Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "British Army Orders Challenger 3 MBTs" video.
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@tonyblack1964 well that's fair enough but frankly I'm glad they WEREN'T given free reign, (A) because the military just doesn't tend to work that way usually haha, (B) because national pride does matter to the country as a whole even if it doesn't to individuals, and (C) because I just generally consider the Challenger series superior- the armour IS far stronger after all, hence more survivable surely, and they're relatively reliable & easy to maintain, and a Challenger 1 scored the longest range tank-on-tank kill in history. In any event though, let's agree to disagree shall we, and my thanks and wholehearted respect for all your service 🙂 love the Chieftain too incidentally, great tank in it's own right, dodgy engine or not
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@alganhar1 ok fair enough, and I actually do realise it's a complicated and difficult conversion process, but THAT complicated and difficult? SIX YEARS to even just do a single production model OF one of them and actually give it to the troops so they can try it out, even though they already DO have a complete working prototype one to show the press, right here in 2021 ready to go? Still seems a mite long to me that, especially considering the original proposal for this thing was way back in 2005. Isn't as if I'm expecting any miracles here, I'm not expecting all 148 in one go, I'm just saying a lot can happen in those six years, six years that we won't have a single one of these things fully really ready for combat, despite their practically having announced them as such back here in 2021! And what's with the only ten-year expected service-life after it DOES enter service, you don't think THAT'S a little odd? (Considering the previous models served well over twice that and are STILL considered a capable MBT even now)?
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Not necessarilly, remember there might only be 148 of them but these will be 148 of arguably the toughest, most advanced and most powerful western MBT's ever built; plus the chances of us ever getting in a tank-fight on our own these days are pretty slim anyway. And even if we somehow DID end up fighting against someone on our own again, Falklands-style? It probably just wouldn't involve tanks anyway, and would be limited to infantry, light vehicles and air & naval combat instead, just like it was there; and, if somehow there was such a war again but where that wasn't the case, if it WAS somehow just us in a small limited-scale war like that again, but this time it DID somehow involve full-on tank-on-tank combat? 90% of the countries we ever COULD possibly end up in a fight with like that don't have anything in their arsenals that can even come close to a Challenger 3 lol, those "only" 148 tanks would wipe the f*cking floor with whatever they came up against haha, and that's only even more certain if we have our Nato allies at our side with all THEIR tanks, as we virtually always will
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@garyhewitt489 only certain countries are gonna have the money, resources and the industrial & technological capacity to actually build and field stuff like that in any real quantity though, of those only Russia and China are real threats, and frankly anything they can come up with we CAN either make our own version of or find a way to counter, or both, or if we can't ourselves one of our allies can and will instead. As the MOD have themselves stated, one of the primary reasons they ARE only gonna be making 148 of these tanks, is because the need for more isn't considered as pressing as the need to focus on stuff LIKE drones, cyber-warfare, stealth aircraft and advanced defensive systems, areas which the UK Armed Forces definitely ARE gonna be giving plenty of attention. As for the need for tanks, even IN this fancy tech-dominated age we're entering, I still say there is one so long as there's other hostile countries out there that still have tanks too, and also so long as they're of use for supporting our infantry
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Not necessarilly, remember there might only be 148 of them but these will be 148 of arguably the toughest, most advanced and most powerful western MBT's ever built; plus as you say, the chances of us ever getting in a tank-fight on our own these days are pretty slim anyway. And even if we somehow DID end up fighting against someone on our own again, Falklands-style? It probably just wouldn't involve tanks anyway, and would be limited to infantry, light vehicles and air & naval combat instead, just like it was there; and, if somehow there was such a war again but where that wasn't the case, if it WAS somehow just us in a small limited-scale war like that again, but this time it DID somehow involve full-on tank-on-tank combat? 90% of the countries we ever COULD possibly end up in a fight with like that don't have anything in their arsenals that can even come close to a Challenger 3 lol, those "only" 148 tanks would wipe the f*cking floor with whatever they came up against
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@garyhewitt489 as for your robot soldiers theory, possible but that's still kinda a long way off in the future yet I feel lol, and as for the whole swarm of bees UAV thing, there are VERY fast-firing defensive weapon options, already out there like Phalanx, Aegis, Sea-Ceptor or Sky-Sabre and still in development but getting there like Dragonfire, as well as computerised radar-guided targeting systems that can detect, track, lock onto and destroy targets faster than any human gunner ever could; plus of course it doesn't have to stop at defensive warfare, we're developing drones of our own after all too, including ones with air-to-air combat capabilities that could simply be launched in response to the enemy's ones and have a sort of drone dogfight with them
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