Chavez announces plans to double Venezuela's number of tanks

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[Flavius]

14:48 GMT, July 24, 2009 MOSCOW | Based on information of the state-run ABN news agency, RIA Novosti reports that President Hugo Chavez announced Venezuela will at least double the number of tanks in its military and continue strengthening its defense capability.

"We are going to buy more tanks to have an armored force at least twice the size of what we have today," Chavez said n national television on Thursday.

AMX 30 MBT French

T-90

[Sacajaweau]

Have they ever been attacked?? Ohhhhh...These are to be used on his own people!! I get it!!!

[GeronL]

meanwhile food production in Venezuela has plummeted since they began ripping up large farms and ranches and cutting them up for poor itinerant peasant farmers.....

[DeaconRed]

You mean he is going from 2 to 4?

[Flavius]

if 2 is more then colombia then id say its a smart move for him

[ASOC]

Ah, no

Tanks and combat vehicles
100 T-90E Main battle tank on order (PUtins gotta love that)
84 AMX-30V Main battle tank- (80 AMX-30V + 4 AMX-30D)
36 AMX-13C.90 Light tank
78 Scorpion 90 FV-101 Light tank Porelorti
42 Dragoon 300 LFV2 Armored car

[puppypusher]

Expect a war in South America.That tin horn dictator is not buying tanks for nothing.He’s sure not going to use them to decorate his Christmas Tree.

[atomic conspiracy]

The Colombia army does not have tanks at all, the closest they get is the EE-9 Cascavel armoured car:
IFV / APC
EE-9 Cascavel - 130
M-113 - 120
EE-11 Urutu - 100
RG-31 Nyala - 4
HMMWV - 400+[citation needed]
M8 Greyhound - 5

Main battle tanks are not especially useful in that part of the world, unless (as already pointed out) you want to put down an urban insurrection. The Colombians are well provided with anti-tank weapons, but their battle-hardened troops could probably take the Chavez rabble's armor apart with bolt-cutters if it came to that.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The country once exported coffee beans by the ton. Now it must import coffee...

[GeronL]

It’s not just coffee. Their govt has seized vast acreage of efficient farms and divided them into tiny peasant tracts for people with no experience, knowledge or equipment or money to do any farming.

I don’t know what they expected. This is exactly what was going to happen no matter what. Shortages.

[Bringbackthedraft]

They’ll need more than tanks, the support element is huge. Where is the tank terrain outside of the urban area??

[dancusa]

Target rich environment for a Warthog.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Their govt has seized vast acreage of efficient farms and divided them into tiny peasant tracts for people with no experience, knowledge or equipment or money to do any farming.............................................. LOL, think Zimbabwe, where $1 makes you a millionaire.

[GeronL]

Exactly like Zimbabwe without the racial aspect, its the opposition he is taking things away from for the “common good”... wait that sounds like something Hillary once said.

[atomic conspiracy]

I really don’t understand your post. Who did I suggest might “need” tanks? I spelled out the opposite in reference to the Colombian army in fact.

[bruinbirdman]

Chavez should be able to cut a good deal with the Rooskies:

Rooskie tank force reductions or statistical juggling

"At present the Russian Army has about 22,000 tanks, including more than 15,000 at storehouses. This makes up for just over 6,000 combat-ready tanks. Permanent readiness units have between 1,000 and 1,500 tanks."

yitbos

[cpdiii]

A tank is a formidable weapon against a civilian population or an enemy that does not have sophisticated antitank weapons. A tank is a very expensive metal coffin if your enemy has tow guided antitank weapons, and or laser guided munitions dropped from aircraft or a few spare A-10s to put in the air.

[antiRepublicrat]

It’s an updated T-72, pretty much useless against the invading American imperialist pigs as the Gulf War showed. So it’s for internal suppression, lending to friendly countries like Honduras (before the ousting of that dictator wanna-be) for some marxist muscle, or simply taking them over

[cpdiii]

Where is the tank terrain outside of the urban area??

The Northwest Border of Venezuela(La Guajira) is mostly open semi arid moderately flat country. However, the Andes mountains are between that area and any major population centers of Columbia. For Venezuela to go to war with Columbia would be fools mission. Also, western Venezuela is very anti Chavez. He would have a resistance movement in his own country aided by Columbia if he attacks Columbia.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The only thing Socialism shares is scarcity.