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Yeah they did. But I mean about the first days of the invasion before the japanese made concerted efforts to reinforce the displaced garrison. It was a practical impossibility, but I bet more than one observer remarked that if the Marines had been able to cut off the japanese retreat during the...

Also as a form of industrial espionage. See something good in the joint project, add something similar (but different enough not to get into a patent dispute) to the Leo2.

Also there was the Guadalcanal effect. The US Marines who took the island initially didn't have enough troops to pursue and erradicate the local garrison, so the japanese had enough of a foothold to launch harrasement and intelligence patrols, receive reinforcements on a safe(ish) location...

Although it should be added that the Foxbat did accomplish its primary mission. Their existance helped to deter SR-71 flights in a number of occasions, which were both a constant political headache and a legitimate problem to Russia's strategic security by giving the West too clear of a picture...

Still deterrent enough to cover for small acts of piracy. No one wants to discover the hard way if the Iranians would rather shoot a missile against the nearest unprotected city of your regional allies instead of a battlegroup covered by Aegis systems. That said any excuse to increase sanctions...

And that the crews have much higher chance of walking out of a damaged of destroyed vehicle, and with them the training (both the general one for the use of armored vehicles under NATO doctrine and the specialized one for the operation of Leopards 2) and experience they can use as soon as a...

And basically from a political group that needs to be bribed to support their own armed forces instead of doing it out of actual patriotism or practicality.

Also massed missile strikes against soft targets, like Russia has been doing against civilian infrastructure, but also against local supply depots and other targets that are not important enough for a theatre defense system or that are vulnerable to sudden strikes such as airports or bridges and...

Name of the fic?

And the opposite is also against the operator (I refuse to call that poor GI 'pilot'), the noise coming from below you while trying not to crash at night must have been disorienting as hell which is particularly concerning since the plataform was very dependant on the operator use of...

I wonder if the new turret got other advantages apart from weight, for example how fast is the autoloader and how many kinds of different ammunition you can select from the magazine.

BT tanks are really impressive compared to some others, but the setting itself does its best to cripple them compared to the mechs. So for their specific tonnage armored tracked vehicles from other settings where they are more relevant are better to illustrate the chart even in the few occasions...

The japanese had exactly the same problem with the M4's than the vietnamese had with the M60. Very few weapons in their arsenal were powerful enough to reliably destroy an enemy frontline tank and the few weapons that could do the job would attract the full attention of the enemy overwhelming...

Also tanks in Vietnam were used as both the hammer and the anvil on Search and Destroy missions, being fast enough in even the worst terrain to outflank and outrun guerrilla and sturdy enough that one tactic used was for the tanks to advance firing automatic weapons in order to flush soldiers...

That could be potentially problematic, of all the live ammo in her deep charges are the most dangerous both because they have the greater proportion of explosives and because depending on which part corrodes first if the safeties rot then deep charges were designed to blow up at an specific dept...

The idea of a mix between stealth and non-stealth planes is for the F-22/F-35s to strike at the enemies air defense units in both land and air and once they're supressed allow the conventional planes to strike at the enemies actual strategic assets. Too many stealth assets with their higher cost...

Only reason I can think of is that the Congress won't approve the sale with the current military systems, plus that way the remaining A-10 fleet won't lose the spare parts for the still active planes. Edit: Plus what Bacle said...

Jokes aside the M113 is mechanically simple and reliable, easy to fabricate and without the kind of specialized tooling that other more modern and complex vehicles need so reactivating a factory for it would be easier than doing the same for Bradleys, in particular since the aluminum is...

I wonder how slow a plane needs to go for the chips in last gen heatseeking AAMs confuse the plane low speed, low altitude and relatively cold atypical heat source in the front of the plane instead of behind like most turbines and turboprops before they confuse it with a partialy burned flare...

To be more accurate VC-Day, and depending on how bothersome are the remains of the Draconis Combine and how much pull Omi got with her hosts VD-Day may be close. Although there are still too many conflicts all around the Inner Sphere to stop.