Ron Paul: "We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost'
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Vs actual knowledge and experience. An abrams is 72 tons. They are loaded on the superheavy trucks for transport to save fuel, maintenance and operational time. They can drive on roads fine. The steel tracks are what gave tanks the reputation for destroying roads - the weight distribution of tracks actually has less pounds of weight per square inch of surface contact area than cars.
And you're trying to twist this entire argument from "MBTs bad" to "my irrelevant country doesn't need them" and still saying wrong things. It is the king of armored warfare. It is the best choice for infantry support and any direct engagement. It is not a troop transport, it is not an anti-air platform, but in any kind of situation where vehicles or troops need to be destroyed and terrain permits vehicles, the abrams will do it better, faster and have the highest survivability.