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Subject:
RE:Why isn't the M1A1/M1A2 considered a tank destroyer?
joe6pack
6/19/2003 2:27:12 PM
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| About the M1 and anti infantry rounds for the main gun.
I'd have to argue its about space. Modern MBTS have much larger guns than their WW2 counterparts. Biggers guns means bigger rounds. An M1 can only carry so many main gun rounds I think around 40. I was a ground pounder so this number may be off some. Just about anything can kill infantry. A lot of things can kill infantry way more efficently than the 120mm gun on an Abrams.
So I'd go with the idea that a tank crew doesn't want to be stuck with some AP (anti personel) rounds and run out AP (armor piercing) rounds and be unable to engage tanks. You can always default to the machine guns for infantry. By the way, the M1's I got to take a peak in from time to time were generally packed with machinegun ammo.
As long as there are some Bradleys around, the chain gun on those is much better suited to blazing away at troops. |
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