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Originally Posted by aka123
Air power was already important in WWII, Germany could basically move tanks and larger concentrations of troops only at night, in the later part of the war.
About those lightly armed and fast troops. How do you think you will get upper hand using just those? Even if you have air superiority, not to mention if you don't have or the superiority is mixed. Just regular minefield deployed either by hand or by artillery, planes, or other methods, will hault the troops. And lacking with heavier armament, are easy peasy even for smaller troops and prone for artillery, etc. If that Black Hawk down movie is any correct, the Hummers alone were useless even for very lightly armed and poor Somali troops.
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Tanks don't drive through mine fields either. The only thing tanks are good at is taking small arms fire, laying down contentious fire and burning shit tons of fuel. The problem is an APC can do the same thing but it can also deliver troops to the fight which carry more weapons and then be supported by heavy artery which can be moved into place pretty quick.
Any modern military using DU ammo can take out or disable any modern day tank. The only reason tanks were so useful in the start of the Iraq war for example, was because Iraq had outdated armor and no air power and it was wide open spaces. They didn't use tanks in the cities once the insurgents started fighting back heavily.
In WW2 air power was nothing like it is today. They had to depend on dive bombing to take out tanks then which was always very hit or miss. Today, it's all satellites, drones and pin point accuracy..
Don't get me wrong, I love WW2 tanks, but it's no longer the days of that kind of battles with today's weapons technology.