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[NickFitz]

"... 4"

[TheFaQQer]

How could we have been so stupid?

[Troll]

The main battle tank is the most heavily armoured vehicle in modern land armed corps. Its armour is designed to protect the vehicle and crew against a wide variety of threats. Commonly, protection against kinetic energy penetrators fired by other tanks is considered the most important.

[DS23]

Shall I recap for you?

no no no - it's ok. i'm going through it in my own good time. like i said - i read em all.

[TheFaQQer]

Surely we had ignored the most important rule of taxi sharing - make sure you are going to the same place.

[Troll]

Tanks are also vulnerable to anti-tank missiles; anti-tank mines, larger bombs, direct artillery hits, and NBC threats, which can disable or destroy them.

[TheFaQQer]

If we stopped at T4 first, I would never make the plane.

[Troll]

Tanks are especially vulnerable to overhead attack. Most modern MBTs do offer near complete protection from artillery fragmentation and lighter anti-tank weapons such as rocket propelled grenades

[TheFaQQer]

What should we do?

[Troll]

The amount of armour needed to protect against all conceivable threats from all angles would be far too heavy to be practical, so when designing an MBT much effort goes into finding the right balance between protection and weight