Re: Humvee as a infantry fighting vehicle?

John Schilling <schillin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Do the Marders still have the gunports?

Nope, they were lost in the last major overhaul a couple of years ago.

> The Bradley lost those pretty early. You are right that, back in the
> 1970s in particular, the idea of infantry fighting primarily from
> within armored vehicles as they rolled across the countryside in
> company with the tanks, was in vogue. The Russian BMP, more than
> anything, was probably the inspiration for this.

Of course, one of the reasons for this was that in their basic scenario
the countryside would glow in the dark...

Juergen Nieveler
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
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