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the idea was popular between ww1 and ww2, recon, suppresion of mashine gun points, mechanize infantry, early ww1 tanks were not fast enough to keep up with infantry, so lighter vehicle was needed, they didn,t prove to be especially effective, in ww2 and after, with development of anti tank, ap weapons, punzerfaust, recoiless rifle, later rpg, these things are useless, they were designed to protect crew from small arms fire, flack, they stand no chance against antitank weapons of ww2 and latter on, you'd be better off on a fast motorcycle. france instaled a 75mm recoiles gun on a vespa scooter, to deal with lav.
ussr had a few light tanks in ww2 t60, t70. they cost almost as much as t34, while being inferiour to it, it was used for recon..ect, some could swim but this was miniscule advantage, only usefull in recon. nowadays those things are replaced with btr,bmp, and other,
Last edited by omon : 05-08-2007 at 17:06 PM.
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