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Originally Posted by Raellus
It really depends on how you define a tank. By WWII definitions, you're describing an assault gun. AFAIK, during the Cold War both NATO and the Soviet Union defined tanks as tracked AFVs with high-caliber main guns and rotating turrets, used primarily as an offensive weapon and/or against other tanks. By that definition, is the M728 a tank? It meets most of the criteria, but I doubt that an M728 would be used offensively against enemy armor, except in extremis.
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Granted.
Only a fool would send in that M728 alone as a tank anyway. Without infantry and artillery it would be dead fast. The 165mm gun might do enough blast damage to light armor to make a kill with a hit. I don't think the optics or the sights are up to the challenge though.
I wouldn't be using it as a tank. I would be using it for the intended purpose of a breacher to support leg infantry with all the protection I might possibly pile on. It is a specialist vehicle with a specialist task, trying to use it as an MBT is foolish and wasteful with the probable outcome being a dead M728 and four dead men.