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Modern russian tank destroyers9/26/2023 The old trusted “battle taxi”, the M113, was also silently but surely out of register, also without a real replacement in view Ground Forces nowadays relies -also dictated by the experience of the longest war faced by the United States since Vietnam- by wheeled vehicles: The Stryker family, the Hummer, and numerous MRAPs/MPVs which reflects the need for vehicles adapted to the urban environment and asymmetric warfare. ![]() No real replacement program has ever taken place. The iconic main battle tank is dating back from 1978, that’s almost 40 years from now! A good indication for that is the fate of US Modern tanks: Like the M1 Abrams. This had tremendous consequences however for the Pentagon policies (and the military-industrial complex), as there was no more incentive under the eyes of the Senate and general public to maintain a huge defense budget. Not in a cataclysmic end, but almost peacefully by the dislocation of the whole Soviet block. The nuclear Damocles sword of the cold war was lifted in 1990. ![]()
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