Armoured Reconnaissance

>>35116587
Go study how camouflage works, then come back.

>>35116587
Little tank sneakier than BIG TANK, so goes to find bad tanks for BIG TANK to BTFO...

>>35116587
Well anon, I've got bad news for you. Men on foot can't go as fast as tanks, so if you have a tank formation, you can't scout with men on foot!

Shocking, but true.

Also, in the 1980s sensors and communications weren't full panopticon like today.

>>35116587
Have you considered you're just stupid?

what's up with the red idler wheel?

>>35116587
>When I think of qualifiers to describe a tank, Stealthy is the last to come to my mind.

You know how I know you've never met opfor tanks on a field exercise?

Everybody minimizes their exposed profile, even tanks. Tanks bound between concealment and cover just like infantry.

>>35116938
It happens every month anon, you will learn about it when you grow up.

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>>35116915
OP question might be stupid, but your explaination is particularly lacking.

>>35116938
goes faster.

>>35116587
I do wonder this question myself. For example, are armoured reconnaissance vehicles doing the recon themselves? Or are they more an armoured taxi and support for a recon element which will dismount and recon on-foot?

If you are looking for an enemy which is expecting you, wouldn't sending a large(ish) tracked vehicle off to find them asking for said vehicle to get smashed?

Sure a recon vehicle might have better optics or reconnaissance equipment, but the enemy has their own recon too. Also, a lot of recon vehicles, for example the BRDM series, didn't have any particularly special recon optics or equipment.

Does anyone have any knowledge as to how a recon vehicle operates to avoid being smashed by an ATGM team before they even know they have met the enemy?

>>35116984
>I do wonder this question myself. For example, are armoured reconnaissance vehicles doing the recon themselves? Or are they more an armoured taxi and support for a recon element which will dismount and recon on-foot?
could be, and has been, either throughout history

>>35116984
>wouldn't sending a large(ish) tracked vehicle off to find them asking for said vehicle to get smashed

That's why it's armored.

> but the enemy has their own recon too
That's why it has a cannon.

>recon vehicle operates to avoid being smashed by an ATGM team before they even know they have met the enemy

Standard recon TTPs.

>re armoured reconnaissance vehicles doing the recon themselves? Or are they more an armoured taxi and support for a recon element which will dismount and recon on-foot

Both.

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I want a cute little wiesel to drive around in

>>35117032
does anyone know how "loud" a Wiesel is?

>>35116587
They use small tanks, retard.

>>35117008
>That's why it's armored.
Yes, we've all heard of the outstanding armor protection afforded by most recon vehicles.

>Standard recon TTPs
How informative

>>35116984
the world isnt perfect and you are going to take casualties.

https://books.google.com/books?id=UtiwDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA493&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false

begin reading

>>35117048
not very loud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOD7sRtVG4I
[EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES]

>>35116984
Yes.

But couldn't you just replace all of these vehicles with just a little camera that you can land on a tree branch to spy on anything moving down a roadway or a street?

Much less costly and risky to soldiers.

>>35117164
recon uavs are a thing. but sometimes actually being there can't be beat

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>>35117048
It has a VAG TDI, so probably as much as an 80's period VW, or less, if they paid attention to noise emissions developmentally.

Reconnaissance =/= hidden