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The violence of that impact shook me up.... bloody amazing. Speaking of amazing, that ultra-high speed photography is pretty intense, too. The Swedes seem like pretty peaceful sorts, but they seem to develop high-class weapons like this one, by Saab Borfors Dynamics. The tech data say that the FF...

@johnpetermalcolm: your comment about the gas turbine is a valid one, which is why I argued in a previous post that the Pentagon should swap out the turbines for diesels in its Abrams force. The power pack can be switched in this manner without too much hassle. In the 1970s, when the M1 family wa...

@skraf883: "No, the Pershing was an amazing tank.." It has become armor history orthodoxy that the M-26 was a stop-gap design, and therefore a failure. This isn't accurate, for the M-26 gave rise to the M-46/48/60 family of tanks, which were only retired from U.S. military front-line service in ...

@explosivefreak666: Thanks for the info, but I don't particularly want a visit from the BATFE - I'll stick with history.

Didn't even scratch the paint...

How does the Challenger 2 fare against top-attack weapons, such as EFPs or air-burst munitions? Most tanks, even the best protected modern designs, have thinner top armor, hence my curiousity. Also curious to know if the CR2 or M1 Abrams can withstand thermobaric weapons, such as FAEs.

Who is this gal? She rocks! Bet she's got a three-year waiting list for dates...

@nikfred4 : Glad you read Cooper's book also, which is about a neglected portion of the ETO war. Mr. Cooper must be quite elderly now, if he is still alive... I hopr he is doing well.

@llatimer2: You are correct, and how the war ended proves the point: More numerous, but technically less-advanced weapons in enough numbers can defeat a smaller number of very advanced designs. Or, as the Russians might say, "Quantity has a quality all its own." The German problem was also one o...

@fluffy1931: Regarding the V-3, that would have been the follow-on to the V-2, but with longer range and bigger payload. Yes, it is a stretch to believe that Germany would have been able to make a nuke light-enough to go onto one of their ballistic missiles, but then again, we can only know what ...

@franz909: With all due respect to those guys, they don't even deserve to mentioned in the same sentence as the "Wicked One" and his bandmates.

@FRforcing: If they used a mixture of HE and AP shells, ground attack Stukas probably destroyed plenty of tanks.... no argument there. That's proven correct. My comment concerned the specific vehicles in the film footage; it is not apparent that all of them were destroyed... it's tough to make ou...