QUOTE(thpace @ Sep 28 2014, 01:49 PM)
Ingat ride sub pergi peru... haha cross international water and kacau here and thre. Like china and russia
How do u define light and heavy? That term mainly for ww2 only. Now any tank is called mbt. No more medium, light or heavy tank except one in china. But most also are older version or experimental unit. Western block tanks are heavy and concentrate on crew protection, eastern block are light and concentrate on mobility. Crew protection is often secondary hahaha
Indon leopard unit are surplus dutch old stock. They get it cheaply. Why malaysia didn't it? Well, apparently even it surplus it still expensive for our overall budget but the weight is also nother limiting factor. Not to mention our love for add-on improvement will drive up even the cost
T84 is almost same weight with ours pt91m. It still based on the soviet design t72 with improvement iinm. But we have been offered the mordern T90 but i not sure why the army didn't take it instead of this pt91m.
Singapore? Only a few units are based on island. The rest i was told is at new zealand, canada, Germany. That whre they carry out intensive training while basic training is at sg
Now thre hardly tank to tank battle. The last maybe was at iraq between us abram and iraq old soviet tanks. Now it mainly as troop support. I could see why the army would not want to spend so much on a tank that are our pioneering armoured division. I was aslo told, this few batch will be our training platform for future more advance tank. No point getting the most advance tank but do not know to use its full potential, right?
TNI-AD's Leopard is actually Switzerland-made Leopard that were transferred to Rheinmetall and then sold to Indonesia. It's called Pz87
The budget for MBT procurement is around $300 million. K2 and T-90S were first considered...K2 was deemed to expensive aand I don't know why T-90S wasn't chosen.
Then it was decided to purchase 50 Dutch's surplus Leopard 2A6 and Dutch's parliament made the procurement hard to achieve, although TNI-AD has minimal armored presence in Papua.
Then Rheinmetall offered 103 Leopard 2A4 for the same price, even better 61 of these tanks are being upgraded to Revolution standard
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Sep 23 2014, 08:06 AM
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I was sleepy last night, no mood to think it through. Posted this, minutes before went to bed
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