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If I had to choose, I would take the Stugna-P. You guide it with a laptop and don't have to hold it up to fire (it's mounted on a tripod), and the range is much
by monkeybutton 4y ago
If I had to choose, I would take the Stugna-P. You guide it with a laptop and don't have to hold it up to fire (it's mounted on a tripod), and the range is much further (4km!).
- tomjakubowski 4y agoSurely some sampling bias here but, in the overwhelming majority of videos of Russian vehicle kills I've seen, the guys are using a Stugna. Sometimes even a repurposed export model with UI text in Arabic or something.
- Buttons840 4y agoHow does the cost compare? Also, point and shoot might be better than setting up and using a laptop.
- monkeybutton 4y agoA quick google says 20K.
- jerlam 4y agoRemotely operated might be a better descriptor. Instead of getting shot at from the tank or infantry support, you can set up the missile and hide in a ditch/building.
- rmbyrro 4y agoJavelin and NLaw can go up to around 5km, can't they?
- monkeybutton 4y agoApparently a man-potable javalin's range is a 2.5K. The thing I think about is that the amount of of area one has to secure around their tanks using infantry/drones/whatever. The area increases with the square of the counter weapon's distance.
- dane-pgp 4y agoTo give a sense of scale, do you know roughly how many soldiers are needed on the ground to defend, say, a square kilometre of terrain? I suppose it depends on the type of terrain, but it would be interesting to know some representative figures.
- ceejayoz 4y agoSeems like there's a place for both. Javelins can be fired from inside a building, which'll be nice in close urban quarters.
- Someone1234 4y agoI'd also pick the Stugna-P, great ambush weapon. But if we're picking anything, I'd also take a kamikaze drone. While they're ineffective against tanks directly, the logistical support and forward bases are very soft targets, and you could essentially make tanks impractical. Just feel like a drone is a great psychological warfare weapon, you're never safe even behind your lines.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoIf we're picking anything I want tactical nukes. So what if I turn my country into a radioactive dump. It's my radioactive dump and you'll only get it over my dead body.