"John" wrote in message
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"Charles Gray" wrote


Cluster munitions aren't terribly manouverable though. And what makes the
think that the radar put there to let the drivers dodge incoming tank-fire
cannot detect incomming cluster-bombs?


So you detect 200 inbound cluster munitions 3 seconds before they
hit, beyond a quick prayer to the deity of your choice how is that
of material advantage ?

By the way I've yet to see the tank that can outrun an APDS round
so quite what you mean by dodging incoming AT fire is a mystery.


I never said the radar was for guidence; it's there so they can see and
dodge incomming tank-rounds and other munitions..

How do you dodge a round doing greater than Mach 2 ?
I must have missed that detail somewhere

You can use any missilbe
for the SUV, and you can manouver whilst firing. During this period the
wire
is being pulled out the tube at 300mps at minimum, a few mps to either
side
is not going to break it. There are also fire-and-forget missile systems.

76mm AA tanks have been developed (although none are in service as
far as I know-- the Italians evidently weren't able to sell them), but
they have the simple problem of being big enough to be killed from far
out side the 76mm range-- you're going to have B2's and B1's dropping
LCAS GPS guided weapons, and all sorts of other wonderful stuff from
quite far out of range, cued in by UAVs which the Air force doesn't
mind losing at all.

US army next-gen guided-bombs are essentuially UAVs with 90% explosive
filling. They are big and will show up on radar. At this point the gun
turns
and fires at the bomb/missile before it gets close enough to do damage.


How many AFV's have guns with sufficient elevation and
slew range to accomplish this feat ?

Hint its a SHORT list

rest of nonsense snipped

Keith