VT4/MBT-3000
Posted on 11/16/2014 8:27:42 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
VT4/MBT-3000
Norinco makes a knockoff Tokarev TT-33 that would be fun to own, but is unavailable new in the US due to current import restrictions.
Spinning up for Armageddon.
Harbor Freight?
>> fun to own, but is unavailable new in the US due to current import restrictions.
ROFL!
It looks like a Abrams/Leopard 2A7 hybrid.
>> Harbor Freight?
ROFL again.
If the tank holds up as well as my HF hammers (!), there’s not much to fear from it.
At checkout, I *would* suggest paying the add-on fee for extended warranty.
If the quality if this stuff is equivalent to most of the Chinese junk imported into the U.S., I don’t think we’ve got a whole lot to worry about.
Looking forward to a TAPCO compliance kit for that sucker!
According to friends in Canada, where they still get Chinese firearms, their current rifle offerings are sometimes (not even mostly, just sometimes) on par with Western manufacturer offerings in all respects. In some cases, they’re actually better.
Something to think about.
Something else to think about - a huge number of *hard drives* are made in China, which is about as precise a machine work job as you’re going to see. They mostly work just fine.
Underestimating your enemy can be a fatal mistake.
The Chinese can actually make some nice stuff (see post above) but places like HF don’t import it - not high enough profit margins.
It certainly looks like a real tank
I wouldn’t mind adding some B40 rockets to my gun cabinet for, uh, you know, hunting.
You just point that baby in the general direction of a white-tail and you’re probably knocking down some squirrel and rabbits as well!
I’ll check in the long-handled stick tool dept. next time I’m there.
China will steal everything from us that isn’t bolted down and they will sell it to the highest better. The Chinese are ruthless and would sell their own mothers to get ahead. They will eventually steal all of our technology. They are great theives and just ruthless. We don’t stand a chance against them playing “nice guy”.
This is bad news for Russia, because the Chinese market canibalizes the Russian one.
I ordered a laser toy from Canada, but it was a Chinese front company. The thing works great and kills small cockroaches. The package arrived directly from China, and in order to avoid custom fees, they blatantly wrote they were shipping a $5 flash light when the thing cost more like $300.
I think I am targeting the wrong cockroaches.
Skirt looks to be less than a quarter of what we had in the M1
Yeah, keep telling yourself that the Chinese only build junk. Meanwhile they can put a man into space and we cant. Or build a television.
I have a lot of stuff from HF. It keeps improving every time I go in there.
Some is junk for sure, but some is excellent value for the money and some is as good as the best US tools.
>> I have a lot of stuff from HF. It keeps improving every time I go in there.
Yeah, I own a lot of HF too. They do have some good stuff. I still enjoy poking fun at them, though. The idea of a HF battle tank just cracked me up.
>> Some is junk for sure
For example... I have a HF hammer that lost its head after about three blows. I tried to fix it with wedges and every other clever thing I could think of. Head just won’t stay on. Cheaper to buy another one than to make a career out of fixing this one.
I can understand a $10 air tool that craps out after three uses. But a HAMMER??!? A hammer shouldn’t have ANY moving parts. But my HF hammer does. ROFL
On the other hand I have HF wrenches and sockets that were amazingly cheap and darn good tools. Their impact sockets are a great value.
HF is on the very short list of stores where I actually enjoy “shopping”.
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