How easy to mount spikes will depend on the turret that is on
the ifv. If the ifv turret in question is spike capable IE
it's FCS is able to use control and command spike then no
problem.
Short fall for all armour
If a war head penetrates, boom you have alot of casualties.
No fuel. No armour.
Do you need add on armour? DUH. Slat is the basic. ERA,
additional ceramic, steel blocks blah blah blah.
If you want to abandon your vehicle, you better destroy
everything in the vehicle and the vehicle itself and carry all
classified items with you. IE, if it gets stuck in a ditch and help
is far away, either sit tight and camp or ask for permission to
blow it up and walk.
ST Engg is bragging unless they have a steroid terrax. I dont
see how 105mm plus modern FCS and ammo is NOT going to exceed 10
tons(supposed combat load of terrax). Dont even mention
155mm. 400CC diesel only leh....even the BX has 500cc if i
remember correctly. The BX is 22 tons FFs and even THAT cannot
support the SM1 turret.
Actually it could handle max 10 tons payload, not 10 tons max
combat weight, so dun mix it up.
Actually the full combat weight of vanilla APC version of Terrex
is abt 17.5 tonnes.
( this is for C-130 transportability)
But in reality the Terrex platform could handle up to max weight
of 24 tonnes.
(Based on Janes reports in 2001, but Wiki stated now it could go
as far as 25~30tons?)
Which is more than enough to handle low recoil 105mm tank
gun.
As for 155 SPH, look no further with Israeli Rascal which total
combat weight of 20 tons or German AGM on a 6x6 with total weight
of 23 tons.
The German AGM modules itself weight 12.5tons and it is
52cal gun plus 30 155mm rds.
[url]http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articles/20070713.aspx[/url]
What if the Terrex use 39 cal gun module with less ammo( say 20
rds), it could could certainly be around or lower than 10 tons
payload.
So in reality it is doable.
