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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by marssaxman on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:28PM (#45895741)
There definitely is a market for such vehicles:

http://www.exarmyvehicles.com/offer/tracked-vehicles/tanks

https://mortarinvestments.eu/ArmouredVehicles

https://miltrade.com/pages/military-vehicles-for-sale-in-eur...

https://tanksales.co.uk/sales/

Ten or fifteen years back, I had an ambition to buy such a vehicle and drive it around at Burning Man. I eventually settled for a deuce-and-a-half, which caused enough struggle and frustration that I'm glad I never actually bought a tank.

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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by HWR_14 on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:28PM (#45896107)
What was frustrating about it? From time to time your exact plan sounded appealing to me.
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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by dmoy on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:33AM (#45896988)
If we're talking actual functional tanks, then they're expensive as shit to buy, and expensive as shit to drive.
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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by herewulf on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @08:48AM (#45900133)
The conventional wisdom is that you need to buy several military vehicles in order to get and keep one up and running. Some things are going to come broken, some things will inevitably break, and the replacement parts aren't exactly at your local auto parts shop.
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Re:The department of war just shot the accountants and opted... by jimnotgym on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:13AM (#45898762)
There is a market to buy a tank that originally cost $10m for $10k. You can drive it round fields and crush stuff for YouTube content.

I think there is a much smaller market for people wanting to pay the new price

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