Because when you pull the trigger the round is flying on its own trajectory wherever the gun was pointing. But when you are guiding a missile, you have to keep the sights on target for the entire flight and that means the gunner can’t induce any inadvertent control movements, like from having his head smashed into the sight by the tracks making the vehicle stop.
Com’on man, think more.
No that is what you think. The Army doesn’t do “shouldn’t”.
“seem” was included in that sentence for a reason.
@Conte_Baracca even says that even though he did not allow his tanks to lap load, they STILL did it. It doesn’t matter what people are told not to do. They still sneak and do things they arent supposed to, because it won’t matter as long as they don’t get caught. I highly doubt that if your life is on the line, and you could EXPLODE or burn alive in your metal box at any moment, the last thing on your mind is gonna be “Oh but First Sarnt said dont do that” Lets be realistic.
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There is a video they show every tanker and tank mechanic in training that shows what happens when the cardboard case of a 120mm round breaks open and catches fire inside a tank.
I find it hard to believe any one would be stupid enough to lap load 120mm, not just for the hazard of it, but also that any NCO or officer would risk their careers cheating during gunnery or in combat when the risks of the loader screwing up is far greater than the couple of seconds saved on a reload in combat. In a combat where it didn’t matter that much because the M1 vastly overmatched its oppsition.
So most likely your “friend” was either BSing you, or if they were an old timer, misremembering back to when the Marines still had M60s.
Could you explain the difference in effectiveness between the M3A3 and the 2S38 in your card?
Okay.
Combat veteran literally telling you that it’s very likely it happened. I’m not sure what else you want, a video that nobody would allow on the internet?
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I hate to break it to you, but combat veterans are some of the biggest BSers out there. He didn’t say it very likely happened, only that it could have happened, if that TC were a POS.
One is an IFV the other is an auto-light; they have different roles.
Bruh. Theres just no reasoning with you, is there? Theres literally NO BETTER SOURCE other than a video that the government would not want on an international forum.
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You aren’t reasoning. You are babbling about stuff you don’t know anything about except from a video game.
Now you just deny that I brought some kind of evidence. I literally tagged a combat veteran who I’ve heard of on here. You’re stubborn and just want to be right.
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That wrote something you agree with and want to believe (but not really). While THIS combat veteran is telling you what you don’t want to believe it. Strange.
I don’t GAS about being “right”, I am telling you the actual truth, not the crap you want to believe.
With two conflicting sources who are both just as reputable, I’m gonna go with the answer i wanna believe lmao
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These are light tanks. Why are you writing nonsense?
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… What? The Pershing was developed during WW2.
Also saw combat during WW2.
And Korea, IIRC
Yes.
By all definitions it isn’t a post-war vehicle. Just wanted to point that out.
True
IFVs are not light tanks, and auto-lights aren’t anti-tank gun light tanks.