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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
I've always felt that the Army screwed up royally when they made the decision to go with a smaller rifle squad and picked the Bradley. A better choice whould have been to keep the larger squad, and then build a vehicle around that. To be sure, there would have been major trade-offs! But yanking the TOW from the Bradley and replacing it with a Dragon/Javelin mount would not have been that great a loss. You could have kept a Bradley in the platoon as a TOW carrier, which would still have been a major upgrade in the mounted firepower AND had the larger squads.
I've noticed in a lot of MILES engagements, that the smaller squad, once it loses one or two men, seems to bog down a lot faster than a twelve man squad does. But thats just me.
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Oh, agreed. The brad by and large was a mistake. What I like about the CV90 family is that with the addition of the planned but never built CV90 archer spg, you can re-equip an ACR's entire collection of random mishmashed afv's with one basic chassis right off the lot so to speak. The cannon armed AFV is a scout vehicle in my mind: armed well enough to screen past the MLR but not so well they take on tanks for fun. Now for line units, I'd go with a apc based off of the standard mbt (ok, so you can't do that with the M1) armed with a rws equipped with a large calibre mg or a agl. Enough fire power to provide localised support (the tanks providing the bulk of the support by fire mission), room for a ten man squad at least, and the armour to get into the thick of it.