Underequipped? This is the best-equipped military force in any conflict, any where, any time, in the history of mankind. Soldiers will always complain no matter what they have. You can't send them into a conflict with a Star-Trek style force field bubble around them you know.
Yo, Snidely! Here's how it works with military vehicles.
You can have them fast. You can have them with great armor. You can't increase one without sacrificing the other. [The following is for anyone else tuning in who may be the hard of hearing:]
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Armor is a trade off for speed when it comes to military vehicles. |
The way war works (and has for thousands of years) is you look at the mission and decide what is the balance of armor/speed you want to give you the best edge. When you get out to the field, and find that the planning wasn't good enough, you make can you vehicle faster by dumping armor into a land fill, or (as they're doing now) pull it out of the dump and recoat the vehicle to make it stronger but slower.
Sometimes it's the faster vehicle that makes you survive.
Something else, soldiers who don't improvise once they get to the field usually don't survive as well as those who do