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Originally Posted by Olefin
Keep in mind that the Mexican invasion and the fighting that occurred during it was all conceptually finalized and written in 1986 - i..e two years before the introduction of depleted uranium armor. Meaning that as far as the authors knew the best armor the M1 tank would have (and any of its variants in the game) would have been the original armor for the M1 tank. I.e. if they had bought HOT-1 missiles they could have had a fighting chance against it.
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That's true but the armour protection of the M1 was still too strong for MILAN-1 missile, and the frontal armour of the M1A1 (before been fitted with DU armour) could survive HOT-1.
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Originally Posted by Olefin
The depleted uranium armor wasnt in the original version of the game.
However it was in Version 2 and 2.2 of the game. But the Mexican invasion including Red Star Lone Star and Challenge 27 were never re-described for that version - you have to wonder if they would have possibly added more weapons for the Mexican Army given the now much better armored M1A1 and M1A2 of V2 and 2.2
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True but DU was developed during the Cold War and U.S. tanks would have been fitted with it, and were in fact from 1988.