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Germans had already designed the StuG III for that purpose. Also, they found uses for their captured French tanks - airbase defence, anti-partisan duty(a Renault R35 will go a lot of places in the Balkans that are beyond heavier tanks). Lastly, the limitations of those one-man turrets were...

Hmm, I stand corrected then.

A few years back, they dug up(literally, they were disposed of by burying them) some late-model Spitfires in Burma, that had aeronautical museums all in a tizzy. Don't know what happened to them since they were found

AFAIK, there wasn't any evidence those Comets were being used, either in frontline or second-line service.

Since VC1 and those landbattleships they had.

My understanding is these are mostly or fully retired by now, them participating on a parade was kind of like when the Russians bring out the T-34s to parade. Their WW2 artillery pieces are another matter, though.

I think the company that created the BMPT has already tried 2-3 times to sell it to the Russian army, only to be rejected. Thing is, apparently the Russian military feels they can't offend that company too much, so there hasn't been a 'stop insisting on this' message yet.

Well, they bought a load of Bofors guns in the 80's(the contract was cancelled after it was found Bofors bribed the Indian offcials - the gun on the video is an Indian-built derivation of the Bofors FH-77 design). Maybe they bought some trolls along with the guns?

Is that the M-95?

I've won scout with a E-75 and a Tiger II(once each), but with a T95 is something I've never managed to.

Yeah. THAT changed a lot of things, although I would say the aftermath of Tiananmen was more... significant/meaningful for the CCP leadership than for the US one.

I think the USA always knew how bad the CCP was, but back then they thought China could be controlled, or steered towards a direction that would be suitable for US interests.

Proposed modernization for the T-55, from back before Tiananmen, when the US wanted to upgrade the Chinese military.

That's SOP for the North Koreans - they don't have the industry to build turrets like the ones on Abrams(or K1, for that matter), so they add to previously built ones until the shape becomes similar. That's what we have here - a Seongunho cast turret with its shape altered to look like the one...

Yup. There is some added capacity, sure. But it's not something that will own all other tanks in the world.

An enlarged T-62 chassis, made to look like an Armata with Abrams elements(forward turret)? I said somewhere else it looked like a bastard child of Armata and Zulfiqar 3. The six-wheeled suspension points to it being yet another Pokpungho/Seongunho version.

IIRC, they were proof-of-concept vehicles, never to be in service(they wanted to know if wheeled combat vehicles of that weight - 30-40 tons - could work). But they sure are beauties. I think they would look just fine bullying smaller wheeled vehicles.

That one was a real missed opportunity, even though the M8 Greyhound already was quite good.

Those are Panzer IIIs, aren't they?