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Originally Posted by Panther Al
Missiles are crazy expensive
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Missiles are dirt cheap compared to tanks. Even when you add on the cost of light wheeled recon vehicles (like hummers) to mount a launcher on, they're still dirt cheap. A country planning on a defensive war can field a whopping number of them for not much outlay, and can make an invader pay dearly. The Soviet doctrine is to overwhelm an enemy by sheer numbers. That doctrine fares poorly when confronted by someone using a somewhat similar tactic, but tweaked to exploit the weaknesses in Soviet methods.
Kind of reminds me of Germany handing out panzerfausts like candy in 1945. Might even have worked if they hadn't been so badly outnumbered.
