With the majority of battles and fighting taking place in Urban Enviroments, What do you guys prefer: Wheeled or Tracked APCS????

has been discussed before i believe...

Originally Posted by Pete031

With the majority of battles and fighting taking place in Urban Enviroments, What do you guys prefer: Wheeled or Tracked APCS????

Wheeled APCs take less fuel than tracked and road speed is higher. If armaments and armor are the same in both, i would choose wheeled APC.

Especially in Urban evironments where chances are even if you do get a flat, you won't have to go too far to get it replaced.

It all depends on the terrain that your AO is in. If it's more urban, like the_13th_redneck said, than wheeled APCs are more practicable because of speed. If you're in more nountainous or off-road terrain, obviously tracked.

Remember I said Urban terrains... The thing about wheeled vehicles is that they have tires... Even with the CTIS (central tire inflation system) they still go flat.... The tires on the LAV 3 have runflats, but they are only for short distances... Now a wheeled vehicle is faster, more quiet and excellent in the city... The thing about tracks is that they can be more robust and if needed climb over rubble and stuff like that... Both vehicles require plenty of maintenance though....

Remember I said Urban terrains... The thing about wheeled vehicles is that they have tires... Even with the CTIS (central tire inflation system) they still go flat.... The tires on the LAV 3 have runflats, but they are only for short distances... Now a wheeled vehicle is faster, more quiet and excellent in the city... The thing about tracks is that they can be more robust and if needed climb over rubble and stuff like that... Both vehicles require plenty of maintenance though....

The LAV (or as we call them ASLAVS) have run flats, that is correct. But they can travel a fair distance on run flats.

Plus i'd rather blow out 3 wheels on an ASLAV than break on set of tracks on a Bradley. More work to change over, and cripples the vehicle.

In africa the LAV had to run on it's runflats and it destroyed the tires after several km's... Maybe you guys have different tires or something. But when I was a LAV driver they told us never to drive on the runflats unless it was an emergency because it is not good for the tires or wheels.

My mate drove nearly 10km on runflats in Iraq, the tyres needed to be replaced and the rims got buckled, but they got him there.

As with anything, it depends on the mission of the vehicle. Tracked is slower, but the tracks are less vunerable to small arms fire and are harder to damage in general. If you wanted something for Urban fighting, I think I'd lean more toward tracked for the added protection. Also, I understand that the Stryker (wheeled AFV) has some terrain limitations that tanks don't have.

Getting from pointA to pointB, go wheeled.