Russell,

The insurgent groups in Iraq and Afghanistan typically didn’t have night vision, even the well-funded groups. I based a lot of my bad guy stuff on them.

The ambush situation you described is what professionals with doctrinal training would do. The enemy we’ve been fighting for the last 10+ years travel light, hit quickly and run away. These guys didn’t run, but they’re not burdened with anything they can’t easily carry.

Basically, “Professionals are predictable. But the world is full of amateurs.”

The bad guys need heavier machine guns. Cartel folk probably aren’t used to them, but these sound military. At the very least you set one length ways down the opposite side of the convoy to put up a wall of metal and cut off retreat. With the right layout, they could set up an mg on a tripod at a tilt and use it as an area effect weapon. It takes advantage of the machine (as in automatic placement once sited properly) aspect of the machine gun. Survivability in the beaten zone would be very low, and it has the advantage of confusing people (unless of course they are familiar with the concept) as to where the danger is coming from – bullets just drop out of the sky. The machine gun barrage had died with the prevalence of armor, and more importantly, the lack of suitably condensed targets, and the mobile nature (too much ammo to carry) of insurgent warfare. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t work under the right circumstances.

Thank you Tom. I hope you like Proof, and please feel free to drop a review on Amazon.

I have already bought Proof and am ready to buy this one too.

Tom