PLA retires its tank destroyer units
To think the term "tank destroyer" was in more common usage during World War II, with famous tank destroyers such as the US M10 Wolverine and the German StuG III. DiplomatChina to Retire Its Armored...
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Thank you for posting. Fascinating that something like it was designed in the 1980s. I suppose that in some ways it makes sense - cheap manner to have a powerful, mobile AT gun for ambushes. Maybe for...
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Interesting that even as late as the 1990s the PLA saw the need for specialist tank destroyers. Though the small number produced indicated that the project did not enjoy widespread support, specially...
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British army also used Long Range Guided Weapons (LRGW) in the form of FV438 and Striker and Milan onto Spartan, the French also built such wagons. The alternate is to put the LRGW onto other wagons...
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M901 ITV (M113-based Improved TOW Vehicle).US Army 1979-current (reserve stocks).M901 quantities: Country Qnt BAHREIN 38...Read More
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borys68 wrote:Thank you for posting. Fascinating that something like it was designed in the 1980s. I suppose that in some ways it makes sense - cheap manner to have a powerful, mobile AT gun for...
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Bager - Of course, thanks. Brain farht on my part there.
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It's unfortunate and doesn't help keep discussions clear that the term "tank destroyer" has been used for such disparate types of vehicles.
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"Tank destroyer" is more a role than any specific type of vehicle. "Tank destroyer" as a specific vehicle type disappeared in the 1960s, if not the 1950s.
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A cheap way to take out tanks, and that's now a two man team with a guided missile.
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Bager - I don't think the tank destroyers disappeared, we just gave them different names. ITV, Spartan/MCT et al were intended to allow the standard anti tank system to move rapidly through a moderate...
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Well, there's a distinction which the Germans made and IIRC nobody else did; one line has survived, transmuted, and the other line has just died out with these Type 89s. To the Germans, "Panzerjager"...
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I like jagdpanzers, but I tend to think to make it worthwhile, they'd have to cost a third of the equivalent panzer. Considering the increasingly smaller pool of actual tanks that are nowadays...
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I know we've been there before but Stv103 is more hulless than turretless. The distinction is in speed of laying onto a target; Stv103 was as fast as a turret, JagdPz slower if they had to move the...
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