Comments by "Tim Murphy" (@timmurphy5541) on "German Leopard 2 Tanks Practise Live-Firing At Sennelager 💥 | Forces TV" video.

Only Oman bought them so ..... most people don't seem to agree.
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No, it's not only you - lots of people feel this way but it's a kind of trap. X years ago it might have been true but the UK gave up it's armoured vehicle industry to a large degree and didn't retain the ability to build them. It didn't spend money upgrading Challenger 2 and it didn't build thousands of them (like the Germans did with Leopard 2) so it cannot compete forever in such a situation. Other counties can see how the UK doesn't care about it's own equipment enough and don't see the point of investing in something that has a doubtful future. The people who like things because of national pride don't help because they don't direct their dissatisfaction at being #2 or #3 at their governments.
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@Gfdsa40 ...whereas Challenger 2s are safely out of harms way because nobody else wanted to fight in them.
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@lachlanchester8142 Really? Or was it that the Americans joined in and sorted it out?
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@lachlanchester8142 well, jokes don't always pan out.
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I have heard that but I think it's politically difficult and there's some suggestion that it has been rejected. The other suggestion is dumping MBTs altogether and concentrating on "cyber". I'm a programmer and when I hear that kind of thing it makes me cringe even if there is a certain amount of need for protection against such things, I think the threat of tanks is never going to go away.
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