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To: 22202NOVA

All tanks are a moving coffin friend. Doesn’t matter how new they are. The days of heavy armor are over.


12 posted on 03/03/2014 5:44:08 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: Bulwyf

Some are more survivable than others. I’d take an M1A2 Abrams with modern electronics and fire control over a T-(fill in the blank) that hasn’t been maintained since Desert Storm any day. Throw in modern ammo and you’ve got a winning weapon system.


13 posted on 03/03/2014 5:49:44 PM PST by 22202NOVA ("Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage." -- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Bulwyf

I think there is a bit more time before that becomes apparent with respect to the M1, it’s like 2700 and 0 against other MBTs and I don’t think a single one has been irrepairably damaged by non-MBT action. They may have lost crew, but even the few we shot up in GW-I by other M1’s to keep from enemy, (they’d been disabled, track loss I believe) ended up being repaired and put back in service.


14 posted on 03/03/2014 5:54:28 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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