In addition to Wilf's point re concentrating your troops into one big fat target, you lose flexibility.
I.e. you end up with one manoeuvre element instead of say 3 or 4.
If you want to debuss your troops simultneously you have to debuss them in a bit platoon gaggle, instead of in a formation more like what they would normally deploy in.
No bounding overwatch in less than coy size movements, you can cover less frontage while mounted, you can cover/advance on fewer axis, you have fewer mounted weapons/sensors, less redundancy in both mobility and other areas (weapons, sensors, comms).
All of this I think would make deploying a platoon as a semi independent element fairly unattractive. Just too many eggs in one basket - any problems and your whole platoon is stranded/neutralised and you suddenly have a big hole in your coy.
And such a platoon/half platoon sized vehicle would be a big, heavy, probably less agile target, especially if up armoured/built to namer type levels of protection. Imagine an LVTP7 with 6" steel RHA....
I personally think that the gains of fewer, larger vehicles would be few, and the downsides many.
If it weren't for the various costs I think more smaller vehicles (especially if organic to the inf) might be interesting, especially with the patrol based infantry discussed elsewhere (
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...&highlight=pbi).
Originally Posted by jtan163
Makes it's cancellation all the more understandable though
. Wonder what happens to the EFV?
That's a big ol' vehicle/target by anyone's standards.
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