Tank Destroyers
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Are turretless AFVs still viable? Are tank destroyers in general still useful in modern warfare?
no
main battle tanks can go above and beyond anything TD's can do
No. Static defense don't real anymore, and that tank destroyer in particular found itself quickly replaced by infantry carried ATGMs, or those mounted on BMDs.
yea, it would be fine, except all western countries can easily afford to just field hundreds of MBT's, making a "cost effective" approach a little irrelevant.
>>28104401
>AFV
well, yes if you limit the definition of turret. Arguably you could use extreme off-bore missile launchers but it's much easier to put a turret on things even if it's an unmanned turret.
>TD
Probably, but the MBT is basically a modern tank destroyer, a tank designed to kill other tanks. You'd need to create something that could kill an MBT but not be an Main Battle Tank.
>>28104443
You can make a chassis with a turretless gun and have the gun size increase by 50% of that infrastructure compared to having that weight adding a turret carousel with a gun increase that would otherwise overpower the chassis.
But that is old technology so the actual thing is ATGMs that lose no penetration value over distance launched from a tube or platform lighter than a cannon of equal penetration value. A TOW missile is already 152mm in diameter, and the slavs packed so much explosive in Kornets that it is known to just make a 2nd gen MBT half a hole from impact.
Ive always thought a VLS ATGM/ Precision artillery Vehicle would be cool as fuck
No, they're horrifically obsolete. Anything a turretless AFV could do with a larger gun thanks to the lack of a turret can be easily replicated and rapidly surpassed by an NBC box with an ATGM on top.
>>28104401
TDs with NLOS missiles are the future.
>>28106669
The Chinese are offering one for export. Equipped with top-attack missiles.
>>28107353
Been a thing for 30 years now.
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>TD?
>>28104401
Yes. But now days they are armed with ATGMs, not cannon.
