I know that's the theory. And undoubtedly there have been succesful exercises. Some even with troops in them if the claims by the soviet and now russian defence forces are correct. Wouldn't want to be in one of those.
But my question is whether this can be done RELIABLY. If you drop a company of BMD's and only 3 can drive off on average I wouldn't call it feasible in a militairy sense.
I suspect BMD's will very rarely be deployed that way due to the risks. This seems to be a much more sensible and common way to deploy:
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