Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

Oerjan Ariander wrote:

> You were talking about ARMOURED support above. Generally speaking, 
> trucks and helos aren't considered to be "armoured support" - although

> I've noticed that the US Army now calls a platoon of 4xM1114 armoured 
> HumVees a "motorized tank platoon", so maybe the requirements to count

> as "armoured" are being softened nowadays <g>

A "motorized tank platoon" ? Now I've heard everything.Well, if adding 
HumVees to a leg unit makes them motorized then I suppose using them in 
an armor role makes the tank platoon motorized too.

But if they can stand up to heavy MG fire, then against anything but 
real tanks they can do the armor job. It makes my brain hurt, but I 
think this is actually pretty clever.

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and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are
willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we
intend to win, and the others, too.

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