Maybe tank isn’t the right word, but I swear I’ve seen vehicles with big guns with wheels. Why would you pick one over the other?
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Wheels are faster, easier to maintain, more maneuverable, and won’t annihilate road surfaces. Generally if you can get away with wheels for a given application, you’ll pick wheels.
Tracks are slow and difficult to maintain and shred pavement, but they have perfect weight distribution and won’t sink into mud/sand/slop/snow, and they can just climb over or crush through low obstacles.
You use tracks when the vehicle is extremely heavy (like a main battle tank) or when you expect it to be operating in rough conditions far from maintained roadways.
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