And not having heavy tanks definitely gives them a great reason to bring in Soviet Division Cuba in my opinion - i.e. hey the US is sending in an armored division - we arent equipped to fight them
but Soviet Division Cuba - which is basically a motor rifle division - had heavy armor for sure - and I would like to tie this to what Webstral said - they also had helicopter gunships and fuel for them (i.e. Red Star Lone Star even mentions they are grounded now for lack of fuel) - and there is a good possibility the 49th didnt have any air support or very limited anti-air weapons by the time of the battle with Soviet Division Cuba
I would not want to be the commander of the 49th if that was the case when those gunships started making their runs and all they had was the 50's mounted on the tanks when they ran out of AA missiles
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