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7/11/2025, 9:06:06 PM
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>It didn't start changing until the 80's with much better sensors and smart weapons and the Reagan buildup
There's an interesting 1976 training film that's kind of a good example of this. Some entertaining examples of soon to be obsolete advances in tank gunnery standards as well as everyone still being clearly spooked by the Yom Kippur war ("IT'S A SAAAAAAGGEEEEEER!"). It's still pretty candid that at the time US Ground forces only had a very marginal tech advantage over the Soviets (more SACLOS ATGMs and slightly better tank FCS), and that the newer Soviet stuff was still massively deadly while being available to them in much greater numerical quantities. With the proposed solution to all that being somewhat worringly amounting to "git gud at combined arms".
https://youtu.be/G7phKrXY8Ik?si=e28MxMETEnzk6uNv
It's a pretty interesting contrast to the confidence you'd see in the following decade that new technology gave NATO ground forces some concrete qualitative advantages they could leverage against the Soviets. Though it increases my confusion as to what the hell the Reformers were smoking at the time.
>It didn't start changing until the 80's with much better sensors and smart weapons and the Reagan buildup
There's an interesting 1976 training film that's kind of a good example of this. Some entertaining examples of soon to be obsolete advances in tank gunnery standards as well as everyone still being clearly spooked by the Yom Kippur war ("IT'S A SAAAAAAGGEEEEEER!"). It's still pretty candid that at the time US Ground forces only had a very marginal tech advantage over the Soviets (more SACLOS ATGMs and slightly better tank FCS), and that the newer Soviet stuff was still massively deadly while being available to them in much greater numerical quantities. With the proposed solution to all that being somewhat worringly amounting to "git gud at combined arms".
https://youtu.be/G7phKrXY8Ik?si=e28MxMETEnzk6uNv
It's a pretty interesting contrast to the confidence you'd see in the following decade that new technology gave NATO ground forces some concrete qualitative advantages they could leverage against the Soviets. Though it increases my confusion as to what the hell the Reformers were smoking at the time.
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