![]() This is primarily due to the rise of a universal tank or the Main Battle Tank concept. Oddly enough, destroyers can also include AFVs that aren’t necessarily “tank-like”, such as the American M3 GMC, which was basically a truck with an anti-tank gun mounted on it. It should also be noted that the concept of the Tank Destroyer pretty much died out by the end of the Second World War. German Jadgpanther, a heavy tank destroyer (Photo: Wiki) This, however, came at the cost of being able to mount smaller weaponry with the largest being a 90mm on the M36. Two crippled BTGs will render the parent unit, a Russian tank brigade, incapable of offensive combat.Obviously, there were destroyers with turrets, most notably the American tank destroyers, but the majority lacked a turret. That’s enough to render the unit combat ineffective. If Brimstone proves just 90 percent effective (MBDA itself claims 98.7 percent effectiveness in combat) a Brimstone strike could destroy 22 out of 50 tanks and armored fighting vehicles in a Russian battalion tactical group (BTG). Brimstone can be launched towards a defined target area and will then locate and attack any enemy tanks and armored vehicles it finds. Unlike Hellfire, Brimstone has an even more interesting indirect fire capability. ![]() ![]() This gives the new Polish tank destroyer the ability to engage enemy tanks at ranges of up to 12 kilometers (or about 7.45 miles). Like Hellfire, Brimstone uses a millimetric wave radar seeker to locate and identify armor. The missile looks similar to the American Hellfire anti-tank missile but differs in key ways. ![]() PHILIP COBURN // Getty Imagesīrimstone is a medium range air-to-surface missile system developed by the U.K. ![]() A Brimstone missile about to be loaded on a Tornado attack aircraft during 2015 air strikes on Islamic State forces. ![]()
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