All your base
All your base
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Been in an international exercise with the British acting as opfor. We were a maintenance company in a cache in a wooded area.
The Opfor walked into our perimeter at night, got detected early by our sentries. Everyone got stood to and we manned our trenches in front of our vehicles that were parked camouflaged in the treeline. While completely ignoring the dozens of people firing blanks at them from almost all directions (we didn't have MILES gear), the Opfor set up a few machineguns in the open right in the middle of the killzone in front of our trenches and dumped a few belts into our control office vehicle and tent. I even personally gathered a few guys, flanked them and challenged them from not even 20 meters away. After a lack of response, we all dumped a magazine into them. They completely ignored us. We just stopped firing because it became obvious it was a waste.
They eventually turned around and left. They then claimed and bragged that their raid was a success and that they had destroyed our HQ.
I left the army one year later. What a fucking joke.
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(we didn't have MILES gear),
Eh, I recall some guys messing with the MILES on their AT rockets to make it basically a machine gun. Hilarious for everyone who wasn't an observer.
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I always wondered why they dont use paintball in these simulations. Instead its like when I was 12 playing army with my friends
Because they use MILES gear hooked onto the actual guns. Paintballs would have the exact same issue here of not penetrating a tent that an actual .50 cal would have obviously penetrated.
Paintball could only simulate relatively close range. Some close quarters training does use actual off the shelf paintball, or more expensive paint rounds in actual guns, but for full scale operational simulation where firefights might take place at longer ranges, MILES is a better solution. MILES also gets hooked to vehicles for vehicle on vehicle combat.
None of the simulation options are perfect, which is why people in control of it sometimes have to interact.
We used to use simunition when i was in. It’s basically chalk paint balls that you can shoot out of your m16/m4. They stung like a motherfucker.
I'd assume accuracy has to be part of it. Paintballs don't fly in a straight line for very far at all, a short enough distance that I can believe it actually becomes useless as a simulation of real firearms usage