Re: What? No way...

Adrian Johnson wrote:

>>>** We have tanks to loan someone else? (Well, a wheeled armoured 
>>>vehicle isn't a tank, but for us Canucks it sure seems like the
>>>closest thing we've seen in a while). 
>>
>>Apart from your Leopard CI's of course, but I suppose most of those
>>are in Bosnia nowadays :-/ 
> 
> Actually, I not sure that we have any in Bosnia...  

At least last week's JDW had a picture of a Canuck Leo C1 in Bosnia...
didn't say how old the pic was, though <g>

>They did take some to Kosovo, but again, only a few (4 or 8, I think).


But you only *have* a few, so even "a few" can be "most of those" ;-)
;-) ;-)

>We only have around a hundred Leopard CI's, 

114 :-/

>The gov't has just announced an upgrade for the fleet, though, with a
>new turret, electronics, etc etc etc.

A new glasis plate would be nice too... none of the Leo I variants is
really designed to be shot at by another tank :-(

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
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