Vehicle identification overview
Vehicle identification is a useful skill for anyone on the battlefield, and a requirement for many of the more specialised roles. While some vehicles pose only a minimal threat, some can halt an entire platoon by themselves. As such accurate indentification is crucial to good situational awerness, planning and tasking.
Identifying a vehicle can be done at three levels of depth:
- Vehicle class
- Subclass witihin vehicle class
- Specific vehicle model
Not all vehicles within a class fall under a subclass.
Vehicle identification covers only military vehicles. Any other vehicle should be referred to by it's common name (e.g. pickup truck, bicycle, jetski).
In the criteria for classification, the following terms are to be understood:
- Autocannon: an automatic gun with a caliber between 20-60 mm
- Cannon: a gun bigger than an autocannon
- Direct fire: firing a weapon within the line-of-sight of the user of the weapon in a (relatively) flat trajectory
- Indirect fire: firing a weapon outside the line-of-sight of the user of the weapon
