Re: [OT] Sea Leopard

> At 8:59 AM -0700 4/22/02, Brian Bilderback wrote:
> >OK, that makes sense.  Armor wasn't their strong suite, was it?  Of 
> >course, most of the terrain they fought on didn't beget huge North 
> >Africa/Russian Steppe-style tank battles, either.
> 
> Hmm. There was this big area of land that they captured called 
> Manchuria that has pretty big wide open spaces. Korea isn't a big 
> swamp either.

History supports you there in 1939 the USSR got hold of a Japanese
plan to launch a attack over disputed Mongol and Manchurian territory.
The Russians preempted that attack with one of their own and kicked 
the Japanese butts badly. This caused the Japanese to leave vast 
amounts of troops and equipment in Manchuria, as it turned out to
no avail. In the last days of WW2 the Russians launched a sweeping 
attack that virtually destroyed several Japanese armies in 20 days.
Guess the Japanese should have taken more care in the development
of it's armored forces (a Cha Vs T3485 is not a fare gun fight)....