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Subject:
Why isn't the M1A1/M1A2 considered a tank destroyer?
Scrubber
4/6/2003 10:43:30 PM
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| The role of a tank destroyer is to "SEEK, STRIKE AND DESTROY enemy tanks in defensive and offensive action." That is the role of the M1A1 and M1A2. In fact it is so specialized in that role that it has given up the ability to fire HE rounds in order to increase it's ability to kill tanks. One of the major roles of tanks is to kill infantry, which the M1A1/M1A2 can really only do with it's MGs. Given this extreme specialization in killing tanks and extreme unsuitability to killing infantry isn't it really a tank destroyer?
Isn't it a big gap in a country's order of battle to have only tank destroyers, armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles and armored cars? No main battle tanks (we still have the M1 in the inventory and it can fire HE, but we don't use it), no light tanks, no assault guns?
For reference the British Challenger 2 can fire HE rounds, unlike the M1a1, M1a2 |
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