Best Tank!, page 23

Since the first 80% of the thread is a pile of crap which contains much bragging and almost no serious analysis, I'm going to warn you against the possible future spoilers, so the thread can be kept on topic, despite some Russian prats who could spoil it.

Americans can sleep peacefully, Russians are not coming. Well, you can never be sure, of course, but the chance of restoring the Russian empire is about as good as restoring the Roman empire, so be comforted.

Don't listen to the ruskies, you'll never beat them in discussion because you aren't cheeky enough for that (you should leave this task for me, who is one of their neighbors and thus can't be fooled by their arrogance).

Everybody knows that the Russian industry is absolutely incapable of producing or developing a good and cost-effective car (or tractor, or airliner, or locomotive or even computer). Can such industry which has no or almost no money for developing produce the best firearms, the best military aircrafts, the best tanks, the best SAMs and the best ICBMs in the word simultaneously as they declare??? What does the common sence tell you?

But the difference is that the Russsian don't declare their #ty cars the best in the world because many people buy cars and the bluff will easily be uncovered and ridiculed, but they certainly can evade the uncovering and ridiculing of their bluff (most times that is) when they declare their #ty weapons the best in the world. "If nobody has it, nobody can see how bad it is", that's the logic of the dumb russian soldiery. Just ask yourself why don't the russians rush their "best weapons" into production? Why aren't they able to sell their "superior" novelties to anyone? They sell alot of weapons, but most of them were desingned and many even built in Soviet times. Does that not tell you anything? Use you brains, people!

Oh, but there is a Russian "best" weapon that is available very widely. Guessed what I meant? AK rifles. They are proud of them! Cool, reliable, they say, the best! They say this while civilized world dies laughing. But don't despise the Russians, they are right in their own way. If their army, which consist mainly of wet-footed stinking conscripts who spent more time beating their supposed comrades than firing their scrapeyard guns, had been issued with superbly accurate and powerful FN FALs, for example, guess what would happen? You guessed it right they would broke them in a matter of hours. But now they have the piece of junk that they can (and will) be cocking with their feet rather than hands (don't you, ruskies, dare to say this is not happening in your army) and the weapon will still work as it can, so even the fact its muzzle is leaping in the sky with each round is of no importance to them.

Aslo never ever belive that Russians are patriotic. This is the biggest bull in the world. It wasn't patriotism that made them praise Bin Laden and it's not surely it's not patriotism making them bark about every singe US or NATO military activity. The reason is entirely different - they just HATE americans and, to a lesser extend, their allies. The russians go stark-raving mad at the thoughts of seventies when they were a formidable force that could deal with the US on equal terms, even more so seeing that now most of their (russian) former allies wiped their arses with Russian flag and sent it back to Moscow (and that's not just Eastern Europe that did so, by the way :-DD).

So "patriotic" Russians are no more capable of military analysis than Adolf Hitler was capable of interpretating Talmud, therefore just ignore them.

Back on topic: I don't know (and it's virtually impossible to determine) what tank is the best if by "best" we mean "the most potent". What IS possible to determine is which tank has the best combat record (or at least kill ratio). It seems to be M1A2 (if we are talking about modern tanks).