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To: lacrew

Maybe, but if you don’t have a crew, besides having a much lower profile, the tank can become more or less disposable— if it’s really a drone, you don’t need the heavy armor, you can just make more (and much cheaper and lighter) tanks.


26 posted on 03/30/2015 8:13:21 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15

I think most people greatly underestimate how difficult it is to traverse terrain in a tank. You are constantly avoiding obstacles...usually holes in the ground. We already have heavily armed remote controlled weapons (predator drones). So I don’t think we will field unmanned tanks anytime soon.


28 posted on 03/30/2015 8:17:36 AM PDT by lacrew
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