[Panther Al]

I knew they was talking about adding to the divcav, but never twigged onto the exact reasons. Still and all, the doctrine was there, the ability wasn't is pretty much about sums it up?



And as to the last bit, thats the biggest gripe I have: It seems that once again, the army has forgot rule one of armoured warfare: It takes a tank to kill a tank. Missiles are good, but they are not perfect. Towed Guns was awesome, but they couldn't maneuver, and when mounted on a light chassis (MPGS anyone?) couldn't hang when real tanks showed up: A real tank can survive a near miss, or a glancing hit; A Stryker (Or Centaro, Rookiat, whatever) can't.

While everyone swore by Tank Destroyers (US because we believed in the Doctrine, Russians and Germans because they had to mount as many big guns as they could)in the second world war, if you would note, that once the lessons was learned, there was no more: It was accepted - finally - that tanks and only tanks could kill other tanks on a reliable basis.