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To: blam
"According to confidential defence documents leaked to the French press, less than half of France's Leclerc tanks – 142 out of 346 – are operational and even these regularly break down."


12 posted on 06/06/2008 3:21:41 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush
"According to confidential defence documents leaked to the French press, less than half of France's Leclerc tanks – 142 out of 346 – are operational and even these regularly break down."

What is 1 mile long, and goes 2 miles per hour?

All of the French tanks, with only one set of jumper cables...
29 posted on 06/06/2008 3:44:39 PM PDT by xmission (Democrats have killed our Soldiers by rewarding the enemy for brutality)
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That’;s sad. The LeClerk tank wasn’t produced until 1990. These are younger than our M1 Abrams and are supposed to be as good.


50 posted on 06/07/2008 6:49:09 PM PDT by rmlew (Down with the ersatz immanentization of the eschaton known as Globalism.)
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To: DemforBush
"According to confidential defence documents leaked to the French press, less than half of France's Leclerc tanks – 142 out of 346 – are operational and even these regularly break down."

Do they still work in reverse?

51 posted on 06/08/2008 11:56:35 AM PDT by NucSubs (Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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