Posted on 05/19/2015 1:53:29 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Dempsey is a disgrace to uniform of the U.S. Army. If this were 70 years ago, General (a real General) would have flown back to the U.S. A. and shot this quisling with his pearl handled Colt.
General Patton...
They won't need capability. They got oil money. And, that means they'll have CHICOM contractors with the turbine copy ready to go ... or maybe just buy new tanks from them! Besides, they really don't need tanks to throw those Iraqi toads their final beating.
Ive worked over there in the mis-named no-fly zones. When something breaks, these fellows just park it and get another somewhere.
We could take out a lot of ISIS very fast. Perfect flying weather, too.
If Iraqis were given these tanks, they probably were given some maintenance facilities to do this overhaul. Otherwise they'd have to send lots of heavy engines to the USA. That requires lots of spare engines in the loop, as the service turnaround can be measured in months. I think a few rebuilding workshops are much cheaper than hundreds of engines.
Besides, the distance from Ramadi to Baghdad is only 65 miles - just an hour or two of running those tanks. The Iraqi army is running out of space to retreat to.
It may also be that those 700 to 1,400 hours are prescribed on basis of guaranteed reliability and then serviceability. However ISIS can run those tanks until the engines die and cannot be rebuilt anymore. That could be as much as 5,000 hours, perhaps (I don't know.) Weapons are expendable if necessary - especially those that were obtained for free.
Again.
Surely they would stand and fight for Baghdad. But, I dunno - the Iraqi "Army" sure hasn't impressed.
Shoot, they don't even need any ammo. All they have to do is drive it into the city and the whole Iraqi "army" will run away.
They’ll be used as artillery pieces. The hand controls never break. So they have the capability of dragging them within range of the next town, and terrorizing them with the main gun. I think the real limiting factor is ammunition.
Exactly to Obama’s plan.
Good job guys. When will the media drop all pretenses and just call them OBISIS? We are under Sharia law already!
It’s ivory.
Only a pimp in a cheap new Orleans whorehouse carries a pearl handle pistol.
"Death to America!"
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