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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
The M551 Sheridan used aluminum armor, but it's hardly a tank. The vehicle they showed looked like an M2/3 Bradley, which doesn't use aluminum armor. It uses layered composite armor. Their may be aluminum in it but it's not entirely aluminum.
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Why, because it could be dropped from a plane & could fire missiles from its main gun? The air drop thing makes a certain amount of sense. And the Sheridan probably did a better job at being an air-deployed tank than the Tetrarch of WWII.
Shooting missiles from the gun on the other hand ...
? Why not just stick a couple launchers on the outside of the turret, similar to what ended up happening on the Bradley? Seems like that would have been a much better solution to give the tank some anti-armour punch.
Anyway, it was still a tank. A light tank, sure. But a tank none the less. It just put a lot more emphasis on the mobility part of the tank design triangle (firepower, protection, and mobility). But thats just the nature of a light tank.