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Author Topic: Tanks!  (Read 228630 times)

GROGnadsUSA

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Reply #450 on: May 08, 2023, 04:38:00 PM









GROGnadsUSA

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Reply #451 on: May 12, 2023, 03:07:39 PM
How many 'bizarre' vehicles will you "espy"-?



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Reply #452 on: May 18, 2023, 03:50:00 AM



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Reply #453 on: April 26, 2024, 04:42:36 PM
Not exactly tanks, but still entertaining


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Reply #454 on: April 26, 2024, 09:54:50 PM
Can a Hilux with a pintle-mount railgun or plasma rifle be far off?

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Reply #455 on: April 26, 2024, 11:10:57 PM
Well I guess we need better defenses against drones.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247403968/ukraine-pulls-abrams-tanks-from-front-lines-russia-drone-threats

I wonder if we could mount a Phalanx on a tank?

Or Stingers.

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Reply #456 on: April 27, 2024, 07:01:52 AM
the continual cycle of evolution of tank warfare - some specific anti-tank weapon followed by an adaptation to nullify it followed by some specific anti-tank weapon followed by an adaptation to nullify it

Drake chronicled all of this in one of his interludes in the original Hammer's Slammers book, way back in the '70s

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Reply #457 on: April 27, 2024, 08:18:22 AM
Well I guess we need better defenses against drones.

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1247403968/ukraine-pulls-abrams-tanks-from-front-lines-russia-drone-threats


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