Why is there an international trend of tracked infantry fighting vehicles being replaced by wheeled infantry fighting vehicles?

In recent years, it is true that there are more new wheeled infantry fighting vehicles than new tracked infantry fighting vehicles. The tracked infantry fighting vehicles of various countries are basically still using Cold War assets.

In fact, new models of tracked infantry combat vehicles have also been released, such as the German KF-41.

But what the Germans are doing now is not as eye-catching as it was during the Cold War.

However, in European countries, since their current main imaginary enemy is Russia, the advantages of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles such as light weight and good strategic mobility are not needed for these countries, so tracked infantry fighting vehicles are more suitable.

But it is too early to say that wheeled infantry fighting vehicles will replace tracked infantry fighting vehicles.

The current protective capabilities of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles are still slightly weaker. There is now a relatively accepted view that if the designed combat weight exceeds 30 tons, a crawler chassis should be used, and if the design weight is less than 30 tons, a wheeled chassis should be used.

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The current prosperity of wheeled armored vehicles is related to the large-scale equipment of Stryker armored vehicles in the United States. If the world's number one boss is doing it, then other countries will naturally follow suit.

However, the situation in Russia is different. Russia used wheeled armored vehicles on a large scale earlier. The current use of wheeled vehicles is just a continuation of the past tradition.

The main advantages of the wheeled armored vehicle chassis are light weight and high maximum speed. Relatively speaking, as long as it is less difficult, any country with a certain automobile industry foundation can make it. It is also cheap. In today's world where the price of weapons is soaring, it is very important to be cheaper.

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For a country like the United States that requires global deployment, tracked armored vehicles are too heavy and are not conducive to rapid deployment. Therefore, Americans have large-scale equipment of wheeled armored vehicles that they originally disdained.

Tracked infantry fighting vehicles have better protection capabilities and stronger off-road capabilities, especially heavy infantry fighting vehicles, but they are also expensive and due to their heavy weight, their strategic mobility is not as good as wheeled armored vehicles.

Most of the various armed conflicts after the Cold War occurred in the Middle East. The road conditions in such places were not bad, so the off-road performance of crawler vehicles was basically useless, and the shortcomings of slow speed of crawler vehicles were more prominent.