The Akasha Colony wrote:Ardoki wrote:There would be less tank destroyers in the mechanised brigade than there would be tanks in an armoured brigade. The tank destroyers were to supplement the APCs in case of danger. The armoured brigades would be for breakthroughs, so would be more powerful.
But would you suggest relying on IFVs? How much more expensive are they when compared to APCs generally?
Yes, because otherwise your mechanized brigades will be very short on actual firepower. They have no tanks and a smaller number of "tank destroyers," and their APCs will have less armor and firepower than an IFV.
The difference in cost between a modern APC and modern IFV is not so large as to preclude the latter from replacing the former in practically all combat roles except where strategic mobility is a factor. Which is why I asked what the role of the brigade was. If strategic mobility were a priority, like it is with the US Army's Stryker brigades, you might have a reason to use such vehicles. But if it's designed for any sort of direct combat, the cost of IFVs for your entire mechanized force will be small compared to the improvement in effectiveness and survivability.
Okay, thank you. We should be able to afford to replace APCs with IFVs.
Our land area is only about 2 million square kilometres, and we have high levels of infrastructure. So the vast majority of the military would not need to be redeployed in very short periods of time.
However I'm thinking of creating airborne brigades, able to be quickly redeployed throughout the region (not the NS region, the region of the world I'm in
) in case of local emergencies (such as civil wars, enemy invasions, other disasters, etcetera). Would IFVs be too heavy for that requirement?
