Re: Tanks

In a message dated 2/3/00 4:49:49 PM Central Standard Time, los@cris.com

writes:

<< Re: All these  Nato vs WP tanker(with autoloader) battles occurred?
If 
you're
 talking about the Gulf war, where's the correlation about autoloaders
being
 inferior to anything? There were a lot of factors involved in the
defeat.
 That was more an issue of operational	and tactical excellence, and
crew
 quality than anything else. We would have won those tank fights if both
sides
 had got out an swapped tanks. Having worked very closely with mideast
forces
 for many year, I've yet to be impressed by very many of them. Sure they
can
 generate violence but when it comes to successfully conducting modern
 warfare, tank or otherwise, Nah. >>

The Gulf - the Israelis for many more years than you have probably been 
around - they've been fighting T72's for a while - and even though they
have 
captured large numbers of them the tank is only used by guard and
militia 
units in Israel  -  Why? because it is an inferior tank and a large part
of 
the reason is the dependence on an auto loader.