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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 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...

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...

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...

Yeah, the base design was solid, with a decent armor compared to early war tank designs and as every american model far more mechanically reliable than tanks from every other country, but the turreted 37mm AT gun and a 75mm in a sponson with very limited traverse was inferior in firepower and...

To be fair the Grant and Lee did serve well enough against the japanese. But the fact is that they were intended from the start as provisional models, and as soon as the M4 logistics were ready the priority was to replace it with its successor instead of modernizing it for support roles like the...

And were replaced as fast as it was possible by the more practical M4.

And ironically the US planes got high altitude threats well under control while low flying aircraft and helicopters, drones and missiles are the most likely to slip the net of air supremacy fighters.

Ok, I knew the vehicles themselves exist, they have done so in one way or another from WWII but to put in large numbers in the field to deal with the current trend of making smaller and cheaper drones would be where a revision of the AA doctrine would be needed and then an increase in the budget...

I remember that part of the MBT-70 design had a 20mm coaxial gun to deal with infantry, LAVs and other soft targets as to not waste main gun ammo, the BMP-1 and other vehicles carrying antitank missiles made the designers realize that regardless of overkill the tanker would use the main gun to...

Something like the older generations of tanks having coaxial machine guns loaded with ammunition with identical ballistic profile to the main gun so tracers hitting a tank would be followed by the main gun shooting an armor piercing round. It's practical and cheaper than an integrated targeting...

Basically that while floating is a desirable characteristic it doesn't need to do so for more than a few minutes at a time so it should have a different armor configuration that protects more from impacts and mines than one optimized for navigation in large bodies of deep water. In fact...

For a fire support variant you can go with a Gun-mortar configuration like the one in the 2S9 Nona, a very light 120mm gun-mortar capable of accepting laser guided rounds and performing direct fire for those occasions in which the canopy of the jungle might detonate rounds prematurely (a...

If you're using a missile better use a laser guided or an advanced infrared missile, wire guided versions might tangle in the jungle plus heat seekers should work better than fine on tanks that are kept under the sun all day, especially in low visibility due to the same jungle.

Also some thought should be put on the width of the theorical rainforest tank, it needs to be as slender as possible and for the same reason it should have a very short barrel in order to traverse on obstacle filled forest.

Feels like the rear door of a Merkava (the RL Israeli tank), a skirt made of chains to cover its vulnerable backside and it would be perfect.