Comments by "James Neave" (@JamesNeave1978) on "Inside German Leopard Tank Sent to Ukraine" video.

Even if they lose bakhmut there will not be a breakthrough. There's heavy defensive lines behind the town and I think there's also a river cutting off part of it too?
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@MrGary10k That makes it the same as Dorchester on Challenger 2 and they took an absolute pounding in Iraq with no losses and only a single (enemy) penetration. They'll do just fine.
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Yeah, NATO doesn't seem to like ERA. NERA and advanced composite armours seem to be more their thing.
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@sleepingninjaquiettime The effective range of the 120mm smooth bore gun in Abrams has a maximum effective range of 3,000m not 5,000m. A Challenger 1 tank made a five kilometer hit, possibly due to it having a rifle, during desert storm but that's very much the exception, it would probably usually miss that kind of shot.
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@saltyfloridaman7163 Yeah, at the time challenger 2's gun was being selected there was no good anti obstacle round, there was only HESH which requires a rifle. Early 2000s America developed an anti-0bstacle round from the multi purpose HEAT round, but in the 90s there was only HEAT for the M256 and they only punch small holes through concrete. Now, decades later, there is the anti-anything programmable smart rounds which has finally obsoleted HESH, HEAT, HEAT-MP, anti-obstacle and Canister all in one round.
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