Re: [GZG] Small thought re: Orbital Assault

Lets reset that to say "Now I have heard everything
from one source on the internet"

Bob Makowsky

--- Michael Llaneza <maserati@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the
> moon in this decade 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.
> 
> http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/ricetalk.htm
> 
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