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Originally Posted by HistoricalDavid
Can wheeled trucks really match the mobility of tracked SPGs in that sort of terrain?
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You have to be able to get your SPH there in the first place!
Not always easy for a small military like Australia – without foreign support, or a long cruise on a amphibious assault ship (although this has been partly remedied with the intro of the C-17’s)
Then again the Australian Government could probably lease Ukrainian An-124 (again!), to transport our military to a given place and hope that the aggressor will be accommodating enough to leave a perfectly good airfield for us to land and deploy unopposed (like Indonesia did in our involvement in East Timor!).
I would like the Australian Army to look at the purpose designed and built South African G-6 SPH.
For the Geographic’s of South Africa are very similar in terrain and harshness of Australia.
South Africa purposely designed and built the G-6 due to its military’s operational experiences of combat and not commercialism of export potential
Regards
Pioneer