Joined: 06-23-2007 Posts: 39,476
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Mr. Jones wrote:The Russian T-55 was the most ever produced tank in the world...over 100,000 of them... 10 yrs ago Russia mothballed a considerable # of them...27,000 were still in Russia...
They went to China, Egypt, Iraq, Iran everywhere countries needed tanks..TANKS... In the first gulf War in 1990? Modern U.S TANKS( were "taking out" inferior T-55's from 23 kilometers A.W.A.Y. WITH AMAZING ACCUracy...
Russia is losing many many TANKS (1,900 out of a force of 3,000 sent to ukraine)and cannot afford new technology tanks so they are refurbishing T-55's... The most famous pictures of them are from China and the teinamin square protests decades ago... Rooskies are pulling out computer chips from washing machines to fill the gap in new warfare vehicles because of shortages... Gotta wonder if they have been regularly maintaining these old machines for many, many years, perhaps 50+ years or so. They are basically WWII era design and funnction. Mothballed all these years, you also got to wonder hown many they will have to canabilize for parts.
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