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

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William Lewis1/11/2014 1:21:09 pm PST

re: #58 Dark_Falcon

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.

The T-80 decent? If you like catastrophic explosions of the ammo, I suppose. No matter how much the retrofit, that turret will never be safe compared to the M1 ammo storage with blast doors & blow out panels.

As for the naval crews & quality, I’d simply say that the CIA swore their sources were just as good then as they do now. Until there is steel on target we’ll never know their true quality. God willing we won’t find out until years later ala the documents we got from the DDR army after reunification show just how bad the Soviet Forces were and that they thought we could move twice as many troops as we really could via REFORGER.