Timeline for What would a modern soldier trained and equipped to operate in burning forests look like?
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 12:52 | vote | accept | SealBoi | ||
| Feb 28, 2019 at 8:56 | answer | added | Obelisk | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 3:47 | comment | added | user6760 | sergeant: "soldiers, what the hell are you doing inside the fire!" soldiers: "scorched earth policy test, sir!" sergeant: "fail, all of you! go to push up position and give me twenty now..." | |
| Apr 13, 2018 at 0:44 | answer | added | Oleg Lobachev | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:31 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JBH "then downvote it" I did... and voted to close as Primarily Opinion. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:29 | comment | added | JBH | @RonJohn, if you don't like the question, then downvote it, but there are obvious opportunities fire would represent if properly equipped. A perfectly valid answer might conclude, "...and that's so much stuff that it's impractical to do this," but that doesn't invalidate the value of the question. You're not permitting the OP to use his/her imagination. Let's not do that. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:26 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JBH but you need a lot of equipment (aluminized fire suit, which will be hot even without the fire, oxygen tank, insulation for the gun, etc), and then what do you do with all that stuff when you're out of the fire? No, this is a silly question. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:20 | comment | added | JBH | @RonJohn, it's a battlefield and, if properly equiped, going through the forest fire is quicker and provides cover (honestly, how far into a fire can you actually see?). This is an interesting question as an improperly equipped force would avoid the fire like the plague. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:16 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Thucydides "setting a forest fire" as what a North American or European thinks of as forest fires would be a bad idea, but napalming jungle can be very effective. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | Alexander | @SealBoi you are getting a lot of pushback here because, as Renan said "No amount of high-tech gear will protect soldiers". You can dress them as firefighters, but that will help only a little. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Demigan | @Ronjohn hence I had the "/during the fire" in the comment as well. And with "right after" I envisioned following the fires at very short distances, having to deal with potential bursts of flame in your direction or spots that burn for longer that you still have to cross. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Demigan going in after the fire has burned out is stunningly not the same as operating in a forest fire. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 20:49 | comment | added | Thucydides | Setting a forest fire is ridiculous, since it is going to be very difficult to control (what if the wind shifts it towards you or your allies?). If the need is to clear a section of forest, a "Daisy Cutter" Fuel Air bomb would be used instead. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 19:22 | comment | added | user535733 | The legal principle of Proportionality is relevant...in real life. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | SealBoi | @bendl Modern-day technology | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | bendl | What is the technology level? | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:57 | comment | added | SealBoi | @RonJohn I did say in the body: "I don't know if this is plausible, or why they would do this, but I ask that you take these conditions as real when answering." | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:42 | comment | added | Demigan | @RonJohn think of a Vietnam/Korea like environment where forrest/jungle battle is pretty much the baseline. The US had tactics napalming parts of the jungle, so having the ability to get troops right after/during the fire to take ground could be very useful. Not saying its going to be useful enough for specialist forrestfire troops but it might be. | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:36 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:28 | comment | added | Raditz_35 | Starting forest fires is a real tactic by the US military. They just don't send in soldiers | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:27 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | RonJohn | Forest fires are hot. Why should anyone go in them? | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:15 | comment | added | Alexander | You should tell us about the opponents, first of all, why do you think they would survive in burning forest? | |
| Apr 12, 2018 at 18:10 | history | asked | SealBoi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |