Forum Overview :: Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball :: Re: I am to tanks as Barbie is to small arms.

[quote name="Chairman Mao"][quote name="E. L. Koba"]Actually, <b>only</b> the Chinese, Indian, and Russian tanks have the automated warning systems. No western tank that I know of has any as standard equipment. We are going to see many more of the active defence systems in the near future though.[/quote] Coulda sworn I read the M1A2 had a milimeter-band battlefield radar on it for ballistics. Perhaps that was one of the many experimental vehicles I had read about and mixed it up. [quote]Artillery may be expensive and heavy and hard to resupply, but when you need it it's there with you, not off at the officer club having a beer.[/quote] Modern artillery is also markedly more difficult to destroy with a swarm of small arms fire like what brought down that A10. I'm going to make such a shitty Air Force Officer. Does the Army need laser physicists? [quote]The problem with a well armored 40 ton tank, is that with the same technology you can make an even better armored 60 ton tank.[/quote] Well, maybe. I know they want all this stuff to be air transportable in larger numbers than flying in individual M1's at a time. A 40-ton vehicle system could be transported three at a time by <a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/gra.htm">this,</a> but if it were up to me they should just make faster Ro-ro's. [quote]Probably with both the Tank (or "fire support vehicle" because we don't want to sound like the "legacy force"), and the IFV based on the same chassis.[/quote] GAY! then we can look like the South African army! I know! Lets put everying on easily armoured and durable wheels. [/quote]