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To: Badeye
Then we saw what took place in the first Gulf War...

You saw what took place in a war with an untrained unmotivated army using the export version of old Soviet tanks. It would have been a different different fight if those had been Russian troops.

15 posted on 02/04/2009 9:06:00 AM PST by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

‘You saw what took place in a war with an untrained unmotivated army using the export version of old Soviet tanks. It would have been a different different fight if those had been Russian troops. ‘

Really? What, the rounds fired wouldn’t penetrate at 3,000 yards with almost perfect accuracy, because of the troops inside the tanks?

My point, which you are circumventing with this viewpoint, is the M1A1 Abrams far exceeded the ‘think tank’ white papers written BEFORE the Gulf War, by levels of Magnitude.

You know this as well as I.


29 posted on 02/04/2009 11:09:18 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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