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That though assumes the AA vehicle is the target: if the vehicle is not, AAA dramatically increases the danger of deep strikes into the back lines. Which can then reduce a lot of a helicopters potential utility and limit them more to tactical artillery support on the direct front line.

How so? its roughly the same scale as the vehicle its supporting.

They seem to be the first type of tank they had, certainly the only British ones, so it ties back to that colonial history: they did seem to either at the same time or later get American tanks, like Shermans and Stuarts, but that's just US surplus, so doesn't have cultural significance. Line...

That's what I was wondering: are these front line units, or the equivalent of the USS Constitution, the USS oldest commissioned warship, manned by naval personnel, but is very clearly in a different category than "normal" commissioned ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution

I'm undertaking a little design project on a Leman Russ, something I seem inclined to do every now and again. The big idea I'm playing with is to embrace the WW1 design with a futuristic flair by giving it a 1 man turret: but, since its "advanced" tech, that may be less draining than...

Yes, technology advances. You really do have this very annoying habit of phrasing apparent agreement as a disagreement. They're less slopped, in some places, but still very much shaped to minimize frontal arc. An Abrams and a Tiger I for example are roughly equally wide (3.5 vs 3.6 m) but the...

Yeah, BattleTech is more or less modeled as a barrage combat, which adds to the multiple weapons. You have 3 PPC's so that hopefully 1 hits. Or if your luckly all three hits and you actually kill the target. Eh, its a bit more than that. Though reliability is another big thing too of course. I...

Yeah, you have the mixture of "you want to be as small as possible", since lower footprint, lower cost, excetera. However, on the other hand you have "return to scale" issues, where the larger you go, a lot of things make more sense. IRL the general desire is for the lightest gun you can get...

looking at it, the 1960s discarding sabot round they made for the T-55 could get to about 300 mm penetration at 2,000 m, though assuming somewhat ideal angle. So, not really capable of penetrating anywhere in the front, I think it can more or less penetrate anywhere from the side, within the...

I think there are some modern upgrades to the thing that make it possible, some of the modernized t-55s are barely recognizable as such. And a 100 mm gun is still a pretty big gun, so likely not fun to get hit with. So, assuming comparable crew and not grossly different on some upgrades (for...

Eh, drones aren't cheap either. Or, let me rephrase, drones that require something heavier than rifle fire are not cheap. Once you get to any level of altitude or payload, or range, the costs start increasing very quickly. Like, something on the scale of the AAI RQ-7 is basically a million a pop...