Heavy Armored Track vs. Ultralight Unarmored Wheeled Truck
Jeremy Clarkson in an unarmored, 4x4 Range Rover truck tries to outrun and not be targeted by a Challenger 2 heavy, tracked tank with 360 degree revolving turret with stabilized gun in a game of Cat & Mouse in OPEN TERRAIN. This is not just an entertainment gimmick; actual militaries try to employ unarmored wheeled trucks to stalk tanks with ATGMs and provide machine gun fire support for walking infantry and this video shows the foolishness of the Humvee and www.youtube.com Land Rover mentalities.... www.youtube.com that only gets worse if you slap a thin armored box on top of the wheels so they no longer float but SINK into the soft ground or pop under the weight--aka LAVs/Strykers/MRAPs etc. www.youtube.com The wheeled truck as a combat vehicle is unsound; www.geocities.com you can see here that if even a heavy tracked tank has superior cross-country mobility over even an ultralight truck whose wheels can float over terrain but the protected tank can get easy line-of-sight (LOS) kill shots on them, LIGHT tracked tanks like the M113 Gavin, Scimitar/Bv206S/Vikings etc. will be even more superior as combat experiences with the turretless STUGs in WW2 followed by post-war light tracked tank/APC combats prove. You might say, "no sweat; 16 Air Brigade will C-17/C-130 air-deliver Scimitar light tanks with 30mm autocannon or FV432 Bulldogs or Royal Marine Bv10S Vikings"....the problem is these units DON'T PARACHUTE JUMP--so an airfield or at the very least an assault landing ...
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