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I would never compromise firepower, I would rather increase it (more atgm´s). But a lighter fast moving tank could be effecitve anywhere on the battlefield and be depolyed where ever it would be needed without a enormous logistics train.
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Lighter vehicle doesn't mean lighter logistics. If you equip your Light Combat Vehicle (LCV) with a gas turbine, you will have something lighter but as fuel-thirsty as an Abrams. Suppose now you find a way to field effective hydrogen cells or ionic batteries, for instance by quick-changing them and reloading in your rear area. Do you imagine the logistics behind this?
And the price counts as well, also that is easily forgotten in a tactical wargame. One advanced ATGM is about ten times as expensive as an equivalent tank round. Granted, it is also guided. Now there should be an average between one light-armored Stryker brigade and the 2000 T-55 you'll get for the same price
... I guess everyone is precisely looking for that
You can still consider armour the Israeli way... I don't know how mobile could Merkava IV get if needed.