Probably get another monstrosity like the T-35 that couldn't fight it's way out of a paper bag.
Posted on 05/25/2015 5:46:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Probably get another monstrosity like the T-35 that couldn't fight it's way out of a paper bag.
Saw this happen. The biggest piece of the truck left was the seat with the driver in it. I don’t think it moved the tank at all. Yes, the truck driver ran through the road guards at a crossing.
They’ll spend 5%+ of their GDP on military?
Let em.
They still don’t matter....
This one was destroyed outside Berlin in 1945. Photo by a memeber of the 208th Engineer Combat Battalion.
and for only $10 I know a guy who can lower the springs and will throw in dingle berrys to hang from the port holes....
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Was the truck driver a Mongol?
Pretty much every major country built a few “land battleships” like the T-35. England, Germany and the US did, anyway. None of them were of any use at all. Too slow, too heavy, and broken down most of the time. Note the men standing by the T-35 are Germans.
It would seem obvious they aren’t building this
to destroy their economy but ours in the next
two years, that’s all the time Obama can give them.
I don’t think tanks have airbags and seat belts. But they have really good door locks.
Funny thing about tank columns, you can hear them coming for miles. Not too stealthy. Against formidable opponents they can be easy targets.
Russians also have a history of destroying their economy quite unintentionally. Oil price coming down to $60s from $110 has a huge effect on them as oil and gas is what drives their economy.
Tanks are significant enough force multipliers that any apparent diminishment of their effectiveness via emerging novel means will prompt evolution of more miniaturized point defense systems, upgraded electronic countermeasures, and enhanced armors to counter them.
Where’s the tank?
This leads me to believe the have an immediate use in mind.
the photo in post 21 didn’t open but the Soviet tank in post 24 is a T-34 with the 85mm gun and a larger turret for it that was introduced in late 1944 or early 1945. It was this version of the T-34 that US forces faced during the Korean War. I’m guessing that is the source of post 24’s photo.
Hey, they claimed the F-35 awesome tank killer, will be combat ready this year. We don’t need no steenkin A-10s. /s/
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