BMGs, CMGs,AAMGs,TMGs,whateverMGs

[Griefbringer]

BTW: not quite relevant for SPMBT, but for those interested in curious bow mounted weapons, check out the Finnish Vickers tanks from 1940. These had been ordered from UK unarmed, with the intention to mount in them domestically manufactured weapons. For reasons that are still a bit unclear to me, the weapon chosen for the hull mount was an SMG!

Griefbringer

[Koh]

Originally Posted by Griefbringer

BTW: not quite relevant for SPMBT, but for those interested in curious bow mounted weapons, check out the Finnish Vickers tanks from 1940. These had been ordered from UK unarmed, with the intention to mount in them domestically manufactured weapons. For reasons that are still a bit unclear to me, the weapon chosen for the hull mount was an SMG!

Maybe I can offer some clarity then. Visibility beyond a few hundred meters outside Lapland and Ostrobothnia would be a rarely seen luxury. The rest of the country is pretty much dense forest. water or urban areas. The bow SMG makes perfect sense to me given the terrain the tanks were likely to be used.

I had the luxury of having a laser range finder in my use during my conscript service and other than in the live firing ranges where the visibility has been deliberately increased by hacking down the forests, being able to measure further than 150 meters away was really rare.

- Koh