i take it the Brit's didn't show cause tank was down for maintenanceI am not all that upset by it.
Our top may not be as good, and our bottom won’t be as bad, the Abrams may come up short of the Leopard in some respects, but our large class of uniformly trained crews in uniformly good equipment would prevail.
They can have their trophy.
Cash strapped for training funds in the US military is my guess ..... just a guess of course.
i take it the Brit's didn't show cause tank was down for maintenanceIsrael prevailed in the 6 day war despite their hodgepodge ad-hoc collection of cast-off AFVs from the worlds surplus yards, because they believe its the crew quality that determines superiority.
You nailed it. Our troops will be trained in sufficient number to defend, or alien to the Europeans, to Attack when necessary. The money necessary to build and equip the next generation of US tank is will be in the hands of the president elected this November.
Quantity has a quality all its own
NATO is leading us to WWIII with its insane provocation of extending a missile shield into Poland, Romania and Ukraine. We know how we reacted to the Cuban Missile crisis when Khruschev tried to do the same thing to us. Well, lemme tell you, NATO will be useless when a thousand terrorist cells are activated inside the US and bring about civil war and a police state dictatorship. Them guys play chess for fun, we drink beer for fun.
A tank competition says nothing of an arm force. German soldiers are limited by union like 41 hour work week. It is a joke.
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