Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

Laserlight wrote:

>All tanks are armored, but many armored vehicles are not
>tanks.  AFAIK, "motorized" means "wheeled vehicles"; if you
>want to refer to tracked vehicles, you'd say "mechanized".

"Mechanized" refers to units *transported* in or on tracked vehicles - 
usually infantry, but I've seen one or two references to "mechanized 
artillery" referring to tracked SP guns. However, tanks are not 
"mechanized" - they're "armour" :-/

>Also AFAIK, a tank by definition is tracked, not wheeled,

AFAIK there is no such definition (which is fortunate for us SF fans,
since 
otherwise our beloved "hover tanks" and "grav tanks" would also be 
oxymorons!). A "tank" can be any land-mobile vehicle with
decent-to-heavy 
armour ("light tanks" can ignore the armour requirement though), good 
terrain mobility and a decent all-purpose gun (although "infantry tanks"

can make do with machineguns). There's no formal requirement that it be 
tracked. It's just that so far all vehicles that have met the "good
terrain 
mobility" requirement have been tracked :-/

>I was wondering if all the source docs are English,

No, they're American...

>or if "motorized tank" might have been a translation error.

Nope. Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were :-/

/Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

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