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To: Kenny Bunk

After those hours the engines go to depot level overhaul and then return to service. No way ISIS has that capability.


15 posted on 05/19/2015 2:26:53 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
After those hours the engines go to depot level overhaul and then return to service. No way ISIS has that capability.

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.

24 posted on 05/19/2015 2:56:58 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
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To: colorado tanker
After those hours the engines go to depot level overhaul and then return to service. No way ISIS has that capability.

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.

26 posted on 05/19/2015 3:02:00 PM PDT by Greysard
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