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Israel's Ex-PM Ariel Sharon Dies, Aged 85

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Dark_Falcon1/11/2014 1:11:38 pm PST

re: #56 William Barnett-Lewis

That reads an awful lot like the glowing reports I used to read on the T80 & T64 regiments in the DDR back in the early 80’s. The 9th Guards Tank Division was a favorite boogieman IIRC. I’d be willing to bet these are similarly optimistic for similar reasons - threat inflation is important come budget time.

We’ve got better sources this time and China’s ships spend more time at sea with fewer major accidents than the Red Navy did. Crew quality is getting harder to fake thanks to the internet.

The T-80 is actually a decent tank in its current iterations, though the T-64 proved to be as big a dog as the IS-3.