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It's not density alone, if it was just MANPADS and crappier guns with right tactics getting closer would be doable. But that's not a given for all wars from now on. Yeah, there is a very contextual clause to this. Depends on what war. Bombers getting 20% attrition on their first sortie and...

TBH that depends on specific opponent involved and what they have. Syria, Libya or Afghanistan in 2023 would hardly be worse than then, while something like China would make it absolutely suicidal.

Only because the planes rarely get into their range, that's the trick. The attack planes are generally not being used to "get down and dirty" like they are normally known for, but to sling unguided rockets from a semi-ballistic trajectory (as many videos show), or throw standoff weapons when...

Ukrainians also still use them. The fact is that forward placing good AA that could ruin the day of such planes has to be balanced that such expensive vehicles get really bad attrition when not in the rear. If the losses were truly heavy, those planes would no longer exist on either side since a...

Counterpoint: It's the third year of the war, yet plenty of Su-25's, planes of similar age and characteristics, still fly on both sides, despite being used very much, over the most AA filled battlefield since Vietnam.

With that level of legal fuckery they could totally accidentally establish similar to publicly known baseline, or use one of the few vehicles based on M113 but with IP held by different, local companies, in some cases in countries without particularly close relations to western counterparts and...

One big one is not in mobility but in direct combat. Wheels get fucked up a lot in conventional warfare, any little frag or machinegun fire and your vehicle is left with 50-100 km of reduced performance on run-flats until it gets damaged wheels switched out. For a tracked vehicle, nothing...

"Relatively limited use specialist design" Minor spinoff? FFS, the plan is for 3k of these things... https://www.army.mil/article/269609/army_awards_full_rate_production_contract_for_ampv Great for low intensity conflicts, peacekeeping and this sort of stuff. More controversial for...

Mobility mismatch with tanks says not so fast. It's why USA is switching them to semi-heavy Bradley chassis based APC for support rather than just saying fuck it and getting some more Strykers. Of course that applies only to competent armies that have much of armor units and plan to use them in...

APCs are no longer sufficient for serious frontline duties, but i disagree that they are no longer useful. Lots and lots of countries still use them as bases for support vehicles or reserves, as rarely a major military can afford enough of usually more expensive IFV hulls for absolutely...

M113 and BMPs are totally different classes of vehicle, one is a battle taxi APC and the other is an IFV like Bradley. Soviets used their own "boxes on tracks" in form of MT-LB among other less common vehicles alongside BMPs, and all these vehicles are still considered useful to have in Ukraine.

Both. https://www.army-technology.com/news/bae-systems-renews-bradley-contract-for-the-pentagon/ M113 handled the mobility issues somehow for decades, NBC protection was an option in Cold War models yet is not used actively much now, it had the same firepower basic AMPV will have (.50 pintle...

If you wanted effective ships for that you would still probably get something closer to frigates - because that would not be the kind of littoral warfare that Baltic or Mediterranean basin countries can design their many corvettes for - short distances to travel, short patrol deployments, and...

Reminder that we live in a time when steel is cheap but silicon is expensive. So saving on warship size and being forced to miniaturize hi tech dependent capabilities, bad deal. But would China send their painstakingly built up navy up to US coast to get scrapped by US land based aviation...

That means needing oceanic endurance and sea handling capability... And that means you may aswell make them frigates.

What potential conflict and likely opponent would US Navy need such ships against?