Or, perhaps the US could get out of the warmongering business outright? That would save over a trillion$ per year of money they don't have......just a thought...

If you're running Windows, you're probably using (at least you should be using) Windows Defender (or Microsoft Security Essentials). It's free and made by Microsoft, and has protected me a few times. If you're running OSX, it's preinstalled, too.

You're definitely rolling the dice on that one... and you're bound to get some bad rolls eventually. I've had a number of cases where perfectly normal and legitimate websites have been hacked, and thankfully my antivirus software prevented them from downloading any sort of Trojans or other viruses or malware to my…

Back in my day kids were encouraged to read the way God intended... By bribing them with little personal pan pizzas.

My brother hated to read until I read the Harry Potter books out loud to him. It completely changed his perspective on books and he grew up to be a reader.

you get snooty with me, I'll find somewhere else to buy it or I just won't buy it...since we're part of an oligarchy, it doesn't matter, you'll still sell to someone else, so I know you don't care

"Excuse, President Putin? Yeah, would you mind telling your invading forces to hold up for 12 hours or so, maybe only 2 or 3 if we can find a 240v outlet, so we can recharge our batteries? Thanks for the understanding!"

Might be a tad difficult to find a powerpoint on the battlefield mate. And it would be an expensive exercise to abandon a perfectly good tank to the enemy because it has a flat battery.

Unless you can provide them with batteries that will work for more then a few miles, the fail is on you.

You're joking right? Battery energy density is 50-100x lower, so a few hundred gallons of diesel becomes a battery heavier than the tank itself.

Proof of your military engineering experience required. Somehow I doubt you are as qualified as BAE and OBRUM engineers.

Everybody calm down. He obviously implied that it should be powered by a small fusion reactor in the back, which would also use its own energy to power a device to pull hydrogen out of the air to feed it. Pretty simple, and you could do a dual system and it would even work underwater!

And where exactly would they charge it? Tanks operate in war zones, they need the ability to get away quickly and diesel is easier to find in a war zone. Also, batteries would make it an easier target. And you will need shitload of batteries to move a 35 ton tank, and those batteries would add a shitload of…

And you recharge it in the battlefied how ? hook it up to solar panels wait a few days and hope you don't get shot ?

Fail. Show me the space in a 3-man 35 tonne tank to store 940hp worth of batteries. Leave it to the professionals.

Range. Especially if you were using it for offensive operations. Imagine how vulnerable a tank would be out of battery power no where near somewhere to charge (which a smart enemy would have disabled such a network if invaded anyway). No point in having a completely 'invisible' tank if you can't actually use it for…

And where does the power for the electric motor come from? Batteries? How big of a battery pack do you figure a 40 ton main battle tank needs for an effective range of, say, 200 miles and off-road speeds of up to 40MPH? And realize that 200 miles is on the [very] low side for a diesel tank. A 40-50ton MBT should have…

You just not understand where your average war is fought, definitely not in a place where a tank can rest for 12 hours after only moving 30 miles. Let alone if there's a plug at all. Electric is 100% impossible and unrealistic for a tank application, or any military combat vehicle.

Not really a fail when you look at mission parameters. Range, in particular, is important, and battery-powered motors lose about half their range when it's cold outside. They also tend to add weight and complexity to a vehicle that is already heavy and complex. But most of all, diesels can be both fixed and refueled…

Terrible idea. Electric motors have a lot of advantages, but range anxiety is 10x worse on the battlefield. You still cannot beat the emergy density of liquid fossil fuels.