07-19-2016, 04:56 PM
(07-19-2016, 04:43 PM)SCN-3_NULL Wrote:APBC is a non-SC multipurpose shell. It is absolutely adequate for mauling infantry and light vehicles alike with a single ammo type. Using a singular ammo type simplifies industry, supply lines, and the engineering of the Scorpion's autoloader, as presently adding a secondary ammo type to the Scorpion requires an external bin. For fighting heavy targets they did have options though, using the Cobra railgun tank primarily, but like a lot of specialized equipment the production was very localized and stopped wholesale causing the Cobra to essentially go extinct within the UNSC. Unlike the Soviet Union the UNSC largely failed to preserve its industry and retooling any of what it was able to retain was thus out of the question.(07-19-2016, 04:35 PM)Surge Wrote: The United Nations Space Command was still the United Nations and thus mostly concerned with peacekeeping. The idea that insurgents could field a vehicle that required a modern APSDS round to penetrate was ridiculous.that still doesnt excuse them for pulling up a ww2 designed shell rather than something like the gulf wars when the alien attacked, besides incase of insurgences they might've pulled up something like a challenger tank, or our modern MBTs(2000s-2100s) that's even impossible to pen frontally with APFSDS
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