Give in to the urge valery, you need to visit the front again 👿
The challenger tanks are definitely going.
The newer hybrid engines are still not as efficient as a diesel engine
The M1 needs a considerably larger fuel tank than the Leopard 2 to achieve that range. ~500 US gallons vs ~300 US gallons. The US has repeatedly flirted with the idea of putting diesel engines in M1s because of the very well documented inefficiencies compared to its peers (aka Leopard 2). A proposal in 2013 suggested switching to a modern diesel engine would increase overall fuel efficiency by 50% and reduce the per mile cost of operating an armored brigade by 14%. It is written pre M1 APU, but asserts the 2013 diesel would still use less fuel at idle.
The only really advantage a gas turbine have over a diesel engine is that it starts easier in extreme cold weather,hence the reason Russian armoured brigades in the artic uses T80 that have a gas turbine engine.
I haven't worn a watch for some 30-odd years, and even back then they were petrol station digital freebies.
Yes we can see what the Swiss thinking is on this - basically it's how to profit whilst sitting on the fence. That's OK in peacetime but rapidly loses you a lot of goodwill and friends in times when said weapons/ munitions are needed. So it's counter productive and lessons that are hard learnt are not easily forgotten..
The have for 500 years, they aren't going to change now.
You do relise the person your quoting is a former Abrams commander and tank historian,he singled handedly knows more about the Abrams,it's predecessors since WW2 and it's likely replacement,
More than the rest of boards combined,
Timberrrrrrrr knows the Challenger 2 too
Just pointing out the facts,and the facts is that Abrams have a huge fuel consumption because of its gas turbine engine.
And i doubt US is giving away their newest hybrid gas turbine engines to Ukraine,so it will be the old M1s going if they are.
And i am well aware of his background,i do follow him on youtube.
No offense
My brother was a Leopard2 tank commander as well,just for the record
Speaking of which Orson Welles as Harry Lime in the Third Man skewers their 500 years beautifully
https://youtu.be/cydkTy6GmFA
Almost like they were bated into this situation for a kill zone.
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There’s not a chance my Aussie friend that that happens. Continental Europe has no interest in a frayed relationship with a Central Europe country that has among other things important transport axes. A chip on the shoulder tends to be the Irish way but continental countries are generally more pragmatic. There’s a lot of win-win for France and Germany with large expat communities in Switzerland they weren’t be upsetting the cart to please an island off the coast of Britain. Switzerland if anything has lost its neutral status by fully backing EU sanctions against Russia. Swiss law prevents Switzerland exporting arms to countries at war however worthy the cause. Would probably need a referendum to change it and the Swiss are very wary of making rash populist decisions.
No, the main advantage of gas turbines over diesels is they have a better power to weight ratio, allowing for a lighter tank.
Anyone coming up with excuses Scholz will try so as not to allow Leopards be sent to Ukraine?
The information you're running on is old, though. We're not talking about hybrid power plants here, just regular AGT-1500s with latest design turbine blades, filters and ECU programming. They still do take more fuel (esp at idle) than diesels, but the difference is sufficiently small as to be insignificant in the large scale. There's a reason why a full decade after demonstration of the MTU engine in M1 (actually, the exact same hull that they have turned into the AbramsX demonstrator last year) no customer has asked for it.
If the US were to deliver M1s to Ukraine, I would assume they would be AIMS SAs or FEPs recently withdrawn from US service. Not the absolute latest, but still with a number of improvements in the power train (amongst other vehicles) over the A1s I went to war with in 2004.
Ukraine we're happy keeping them at arm's length especially when Soledar was securing Bakhmut from any northern threat. This situation was forced upon them buy a rare Russian breakthrough and they resorted to plan B. Hopefully it works. If it holds they might never take Bakhmut if it falls Bakhmut may follow in weeks or months.
As for the Swiss I looked into their "neutrality" a few years ago and discovered it's all a load of selfish bollox but it's probably the reason why they still exist as a nation considering they're close to many previous empires or powerful nations. When Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Hungary, Vatican etc were all having different wars over the years Switzerland would hire out their well trained mercenary army to whoever they thought would win.
Some of the Russian propaganda at the moment is just outrageously false.
The claim that there are 1,000 Ukrainians encircled in the middle of Soledar is a complete fabrication, like the supposed 10k Russians at Izyium from the Kharkiv offensive last year.
There are some more nasty looking Russian videos doing the round of Ukrainian casualties that are staged. I have no doubt Ukraine lost people, but it's clear that the Ukrainian bodies were brought from all over Soledar and placed in a pile for maximum propaganda effect.
The most insidious claim I've seen is the video where Wagner claimed the Ukrainians jumped from a several storey building to avoid capture. A video shows twisted corpses, but it's obvious the Ukrainians were thrown from the windows above after they had been killed.
German Landesbanks are just as closed as Swiss banks and Austrian ones are at another level.
Nothing will be said to Switzerland from most European countries
Switzerland exists because it is a mountainous country where even the dog and his mother have an Army rifle and Training near by.
Putin has moved his naval pieces out of Novorossiysk en mass.
Another 1000 +men , vehicles arrived in Belarus today,alone with helicopters gunships.
100 Ukraine soldiers captured out of the 500 who have withdrawn and still under pressure
This has been a Hugh blow, Ukraine will have the same tactics throw at them again it overwhelming numbers thrown at a battle
Russia will use anybody even those in it captured territory to do this suicidal advance its brutal but it has worked here
I think the reluctant or slow western support may wane if there are further setbacks Ukraine needs boots on the ground to stop this Poland will probably break rank first if Belarus make a move
fcku Germany they want a Russian victory
Must say the Chinese assessment also sounds accurate. Russia is pretty much a busted flush on the global stage, finished as a player. You don't get to take on the US, the EU and the other G7 nations, make yourself an enemy and total pariah with all of them and come out unscathed on the other side.
Even if true 100 lost is nothing. The win loss ratio is terrible for russia even if this is true its their only win we have seen since the starting of the war. I would hold off buying stock in russian products just yet.
I bet Putin has a giant map of Ukraine on the floor of a room in the Kremlin.
More complaints from mobilized orcs.
Geo location of Russians next to a wrecked Ukrainian vehicle well to the rear of Soledar.
It's a Russian thread but obviously it's tied with Ukraine which Mr.Putin decidedly to bomb the crap out of and kill everything.
But here's a farmer in ukraine who still has his day to day chores to do in spite of Satan.
Phuck Putin.
Troops complaining that they are being blackmailed by their own Commanders?
They must be the lucky ones, cos the story is also circulating that Officers are shooting conscripts in both feet, so that they are physically unable to abandon their posts.
Classy.
Soledar latest news.
*Looks like this may not be accurate,and they have actually retreated from Soledar!
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