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I suppose it's possible that earth technology just leapt ahead of BT, that knowledge was lost, and they never caught back up (even advanced factions like the clans stalled out in tech advancement during the golden century, only making advances around the invasion and then stalling again). The...

That's a reasonable argument to make...the problem is with actually applying it in this context. We know what the devs have said about BT armor, and how it's stats work....and that's all. What it actually is, what it's made of, ect, we have no canon info on that and are just speculating, so...

Per general dynamics, the sabot rounds from the bushmaster are only rated to penetrate APCs, not tanks (nor is anywhere close to hypervelocity). And even going by your argument that BT is based on a misunderstood version of the 80s, even the modern APCs that the bushmaster is able to engage have...

Rifles aren't specifically 80s tank cannons, they were used up into the age of war. And regardless of what the writers understood about weapons technology of the 1980s, what they wrote down was that BT armor is immune/borderline immune to modern tank guns. Even if they vastly underestimated how...

Ok, well for one thing the weapons ranges for BT are explicitly truncated for gameplay purposes. Weapon mass isn't tampered with for gameplay (well, it is, but not in that sense), but I think you might be skewing things a bit in favor of real life. For example, a BT machine guns weighs half a...

I don't think that's correct. Per the wiki (citing the tech manual, which I currently don't own), many autocannons are burst fire weapons, not single shot, and the single shot they fire in gameplay is an abstraction. From the AC/20 page: I would also note that given the BattleTech rifle family...