Naturally, there was a rationale behind this safe distance. It mainly took into account the power and coverage area of modern 155 mm self-propelled howitzers.
For domestically produced 155 mm self-propelled howitzers, at a range of around fifteen kilometers, with a shell deviation of roughly fifty meters and a lethal radius of fifty meters, a distance of five hundred meters was extremely safe.
Of course, nothing could ever be guaranteed one hundred percent. Live ammunition had actually been used in previous exercises as well, although never artillery of such a large caliber.
But smaller-caliber explosions occurred at much closer ranges.
There was danger in everything, but if they feared danger, then there was no need to go to war.
However, when Jiang Yan Hai submitted the report, the higher-ups were still somewhat shocked. Although he had listed every detailed safety measure in it, they still found it rather unbelievable. If they were talking about safety, though—
This was actually safer than having live rounds fly directly over their heads during training. After all, when bullets were whizzing overhead, no one could guarantee that someone would not suddenly lose his mind and look up. That would truly be courting death.
And shells like these could be prepared in advance.
"How do you plan to handle the close-range preparations?" The one questioning Jiang Yan Hai was neither someone from the regiment nor Fan Tian Lei, but a Senior Colonel from the theater command who looked to be around fifty. Jiang Yan Hai did not know his exact position.
"Shells use different fuzes. We can modify them into self-triggering fuzes. For shells beyond the safe distance, we can use independent remote triggering, coordinating with dud shells fired by the artillery brothers in the distance. We can directly detonate them ourselves. That way, we