Originally posted by devilwasp
well face u goto remember that rusian parts dont cost up to a million $'s a piece like the m1a's do

Yeah, I realize that. I was just curious to see how the maint. intervals were for the different tanks. ie. how often do you have to lube the wheels? or how often do you have to tweak the tread? That kind of stuff.

oh right then ask the tank exspert not me
he he dont know mch about em

I was a 'Tanker' in the US Army (19 Kilo) for six years.I drove the M1A1.Im not impressed.

Interesting. What made you unimpressed? Did you see any action in it? Did you get to use other tanks to compare it?

mad i think he means how it is a bit slow and exspensive it is

LOL I was being sarcastic.I loved the M1A1.Very easy to drive,fast,big,fun to shoot the main gun.I didnt see any real action,just out on the firing range,or against a 'mock' enemy.

I didnt like being in the Army however

As a side note,I still play tank sim video games on a regular basis.

I think being an 'armchair' soldier is alot better than being a real one.

good point!being and armchair general is sooo much better ! ever played op flashpoint

Originally posted by Bootyac
As a side note,I still play tank sim video games on a regular basis.

I think being an 'armchair' soldier is alot better than being a real one.

Cool. My brother was a tanker(bradley cmdr) for years(in Iraq now) and I got to go to his motorpool in Europe a few months back and got to check out the 'toys." I never realized how loud those things are!

Armored tracked vehicles are definitely the most intimidating things on the battlefield. There is a very primal fear activated when one of those big boys comes zipping by you....

Originally posted by Bootyac
LOL I was being sarcastic.I loved the M1A1.Very easy to drive,fast,big,fun to shoot the main gun.I didnt see any real action,just out on the firing range,or against a 'mock' enemy.

I didnt like being in the Army however

HAHAHA - ok, I was about to say I have never heard anything bad about it from some of my friends in the Army.

Devil..yeah I have played that game.

Right now Im into Battlefield Vietnam and Combat Mission Afrika Korps/Berlin Barbarossa.

dude ! im sure they done a comparision of 4 tanks the german ,british,american,french main tanks
britain won because it was so fast ,cheap,good armor and power
america was second all of the above but a bit pricy and parts are REALLY exspensive
i think france and germany drew in 3rd place

Originally posted by devilwasp
dude ! im sure they done a comparision of 4 tanks the german ,british,american,french main tanks
britain won because it was so fast ,cheap,good armor and power
america was second all of the above but a bit pricy and parts are REALLY exspensive
i think france and germany drew in 3rd place

in real life the new german leo tanks outperform all of the above by far..

Originally posted by Flanker

Originally posted by devilwasp
dude ! im sure they done a comparision of 4 tanks the german ,british,american,french main tanks
britain won because it was so fast ,cheap,good armor and power
america was second all of the above but a bit pricy and parts are REALLY exspensive
i think france and germany drew in 3rd place

in real life the new german leo tanks outperform all of the above by far..

Let me ask you this...Has it seen combat? Because the M1 has, and has destroyed the compitition. You can't say anything outperforms something till it gets real field use, otherwise it is simply numbers.

Originally posted by devilwasp
dude ! im sure they done a comparision of 4 tanks the german ,british,american,french main tanks
britain won because it was so fast ,cheap,good armor and power
america was second all of the above but a bit pricy and parts are REALLY exspensive
i think france and germany drew in 3rd place

Can I see a link to this comparison?

You know,I vaguely remember in AIT that they said that we had a life expectancy of about 5 min's in real combat.

Of course at that time we were training against the Soviet Forces,and top of the line T-80's

it was on whats it called that weapons of tomorrow show?
well the only reason the challanger won was cause the m1a is so exspensive and its faster than the m1a

My favorite modern tank would have to be the German Leopard II. My favorite WW II tank is the T-34. The T-34 was the best all around tank built during that war. I agree that the Tiger II was an impressive machine, but the it was a bitch to keep up, and was not built in a sufficient quantity to be fully effective.