Originally posted by DeV
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This desire to equip the Defence forces to re-fight Kursk with a 90mm/105mm pop gun mounted on an armoured car is more than a little amusing. The 90mm on the AML is worse than useless against modern armor, it might have made the lads in the merkava ears ring or scratched their armour but not much more.
As for the 76mm, the Scrpion was designed back in the late 1960's when the british were worried about the russian hordes. The plan was that the scimitar (30mm version) would take out the russian armoured vehicles, while the Scorpion (76mm) would engage the russian hordes of infantry, with cannister and HE.
Canada bought the Cougar (76mm ) in the 1970's as a training vehicle for their reserve tankers during the cold war (the idea was they would train on the cougar in Canada and then switch to tanks in Germany). They pressed it into regular service during bosnia, when they had nothing better. They got rid of it because they realised it was a pile of poo in terms of accuracy, and found they couldn't fire the 76mm in built up areas without causing extensive collatoral damage..
As for a 105mm on a mowag, the americans have had massive problems with their concept, (admitedly mostly self inflicted), and are now moving to a mix of 30mm/40mm AGL/12.7mm mix to support their infantry. I suspect that after a decade of war mostly they know what they're doing.
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