Haha indeed sir. As an artilleryman I tend to bristle anytime someone calls us tankers. Though I will freely admit to not knowing what the World News Network is so I guess it's a two way street of ignorance.

Fair enough. I'm far too OCD for my own good...

Small nitpick, in that tweet you shared those are most certainly not tanks. Those are Paladins - self propelled artillery. Points to a different strategy, they wouldn't be storming across the border with those. Bombardment 30+ kilometers away? Absolutely.

That seems rather smart actually. I remember response times from Kiowas being easily twice as fast as Apaches and I'm sure the operating costs are exponentially lower than a dedicated attack bird. I didn't even notice the fenestron. I wonder what the price difference is with that version over a standard tail rotor...

Holy shit they made a Lakota into an attack helicopter? Ballsy.