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Not actually a tank. No tracks, no turret, no armor piercing gun. EDIT: it does have a turret. Still not a tank. EDIT2: the main armament is a machine gun. To
by ojbyrne 12y ago
Not actually a tank. No tracks, no turret, no armor piercing gun.
EDIT: it does have a turret. Still not a tank.
EDIT2: the main armament is a machine gun. Totally not a tank.
- idlewords 12y agoStory is not titled "how I bought a tank" but "how to buy a tank". Rolling +20 pedantic, you are defeated.
- jokoon 12y ago:/ the title is still misleading. when you read the title you really think the guy actually bought a tank. most people, even military amateurs, don't know what a BRDM2 is. it could have been a 70s tank.
- aidenn0 12y agoI know what it is because it was the throwaway target in the M1-Abrams Battletank game; not heavily armed, one shot to kill.
- ajuc 12y agoIt's not pedantic to critique misleading titles. Imagine article "How to build website in assembler" to learn author meant writing it in javascript but it's close enough.
- willvarfar 12y agoAh you mean asm.js? :D
- ajuc 12y agoLike you could write website in it :) At some point you need strings.
- willvarfar 12y ago(You do know that the programs compiled down to asm.js do actually have strings, right?)
- jokoon 12y agoyeah, even some armored vehicle have 20mm cannon that can pierce other APCs. I guess this one just has a big machine gun, something like a .50, but nothing really bigger. syrians built their own armored vehicles.
- ajuc 12y agoThis is my personal pet peeve. Press will write "Poland to buy 1000 tanks". Inside the article 100 tanks and 900 support vehicles, most of them wheeled.
- morsch 12y agoIt's not a huge stretch to conflate the category armoured vehicle with its sub-category tank. Normal people aren't into browsing Wikipedia articles about weapons.
- VLM 12y agoIts the same thing as the attempt to label main battle rifles and sniper rifles and deer hunting rifles as "assault weapons" So if you don't like what he did, its a tank.
- Agathos 12y agoI was annoyed to see the same mistake in this article (and its headline) when it first went up. They've since corrected it, but you can see the note at the end. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/police-armored-vehicle-is-unwelcome-in-california-college-town.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/us/police-armored-vehicle-...