azraelck
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IIRC, when I first started playing, I asked the same question. Since, I've found that it was a common and accepted tactic for infantry to fire at tanks with their small arms. I do not have the link handy since I'm at work, but on one of my webistes, a copy of a training manual notes that infantry was to aim for vision ports (such as the driver's vision hatch thngamabob), the joint between the hull and the turret, and the optical sight. This was to attempt to force the crew to button up, and shut the covers to all the vision ports, blinding the crew. There was also the hope of disabling the sights, or to penetrate and have a bullet or two richochet around the interior. That's on top of the lovely noise of being pelted with small objects from an unseen assaliant. While they logically knew that there was only a small chance of the small arms fire hurting them, the mind doesn't always thing logically. There was also the immediate threat that, if there were riflement nearby, there may also be an engineer with enough explosives to flip your little trash can, or a man with a Bazooka/Panzerfaust waiting to punch a hole in your side as well. That's why tanks don't attack infantry without adequet infantry support. Inf AT with make mincemeat out of your armor.
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