The weight of the M2’s crew, ammo, passengers, and weapons are about the same as the weight of the heavier gun, ammo, and smaller crew on the MPF, but the MPF is 40 short tons (38 metric) to the latest version of the Bradley at about 30 tons, and moreover, its enclosed volume should be smaller as not having to carry an infantry squad is an even more significant reduction. The MPF is certainly no MBT, but it should have notably better protection than a Bradley. tanks already face a variety of deadly threats, including new Chinese and Russian tanks such as Russia’s T-14 Armata, as well as anti-tank missiles, long-range artillery, and missile-armed drones that have proved devastating in the Russia-Ukraine war. This doesn’t mean that the new Griffin II light tank will be unsuccessful. Deployed to Vietnam in 1969, the recoil of the gun was so hard that it knocked out the vehicle’s electronics. After World War II came the infamous M551 Sheridan, an air-droppable light tank built out of aluminum and armed with a powerful 152-millimeter cannon that could fire Shillelagh infrared-guided anti-tank missile.
The Stuart was eventually replaced by the somewhat more successful M24 Chaffee, some of which were air-dropped to the doomed French garrison at Dien Bien Phu. Army had concluded that the “poor armor protection of the M5A1 resulted in a higher rate of crew casualties than in medium tanks, with a medium tank crew having about a one-in-five chance of becoming a casualty when their tank was knocked out, compared to a one-in-three chance in light tanks,†according to Zaloga. ( The Museum of American Armor)īy 1944, the U.S. Here the crew has added logs to the chassis to increase the vehicle’s protection.
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