This must have inspired the Tuk-Tuk Boom Boom in Just Cause 2 and 4
Anti Tank Vespa
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#12In Sweden, like other developing nations, we had our soldiers cycling with their anti tank weapons (first picture):
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#13This must have inspired the Tuk-Tuk Boom Boom in Just Cause 2 and 4 https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Tuk-Tuk_Boom_Boom_(JC2) https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Tuk-Tuk_Boom_Boom_(JC4)
Probably that came from this: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/n7vjmg/da...
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#14> enough speed to ram any vehicles if needed in an emergency That was a surprising statement! A 37mph crash on a scooter isn't going to leave you in particularly good shape for fighting.
Not to mention the small mass you have on your side. A vespa is going to lose in a ramming fight against most any vehicle. The cited source doesn't say anything about ramming.
It's just claimed that it has enough speed for ramming, not that the ramming would actually be effective...
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#15This must have inspired the Tuk-Tuk Boom Boom in Just Cause 2 and 4 https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Tuk-Tuk_Boom_Boom_(JC2) https://justcause.fandom.com/wiki/Tuk-Tuk_Boom_Boom_(JC4)
I'd rename it to Tuk-Tuk Boom, because from the looks of the (non-recoilless) cannon it could obviously only go "boom" once, after which the flimsy vehicle would be utterly destroyed...
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#16Where is the state of the art at with self-driving two wheeled vehicles?
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#17Yes, we want you to take a motorcycle up against a tank. It's cheaper, you're expendable, and we will win with the budget we have. You joined the Legion to die, and we are sending you where you can do that. No, we do not cover you with life insurance.
No one assembles hunter-killer squads to specifically take out enemy tanks with such a crappy weapon. Instead, you provide them because its "better than nothing" if you happen to run up against an enemy tank.
Furthermore: there are lesser vehicles, such as Humvees and IFVs that have thinner armor where these anti-tank guns would work better against.
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Actual anti-tank hunter-killer groups used guided missiles even as early as the 1960s (with Nazi designs from the 1940s!!!), and today use automated fire-and-forget homing missiles.
Guided missiles have far more range and reliability. Early guided weapons were just a radio (or even a wire attached to the rocket in the earliest designs).
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#18> ...in an emergency it could be fired while in the frame, and while the scooter was moving.
You'd have to have balls of steel to fire that thing while riding the scooter. It's recoilless, but you are sitting right on top of it.
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#19All of you criticizing the mismatch of power between a Vespa and a tank simply do not understand the desperation felt by those living in countries occupied by the Germans during the war. In the 1950s Europe was poor, extremely traumatized, and people lived in fear of another war. This is a vehicle of desperation.
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#20Sadly nothing about how it fared in combat.
Seeing as it was developed in the 1950s, it likely never saw combat.