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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Tanks are still needed, you still have to have the hammer to bring down on the battlefield.
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It was funny but one of the early discoveries was that the 25 mm main chain gun on the LAV III couldn't penetrate the thick mud walls in the farm fields in Afghanistan so the Taliban would sit behind them and snipe all day.
The Leopard 2's 125 mm smooth bore would basically reach out and touch someone from miles away.
I remember when I was in the infantry, and I got all cocky when we talked about fighting tanks. You know I'll just kill it with this nice Tow or LAWS rocket.
My Instructor looked at me like I was ######ed and asked me a simple question. What's the range of a Tow missile. I muttered about 4000 meters.
He then nodded and said what's the range of a main tank gun
I whined, come on sarge, that involves math and match is for girls
He slapped me across the head and yelled 8 to 10000 meters. So twice the distance and he can shoot 10 rounds a minute at you while yer crying and trying to wire guide a missile under fire.
Yer a moron Crunch, now go dig a latrine.