Posted on 05/19/2016 6:59:59 AM PDT by Nachum
A recent competition hosted in part by the U.S. Army and designed to test core tank crew skills saw European crews take the top honors, while crews from the U.S. Army failed to place. The results raise the question of whether the Army—after more than a decade of focusing on guerrilla warfare—has devoted adequate training to address "big war" skills.
Held from May 10 to 12 and jointly hosted by the U.S. Army and the German Bundeswehr at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, the the Strong Europe Tank Challenge included challengers from six NATO countries: Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Slovenia—which sent tank platoons of four tanks each to compete— and the United States, which sent two platoons.
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Puke.
Our tankers are the envy of the world. Not place my ass. Probably because they don’t care about a stupid “competition “.
All I care is in real battle, they kick ass with low losses.
Too many dumb articles on FR these days.
IS it the gay factor?
Fire in the hole and all that?
Active Duty ping.
I read about this. The Army picked out a crew, gave them about a week to train for it, and sent them out there. The other countries’ tank crews had quite a bit of prep time. Failing to place in a glorified dog-and-pony show wouldn’t bother me one bit.
How the mighty have fallen.
SoCal Pubbie: "Maybe we just sent the wrong crews, since National Guard tankers beat their Regular U.S. Army counterparts..."
I seem to remember a tank competition in 1991, in Kuwait, iirc.
There were tanks represented from virtually every country on earth, and the final score was US & Co.: thousands, opposition: zero.
Of course, back in those days we weren't as politically correct, or gender integrated, not so sensitive to people's feeeeeeeeeeeeeelings, so maybe those results were just thrown out, the match forfeited and had to be played over...
Now I can't remember...
;-)
The first tanks in the First World War were quickly antiquated by both anti-tank weapons and better tanks.
But in the Second World War ever-improving tanks, supporting and supported by infantry, artillery & air power, dominated many battlefields.
And so it has been ever since.
Tanks have never been self-sufficient.
They always help and need help from other weapons' systems, including infantry.
But on many battlefields today, or in the future, give troops the choice of going into battle with, or without, tanks and they will chose tanks every time.
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