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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by ceejayoz on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:31AM (#20174103)
> The nice thing about the gun is that if you need to Swiss cheese a jerk in a Toyota pickup (redundant description, I know) it can do the job with nearly zero risk of knocking over the school on the other side of the block and it is a dirt cheap way of doing that.

I think the point was that a smaller gun would do. A Toyota pickup doesn't need an anti-tank round. Something more like what the Super Tucano carries would suffice.

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by dsfyu404ed on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:46AM (#20174230)
Yeah, 30mm is overkill for a Hilux but you don't want to show up with a cluster of .50s on the day they decide to drive the BMP to work.

That said, antitank weapons are good enough that well trained and equipped infantry should basically laugh off a BMP (or any other AFV) in most situations and there's always bombs and missiles.

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