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Ground Warfare
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New armour solutions.
Since the first tanks rolled into action in 1916, a constant duel has been underway between the designers of armoured vehicles and the manufacturers of anti-tank weapons. Every development seems to be quickly followed by measures designed to counter any advantage.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the fielding of large numbers of guided missiles armed with High Explosive Anti-Tank (Heat) warheads seemed to pose a major threat to the world's tank fleets, which were then protected by steel-based armour. These cheap weapons included shoulder launched throw-away Soviet rocket-propelled grenades (known as RPGs) or American M72 Light Anti-tank Weapons as well as longer range wire guided weapons, like the Soviet-age 9K11 Malyutka (Nato: AT-3 `Sagger') and the American BGM-71 Tow. The success of the new generations of anti-tank weapons during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war spurred many armies to look to ways to redress the balance and dramatically improve the protection of their tanks and other armoured vehicles. The results of these effo...See the full content of this document
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