T110's Second Summer of Love (And Tolerance)
Дата: 02.06.2014 19:37:53
LoooSeR78V, on Jun 02 2014 - 14:07, said: IIRC it wasn't planned to replace MBT
as a class, more like replace some MBTs in Iraq, simply because
mobility of Abrams tanks was not enough for chasing bad guys, while
Stryker could. Mobility in Iraq was more important than armor
of Abrams, capable of stoping APFSDS rounds that
insurgents didn't had or couldn't use. Occupation of big country
with limited amount of soldiers require from those soldiers to be
everywhere by driving fast to those place. The_Chieftain: MGS was planned to be the replacement for all tanks in the
Canadian Army. A trip to Afghanistan managed to convince people in
charge that perhaps tanks do still have some uses over MGS.
MGS pre-dates Iraq in US service, the concept was originally to
give light units some more mobility and firepower. When introduced,
it was promised that no units with tanks would be replaced by
Strykers, and the first 7 units raised were, indeed, former light
infantry. Of course, the original promise has long since been
broken.
T110's Second Summer of Love (And Tolerance)