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To: Wombat101
"The author would like to scrap 3,000 MBT and cut the number of tanks per division in half. I don't believe scrapping 3,000 tanks would be a good idea, but, instead of cutting the nunber of tanks/division, why not consolidate the existing tanks into pure armored divisions?"

Yes. Unlike the above author, I don't want to scrap 3,000 M1's. I want to upgrade them into urban assault vehicles complete with the A-10's 30mm gattling cannon (and 4 half-tracks instead of 2 treads)!

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20 posted on 08/19/2004 9:26:23 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

We already have an urban assault vehicle: it's called the Fuel/Air explosive. Instead of fighting it out in crowded urban enviornments, why not just flatten them instead? We have already learned, countless times, in France, Stalingrad, Germany, Mogadishu, Vietnam, etc., that fighting man-to-man in a town or city is going to be costly in terms of casualties and of course, in the inevitable clean up when we rebuild. However, rather than expose our limited supply of infantry-persons (how's that for PC) to such murderous conditions, and spending a shitload of money for a new vehicle that will be little more than a Bradley with some Star Wars-type weaponry, why not go barbarian?

It sounds terrible, but hey, war is hell, ain't it?


24 posted on 08/19/2004 9:33:00 PM PDT by Wombat101 (Sanitized for YOUR protection....)
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To: Southack

Why not have 3 different types of M1's?? Why do they have to be identical?


34 posted on 08/19/2004 9:50:47 PM PDT by GeronL (Viking Kitties have won the GOLD MEDAL in the 2,000 meter ZOTTING)
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