To: sukhoi-30mki
“Anything is air-droppable...once.”
3 posted on
10/16/2013 10:09:10 PM PDT by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Maybe we could buy some from the Russians or the French.
To: Slings and Arrows
That's what they said about the Sheridan. Mostly a light armored Cavalry vehicle not really for Armor units. It was also swimmable. Main gun was the Shillelagh TOW missile. About seventeen tons, it had a high profile.
To: Slings and Arrows
“Anything is air-droppable...once.”Antonov designed a biplane that would deliver a tank by air.
21 posted on
10/17/2013 1:52:28 AM PDT by
Does so
(Soon, we'll be looking like Detroit.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Growing up in the early-70s, a friend’s dad was an O-6 armor expert, West Point grad plus MSME from GA Tech. He said exactly that about the Sheridan.
30 posted on
10/17/2013 5:25:33 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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