Awesome Tank Pictures Thread

ariel250, on 23 December 2013 - 05:13 PM, said: I agree . saying your tank is the best is completely fine because soldiers are used to their tanks and would perform better in them than with other tanks if such are provided . but saying technical stuff like accuracy and protection , that is a bit too much IMO . because T-90 can hit a target at about 3km away . in 2012 there was a large competition in the Golan which included all kinds of tanks in the IDF from merkava 2 to merkava 4 and Magach 7 and 8 (6B) with all the variants such as merkava 2A and B and D . and the more advanced tanks such as mark 3DD and 4 had to fire at ranges of 5km (without LAHAT since gunnery skills are tested , and not tech) . about protection , the M1A2 Abrams has 800mm protection vs HEAT in the front hull and 1060 in the turret (from wiki) . and the T-90 has 650mm protection vs HEAT in front hull , but with Kontakt-5 it has 1150mm protection (from wiki too) . I don't know about the Leo and Leclerc but I know that mark 4 has 1200mm HEAT protection in the front (from paris air show 2011 , no info about ERA).   I'm kind of upset that Merkava , Ariete , Arjun , Al-Khalid , K2 and Type-99 don't participate .