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10-19-2013, 09:20 AM
Konigstiger
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Actually raccoon city might have IFVs. They just didn't show them.
Armies regularly re-purpose amphibious vehicles for land engagements where they might need to advance across rivers and various bodies of water quickly or through heavy resistance to create bridgeheads and thus an amphibious armored vehicle like an IFV on land is ideal. Fording tanks and APCS are not ideal for attacking fortifications on water or advancing across water due to various reasons and usually require bridges to be sustainable in advances.
That's why you're likely to see the IFV on land too, a just in case option the military likes to have, especially to take and guard bridgeheads and landing areas. Equipment variety is a strength in the army, not a weakness. So yes, raccoon city might have IFVs stockpiled up for no reason besides that.
*Interesting fact about armored vehicles.
(Armored vehicles don't win wars by themselves because terrain restrictions like bodies of water and mountains can bottleneck them into easy kill zones since they still need roads and bridges to move efficiently and quickly. That's why infantry are so important, there's almost no terrain that infantry can't fight on, and where's there's infantry, there's eyes for support fire from artillery aircraft and all sorts of nasty things)
Chinese police use the Type 92 IFV, so why not a fictional police force? If the props are an issue just remove them, they don't have them on the police-operated variants as far as I can tell.
If you need further convincing, we have podunk police forces getting MRAPs from the government.
Finally, there's always this version:
Different turret
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