Firepower - Battle Tanks (Part 3/3)

Even in the face of precision guided missiles, tanks have continued to dominate the battlefield. Todays battle tanks are high-technology war machines, with everything from depleted-uranium armor to computer-aimed guns. Take a look at today's most potent main battle tanks from around the world: the sleek American M1 Abrams, the British Challenger, the French Leclerc, and the German Leopard 2.

In this documentary, part of the Firepower video series that aired on the Discovery Channel, design experts talk about their newest designs for battle tanks.

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[108Dax]

01:10 You'd imagine a automated loader would load faster. Like double/triple the speed of human loader at least.

[OlderG0ds]

@108Dax You may think so, but a fast human loader can actually load more rounds per minute than an autoloader. There are other disadvantages of autoloader such as carrying less rounds because the machinery takes up a good amount of space.

I suspect there's a good reason the best tanks in the world (M1, Cr2, Leo2) all have manual loading.

[OlderG0ds]

@uffir Uh T-90 is older than Challenger 2 if that tells you anything. Not saying it's a bad tank it's pretty good actually but not the best and this stuff seems to be not fond of Russian hardware

[mishgun420]

@Alemania4ever brother i like animals more then i like most people :)... u have a good 1 bud

[infokemp]

Impressive series - good upload.

[vibers9]

@MOVIMKR7 because riding ships in China and Russia's waters can cause tensions

[the82spartans]

Like the anti-personel defence systems... bam!

[Danezu28]

@MOVIMKR7 thanks God that we have a german army TODAY at a higher level in Europe, because russians still is near us,watching to find a weak spot in the western army forces. ;)

[MOVIMKR7]

the germans do not make the best weapons, isreal does, the best Guns, Germany makes some nice stuff, and no , no one else needs them, and Japan, makes some nice weapons as well. but lets not forget china, they are building a huge stock pile to kill off any oppostion, including europe, and america, they want their money back, and the free ride is over people, america is in serious crap, you just watch. but im not a german fan period. or china.

[MustNotRead]

@MOVIMKR7

because NATO needed to weapons expertise of the Germans. no one makes weapons like them. nobody needs Japan for anything - so they got stuffed up the ass and were not allowed to develop aggressive weapons. thats it basically lol

[MustNotRead]

don't fuck with the Leopard 2, that's all i can say. (and no, I'm not German)

[baginatora]

Correction "the lightest WESTERN main battle tank" - T-80 weighs only 46 t :)

[MOVIMKR7]

why is it , JAPAN cant have a NAVY by our treaty in the ww2 surrender but Germany can have a army, after all the crap they pulled in WW2, what is wrong with this picture, Germany should not be allowed to have a army, cause they will do it again, lucky that Japan dosent have a Navy, cause they might pull a fast one again. you never know.

[Alemania4ever]

@mishgun420

Thank you Bro ;) I wish really the best for you !