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| At a range of
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|1200 m.|1400 m.|1600 m.|1800 m.
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Platoon (one rank) | 4.4 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 1.4
Skirmish line, men at 3-pace intervals| 1.2 | | |
Platoon in column of fours | 6.6 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 1.3
Platoon in column of twos | 5.6 | 3.2 | 1.9 | 1.1
Company column (German column of | | | |
platoons) | 22.0 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 10.0
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Lieutenant-General Rohne, in his work, Schieszlehre für die Infanterie, p. 117, computes values for the relative vulnerability of the several formations. At a range of 1200 m., purely frontal fire only being considered, we obtain with every 1000 rounds fired with the appropriate elevation, the following number of hits against—
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| Line. | Column of | Infantry in
| | platoons. | route column.
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Standing | 116 | 160 | 98
Prone | 20 | 65 | 72
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And against a company deployed in line of platoons:
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|3 platoons, each |3 platoons, each |6 sections, each in
| in route column.| in column of twos.| column of twos.
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Standing | 57 | 39 | 29
Prone | 28 | 25 | 14
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