Topic: Will the battle tank become obsolete?

SHERMAN · December 22nd, 2007

I think the stryker, if at all fielded here, wil be fielded as an IFV. tis is no problem seeing as its far better by any measure when compared to the M-113. We have thousends of the M-113 APCs and frankly they are junk. No protection, no real armament, and not too great on speed. But replacing Merkavas with strykers or anything lighter than a main battle tank is crazy. look good at IDF OBs and try to see by what you know what size is our tank fleet....all comes at a price. most countries cant have vast fleets of IFVs and vast fleets of MBTs. Israel cant manouver, at least not on our main fron(IE the Golan). We have to breakthrough by assaulting. Wouldent want to assault with anything thinner than a tank, considering the ammounts of threats in the Golan-
RPG-7v, RPG-29
ATGMs(Including Milans and AT-14)
T-55AMV(AT-10),T-62(115mm) T-72AV(125mm)
Mi-25, Gazelle(HOT)
artilelry rangng from 81mm to 160mm.....

Try to push through that with a stryker and you end up as dead as you can get.

Its clear to me that this is a very specific situation, but i firmly believe Israel needs an IFV that can keep in advance with the Merkava, and this means either Achzarit or Namer, because no one is selling this type of vehicle, apart from mayb some rusky new APCs(BMP-T, i think its called)

December 22nd, 2007
SHERMAN Milforum Moderator Gear	I think the stryker, if at all fielded here, wil be fielded as an IFV. tis is no problem seeing as its far better by any measure when compared to the M-113. We have thousends of the M-113 APCs and frankly they are junk. No protection, no real armament, and not too great on speed. But replacing Merkavas with strykers or anything lighter than a main battle tank is crazy. look good at IDF OBs and try to see by what you know what size is our tank fleet....all comes at a price. most countries cant have vast fleets of IFVs and vast fleets of MBTs. Israel cant manouver, at least not on our main fron(IE the Golan). We have to breakthrough by assaulting. Wouldent want to assault with anything thinner than a tank, considering the ammounts of threats in the Golan- RPG-7v, RPG-29 ATGMs(Including Milans and AT-14) T-55AMV(AT-10),T-62(115mm) T-72AV(125mm) Mi-25, Gazelle(HOT) artilelry rangng from 81mm to 160mm..... Try to push through that with a stryker and you end up as dead as you can get. Its clear to me that this is a very specific situation, but i firmly believe Israel needs an IFV that can keep in advance with the Merkava, and this means either Achzarit or Namer, because no one is selling this type of vehicle, apart from mayb some rusky new APCs(BMP-T, i think its called) __________________ In the roar of engines, in the thunder of cannons,in the comradship of blood!