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look at their little heads popping out. are these like tankettes?
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are these like tankettes
Sort of, although oriented specifically towards usage by airborne forces. It's basically what it says in the name - an armored weapons carrier, a way to bring along an autocannon or anti-tank missile launcher that would be too heavy to easily lug around by hand. Tankettes fell out of favor since they were just far too light to be effective among conventional ground forces, but in the specific context of airborne operations the concept still sort of works, since being air-transportable imposes some very harsh limits on the weight and size of your equipment.
We used to call them bicycle tanks, as in the crew was clearly pedaling to make them go.