I merely said they had the Scott compared to rocket arty Ost and Sov have. They're late-tech indirect-fire weapons.
And late tech indirect fire is the only similarity here.
Its a regular mortar on a light tank. It supports a playstyle that does not exist and fills a niche that is not needed and overlaps with 2 much cheaper and comparatively performing units that come way earlier.
I'm not comparing. I'm saying non-doc rocket arty is what they lack, but they make up for it with a variety of other indirect fire.
Non doctrinally?
Not really.
PACK howi is a meme since forever.
Mortar is going to be idnetical to MEME howi and will make scott even more irrelevant then it already is.
USF do not need 3 different mortars with escalating exponentially cost, but no benefits to that.
The moment USF got T0 mortar and scott had its direct fire removed it lost all relevance.
The moment USF got T0 mortat PACK howi lost its relevance.
Major arty is more of a gimmick then a viable option because of low range and inability to use it without LOS.
USF do have options, but what of it if these options are all bad.
At least doctrinally it looks a bit better.