2 equipment list:
MLRS 227mm SPMRL, year 1983, anti-armor: 0, no anti-armor munitions, anti-personnel: 93, range: 36km.
A little explanation for those not familiar with TOAW may come in handy: 93 AP is a very high value, meaning "personnel" with "infantry on foot or unarmored vehicles". 0 AT means they'd do very minor damage on tanks (TOAW assumes an AT value equal to about 10% of AP if no dedicated AT weapon is present), basically only a direct hit would damage an armored vehicle.
Besides, I checked every other rocket artillery on the list, and every single one of them has 0 AT and a very high AP value (top o' the line being the Soviet BM-9A52-2 300mm SPMRL, AP: 168, made in 1988)