Timeline for Plausible reasons for Hovertanks
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| Apr 17, 2021 at 18:23 | comment | added | Demigan | Justin, so far I found that the airforce destroyed less than a quarter of all armored vehicles in your source. Also the fight seems to have started on a ridge but kept moving. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 18:05 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | See for instance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Medina_Ridge The tanks picked a position and tried to hold it. It was American air cover that ensured the victory, not the American tanks. The tanks played an insignificant roll in the war. They were only toys, played by real life GI Joe war games players. A side issue. Precision guided air-dropped munitions took out most of Saddam's tanks. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 17:36 | comment | added | Demigan | I didnt say it was stationary tanks vs stationary tanks? As far as I'm aware it was a pretty high mobility warfare? Yes a tank likes to be stationary when firing but the that isnt always the case and after a shot (or several) the greatest asset is it's ability to move away or move up. Also if the opposing tanks has been of similar tech and quality the AFV's would have been far less effective and would have needed the support of those tanks. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 17:33 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Saddam's downfall is that he did not invest in missiles. He depended on the optics of power and might, instead of the most functional and useful hardware. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 17:19 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @Demigan Like you said, Desert Storm was stationary tanks against stationary tanks. American tanks had very few applications in Desert Storm except against Iraqi tanks. Even then, the American forces were slowed down BECAUSE they wanted their tanks to keep up, and Iraqi anti-tank weapons slowed the advancement. Desert Storm would have gone pretty much the way it did, with or without American tanks. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 17:13 | comment | added | Demigan | Iraq was an asymetric war, desert storm for example showed how superior tank technology would overcome inferior tanks (also how useful high-tech AFV's were). Tanks are also build specifically with mobility in mind, that is one reason why we went away from Heavy tanks and started with MBT's. Tanks today are designed for mobility, even using modularity to reduce weight whenever the mission does not require it. | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 16:34 | history | edited | Justin Thyme the Second | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2021 at 16:21 | history | answered | Justin Thyme the Second | CC BY-SA 4.0 |