• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    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.

  • Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    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.

  • mindbleach
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    3 hours ago

    If the opposing infantry goes “holy shit, they brought a tank!” - it’s a tank.