Top 10 best tanks in the world

[UnderseaLcpl]

Best tank ever!


edit- ya gotta love the "cyber armor" idea

[Happy Times]

Pics from an FDF exercise that ends today.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Is that glass I see in the barrel? Is this a variation of the ISMT or MILES systems?

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Is that glass I see in the barrel? Is this a variation of the ISMT or MILES systems?

At least the infantry uses MILES so most likely the tanks have the same.

Here you can see the system working in the HQ.

[STEED]

How many of those top ten tanks have been in combat?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

How many of those top ten tanks have been in combat?

Another interesting statistic would be how many have been lost in combat.....but that may need a pro rata response because the Abrams has possibly seen the most combat.

[STEED]

Indeed, these are war machines and to defined a top ten they must have been in combat, unless this is a top ten good looking tank.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

edit- ya gotta love the "cyber armor" idea

Hehehe yea great idea having troops that keep fighting even after they are dead, kinda like in Space: Above and Beyond where the aliens had never heard of life after death until they heard of it from us. They took it literally and they assumed that half the army of Earth was made of zombies and the only way to stop them would be to chop up the humans they killed.


....... why was that show canceled.....

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Hehehe yea great idea having troops that keep fighting even after they are dead, kinda like in Space: Above and Beyond where the aliens had never heard of life after death until they heard of it from us. They took it literally and they assumed that half the army of Earth was made of zombies and the only way to stop them would be to chop up the humans they killed.


....... why was that show canceled.....

LOL, I don't know, I never saw it, but wasn't there an Isaac Asimov story where humans introduced natural death to alien races?

[Bilge_Rat]

L.T., good post.

I had a chance to talk to an officer in the Australian armored corps last year. Thay have M1A2 abrams and he talked about it like it was a sports car. Apparently, they run drills on the firing range where they will take off at full speed and the firing system is so sophisticated that they can detect, engage and hit targets with the first shot as if they were standing still.

modern tanks are infinitely more lethal than their ww2 counterparts. The big problem, however, is that the accuracy, range and lethality of its adversaries, namely airpower, AT missiles and RPGs has increased even faster.

At Kursk in 43, the german army was able to use its Tiger tanks to blast its way through the enemy lines and feel reasonably confident that no weapon in the Soviet arsenal could hurt it. Any army that tries the same thing now will just wind up with a lot of burning tanks.

Modern tanks are now in a similar position to WW2 battleships, no longer decisive weapons, but still useful in a supporting role.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

LOL, I don't know, I never saw it, but wasn't there an Isaac Asimov story where humans introduced natural death to alien races?

I think is was called "Hostess".

[Schroeder]

Too bad there is hardly any info on the Kugelpanzer.
Someone must know something about it.

[UnderseaLcpl]

@TLAM Strike


That's it. Thanks for the reminder