- robust lock-on against tanks with good camouflage
- susceptible to modern countermeasures (specially the active ones)
- difficulties against targets with same IR profile as their surroundings (the earth bunker problem)
- sensor in missile drives up the price, thus making the missile less suitable for low chance shots.
Javelin has many issues, as does the conceptionally similar Spike.
Some of the things an MBT can do for you even in small numbers.
1. Provide stabilized platform with advanced fire control for machine guns.
2. Provide a range or main gun ammo types to be able to address a wide range of targets and circumstances.
3. A heavily protected platform from which to rally friendly troops and conduct C2.
4. A heavy vehicle to use brute force to smash through walls, buildings and obstacles.
5. A weapon system capable of rapidly firing accurately at point targets at long and very long range.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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