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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by celticninja on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:03AM (#31082524)
The difference seems to be capacity of crew. With an autoloader crew is down to 3, Russians opt to have 4 crew and a cheaper per unit tank. To the Russian Army soldiers have always been expendable.
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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by mango7283 on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:12AM (#31082623)
? Russian tanks are the ones with autoloaders and 3 crew... Of the modern NATO tanks only the French use autoloaders and 3 crew, US and German tanks are 4 crew.
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Re:The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade,... by sofixa on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @09:53AM (#31083104)
And French tanks have been using autoloaders since before WW2 (back then it was partly to offset demographic problems).
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