Re: [OT]Wither Canada?
From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:57:56 +1100
Subject: Re: [OT]Wither Canada?
Adrian Johnson wrote:
> Having said that, we do have tanks (a whopping 114 Leopard I's)
because we
> based a mechanized brigade in Germany for decades, and they would have
> fought the Soviets. They are being phased out of service and replaced
with
> 105mm armed LAV-III's that the government thinks are more suitable for
the
> types of operations our military gets involved in.
Funnily enough, we're replacing our rather similar Oz Leopard1 A4s with
Abrams. These are not so much to fight other tanks as to provide Direct
Fire Support in a high-RPG environment.
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Alan & Carmel Brain
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