- mumfordlibrarian
Roy this seems to be a "walks like a duck" vehicle. The Army seems to be insisting that this is not an anti-tank weapon.
Paul T. Weaver
mumfordlibrarian
- Roy_A_LingleHi Paul! Hi Folks!
- mumfordlibrarian
Roy this seems to be a "walks like a duck" vehicle. The Army seems to be insisting that this is not an anti-tank weapon.
Paul T. Weaver
mumfordlibrarian
I think the trick to that would be to use some airplane thinking.
Many fighter planes where built to be used as a fighter. A number of those same fighter planes could be used as bombers.
A good example might be the F104 Starfighter. Clearly a fighter plane, yet during Vietnam, the Air Force hung bombs off them and used them to attack ground targets.
Now it can carry bombs and it can attack ground targets, so it's a bomber right? No, it's a fighter plane that if need be can be used as a bomber.
The MGS is a bit like those old F104s, it can be used to kill tanks, but that is not it's main job. The primary job is direct heavy fire support for the infantryman in contact with enemy infantry.
It's not a duck, but it can, if need be quack like a duck.
Tank killing in the Stryker BCT is the primary job of the TOW carriers.
Just keep telling yourselfs, it's not a tank, it's not a tank, it's not a tank.
Sgt, Scouts Out!
- Roy_A_LingleHi Paul! Hi Folks!
- mumfordlibrarian
Roy this seems to be a "walks like a duck" vehicle. The Army seems to be insisting that this is not an anti-tank weapon.
Paul T. Weaver
mumfordlibrarian
I think the trick to that would be to use some airplane thinking.
Many fighter planes where built to be used as a fighter. A number of those same fighter planes could be used as bombers.
A good example might be the F104 Starfighter. Clearly a fighter plane, yet during Vietnam, the Air Force hung bombs off them and used them to attack ground targets.
Now it can carry bombs and it can attack ground targets, so it's a bomber right? No, it's a fighter plane that if need be can be used as a bomber.
The MGS is a bit like those old F104s, it can be used to kill tanks, but that is not it's main job. The primary job is direct heavy fire support for the infantryman in contact with enemy infantry.
It's not a duck, but it can, if need be quack like a duck.
Tank killing in the Stryker BCT is the primary job of the TOW carriers.
Just keep telling yourselfs, it's not a tank, it's not a tank, it's not a tank.
Sgt, Scouts Out!
- bsmart
I like your general analogy but you chose the wrong example. If you had said F-100 or F-4 I would totally agree but the F-104 was the one totally wrong answer. The U.S. never used the F-104 as a ground attack plane.
- bsmart
That was the F-104G that was a complete redesign of the plane under the same name. The G model was designed as a strike fighter first with a secondary Air to Air capability.
- bsmart.
I shoulkd have known not to try and correct a scout
- pineydoes that mean we have to invite swabbies?
Jeff Lewis
- pineydoes that mean we have to invite swabbies?
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