Against light formations, even light armor, indirect fire is a serious force multiplier. And even then we could always call effective indirect fire. The problem always was that the unit had only a small envelope for engagement where they could fire on us and we couldn't engage them. When we were the opposing force our battalion would regularly defeat an entire motorized brigade. When we built brigade task forces centered around 1-33 Armor and 1 or 2 motorized battalions we invariably performed very well against armored units as long as the brigade commander remembered that he wasn't commanding a true heavy unit, but a hybrid. I Corps used us to try and help prove the motorized concept, essentially what you are talking about. I spent a year and a half with 1-33 Armor Battalion at Fort Lewis, an I Corps asset. The 9th ID (Motorized) was equipped with Humvees mounting TOW's and FAV's with machine guns. The US Army actually experimented with this concept at Fort Lewis. I partially agree with you, but only partially. Take on attacking heavy armor, preferably fromĪmbush, and outside the attackers engagementĮnvelope, while the smaller force of real MBTs The idea would be that the lighter vehicles would Liked fighting infantry if the infantry has effective antiarmor weapons.) (Limited magazines, discarding sabot rounds not much use for anythingīesides armor attack, and tanks have never, ever Vehicle, effectively, but they've limited ability to fight anything else. Why? All MBTs are highly vulnerable to top attack.Īnd, modern MBTs have become pretty specializedĪs antitank weapons. Mode, and, preferably, with a range in excess of Something which could be used in an indirect fire Power to it's armor without breaking the bank might look into supplementing a limited force of MBTs with a capable light design whose main weapon was a high velocity, top-attack, fire and forget That a country which wanted to add significant If I wanted to set folk off, I might speculate
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