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To: Berlin_Freeper

What a joke.

A single German panzer division of WWII had an authorized strength of 300 tanks...


23 posted on 04/10/2015 3:23:40 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

Tanks are a coffin nowadays, easily dispatched.

They’d be better off with a lot of ground troops and air superiority.


33 posted on 04/10/2015 3:34:23 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: 2banana

In his book about the fall of Berlin, Cornelius Ryan mentioned that the Russians lost something like 400 tanks in just a couple of hours at Seelow Heights.

It hardly even slowed them down.

Of course the cost per tank back then must have been a tiny fraction of what it is now even adjusted for inflation.

I remember Curtis Aircraft was awarded a contract to produce P-40 fighters for $35,000 each.


41 posted on 04/10/2015 3:39:41 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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