"The tank is in sighting position (only TC:s eyes visible to the
enemy): I see the enemy tank behind a field in a forest to the left:
Ill give a firing command: Tank, 25 , 1100, forest , engage! Driver
hears this and drives the tank in hull down position and same time
gunner moves the turret to that position and when he sees the target,
he fires the main gun. After the main gun is fired, driver
automatically drives back to sighting position. And I start to look
next enemy."
This is important to notice in our doctrine. I don't know of
other
armies, but we fire a maximum of two rounds from the same position.
Usually at least three different firing positions should be prepared.
All this balances the relatively slow automatic loader as the loading
generally happens when we move to cover and new position.
Our army is built on German tradition rather than Russian. Above all,
much of our armour tactics have been taught us during –42 and -43
from the Wehrmacht. All is "Finnished" of course to match our
environment.
