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2015-01-12 China-Japan-Koreas

China fields new ~~future smouldering wreck~~ tank

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Posted by badanov 2015-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Terrain choke points and modern shoulder fired antitank weapons (or guided bombs or artillery) probably make those small (or large) tanks a rolling target for a modern ground force.

Posted by tipover 2015-01-12 00:32|| 2015-01-12 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Mountain terrain, lighter (thin) armor? Oh yeah, send more of those, we need the scrap metal.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-12 03:16|| 2015-01-12 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 The functional questions would be: (1) what's the weight distribution on the tracks and (2) how high is the center of gravity?
(You haven't had a wake up call until you've seen an armored vehicle come sliding down a hillside at you.)

Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-12 07:53|| 2015-01-12 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 It looks like a scaled down german tank.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-01-12 09:21|| 2015-01-12 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Tanks in mountains historically don't fair well. They go too slow, are easily trapped and don't provide anything a good recoiless rifle or rocket launcher can do.

Plus with air power and drones, tanks in mountains have almost nowhere to hide unless they are under a mountain which makes the point of bringing tanks into that terrain pretty much moot.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-01-12 09:24|| 2015-01-12 09:24|| Front Page Top

#6 They can be useful, if they're not used as 'tanks'...

Posted by Pappy 2015-01-12 11:28|| 2015-01-12 11:28|| Front Page Top

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