The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
What I don't get is this bit?
"Pretty soon after 82nd Airborne Division leaders told the Army in 2013 they’d like a new light tank, à la the retired M551 Sheridan, the team working on its requirements hit a snag. The 82nd had asked to be able to airdrop the new vehicle from a C-130 or C-17, but nothing even roughly the size and capability of a Sheridan was going to fit inside a C-130."
Mother fucker the Sheridan was roughly the size and capability of Sheridan and it fit in a C-130. Is this wh40k where we lost some technology I don't know about?
Sure maybe they'd want to add modern tech like cameras and gps or some shit, but no way that really takes up all that much space. Plus, in last several decades we havent made any engineering advancements to idk make the engine smaller or shit stronger but smaller?
The Sheridan was the size of the Sheridan, and they want the transportation capability of the Sheridan, but the Sheridan itself was also a wildly unsuccessful tank. It was also fully reliant on the MGM-51 Shillelagh missile, which also was not good. Nobody actually wants the Sheridan back, they want something they can transport like it.