BDA From "The Battle of 73 Easting"

[GunSlinger]

Here is an actual BDA (Battle Damage Assessment) from "The battle of 73 Easting" which took place during the 1991 Gulf War. It is a very good read, change pages via the "Prev/Next" buttons down at the bottom right hand side of the webpage.

http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/declassimages/army/19980729/980715_sep96_sagwi1_0001.html

[Mav]

Another pretty good document with maps of phaselines on the march towords Kuwait..

http://www.math.usma.edu/people/glen/73easting.pdf

[Grenny]

What strikes me, is that a good share of the hits seem to be blue on blue!!

One can understand the stress in such a situations...so mistakes happen. And if things like that happen to US-troops(which are from my experience very well drilled), it shows to me what a shitty place to be such a battle field is.

Edited January 20, 2010 by Grenny

[LtGeorge]

SB simulates frats as well. I'll never forget when I was in a M1 with Bradleys behind me, while I was engaging a distant T-80 to the front. Suddenly I blew up and was dead.

After action report: Bradley kiestered me from behind with TOW while engaging T-80.

[Ssnake]

Yeah, but our frats are purely accidental to the extent that another unit suddenly moves into the line of sight in the moment where the other is pulling the trigger. What we do not yet model is misidentification due to bad lighting conditions (both false-positive and -negative, each of which have their own interesting consequences).