Hi everyone!
This thread is similar to the "Ships or Aircrafts that should have seen service", but involves this time Army equipment: guns, calibers/cartridges/ammo, AFVs, helicopters or any army aviation aircraft, if you have this much knowledge even electronic equipment like radars!
It can be equipment that is outright better than what was procured instead, replacements that should have happened but never did, or just equipment that adds new capabilities to the country getting it. Alternatively they can be equipment modifications. Ideally these proposals may be grounded in reality regarding budgets, or something a country had the intention to procure but didn't, so something plausible if you can. Or you can have fun!
An example from me: The BGM-71 TOW missile should have kept a 152mm warhead instead of the 127mm one of the early models. This reduction in caliber had been made at first to control the weight of the missile. However this also limited the actual penetration so much so that the missile actually had trouble defeating the composite armor of T-64 or T-72 tanks of the era. Moreover the weight reduction actually was fairly low, only around a kg or less. If, as I assume, the 152mm warhead was more powerful, then it would make sense to keep this warhead in spite of the heavier one. Given that TOW-2 and later went back to a 152mm warhead that shouldn't be hard to achieve.
This thread is similar to the "Ships or Aircrafts that should have seen service", but involves this time Army equipment: guns, calibers/cartridges/ammo, AFVs, helicopters or any army aviation aircraft, if you have this much knowledge even electronic equipment like radars!
It can be equipment that is outright better than what was procured instead, replacements that should have happened but never did, or just equipment that adds new capabilities to the country getting it. Alternatively they can be equipment modifications. Ideally these proposals may be grounded in reality regarding budgets, or something a country had the intention to procure but didn't, so something plausible if you can. Or you can have fun!
An example from me: The BGM-71 TOW missile should have kept a 152mm warhead instead of the 127mm one of the early models. This reduction in caliber had been made at first to control the weight of the missile. However this also limited the actual penetration so much so that the missile actually had trouble defeating the composite armor of T-64 or T-72 tanks of the era. Moreover the weight reduction actually was fairly low, only around a kg or less. If, as I assume, the 152mm warhead was more powerful, then it would make sense to keep this warhead in spite of the heavier one. Given that TOW-2 and later went back to a 152mm warhead that shouldn't be hard to achieve.