Looks all smooth and stealthy. Any idea what’s it called?
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Fan art, not a real or proposed/concept tank...
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Looks like the Israeli Merkava Tank
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Isn't China currently working on the T98?
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China for now will stick with low armoured tanks to equip its army powered by more powerful engines… in class with tanks like ours.. Al-Khalid, but perhaps with more armour and more powerful engine as the upgrades are conducted.
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^ Heavy armor tanks also show a nation's concern about protecting its troops which isn't that great in China or even Pakistan compared to US for example.
I don't get the powerful engine and low armor concept? Doesn't having a low armor tank automatically means you are going to have a smaller hp engine anyway? Pakistan is using al-khalid because it is cheaper to operate [good for punjab terrain as we found out in 65] though we do need a heavier tank for the sindh-s. punjab / rajisthan theater where the real tank battles will take place in any indopak war.
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^ Heavy armor tanks also show a nation's concern about protecting its troops which isn't that great in China or even Pakistan compared to US for example.
I don't get the powerful engine and low armor concept? Doesn't having a low armor tank automatically means you are going to have a smaller hp engine anyway? Pakistan is using al-khalid because it is cheaper to operate [good for punjab terrain as we found out in 65] though we do need a heavier tank for the sindh-s. punjab / rajisthan theater where the real tank battles will take place in any indopak war.
Countries that avoid heavy tanks believe that modern anti-tank weaponry can take out even a heavy tank with a single hit, negating the advantage of heavy armour. In the battles against Iraq that heavy tanks (Challengers and Abrams) have faced, they were never up against modern weaponry. By contrast, Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 2006 was spearheaded by heavy tanks that suffered quite extensive damage when face with modern weapons.
The additional mobilty of powerful engine/low armour is believed to make sure that your tank forces gain strategic advantage by being able to better exploit weak points in the enemy line.
With the heavy armour myth dispelled in Lebanon, it's clear that mobile warfare is the better way. Lighter, faster, harder-to-hit tanks that can hit back hard.
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... With the heavy armour myth dispelled in Lebanon, it's clear that mobile warfare is the better way. Lighter, faster, harder-to-hit tanks that can hit back hard.
That's going back to the early 1940s with the 'Blitzkrieg' concept which was eventually overwhelmed with much heavier weapons.
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That's going back to the early 1940s with the 'Blitzkrieg' concept which was eventually overwhelmed with much heavier weapons.
But the German tanks were the best armored tanks in the war. Even the next best tank that allies {russians} had in T34 wasn't very armored. The only weapons the US had left was to basically carpet bomb german formations. I think the main problem is that tanks aren't tailored to be used in urban fighting scenario. This is not the main task of a tank. A lot of US tanks are in disarray as too many miles have been put on them.
I don't think we really know about the capability of challengers as brits are deployed in the rather peaceful southern iraq. We would have found out "if" the brit tanks had been deployed to anbar or diyala province. I remember the brits had the problem of their air filters being clogged by the desert sand so there goes their operational efficiency.
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But the German tanks were the best armored tanks in the war. Even the next best tank that allies {russians} had in T34 wasn't very armored. The only weapons the US had left was to basically carpet bomb german formations.
1) German tanks were inferior in armour and firepower to Allied tanks in 1940; it was their superioir mobility and tactics that brought rapid victory in France
2) American and British armies always had dedicated tank-killers that could take on German tanks throughout the war, such as the Firefly Sherman with a 17-pound cannon that was attached to every tank platoon after D-Day to take on German heavy tanks.
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^ So you are saying that US analysts on history channel for instance are wrong that after D-Day [even during that] their sherman tanks couldn’t blow up the german panzers and even russians said that germans used to outgun them [fire at 1000 m while russians at least initially could only fire as close as 500 m]. It is the same situation of US tanks taking out iraqi tanks in 1991 before iraqi tanks could even take them out.
Good going buddy! 