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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Niels Bugge wrote:
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I agree on the fact that, no groundforces are immune to mines, but regarding
treaties, they only survive as long as politicians back them up and with
regarding the mines, sorry, the bad guys still have them and won’t sign any
treaty so they’re here to stay
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Well, the nations that are most likely to be able to develop hover tanks are
also the nations that are most likely to be able to develop anti-HT mines.
Generally, they’re also the same countries that will sign arms reduction
treaties. Granted, it’s a little easier to be “gracious” about giving up
weapons technologies when you’ve got one of the dozen or so most powerful
militaries, or when you’re a few decades behind the technology curve. But yeah,
treaties are only as valuable as the signees hold them to be.
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The Americans is already able to perform that kind of attack, calling it
something like over the horizont...
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Modern tanks being unable to swim, however, means that you need to send them in
on special landing craft. The advantage you’d get with hover tanks is that
they’d be able to perform their own “landing” without need for additional
specialized vessels.
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As I wrote to Larry, you can’t expect to have air superiorty, so the tanks
can end up pretty much on their own (just think of the Iraqi tanks), speed
will be the essence, not armour.
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As long as you’re fighting people who have weapons, the armor is always
important. Speed only completely supercedes it if you can guarantee that you
can outrun or dodge all enemy fire, and if they end up being used in defensive
actions, that’s pretty much ruled out.
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