Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

["laserlight" <laserlight@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I said:
> > "Motorized tank" doesn't make sense; perhaps "motorized
> > armored platoon" is what they meant.
 
Indy said 
> I think your 'average' 8th-grade educated person would
> understand "tank" over "armoured" most days of the week.  

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".
Also AFAIK, a tank by definition is tracked, not wheeled,
which is why I'd say "motorized tank" is a contradition.  
I was wondering if all the source docs are English, or if
"motorized tank" might have been a translation error.

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