Days of Burning, Days of Wrath by Tom Kratman

Author:Tom Kratman [Kratman, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, Science Fiction, Military, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9781982124762
Publisher: Baen
Published: 2020-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

Not every firearm in the legions had a thermal imager, not nearly; they were just too expensive for the budget to support. Instead, snipers had them and one or more machine guns per weapons squad had them. In the case of Negrón’s squad, he had control of their one thermal imager, though some other weapons squads had two. One thermal, of course, wouldn’t do for three machine guns. What to do; what to do? Well  .  .  .  maybe it will do, at least for a while.

Negrón knew what he wanted his guns to suppress, so, once the smoke had built up enough to obscure the edge of the base, he called the first gun forward.

“Set up your tripod here,” he said, pointing at a spot on the ground, “oriented there.” His finger gave a general location to the south. The crew, who hadn’t had a lot to do on their long voyage but gun drills, set up the gun on the tripod with a minimum of fuss. Thereupon, Negrón slapped the thermal onto the gun, ordered the gunner away, and got behind it himself. He set the range on the thermal, then elevated the gun until the sight was on the building—indeed, on the particular window—he wanted suppressed. Then he locked the gun into place on the traversing and elevating mechanism, telling the gunner, “You’re on now, close enough. When we begin to engage, I’ll give you the thermal back for ten seconds or so, so you can make fine adjustment.”

“Works for me,” the gunner agreed, before turning to curse the ammo bearer for being just that bit too slow in bringing up the heavy boxes of ammunition.

Negrón then took the sight back, stepped about five paces to the left, and called up the next gun.

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