What will you do? Follow-on to the Airborne/Geneva Conv
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I know!! Put booby trap on the LZ!!! When they drop then BOOM!!
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skimmed through the geneva convention and there is no such article protecting paratroopers. the convention mainly deals with medics, pows and treatment of neutrals or civilians. So this shooting of paratrooper thing is something of a NS myth, or maybe something commando PCs tell their troops to 'zhuang dan'
That makes paratroopers fair game, go ahead and mount that mg on its tripod and set 84 mm to airburst and fire away.
If you want to do your own research, heres the link, like i said i only skimmed through
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Any commander who drops his paratroops into such a firezone is not worth his salt anyway...
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Since when was airborne attacks and fortified objectives obselete??
Heard of Op Mindano, as for fortified objective, in our context its relevant as ever, our terrain and climate prohibites of limits mobile warfare and that makes fortified positions still useful. -
shoot the commandos while they are still in the air, and how do u identify who is a medic anyway? esp. since most such ops are done at night. . .
airborne troops are used only when it is absolutely necessary, chance of discovery is quite high even with HALO, and with the size of airplanes used by airborne troops, well, u get the idea, radar will pick them up
the only advantage that airborne troops will actually have is that enemy radar will only know that large planes are in their air space but NOT WHERE the troops are dropped.
i think airborne troops are best used when u have an emergency and enemy defences have to be breached quickly and no proper force can be thrown together in time (unless u are using mass airborne drops where u can expect to have only a fraction of the force you sent actually reaching the objective, since many will be killed before they do anything
anyone with any ideas on use of airborne troops?
my two cents