Anti Tank Vespa
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Anti Tank Vespa
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#2Sadly nothing about how it fared in combat.
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#4> 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.
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#5> 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.
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#6Sounds like the centrepiece of a fun combat game.
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#7Yes, 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.
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#8Yes, 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.
Comrade, here is top of line RKG-3 anti-tank grenade. Pop out of fox hole and throw over tank! Who needs fancy top-attack Javalin when you have grenade with parachute eh?
I'd take the Vespa option any day of the week.
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#9Sadly nothing about how these fared in combat, anyone have any insight?
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#10Yes, 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.
>Yes, we want you to take a motorcycle up against a tank.
Fast forward to today. In a video from Gaza a Hamas fighter runs toward Merkava and manually puts a blast-fragmentation warhead onto its armor (not for the lack of weapons as he shoots a tandem warhead from an RPG half a minute later). I have a hypothesis what is going on in that video - the Trophy active defense system would shoot down an incoming warhead, yet it wouldn't react to a person running toward it (like in Dune and similar where cold blade weapons is used because defense systems deal with the fast incoming threats), and the tanks don't have infantry right by the tank because system like Trophy damages the accompanying infantry, and the Trophy really performs a lot of tank defensive tasks that the accompanying infantry would otherwise be tasked with. So, the first warhead - the one manually placed on armor (and that warhead wasn't shaped charge) - explodes and takes out the Trophy, and after that the Hamas guy shoots the tandem warhead which would penetrate the reactive armor and the main armor.