Tanks thread?

You should never be able to do that though, tanks always require heavy support by infantry. If you can get so close to a tank that you can jam its moving parts the enemy has screwed up BIG time. 

You just have to watch those videos of the T-72's in Syria, they play a version of the Mad-max thunderdome-  2 men enter, 1 man leaves. Only in Syria the men are tanks and the thunderdome a city. They send tanks into cities with no infantry support whatsoever and play cat and mouse with basically invisible dudes with rocket launchers. The outcome: tanks get knocked out. 

I mean what the hell is this. Go forward to 7:00




I sure as hell would not want to become a tank crew in modern warfare, it would feel like a death sentence. Luckily I am ill suited for tank crewman since I'm tall and I already have skills in another area. I think tanks are really damn cool, but right now I would not want to be in one.

Speaking of cool, my favorite tank (concept) ever is the BMPT Terminator with the dual 30mm cannons. I actually think those could be very efficient. I mean how often do tanks fight other tanks? You can do that with a guided missile system attached to a tank anyway, leaving room for a tank cannon suited for the main thread - infantry. A large auto cannon makes a lot of sense. 




Also the Swedish CV90 with its 40mm auto cannon, if 30mm is too small for you. 



 

Eh, maybe he wanted to become a tank crew member, who knows. If he has his own channel he must be proud of what he does. I know several guys who are tank crew members and they love what they do, they enlisted solely to drive around in tanks.

I have other skills, putting me in a tank would be silly, but silly isn't something unheard of in my countries military. Heck, back in my service time they put me into the NBC squad, I have no idea why......

The story behind Alfredo Carpaneto, an Italian tiger tank ace that served in the German Panzer corps on the Eastern front in WW2.

They learned. Basically, that video is old. They learned a lot. And what they learned is kinda interesting and well worth paying attention to.

They weld on lots of spaced cage armor, made from iron bars, lots of it, which defeats shaped charge and HEAT rounds by detonating them prematurely, and they fit 360 deg scanners that immediately picks up any anti-tank missile system that gets activated.

Getting your back pelted by dozens of tungsten pellets sure sounds like fun. Infantry is in dire need for some upgrades, modern heavy equipment gets more and more dangerous for the average soldier. Infantry really needs those armored exoskeletons.

Here you go. WW2 and cold war tanks. It's almost easier to list what's missing than featured.
So no Tiger, no Tiger II, no Panzer IV. But Panther, Panzer III and derivatives though, and the rare Gepard and Leopard I tanks.
Soviet lineup pretty weak, just some T34-85 and a T72 (I think, correct me if I'm wrong)
British lineup very strong, Churchill, Cromwell, Comet, Matilda II, there's even a Matilda I (I think), Centurion, Chieftain (not running on its own), Challenger.
No M3, But a M2 and several different versions of M4 Sherman. No Pershing, But M60, and a rarity, the M103 supertank and a M24 Chaffee.

I have really hesitated to comment this. Well let's see if I hit <Create Post> this time.
But I'm highly sceptical to the value of this kind of criticism, and when journalists, politicians, pacifists and enemies take it up, even more so.
Less people get killed in wars in later years, than ever before in history. Dramatically less, even. In total numbers and relatively. (And wars last longer, but I'm not going to discuss that aspect now).
Djingis Khan slaughtered some 20 million, up close and personal. And he was far from the only one.
"Video game-" killing is fine in my book. It's not how you do it. It's always why.

Dunno about exoskeleton. It defeats a lot of the points about using human infantry. I'm thinking about power supply.

Personal armor is moving along fine, and has saved a lot of lives. But what I think we're seeing is that army ground engagements goes the same way as air: Shooting first is everything. So developments focus on situational awareness. Weapons are so destructive that if you just know where the enemy is, you can kill him.
So, drones and networking is the future, even for the infantry.

Beautiful. I always wanted to get some scale tanks or something, but those are astronomically expensive here due to the typical tax-currency exchange-etc bullshit, also not sure where I'd display them, certainly not in this shoe box apartment.