A century ago, the two countries were sworn enemies.
Now they’re producing tanks together. Look what can change in a century.
Automatic Pop-up white flag is optional on the French version...
How many gears are on an Italian tank?
Six. One forward and five in reverse.
The important question is, how many islamic migrants can she hold?
If it’s a lopsided battle and your side has complete control of the air, an air-conditioned tank might not be so bad.
If it’s a closely-matched battle and your side does not have undisputed air superiority, that tank, any tank, is a coffin. We and our adversaries have many effective ways to kill tanks and/or their crews. True, tanks are getting better protection from RPGs and so forth, but no close-in defense is going to stop DU or tungsten 20 mm rounds from shredding tanks and their tracks. AFAIK no short range defense has even been tried against top-attack seeker weapons such as Javelin or Maverick.
I think we need to let the Abrams be our last manned battle tank, and from now on concentrate on getting equivalent or better capability and firepower from swarms of remote-controlled smaller tanks with minimal armor for protection from small arms.
Swarm technology is rapidly advancing. Soon if not now you will able to remotely direct one lead tank platform in a battle and have a swarm of identical tanks follow your lead while using semi-autonomy to navigate terrain and gain advantageous angles on the objective. If your tank gets disabled you will instantly switch and make another one into the lead tank. The enemy will attack individual tanks but they will have to kill virtually all of them to defeat the swarm.
Abrams is aging. I wonder how this would compare? I should look into its stats...
Is it designed for conditions in the PIIGS?
Looks like a Merkava with a stupid high profile French turret
Being an EU project, I’m surprised that the barrel doesn’t curve around to point at the turret, and that it doesn’t have glow in the dark painted jihadi slogans on its exterior to prove it is not an islamophobic tank.