End date 2030, 100 years...

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Originally Posted by IronDuke99

The reason I say that is that that would have SG WWII - MBT covering 100 years or, to put it another way, roughly the difference in time between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Somme in 1916, or from the Somme to today.

Food for thought on many different levels...

Have things changed more or less? Has weapons and technology advanced more quickly or more slowly? What do you think?

Looking through the OOB's gives you a pretty good idea of how things advanced & who came up with what.
Progress is sometimes slow, & sometimes leaps quickly..
Armor advances, ammo advances armor takes a big leap or its discovered you have been badly uderestimating your opponent, bigger gun & improve the ammo.
Same with everrything from RPGs to SAMs you can see who is good at what split it down further, who is good at giros firecontrol vision devices etc & normally has an edge in that area.
The original M1 was a huge jump forward for the US fast well armored superb accuracy for the day & the ability in the right conditions to detect the enemy long before they can see you.
Unfortunatly those last 2 huge advantages were negated by the firepower. Russia would have realised pretty quickly let the T-64s deal with the standard stuff & send the T-80s against them possibly along with any cannon fodder they could get mobile.
So it still would not have dominated the battlefield vs Russia like the Tiger or even the Matilda in some theatres.
When your talking armor in WWll you were fairy unlucky if you didnt at least have something that could pose a threat even if not a significant one, you could at least cause a bump in the road. Modern armor vs old tech is plain & simply a Turkey shoot. Technology gap is so vast now from drones, battlefield awarness to firecontrol & protection between a Main Player & 3rd rate country standard warfare would be pretty much suicide.
Its also good fun exploring some of the African or South American countries OOBs for some strange mixes of Tech & definetly diffrent types of tactics you need.
You might have fairly high end SAMs & Manpads but still be using upgraded Shermans, be very carefull with them the othersides RPG or RCL could destroy something with 3 x the armor.
Israel is an intresting OOB to some countries that seem on a constant war footing dont seem to advance much but Israel is constantly upgrading & looking at new ways to gain an advantage.
Heck US funding is worth every cent I would say, Merkerva & Abrahms have been evaluated in side by side tests. US has studied how they fight especially in urban areas & modified tactics & vehicles accordingly.