5 ms·

MoD kept failure of best tank quiet (2007)

• count 3y ago
  The capital 'd' in the title is kind of important here :)
  • chankstein38 3y ago
    right? I know of a twitch stream that streams fish tanks and has mods so my mind immediately went to it somehow being related to that lol
  • dang 3y ago
    FixeD. Thanks!
• literalAardvark 3y ago
  Paywalled: http://archive.today/ximl http://archive.today/ximl
• tivert 3y ago
  I'm assuming this old article was posted because of this recent news: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a45013762/challenger-2-tank-destroyed-by-enemy-fire-in-ukraine/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a45013762/... (The Challenger 2 Tank Has Never Been Lost to Enemy Fire. That Just Changed in Ukraine).
• rsynnott 3y ago
  Back in the news relatively recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2#Classified_specifications_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2#Classified_specif...
• qingcharles 3y ago
  Anyone up on their tank armour tech know the reason it failed in this incident?
  • smegsicle 3y ago
    im not up on my tank armour but probably tandem charges specifically designed to penetrate reactive armor, plus maybe a bit of luck, details of which i imagine would be highly classified