Modern MBTs don't destroy roads. Rubber track pads prevent this. Bridges with weight limits yes, modern roads no. The equivalent to light tanks currently fielded are not appreciably faster than an abrams. They are significantly more vulnerable to modern infantry anti-armor weaponry.
Tracked guns that aren't MBTs exist. They are slower than the abrams and less effective in direct fire.
You are examining things from ww2 design perspectives. Modern equipment is different. A bradley is functionally a light tank. It is penetrable by a .50. It is not faster than an abrams, it is much worse armored and higher profile. It's nearly the same size, as well. It does not have the versatility of the main gun of the abrams. Tanks do not just shoot kinetic penetration rounds. They have high explosive, or canister (big shotgun) rounds as well. Other modern MBTs can use barrel launched missiles. One abrams platoon used effectively is easily superior to a bradley company. This is proven in war game exercises frequently.
The only nation that would even conceivably attempt to take Australia would be China. If they were invaded, Australia would not be able to stop them from getting armored vehicles on land. The MBT is the most effective armored vehicle for ground combat.
It is amazing how many warthunder players upvoted you and downvoted me. Internet warriors that have no fucking clue.
Tanks are flexible and direct fire. Artillery is not. Tanks are essential in any theater where air dominance, not air superiority, isn't assured. Tanks are also essential in theaters where we have AD if the goal isn't just "bomb everything and leave" because planes can't take or hold ground.
Your planes still being in the sky don't matter anymore when the enemy tank commander is eating breakfast in your cafeteria.
You may as well say infantry is redundant because we have nukes. Airforce makes MBTs redundant is such a stupid statement, boiling war down to a rock paper scissors equation of who wins in a fight between two isolated assets.
Our tank is still the best in the world, it's fine as is. No need to make a new fuck up if the current thing works great.
"I'm going to simp for a socialist dictator because he'd kill people I don't like"
Keep your religion (leftism) to yourself.
Useful idiots are always gobsmacked when they also end up against the wall.
Leftist authoritarians are all unfit for civilized society, their shock troops are ravening retards and their leadership is ALWAYS madmen or sociopaths.
That and colonies. The people that have the will to liberty leave to go build a new life away from their country, instead of fixing it. This is why the brits are dead as a people - between the wars and emigration all that's left of them is the willing serfs.
This is retarded. Have you learned nothing from the US' history and current problems. Send them all back. If you keep them they just become a problem.
Germany invaded
the allies wanted to start a war
Germany invaded
Sure. Blame it on the people who made preparations to deal with Germany if they started a SECOND world war. That makes sense. Let's ignore everything Germany did and claim the people who were invaded were the ones who were at fault. Because you for some reason believe that a socialist dictator who ruined his nation wasn't a massive faggot.
Pre-ww2 Germany was recovering after the nazis ended the weimar. Then Hitler decided to shake hands with Stalin and join his ideological cousin in picking a fight. Because deranged leftists always prioritize personal power over the prosperity of their nation or lives of their people.
Hitler was a faggot, and his stupidity destroyed Germany forever.
Communists reject the idea of value or merit. Their product is worth as much as an actual good product because of labor input, not quality.
They are unable to deal with fundamental aspects of real life because leftism is a mental illness.
It is because nearly every ounce of any kind of genetic or cultural predisposition towards liberty or independence has been squeezed from the british people. What remains on that joyless island is the dried out husk.
Between the wars and the mass emigration of anyone with a will to live free of serfdom for hundreds of years continuously, the actual spirit of the nation has died.
fair share of society
Foreigners are owed nothing. Citizens are owed their rights, not other people's. People like this are owed a cell in prison or an asylum.
There's "indie" the faggoty hipster "aesthetic" and indie the term, which is short for independent. Independent just means self published. That's better than massive publishers, and faggots making their own games is superior to them trying to infect and destroy existing IPs. It's what we want " just fuck off and make your own shit". It's when they ruin an otherwise passable game that it's a real problem.
Indie games can be great or trash. What you're complaining about falls more under the category of shovelware, cheap shit clones of better games.
Jumped up to 60 during the covid shit.
All the enlisted hate that shit. Only non combat jobs, whose opinions are largely irrelevant, have observably left leaning people in any number. Usually the females.
Feminism was a weapon of marxism, meant to deliberately destroy western society.
The enemy of my enemy is still not my friend when they both want the end of everything I value.
Recruitment is in the dumpster, and for combat arms roles especially. Being turned against your own countrymem is not something the average infantryman will go along with. You'll have outright defection en masse and constant sabotage.
They have started pushing "training" that is sitting in a room and getting lectured on how troons are people too, but everyone walks out making fun of it for the next week.
That requires the enlisted to do so. The generals aren't the ones who pull the triggers. And it's not that the military wouldn't turn it's sights on the populace, it is that the enlisted ranks are (or were) overwhelmingly full of the exact kind of people that distrust the government and would rebel in that circumstance. So the military would fracture and portions of it would turn rebel instantly.
It's been that way from the start. The gamergate types identified this consultancy grift with anita and her ilk a decade ago.
america shouldn't be propping up a foreign nation
hitlerian
No. I don't care which side of retarded, whether shilling for the "hitler did nothing wrong" retards or the "israel greatest ally" retards you're on. That's not a socialist position, don't even start with "orange man hitler" shit. Fuck all the way off with that and if you can't rub two braincells together just stop posting entirely.
I don't think he's unhinged, he's citing examples of corrupt institutions getting away with unethical shit. Hating how sick the american media is, is normal. But his solution, reducing freedom of speech, is not correct.
hiphop in a game set in feudal japan, only while you play the shoehorned black
You're shitting me
I mean I knew asscreed was bad, if has been bad for a long time, but really? Is there any footage of this? That's parody level.
And Trump is being prosecuted despite also committing no crime. The concept of a free press vs the wrong execution of an already hopelessly corrupt government. The corruption doesn't invalidate the entire concept.
While that faggot should never have been in the military and protections for leakers should be applied evenly, those protections also cover things like the biden laptop, and more importantly the Snowden leaks.
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.