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Post by Sir John on Apr 29, 2013 19:19:43 GMT -5
25mm of aluminium is NOT enough!
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Post by Sir John on Apr 29, 2013 20:08:23 GMT -5
We used the old 'Centurion' which was a great tank, but at 50+ tons did not like water and mud etc. Not sure if the story is true but they say that at the Australian base (Nui Dat?) they had concrete pathways and the tanks went out and back as mobile artillery to support the troops.
We also had the M113 and I have never been impressed. We still have about 700 in operational use.
SJ
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Post by griffin on May 2, 2013 23:00:29 GMT -5
The first armoured vehicle I learned to drive was the M-113 APC. I also trained on its cousin, the M-114 Lynx, which was used as the Troop Commander's vehicle in the Canadian Army, while the other vehicles in the troop were APC's. This was fun to drive however, as mentioned before, you were 'dead meat' if hit with a RPG on the sides of the vehicle, which had flat sides making them all the more vulnerable. If the enemy used their 51mm heavy machine guns, you were in a bad way. The 'Black Horse' learned this throughout the Vietnam War and why convoys with trucks, APC's, needed the added firepower of tanks.
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