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I have a question since tanks in formation are not close to more than 10 meters due to risk of explosion of one tank during its knockout could cause friendly tank in side to sustain a damage. So is it always 10 meters gap or varies ? Does that mean that if invading single armored battalion could cover upto 500 meters of areas if exact 50 tanks in one exists ?
G'day mate,
It varies with the formation your unit travel with. The 10 meters gap in between is for protection from ricochet AT round bounce off from one tank and hit the others, also it preserve the Line-Of-Sight of the command tank, so the other tank know where to go and follow the leader.
In a combat assault, tank will separate to a gap which they can be mutually supporting with each other, it could be 10 meters if they move abreast or 50 meters, for example, when you have 2 tanks taking up overwatch position while the other two were moving. The gap between each tank is not fixed, however, the gap between unit do. They were fixed at 100 yards or meters.
When one unit move with another unit, for example, second platoon move behind first platoon, regardless of what formation they are travelling with, they have to travel no closer than 100 yards of each other. Both for field clearance, so the second line's vision would not be impaired by the first line, but it also because of the enemy AT. Where the enemy AT guns or unit have to consider the depth of a formation, if we have 2 line of tank travelling in a zigzag formation with one line 100 meters behind the other, the enemy would have to change their gun setting before changing target.
In all, if you have 50 tanks moving abreast with each other, you can cover a 500 meters front or 5km front depending on the formation the unit is travelling with.
Davo
Very informative replies.
Can you also shred some light on why on earth Aussie only bought 59 M1 Abrams for the whole country?
Australia is about the same size with the US, I don't quite understand why US army have 4000+ tanks to defend the whole nation, while the Aussie think 59 is the magic number??