[OT] Military (non-political) discussion of Iraq war

[Alpha Kodiak]

New good thing to come out of this war: the capture of Abul Abbas. There is one gentleman that I don't mind getting out of circulation!

[raynor]

I watched a really informative piece on the development of tanks. It chronicled how the first tanks were quite expensive but easily disabled by a cheap anti-tank missile. It covered all the way up to the Abrams tank. At the end, it said that we'll never make any more of the Abrams main battle tank because it is just too big and hard to move. It said that the wars of the future will require rapid mobilization, and the 70-80 ton M1A2? is just too heavy and hard to move around. That made be somewhat sad because it is such a hellaciously awesome tank.