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2016-02-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Watch These American Tanks Slip and Slide Through the Norwegian Snow

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Posted by gorb 2016-02-19 16:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 First winter driving experience at Ft Knox was never drive over the flat spots in the snow when cross country, particularly not at speed in a 65 ton vehicle. Ice usually has some liquid water under it and tank recovery ops in 3 ft of frozen pond really sucks.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-02-19 16:48|| 2016-02-19 16:48|| Front Page Top

#2 3 ft.? That's all it takes?

Posted by Shipman 2016-02-19 17:09|| 2016-02-19 17:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The ice was maybe a foot and a half thick, the ponds were kept shallow to teach, not drown new 2LTs.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-02-19 17:46|| 2016-02-19 17:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Newtonian Physics, upfront and personal.

I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-19 19:03|| 2016-02-19 19:03|| Front Page Top

#5 As a former jarhead it pains me to say this but....I'll bet the Russians can drive their tanks on snow much better than us or the Norwegians.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2016-02-19 20:23|| 2016-02-19 20:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The Russians have more practice Billy.

Less practice at shooting at full speed. They had issues in Georgia with their tank group performance.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-02-19 21:53|| 2016-02-19 21:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Also these tanks shows what these idiots in their SUVs do when driving in Colorado mountain winters. Once you lose traction, Sir Newton takes over and inertia is a bitch.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-02-19 21:56|| 2016-02-19 21:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Is the USMC sure their Abrams + other AFVS are pointing at the correct country, given ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Sputnik News] NATO WARNS TURKEY IT WON'T SUPPORT ANKARA [Turkey] IN CASE OF [Turkey-started/provoked]MILITARY CONFLICT WID RUSSIA.

Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the Russians or the Turks ...

* TOPIX > [SCMP]"CHINA SHOULD FIRE SHOTS AT US WARSHIPS NEAR DISPUTED ISLANDS, OR EVEN RAM THEM TO TEACH THEM A LESSON". GETTING TOUGH WID [Foreign Nation = read, US-Allies] TRESPASSERS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA WOULD BE GOOD FOR PEACE IN THE DISPUTED REGION, SAYS CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY MOUTHPIECE [People's Daily Online].

"Whitey" must be sunk or shot down in the name of peace-n-decency???

* FYI RELATED SAME > CHINA MAY SEND ANTI-SHIP MISSLES TO DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA TO BEEF UP DEFENCE: ANALYSTS. | CHINA "MUST PREPARE FOR WAR OVER NORTH KOREA ROCKET LAUNCH AND NUCLEAR TESTS".

* TOPIX > [ABC NEWS = Aussie BC] AUSTRALIA: LABOR PARTY VOWS TO SEND WARSHIPS WIDIN 12-NAUTICAL MILES OF DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS, iff it wins political power in upcoming elections.

Looks like AUSTRALIA = ANTI-US US POTUS OBAMA = desires to PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY COVERTLY RECOGNIZE CHINA'S SCS CLAIMS WHILE PRETENDING TO ORDINARY AUSSIES + WORLD THAT IT ISN'T???

* MANILA TIMES > VIOLENCE IN HONG KONG
"INEVITABLE" - ACTIVISTS.

So-called Beijing-labelled "Localists" Activists including but not limited to those whom support an INDEPENDENT HONG KONG AS A DE FACTO SOVEREIGN COUNTRY.

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [VOA News] US HAS NO INTENTION OF RESUMING SIX-PARTY NUKE TALKS WID NORTH KOREA.

IOW, Pudgy = Reunification-Now! NOKOR will get its Nukes just as Iran will???

THE POWERS THAT BE WANT THE "STATUS QUO" IN NE ASIA + ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA TO
"ASYMETRICALLY" CHANGE PER THEIR COUNTRY-PECIFIC GEOPOL REASONS + INTERESTS, ETC. + TO DO SO SOONER THAN LATER OR ASAP AMAP ALAP.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-19 22:31|| 2016-02-19 22:31|| Front Page Top

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