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  1. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    I hope our enemys think like you.
  2. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Battleships were usefull in many different situations, but they were definetly obsolete, the USA last battleship the Missouri was retired in 1992, it was obsolete by 1942.
  3. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    We call people that belive drones are not going to be the weapons of the future air wars technology challenged. Some countries made a forture selling the Iraqis devices that would intefer with GPS bombs,, they did not work.
  4. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    The Tank Is Dead, Long Live The Tank by James Dunnigan December 31, 2011 ( I will go along with this guy.) Has it really happened this time? Is the tank on its way out? For several decades the main battle tank has been declared obsolete. Like the battleship, another weapon that depended on...
  5. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    . M1 Abrams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Nearly all sources claim that no Abrams tank has ever been destroyed as a result of fire from an enemy tank, but some have certainly taken some damage which required extensive repair. There is at least one account, reported in the following...
  6. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    If I remember right we lost a dozen tanks or less during the Iraq War with no one killed, and about dozen killed and 80 tanks damaged enought send home in the next ten years. We did identify some weak points that are being fixed, there is nothing like a real live war to figure out your...
  7. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    You way out of date,, now days tanks dont run over mines,,,, The USA has systems it can place with in few hundred yards of where a tank might travel, it is programed to recognise the differance between vehicles and shoots a version of this system that will come down on the top of a tank...
  8. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    I toured the Kyiv Mechanical-technical College in Keiv a long time ago,, did you all ever get the clocks in the class rooms working.
  9. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    wishful thinking
  10. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    The tank is just to vulnerable and too expensive to be useful in the future.
  11. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    B-2 Bomber Massed tanks are going to very tempting targets. 80 500lb smarft bombs per plane.
  12. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    By one estimate published in 1993 [The Gulf War Foreign Policy No. 90], the Allied air campaign destroyed about than 1,600 Iraqi tanks, 900 armored personnel carriers, and 1,400 artillery pieces. According to this estimate, another 2,162 Iraqi tanks were destroyed in the ground war. Air power...
  13. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Bows and arrows are obsolete, calvary is obsolete, dog fighting is obsolete battleships are obsolete, tanks are obsolete air craft carriers are obsolete, 4th generation planes are obsolete. It dont mean they are not dangerous and that you cant use them. If you are planning on winning a...
  14. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Tanks can come in handy if you have air superiority, if you dont do you really want to be in a tank. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua3nLmE7Kow&feature=related CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) Live Fire Test - YouTube US Air Force dropping Cluster Bombs... - YouTube...
  15. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Re: Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology In real life A10s alone destroyed over 800 tanks in the Iraq war have you ever looked at one of those tanks,,,they look like swiss cheese that had a bomb explode. Theres never been a tank made that can stand up to a laser guided bomb or DU...
  16. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Re: Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology Would you mind posting a source or proof of those statements.
  17. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Re: Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology (B-2 can carry 160 of these puppies.) Boeing Gets First Small Diameter Bomb Order By Jim Wolf Boeing Co. on Friday received the first U.S. Air Force order for a production batch of the Small Diameter Bomb, which exploded into the news this year...
  18. average american

    Is the tank becoming obsolete?

    Re: Main Battle Tanks and Armour Technology You keep wanting to fight future wars with weapons and stratgy from the last wars, its not going to work.....Tanks are too expensive and too easy to detroy with modern weapons that are much cheaper. Tanks are battleships on land that can now b...
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