motorcycle cavalry

What is automatic weaponry, Alex?

>>34237188
slightly related, didn't the japs once invade some city in oceania by riding bicycles through the jungle?

>>34237217

That would be Singapore

>>34237200
Did you miss the part about ceramic rifle plate fairings?

>>34237188
If you want to mechanize dragoons, give them IFV's so they can carry enough supplies.
Otherwise they're just short range light recon.

>>34237563

Ceramics shatter. A machine gun would punch through them anyways. You might as well just use a regular horse like China and India and US SF are doing, since horses can negotiate terrain that bikes can't.

>>34238782
NIJ III plates are rated to stop 5 or 6 rounds of 7.62 NATO. What are the chances of being hit more than 5 or 6 times in the same plate while moving at a high rate of speed that a dirt bike would allow?

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>>34237188
>How effective would motorcycle cavalry be in today's wars?
Almost unstoppable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgwfNY-ccc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tbnC-gLhiw

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>>34237188

>Have air power between multiple branches with a multitude of options that can kill from a high altitude or distance, before the enemy even knows they're in someone else's crosshairs
>Nah, let's introduce a whole new machine to our logistics chain which can break and needs maintenance, and requires a whole new inventory of parts and the means to supply them overseas, and puts soldiers at risk, and requires an entire new level of training so that dudes can op8 on dirtbikes and fire one-handed, which itself wouldn't be near as effective or cheap as regular infantry who can actually aim at what they're shooting at, versus one handed shooting on a moving vehicle
>This is so much better than an AH-64D or a Predator mounted Hellfire

OP you brilliant son of a bitch, if I was sure whether or not you're shitposting on purpose I'd post pics of the horse-mounted M-60 trials

>>34238970
>the horse-mounted M-60 trials
This happened?

>>34238812
You won't be traveling near fast enough for the speed to even be a factor.
Machineguns have no problems engaging cars and other vehicles traveling at max speed, a dirtbike is no different while providing none of the advantages of a light truck or other offroad vehicle such as carry capacity and weapons carried.
GPMGs usually have a rate of fire between 600-800 rpm and are considered area denial weapons meant to saturate an area with enough firepower to make moving through that area a suicide mission.
If you move up to vehicle mounted weapons you start running into things like HMGs, miniguns and automatic grenade launchers that will do the same but at a even higher level.

Also who needs machineguns when you can just string some wire between the trees at neck hight and sit back and watch the carnage.

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>>34237188

>>34237188
>7188▶>>34237217 >>34238769 >>34238900 >>34238970 >>34241033
>i don't know shit about motorcycles.

on that note. Aus and US troops have used diesel klx m1030's for patrols and such for years now. also japan has a bike mounted section for scouts

>>34242775

>patrols
>scouts

>the same thing as cavalry

>>34238970
hey its better than the giant spider like warbot threads