Moving on land. Military fly-and-drive?
Armada International › Vol. 27 Nbr. 5, October 2003
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Moving on land. Military fly-and-drive?
The new world order is imposing an entirely different way of looking at the manner in which forces must be deployed. In fact 'despatch' would be a better word to use in this context. Land vehicles, hitherto essentially designed to transport men and gear, are now requested to be themselves more easily transported. Groups will be more autonomous as well, meaning that vehicles will have a tendency to become their 'home-base'.
While the efficiency of any given vehicle on the terrain is still of prime importance, the ability to see such vehicles reach the heart-of-action area as quickly as possible is gradually becoming an equal necessity. Progress made in recent years, particularly with wheeled armoured vehicles, has been such that they have now managed the feat of becoming the first option considered by a potential client, thereby tearing down for good the 'lightish' image they used to carry about them versus the more 'testosteronic' tracked vehicle. Indeed, the advances achieved in the rolling gear department have been such that the gap between the places a tracked vehicle can reach and a wheeled vehicle cannot is narrowing. Until not so long ...See the full content of this document
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