Except in very bad terrain and indoors, a very small tankette can do what infantry can do in a lot of environments.
IEDs won't hit them as hard as they would trucks, and its not a conventional war either. Why not just patrol the desert in thousands on one man, air conditioned, machine gun carrying mini-vehicles, instead of infantry?
>>30585980
Maintenance and lack of protection.
>>30585980
So tankette spam?
>>30585980
Because in the 30's every country decided tankettes aren't worth it.
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>>30585980
There's nothing wrong with brainstorming, but Everytime someone tries to reinvent the wheel it's just retarded.
A few reasons:
Cost
Practicality
Maintenance required
It's retarded and unnecessary
>>30586043
Japan didn't.
>>30585980
>IEDs won't hit them as hard as they would trucks
Explain
>>30586767
Neither did Italy.
>>30586810
They don't need roads.
>>30586058
>Cost
Any money saved by not doing that simply goes to other military applications. So nothing saved then.
>Practicality
Explain.
>Maintenance required
So? Military gets a blank check, and military men can use some useful mechanic skills.
>>30586767
And look how they ended up
>>30586767
>>30586893
>>30586043
Well, I understand why they are useful but Assault guns that Germany used is the natural evolution of a tankette.
Why? Because standardize and it serves a function as it was intended to be.
>>30585980
I'd rather build dozens of ultra huge continental sized robot super tanks instead.
>inb4 Bolo
