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1 posted on 03/02/2017 3:16:53 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Is the army still looking for a light tank from existing designs as was reported a while back?


2 posted on 03/02/2017 3:23:44 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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A fifty year service life. Right there with BUFF’s.


3 posted on 03/02/2017 3:25:40 PM PST by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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By 2030 we’ll have Terminators


4 posted on 03/02/2017 3:28:09 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (I never ever set out to make anyone feel safe. - S E Hinton)
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Hover Tank ?


5 posted on 03/02/2017 3:29:03 PM PST by butlerweave
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The future of armor is unmanned, fully networked platforms that have autonomous abilities.

If they try to leave men in the tanks, the design will be obsolete before the first one gets muddy.


9 posted on 03/02/2017 3:40:04 PM PST by wrench
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What we really need is a tank with an effective anti missile system. From watching the Syrian civil war tanks are pretty much garbage against modern missiles.


10 posted on 03/02/2017 3:40:15 PM PST by RedWulf (#purge the nevertrumpers)
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Tanks are missile targets. The bigger the tank, the bigger the target. This isn’t 1941 anymore. The “Panzer Brigade” has been overcome by missile and remote sensor (drone) technology.


16 posted on 03/02/2017 4:01:18 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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Put the hot plate back in and get rid of the turbine.


17 posted on 03/02/2017 4:03:06 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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bkmk


21 posted on 03/02/2017 4:10:37 PM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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The new Chinese laser makes all military aircraft obsolete.

They will cut them apart from hundreds of miles away.

The only hope is for us to go back to cloth covered aircraft that can’t be seen by radar.

Wood, cloth and paper with pilots made of steel. That’s the future.


26 posted on 03/02/2017 4:22:15 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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When they can now be destroyed so easily, it’s insane to design and build billion dollar tanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5xKCzdhAC8


27 posted on 03/02/2017 4:22:48 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King! Forgive my misspelling when on my tablet)
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All good, but right now a bunch of MOABs or a few Nukes would go a long way toward getting rid of islam nests.

If you are harboring islamists, you are the enemy.


32 posted on 03/02/2017 4:32:06 PM PST by soycd
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Hybrid electric drive and electromagnetic rail gun.


33 posted on 03/02/2017 4:32:12 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: archy; Gringo1; Matthew James; Fred Mertz; Squantos; colorado tanker; The Shrew; SLB; Darksheare; ..

FR Treadhead ping.


34 posted on 03/02/2017 4:32:35 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Article says it will have a two man crew. So much for crew rest when doing 24-hour operations, pulling perimeter duty while in lager, not to mention ‘breaking track.’


35 posted on 03/02/2017 4:33:00 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
37 posted on 03/02/2017 4:37:53 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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Tank mounted lasers. Oh, baby! Bring it on. Can’t wait to see them.


41 posted on 03/02/2017 4:47:44 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
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Tank mounted lasers. Oh, baby! Bring it on. Can’t wait to see them.


43 posted on 03/02/2017 4:50:03 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The GOP will see the light, because Trump will make them feel the heat.it is hugh and series)
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I hope they don’t screw this up like they did with the Future Combat Vehicle.


45 posted on 03/02/2017 4:57:48 PM PST by colorado tanker
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47 posted on 03/02/2017 5:05:05 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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