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I would say the Leopard 1, the AMX-30, and the S-Tank all fall "towards" that end, although they're all designated as MBTs.

Ukrainian tank crews previously trained on the T-64 are *incredibly* impressed by the dramatic leap in capabilities on the Leopard, particularly the speed, maneuverability, and the long-range stabilized targeting.

"But, but, that one Russian guy said the T-14 program isn't delayed at all, they decided to put it on hold because the T-90 is already so superior to Western tanks that the T-14 isn't really needed yet!"

It's really not any different than the Cold War days where the US and USSR were constantly engaging in proxy wars where they were exactly that barest of technicalities away from actual war. That said, no, the United States isn't "long in violation of the Budapest Memorandum", because it's only...

Did you do Inactive National Guard, or 'regular' active NG?

Trump's order was a general authorization which enabled call up of any reserve components that the SecDef saw fit. The Individual Ready Reserve is actually the largest component of the Ready Reserve, as it is by a substantial margin the most popular choice for service members who have completed...

It's not like President Trump authorized an IRR recall of up to one million personnel to active duty... and President Bush recalled 2,500 IRR troops to active duty... and President Obama also activated IRR reserves in his day....

The British have very little interest in museum pieces that aren’t other people’s stuff, hence the collection of the British Museum.

The NKVD "blocking formations" were in reality more about shoring up poorly equipped conscript levies with a leavening of hardened veteran troops that were dug in and fighting hard, not "these guys aren't even fighting the Germans themselves; they're only here to ruthlessly machine-gun you in...

Fair point. That's always been in the rules of war; a combatant who is merely unarmed and/or retreating is not deemed a surrender. Surrender has to be explicitly communicated, and it isn't in that case. Edit: Note that while raised arms and/or a white flag are the most common means of...

Yes, but that's a command decision, whereas with police, "Hey, I felt threatened by this totally unarmed guy, because, uh, he looked aggressive!!" is totally a valid reason for disregarding orders essentially at will. Never mind the rules on collateral damage...

Western police actually use much more aggressive rules of engagement than infantry typically do, based on the idea that police have legal immunity for all good-faith actions and have broad discretion to disregard standing orders and operational procedures if they feel there is any danger to...

I would point out that centralized storage is a historically proven method of maintaining security against both internal and external threats. I mean, it's not as if the Japanese could actually directly attack Pearl Harbor with conventional military forces, the major concern out there is spies...

Take a good look at the source of that document. The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs is the exact opposite of a credible source, and a perfect example of making shit up to advance an ideological agenda.

You explicitly claimed that a tungsten penetrator is "a big lump of metal" whereas a DU impactor "essentially pulverizes itself when doing its work, and therefore presents a major environmental hazard". Those are your directly quoted words. The reality is that all hypervelocity impactors...

This is the equivalent of California state laws requiring, "This causes cancer!" stickers on literally everything, regardless of the fact that this is totally not the case. The European courts making these findings exist in their own plane of reality where physical facts bend to the need to...

This is absolutely, incontestably, factually false and your willingness to make up absolutely inconcievable "water isn't wet" level anti-physics claims reflects very poorly on your character. While not pyrophoric, tungsten penetrators absolutely still break up into high temperature fragments at...

Hint: tungsten is also a heavy metal. All modern AP ammo, Western and Eastern Bloc alike, has issues with heavy metal toxicity — except they’re minor and inconsequential issues anyway.

I disagree that world war is inevitable -- the inherent conflicts between humans naturally occur on a local and regional scale, and it's international politics that magnifies them beyond the natural stage. Think about it -- the United States was naturally involved in the Revolutionary War and...

I'm pretty left, but I've *never* had that kind of knee jerk response to conflict and I'm not changing my mind anytime soon.