Amphibious Necessity Blogspot has an article that is required reading on amphibious armored vehicles. Quite honestly I was surprised by many of his conclusions and cheer him on many of them.
1. The absolute need for modularity, but not in the way that most think of it.
2. The necessity for British Marines to have proper armored vehicles.
3. The different roles that armored vehicles can play in Marine Forces that cannot be replicated by helicopter or landing craft.
I'm hoping to expand on this in the future. You can read it here.
Just tought you would like to watch this Solomon...almost all armour in Russia swims...
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http://youtu.be/-bLHGZwQ_5w
All the Armor in Russia is also a maintenance nightmare that has been happily rusting away for a decade had has horrific night-vision equipment :)
DeleteSoviet Made SH*T indeed
Also, the problem with the article author's assumptions are that making a vehicle amphibious puts hard limits on weight and hull design.
no. waterspeed is what puts limits on the design. they've cracked the code on making vehicles as heavy as almost 30 tons float. the issue is how fast do you need it to go. thats the difficulty. the next question then becomes how armored does it need to be.
Deletethankyou Solomon, Merry Christmas
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