Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Well, the French apparently disagree and the US and Germany would have to completely redesign their current tanks based on 70s technology in order to incorporate autoloaders. The Biritish (some of their nerds anyway) also keep claiming that the rifled gun is superior or on par with the smoothbores the rest of the world uses but their government/army just doesn't want to switch because it would cost too much as they'd have to completely redesign the turret of the Challenger 2 due to the larger ammunition.
And you can't quite expect a government to just go ahead and say that it uses inferior technology for monetary reasons, I guess that would not be good for morale. The US is one of the kings of artificially high morale. It took quite a long time for the german army/government to admit that the G-36 is a faulty rifle, there was even a story about a civil servant who proved that the material was not up to the task quite a few years ago, but his superiors tried to move him to another position and then failed in court with the attempt to have him declared insane. That's the extent to which some organizations go in praising/defending their own faulty stuff and I'm obviously not saying that my country were any better.
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