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In Sweden, like other developing nations, we had our soldiers cycling with their anti tank weapons (first picture): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_inf
by mzi 3y ago
In Sweden, like other developing nations, we had our soldiers cycling with their anti tank weapons (first picture):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_infantry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_infantry
- smartis2812 3y agoWhich is much better for the environment. (Y) Kudos
- Broken_Hippo 3y agoI mean... Ok. But they definitely aren't going quickly to protect from tanks. I'm not educated in the right ways to work out if shelling is worse than some bikes that'll probably outlast the war, if they don't get destroyed.
- sofixa 3y agoDepends on the tank and the situation - a bicycle from short range can be faster than the turret can be rotated to expose the bicycle to the machine gun of the tank. Not to mention the ambush opportunities in forests and the like, where the bicycle and the operators can lie down, be covered in netting, and spring up after the tank has passed them to hit it on the sides/back, and run away quickly after the attack.
- nicbou 3y agoGermany did that with Panzerfausts in the last days of the war. The riders were children.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago> The riders were children Kids today are living the good life.
- sofixa 3y agoNot only developing nations, Japan used bicycle infantry in their invasion of Indochina and Malaya to devastating effect - motorised vehicles were hard to use in the jungle terrain, but bicycles were fine while being drastically faster than the foot infantry used by British and other Allied troops.
- fransje26 3y agoVersatile mobility while keep the troops fit. Nice!