doors? a roof? nah, we don't need that
They're apparently planning to buy 2.5k of these too! Light skeletonized utility trucks like this have been around for a while, but as a very specific niche for special forces, not general issue
Except now all the Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (which the US apparently has a ton of, you'd think the wealthiest country in the world would have, like, a mostly fully mechanized infantry force and not nearly half of its units without even organic APCs, but I guess not) are going to be converted to Mobile Brigade Combat Teams, mounted on these things.
Something I found interesting is that the Soviets actually trialed a similar concept of airborne troops mounted in stripped-down utility trucks all the way back in the '80s, with similar motivation - lighter-equipped units are easier to redeploy via air, as it takes less plane trips (and opens up the usage of more plentiful smaller planes) to get all their gear in place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYSb5VsQxNY
Except they pretty quickly came to the conclusion that this concept just doesn't work out that well. And even if they'd gone forward with it, there would have likely been just a handful of units like this, with the bulk of Soviet infantry remaining properly mechanized (in BTRs/BMPs for regular infantry, and BMDs for airborne).
Oh well, I guess the Americans have to see for themselves.
You laugh now, but once we load that bad boy up with four marines with fuel rod guns...
ugh it felt so bad to drive around on that halo 6 map and there was no big setpiece scarab fight where the clowncar would've been really effective. four sentinel beams and a sniper was cool when you could actually maneuver the hog
Halo 6? Someone needs to serve me pudding and walk me to bed.
There are around 12 Halo games if you count the RTS and twin stick shooters.
first of all how dare you /s
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