Aus has phased out the Leopard Is for M1A2s and they're looking to get some TUSKs too IIRC. They use diesel instead of kerosene, but that's the beauty of the Abrams, you can throw just about anything in its engine and it'll still whisper its way into battle.
They still use the venerable Shoebox too, it's amazing how they're still slugging on after all these years. Shows what a good design it is, good, cheap, robust and rugged. :up:

Check the MP mission videos done by Zipuli, especially "Brave Rifles" part 1-6, wich was Hannover or Fulda Gap cold war battle - 1 hours of video covering 24 hours of battle. Quite some drama happened in there!

Oh I can go back a lot further than that...AH64 Apache for the spectrum...so old nobody has posted it :DL

Like with the Leopard, which is said to even run with salad oil, if only you have sufficient supply of that. Just that the Abams's turbine is much more thirsty than a Diesel-engine. The Russians, after the T-80, gave up again on turbine-run tanks.

Well, you know Americans and their gas-guzzlers :03:

Porca miseria - I messed it up this time. :oops: :oops: :oops:

The news of the day is not that the M1A1 is playable - it has been that all the years. And the video shows not the M1A2 now playable - unfortunately. They just replaced the old 3D interior for the A1 with a newer one. The A2 seems to stay AI-only.

I question that priority. I would have invested the working time for a new Abrams cockpit into the A2.

Sorry for having confused it.

That's bookmarked, I love those Fulda Gap scenarios. :rock:

I thought Canada only ran Leo's and not Abrams :hmmm:

Öh... äh... you seem to be correct. Think I was misled by a docu piece sopme time ago where they said that the big neighbour in Canada's south does not like the Canadians to buy foreign, and would want them to buy more American.

I am sure that they tested and considered the Abrams, however, since in the past 8 years Canada planned to replace its aging Leo-1 fleet. They wanted to go for Strykers with 105 mm guns, but then came Afghanistan and forced them to rethink their plan, and so they started to buy used Leo-2A4s, and leased Leo-2A6, modified, for immediate deployment to Afghanistan, where the tanks urpassed Canadian expecations, they said. The plan to pass on new tanks and go for the CV-90-120 also was scrapped.

A factor that decided in faovur of the Leo-2 A4s and A6s was quick availability, however.

New video, telling two battle stories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU8dveL9Yew

When Fins do sound recordings, they are serious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaLr77RvN40&feature=related

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