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**** They could've at least given them a friggin' 5-dollar tarp or something to keep the rain off of them...

**** What happens if they get an airburst, dropping shrapnel on them.

** One example of the light vehicles mentioned in the first paragraph: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510044017/www.sinodefence.com/army/artillery/type75at_105mm.asp This]. It's basically a Jeep-like vehicle with a recoilless rifle (think "bazooka") mounted on top. Or how about [[wikipedia:Vespa 150 TAP|this]]: a recoilless rifle mounted on, of all things, a Vespa scooter, designed for airborne operations.

** One example of the light vehicles mentioned in the first paragraph: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510044017/http://www.sinodefence.com/army/artillery/type75at_105mm.asp This]. It's basically a Jeep-like vehicle with a recoilless rifle (think "bazooka") mounted on top. Or how about [[wikipedia:Vespa 150 TAP|this]]: a recoilless rifle mounted on, of all things, a Vespa scooter, designed for airborne operations.

*** And the more modern versions which have Jeep/Humvee/UAZ mounted anti-tank missiles like the TOW.

* A Soviet tank destroyer example from [[WW 2]], the Su-100, whose gun would later be mounted on the Cold War-era T-54/55 series. Soviet soldiers called it the "[[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] end to anything" because it could blow through any German tank's front armor (except the [[Mighty Glacier|King Tiger]]) at maximum-range.