Travis replied to me:
> Sounds like a good reason you would not want to face a tank on a
> featureless plane, but battle-suits would presumably be able to use cover
> and terrain more effectively than a larger tank(assuming you are moving and
> not just in a 'hull down' position).

Good point.

> Also I expect battle-suits could
> quite easily make things like fox-holes and only expose their sensor
> apparatus intermittently to scan for tanks. (assuming they do not have the
> leisure to set up a full bunker with superior scanning apparatus or some
> other sort of command post)

That works only in the defensive.
 
> Question: why would battle-suits in a squad or platoon not be networked
> together so as to allow improved scanning, at least until some sort of
> threat has been detected?

* No good rules for that, and it would be a bit late to try and rewrite 3E.

* If suits can do that, so can tanks. The gap remains.

I've managed to get a 15-mile PESA by cutting active sensors (AESA and 
multiscanner).

Regards,
Onno
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