Medium Weight 'air portable' Armour

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by IronDuke99

I really worry that 8x8 medium armour, including 8x8 medium armour mounting a big gun, will be equated by political types as really much the same as modern Infantry Fighting Vehicles and MBT's, with unhealthy results for the men manning them.

99% of modern political types are really deeply ignorant of the military. For example Tony Blair, on becoming PM was honestly -according to himself- convinced that the UK had several thousand SAS soldiers despite having been an MP for many years and leader of his party for several.

Like any other weapons system they've very useful in some situations, less so in others.

That's probably the biggest problem politicians have, they fail to keep in mind military equipment has to work at 40 below and 120 above rain or shine, and that's never going to be cheap.