Tank responded “word, i’m straight up gangsta”
It’s a tankless job, but someone has to do it.
It’s a tankless job, but someone has to do it.
It’s a trend. The US Marines are dumping their tanks also.
Maintaining an armored force is expensive. The UK may not be able to afford to maintain one anymore.
Well for goodness sakes, let the Old Challengers go out with a bang.
Parade them through the Chunnel, churn up the roads to Calais and expend the now obsolete munitions to blast the living hell out of the ‘immigrant’ encampments.
Maybe get some disgruntled farmers and yellow jackets to join up in the drive to liberate Paris once again.
I would imagine a fleet of lower-cost, armed drones, might better serve the purpose for which tanks are used in a lot of cases
That said, I’d be happy to take a tank or two off their hands and drive it around my property....
I’ve read that the British army now has more generals than tanks. This is a great advantage! Should a major war break out, each British tank would be commanded not by a sergeant or a lieutenant, but by a general!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045226/British-Army-generals-tanks-stuffed-penpushers.html
Happens every couple of decades or so. Some new whizz bang general thinks that they have the “right” idea for the next future battle.
Heavy down grades to motorized, then the next cycle it is motorized down grading to light and then it is light to augmented (with heavy) and then back to heavy.
It is all on the wheel
They need to stay away from the Arjun. It’s such a piece of junk that the Indian army would rather buy decades old Russian designs than use it.
Best tanks out there are the current Abrams and Leopards. Following that would probably be the Merkava and the Armata. The LeClerc and the T-90 are probably on par with the Challenger.
The Mitsubishi and Hyundai tanks might be worth looking at.
If there is a dust up somewhere, just send in the mass band and pipes of the Royal Regiment of Scotland and the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (minus their tanks). Problem resolved.
whether they could do without tanks altogether
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Nothing new there ... just ask their Navy
Did they axe their mother first?
They always seemed to have one or two ready when Top Gear needed some...
Despite coming up with the first tank, Britain never has had a competitive tank.
Putting the entire 227 vehicle tank corps in to storage! And what do that use to train new tankers? Or are they just going to replace the tanks and artillery as well with archers equipped with long bow’s that were successful during the middle ages. And will they reinstate the Royal Orders for every Englishman and Welshman to train for several hours every Sunday after attending Mass?
Tanks for the memories!
The British Army literally has more Generals than tanks today.
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IMHO, to take and hold real estate you must have Tread heads.
But you also need air dominance.
YMMV.
5.56mm
You do not want to be in a tank.
The Day We Took Out 23 Tanks
https://www.airspacemag.com/airspacemag/day-we-killed-23-tanks-180975619/