• @[email protected]
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    225 months ago

    I mean we probably would have invested in systems like this ourselves if not for the fact that most of the army command staff thought tank-on-tank battles were more or less a thing of the past, and CQB/urban was going to be the focus for the foreseeable future (and thus, you don’t want to concuss and shrapnel the infantry who are helping to watch your 72-imperial-ton ass).

    • @[email protected]
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      105 months ago

      I also believe our doctrine is to just have better armor generally, I’m pretty sure the export variants don’t have the same armor that US Troops would be provided.

  • @Rayspekt
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    175 months ago

    Wait till you see IRA Abrams

    • @PugJesus
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      155 months ago

      Regardless of one’s opinion of the IRA, we all know they’d make some damn good songs about the Abrams.