Are halftracks still relevant in the modern battlefield (perhaps as an IFV, APC, or just general transport)?
>>29992544
Um, anon that's not a halftrack?
>>29992544
Don't think so, turning radius on them yokes must pretty bad compared to a bradley or something like it
>>29992544
Wrong pic
No, or they'd be used.
They're not bad or good really. They don't do anything a full tracked or wheeled can't do except be slightly more off roady in the mud and snow than a wheeled, and less turning radius than both of them.
also pic related isn't a half track.
>>29992544
Yes, anon. Halftracks are extremely relevant in the modern battlefield. Every major poeer fields several models, and even minor nations try to maintain a fleet. Most of the technicals in sub-Saharan Africa are adapted from halftrack chasses.
Pictured: MiG-27 "Famas", a halftrack unveiled at last year's Moscow Parade by Mikoyan Tractor Works. It features next-gen IFF, twin-linked autocannons, and up to one ASROC ASW device.
>>29992655
do you really have to be so nasty to OP, is it really necessary?
>>29992655
Something seems a little off...
>>29992635
no but it is aesthetic as fuck
>>29992655
Nice. Americans and Europe about to be btfo by superior Russian engineering again.
>>29992681
Yes
>>29992702
It is. but its expensive to maintain compared to a wheeled vehicle. Probably slightly more than a tracked ones also since you have an entire steering system to play with.
>>29992635
>>29992544
Pragas were the the shit in Wargame EE.
>filthy capitalists try to defeat glorious Czechoslovakia
>crush their puny Cobras and Hueys with glorious massed 30mm firepower
>>29992750
ok then
Here have another halftrack
>>29993295
I will be your personal slave and bodyguard for 6 years to own that.
My wife yours to plunder, my kids you to serve.
>want
>WANT
>NEED
IDC how many miles per gallon I want it now.
>>29992681
Ten minutes on wikipedia and a google image search, and OP could have been telling *us* about halftracks. Their pluses and minuses. Why they were developed. Why they fell out of common use. The first one made. The last one in service. And lots of sexy halftrack pictures. Instead, the OP gave us literally cancer. So, yes. This is now a FAMAS thread.
>>29992544
No, large-tire multiple-drive-axle vehicles are plenty off-road capable and easier to maintain.
Remember that the original WW2 half track was a rough-terrain vehicle with decent fuel economy that transported troops and could also tow a gun carriage into combat. That role is now played by modern wheeled APCs with gun turrets.
>>29993400
Anon, that's why OP is asking in the first place. He/she/it doesn't know their pluses and minuses. Why they were developed. Why they fell out of common use.
>>29993625
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-track
Get on my level, anon.
