![]() ![]() The man-whose name federal authorities did not divulge-obtained a Soviet Т-34-85 circa from 1945, from a Latvian citizen at the bargain price of €20,000, but planned to sell it off to a buyer in Kazakhstan for more than 10 times that amount. Russian authorities have slapped a three-year suspended sentence on a Moscow man for trying to smuggle a World War II-era tank into neighboring Kazakhstan, state news agency Itar-Tass reports. Newsweek – Moscow Man Convicted of Trying to Smuggle Soviet Tank into Kazakhstan “I’ll be the optimist and say that we’re at parity with a lot of different nations.” “I would not say that we have the world class tank that we had for many, many years,” Lieutenant General John Murray said during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on modernizing the Army. tanks are now roughly on par with Russian tanks, according to a top general, and the American military doesn’t have the technology to recover its former advantage. ![]() Washington Examiner – General: US no longer has a ‘world class’ tank (A shutdown would also cost jobs in an important Congressional district.) wouldn’t be able to build tanks if it suddenly needed to. Sporadic demand from tank-buyers, however, keeps this factory always on the edge of having to shut down operations - at which point the U.S. only has one factory left that’s totally dedicated to the production of main battle tanks - General Dynamics’ (NYSE:GD) factory in Lima, Ohio. Actually, the reason isn’t totally crazy. Yet for some crazy reason, Congress keeps buying more. Army boasts a motorpool stacked to the rafters with 6,000 M1 Abrams main battle tanks - more tanks than some countries have soldiers. ![]() The Motley Fool – After the M1A2 Abrams, the Army Wants a New Tank for 2030 Click on the headline to go to the full article. Another installment of AFV articles from various news sources. ![]()
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