"With the phasing out of the specialist roles within conventional ops, the Cav were left with the option to adapt to the CTR role or die."
i've been following the Mobile Gun System thread and a few posts have got me thinking....is the cavalry corps as we know it today an old fashioned organisation being kept for traditional purposes?
as most know its traditional "cavalry" roles have long been replaced and it has been given responsibilities that raised eyebrows initially with infantry types, namely dismounted recce.
the AML 90's are now accepted as insufficient for the new cavalry roles and outdated.
the Scorpions are a novelty item in the DF....the idea of tracked vehicles appeals but they are unlikely to ever be used in any meaningful role other than easter parades and certainly never overseas!
with the cavalry now using the same vehicles as the infantry and sharing common roles (albeit longer distance recce) the separation of the corps has never seemed slimmer.
so might it not be a better idea for the DF to merge cavalry with infantry? replace scorpions and AML's with further mowags with appropriate weapons suites to cover different roles. and then have stronger strength infantry formations that have access to a common group of vehicles with a wider range of equipment and weapons suites, and that can carry out recce and associated roles at any and all distances (excluding SF long range recce role)?
a hypothetical question for the future planners to think over.
i've been following the Mobile Gun System thread and a few posts have got me thinking....is the cavalry corps as we know it today an old fashioned organisation being kept for traditional purposes?
as most know its traditional "cavalry" roles have long been replaced and it has been given responsibilities that raised eyebrows initially with infantry types, namely dismounted recce.
the AML 90's are now accepted as insufficient for the new cavalry roles and outdated.
the Scorpions are a novelty item in the DF....the idea of tracked vehicles appeals but they are unlikely to ever be used in any meaningful role other than easter parades and certainly never overseas!
with the cavalry now using the same vehicles as the infantry and sharing common roles (albeit longer distance recce) the separation of the corps has never seemed slimmer.
so might it not be a better idea for the DF to merge cavalry with infantry? replace scorpions and AML's with further mowags with appropriate weapons suites to cover different roles. and then have stronger strength infantry formations that have access to a common group of vehicles with a wider range of equipment and weapons suites, and that can carry out recce and associated roles at any and all distances (excluding SF long range recce role)?
a hypothetical question for the future planners to think over.
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