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How Times Have Changed – Russia Has Over 20,000 Tanks, the UK Has 249 (thesoundingline.com)
1 point by Four_Star on May 18, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



To be fair the UK is a small island. Transporting tanks is not an easy business, stick them on a boat and you just introduced a nice easy target for your enemy. Parachute them in from planes and they end up separated and not well supported.


Maybe because they don't need them anymore? ;-)

Why bring swords to a gun fight?




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