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Our air-mech saga continues with a
breakthrough in America by General Gavin's
Airborne "Skunk works": not only could we
thanks to aluminum alloy armor for the first
time fully enclose an infantry squad in a
track-driven armored hull without becoming an
immobile monstrosity at under 11 tons this
Airborne Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle Family
now known as the M113 Gavin--could be
parachute airdropped to fix the Airborne's
nuclear battlefield mobility problems
once-and-for-all with an amphibious,
all-terrain light tank that carries
troops---armored personnel carrier.
http://www.combatreform.com/m113combat.htm
http://www.geocities.com/armorhistory/infantr
ytanks.htm
The problem was that LTG Gavin was fed up
with DoD corruption and retired in 1958 and
was not around to insure M113s in 1960
got to Airborne and Light unit transportation
battalions as the Pentomic organization and
the vehicle's very design intended.
The torch of Airborne warfare progress was
dropped by us Americans in 1960 when M113s
were not supplied to Airborne/Light units as
intended and the next phase of M113
development into an effective light tank
languished as the AR/AAV got heavier and
heavier. What we needed then and need now is
a mini-STUG assault gun on a M113 chassis
that would also do what the M551 Sheridan
AR/AAV was/is too heavy to do: fly by
helicopters for VTOL mission profiles.
The Russians were terrified at the thought of
dispersed American infantry and tanks under
armor maneuvering and not dying under their
nuclear first strikes and actually repelling
them if they stayed with conventional HE and
KE weaponry. For the first time the American
Army had the greatest mobile infantry on
earth.
http://www.combatreform2.com/airbornetoc.htm
Aluminum alloy armor enabled the Russians to
create their own M113, but theirs would have
a turret and act as its own fire support
light tank. A small turret with 73mm cannon
and Sagger anti-tank guided missile as well
as 7.62mm medium machine guns made their BMD
what our M113s would have become had we kept
innovating. YOUTUBE has excellent videos
showing later BMD models with stabilized
autocannon and even a 100mm/30mm/7.62mm
turret that is simply incredible firepower in
EVERY RUSSIAN AIRBORNE SQUAD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwS3Vbdvvc
The puny machine guns and small autocannon on
American infantry-carrying tanks pales in
comparison.
http://www.geocities.com/armorhistory
BMDs would play the starring role in the
seizure of Afghanistan in 1979 and are today
the world's standard in Airborne warfare. The
BMD-3 is so good at swimming with its
waterjets the Russian Naval Infantry use them
to swim from ship-to-shore. Compare this to
the USMC's bloated amtracks that we can't
seem to even get ANY large cannon onto
despite being twice the size, twice the
target at 10 times the cost. We have the
world's most expensive incompetent military
money can buy.
Want to know more?
Our book, "Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric
Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century" is
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