Comments by "TheRezro" (@TheRezro) on "What Happened to Russia's BMP-Terminator in Ukraine?" video.
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The greatest failing of Terminator was not that it was too new. The opposite! It wasn't! There are already two categories of vehicles what do exact same thing as Terminator, but also aren't overspecialized in de facto niche role of mobile anti-infantry support unit. First of IFV's already do carry 30mm auto-cannons and ATGM's providing support, not to a tanks. But to infantry supporting the tanks. Because in the end, you literally couldn't send Terminator to clean building from ATGM team, when it was equally venerable to the same weapons. When if dismount bump on some reinforced firing position, IFV if used properly should do the job. Furthermore we also have SPAAG's (like Gepard), what until now were rather niche due to high capacity of modern aircraft's, but with rise of popularity of drones, they start being restored into service. And people seams to forget that they absolutely cold shoot in the ground targets and mulch concentrated points of infantry, being designed to secondary role of the anti-infantry support. Terminator was literally reinventing the wheel, to solve the problem what should not exist on the first place, if Russia would actually utilize own combat doctrine properly. But it was always hampered by abominable quality of Russian infantry. Due to core flaw of they doctrine, what is lack of respect to own man. Or human life in general.
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