Terwówka Virus - Memes, and Facts

Do you remember the memes on the Demotivators who laughed at buying "Wirus" vehicles from Concept for the military? They compared with an armored American vehicle, laughing that "Americans know what war looks like, while the fabled weapons are patriotism and territorial defence". The authors completely omitted that the virus is simply a vehicle for the Army of the Far Recognition, which forces its lightness

Such memes are a classical example of the deficiency of simple military cognition and assessment of equipment solely on the basis of "dangerous" appearance. The comparison of an armored combat vehicle (such as MRAP or dense Humvee) to a light impact vehicle is passed to the mark due to the fact that both vehicles were created for highly another tasks.

LPU Virus 4 is simply a vehicle created for the Army of the Far Recognition. The task of specified crews is to secretly penetrate the enemy's rear, conduct reflection and rapidly retreat. The plan with an own weight of about 2 tonnes allows transport by air – the vehicle can be easy hung under a chopper or accommodated in a cargo hold of a transport aircraft, which is impossible for dense cars. The vehicle moves smoothly in a difficult, rough area where heavy, armored colosses would simply drown in the mud.

The function of Humvee is to accept the impact on the armor, disperse the force of the mine explosion. The function of the Virus is not to be detected, and in the event of contact, to jump off quickly. The function of Humvee is to patrol the roads, to transport infantry in the combat zone, to defend against IED. The function of the Virus is to scout deep, fast harassing strikes, diversion of Zalelt Hunvee thousands endurance crew during direct fire. The strong side of the virus is estermal mobility, ease of masking, low acoustic signature.

The virus (Viper) is not utilized to storm the front lines but to patrol cities during the asymmetric partisan conflict. If you put armor on him, he'd lose his most crucial weapon: mobility and the component of surprise. net memes creators have confused "surveillance" with "linear mechanized infantry", generating a repeated story online.