Even the best designs eventually if issues. Probably missed maintenance.

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I bet this person has a pit in the basement

I remember when they christen the Spirit of Texas at the Vought Aircraft Dallas Plant back in 1994. The old timers at the Vought Plant had some great stories from back when they built the intermediate wing for the B2. From wheeling repairmen to copiers inside a crate, setting delivery times to avoid Soviet Satellites,…

Hint to foreign intelligence services, any of you citizens following the NSA may be spies.

We had those in the plant I worked at back when we had a machine shop. Held slabs of aluminum 4" thick and 6 to 8 feet long by 3 ft wide. Those racks could take plenty of weight.

the Atacama desert is pretty much the driest place on earth.

I had someone steal the top off of mine in college.

There is some debate on how exactly to classify the Sprut. The Spurt would not be classified as an IFV since it does not carry an infantry squad. The debate is whether the Spurt is a light tank, Tank Destroyer or ?

In a hypothetical modern battlefield between 2 peer level foes. you would see MBTs at the forefront and very few, if any light tanks.

Or that firing the shells knocked the missile fire control out of alignment. Or that the Caseless Main Gun Ammo left a smoldering bag that had to be manually extracted. Or how firing the main gun lifted the front of the tank clear off the ground.

The US Tank Destroyer Doctrine also placed a premium on speed to counter blitzkrieg style breakthroughs. A bigger gun and smaller profile don’t mean much if you can’t get there fast enough to effect the outcome. The M10 could do 30 miles on roads, but it was a re-purposed Sherman Hull and gun for the M6 heavy tank.…

Light tanks are pretty rare on the modern battlefield. With the exception of the 2s25 Sprut and some cold war left overs like the PT-76 and derivatives or the FV101 Scorpion. the Light Tank role has been usurped by IFV, ATGM vehicles and 8x8 LAV like the Italian B1 Centauro or Stryker MGS.

Light Tank or Airborne Tank

You do have to give him a little credit for hijacking Anthony Wiener’s Press Conference.

So they’ll just go back to booting passengers for fun.

That sounds like Bombs Away LeMay. LeMay would have supported post war reconstruction efforts only so he would have something to bomb next time.

It depends on how dead you want your enemy