Send it to Ukraine, we’ll figure it out from there
Likely worse armor than MBTs, a worse gun than MBTs. It was designed for combined arms, which we aren’t seeing a lot of anymore. Probably quite vulnerable to FPVs. I don’t think they’d want them.
Police surplus I bet….
That was my first thought
What I don’t get is this bit?
“Pretty soon after 82nd Airborne Division leaders told the Army in 2013 they’d like a new light tank, à la the retired M551 Sheridan, the team working on its requirements hit a snag. The 82nd had asked to be able to airdrop the new vehicle from a C-130 or C-17, but nothing even roughly the size and capability of a Sheridan was going to fit inside a C-130.”
Mother fucker the Sheridan was roughly the size and capability of Sheridan and it fit in a C-130. Is this wh40k where we lost some technology I don’t know about?
Sure maybe they’d want to add modern tech like cameras and gps or some shit, but no way that really takes up all that much space. Plus, in last several decades we havent made any engineering advancements to idk make the engine smaller or shit stronger but smaller?
The Sheridan was the size of the Sheridan, and they want the transportation capability of the Sheridan, but the Sheridan itself was also a wildly unsuccessful tank. It was also fully reliant on the MGM-51 Shillelagh missile, which also was not good. Nobody actually wants the Sheridan back, they want something they can transport like it.
Give them to ukriane they could do with the help
I’ve been saying this about the M1128 Wolfpack/MGS as well.
A perfect embodiment of capitalism. Production for the sake of production, infinite growth in a finite system.
Send them to Ukraine, they won’t complain.
Affordable housing?? /s
I wonder how many people died of starvation in the time this was made
Have they tried shoving it up their own asses?
No room. They’re already filled with comanche helicoptor prototypes.
That movie is funny, but not in any way accurate or truthful. Half of the story is Boyd’s bitterness at having his own designs laughed at and the other is him not understanding how procurement and testing even work.
For example, in the move the protagonist discovers that vehicles meant for destructive testing had their fuel replaced with water and dummy ammunition. Boyd frames this as cheating to minimize possible secondary explosions. The reality is that fuel and ammo are removed from these vehicles so that they can be studied afterwards more easily. Penetrations into the magazine or fuel tank are easier to see when those components are not confetti.
Colonel James Burton, not Boyd.
The movie is fun, but misrepresenting what actually happened.
I mean… is it unneeded and unusable because of sweeping and stupid doctrinal changes that are happening because everything in this country is run by incompetent idiots now? Because I was under the impression for a while now that the M10 was exactly what a lot of the lower and middle ranks were saying was needed.
