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  • #152
    tac foley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Can't speak for Leopard, but Abrams isn't too bad at all. As long as you have the spare parts. Torsion bars, roadwheel arms, lots of spare roadwheels and so on. Hydraulic systems leaked a fair bit, but the engine itself rarely gave trouble.

    NTM

    As you noted earlier - with only one REAL moving part, there is little to go wrong with the engine. Compare that with the 12-cylinder MTU unit in Leo-2 - comprising just under 3200 individual parts.....excluding ancilliaries.

    Great tank, Leo-2, however, at a unit cost of just over $4,500,000 (Leopard 2A6), it's not exactly a bargain.

    'spose you'd get away with it calling the main gun a shotgun - it IS a smooth-bore, after all.

    tac


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