It only counts as a tank if it can deliver a pineapple unscathed to the center of enemy territory.
An IFV/AFV is designed to make it very difficult for an enemy to bring a pineapple unscathed to the center of your territory, presenting a dynamic defensive capacity that takes concentrated antiarmor capability to neutralize or deny.
These things are almost the same but the differences end up mattering a whole lot… but sometimes they don’t. The movement and precise location of the line between “IFV/AFV” and “MBT” is a question answered in conversations about geopolitics, shipping capacity, railways (is it really a tank if you can move it with an airplane? not just the tank but everything else you need with it) and access to Anti-Pineapple equipment. Answers are defined in terms of “theaters” of war.
does this count?
Yes but no need to click it as long as you click the majority of the tank
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In technical terms it is a tank.
We are refusing to call it a tank I assume because of some organizational/order of battle reason. Its not a tank, its an infantry fire support weapon or whatever the fuck.
It’s a tank. It’s not a main battle tank.
If the opposing infantry goes “holy shit, they brought a tank!” - it’s a tank.