Infantry Unit Tactics, Tasks, Weapons, and Organization

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SPHs are sitting ducks compared to a towed howitzer? I've never heard a greater defiance of reality. The M777 can leave its firing position in no less than a minute or two, while SPHs do so in seconds after their last shot.
The M777 is less off-road capable and slower when towed than a SPH and utterly dependent on aerial transportation (and a air situation that allows for the use of rotor aviation!) for any fast movement.
The M777 is the sitting duck.

Though I agree with you on a number of points, and am a great beliver in the utility and worth of SPH/G, towed artillery is still a useful capability especially when you consider this;

Agree w/what.. that if you slug it out btwn an SP & a Towed How. the SP wins; of course. But what we were talking about was its place in Combined Arms Team.

Its like this convo is being held in a vacuum, devoid of any Integrated Air Assets, its bonkers. An SP would be a sitting duck b/c if it pokes its head out a C-A Teams it'll get ripped to shreds by a combination of CA Airpower, HENCE COMBINED ARMS.

And if it were in a MAGTF it would slow it down b/c it can't be sling-lifted, 110mph vs 45mph=more speed. Not to the Overall Objective, like say Bagh, but to the Next Objective, then lifted to the Next.