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by mrtnmcc 1158 days ago
Maybe in a controlled setting they can detect mines, but there are plenty of other reasons for dry soil, i.e. hard to detect consistently without false positives. For tank camouflage that's all you need, something that blends in with false positives.
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XorNot 1158 days ago
No you need enough false positives that your adversary won't find it cost-effective to just commit a missile to all of them.
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snovv_crash 1158 days ago
Wouldn't a 50cal round be more cost effective?
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ale42 1158 days ago
Yes but you can't launch it from far away...
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Tommstein 1158 days ago
No, that won't even tickle a tank.
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hutzlibu 1158 days ago
It could destroy some sensors and even the tracks if lucky, but I think parent poster meant the burried mines.
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1letterunixname 1158 days ago
Before the M2 Bradley, US APCs generally lacked meaningful armor. 50 BMG would sail right through.
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Tommstein 1158 days ago
Ancient APCs (the Bradley has been in service for over 40 years) ain't tanks though.
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rbanffy 1158 days ago
IIRC, the Bradley got armour because it looked too much like a tank and that made it a more valuable target.

Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?

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nordsieck 1158 days ago
> Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?

It is not a faux pas - they are legal targets.

Not sure what you mean by "not nice". All of war is "not nice". Unless you're Pyro from TF2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I

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Tommstein 1158 days ago
> IIRC, the Bradley got armour because it looked too much like a tank and that made it a more valuable target.

They have meaningful armor because they're actually IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles), not plain APCs, they're designed so the soldiers can fight from inside them, which is hard to do from inside Swiss cheese.

> Isn’t targeting APCs considered a faux pas in war, a little less bad than hitting an ambulance, but still not nice?

No, there's no military on Earth that's going to let the enemy peacefully transport their soldiers around in APCs if they can help it.

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samastur 1158 days ago
Clearly not from practice and hard to see why since their whole point is transporting enemies where you don't want them.
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