Yeoman_dai
LE
tropper I think you've rather missed the point, and have become rather flippant. The point is that large scale tank manouvres need practise over and over - they run the afghan training alongside this. It doesn't mean (unfortunatly IMHO) that CH2 is going to Herrick.
Also, nobody is suggesting driving around afghan blowing everything up? At the end of the day, MBT's have been found useful on ops in that very country, so someone suggested that they would be useful? Why would you disagree, you can't even play the 'its in the past it'll never happen again' card because clearly other nations are finding them perfect for certain jobs - notwithstanding the many other roles that have been suggested here.
IMO I'd agree with one of the strange - its cost and the difficulty of transfer that is keeping them here - plus, in a more cynical mood, that the govt doesn't want MBT's out there, because then the public would be even more against the conflict due to the 'holy sh!t they've had to send tanks' effect - an effect that warrior and CVRT doesn't have.
Also, nobody is suggesting driving around afghan blowing everything up? At the end of the day, MBT's have been found useful on ops in that very country, so someone suggested that they would be useful? Why would you disagree, you can't even play the 'its in the past it'll never happen again' card because clearly other nations are finding them perfect for certain jobs - notwithstanding the many other roles that have been suggested here.
IMO I'd agree with one of the strange - its cost and the difficulty of transfer that is keeping them here - plus, in a more cynical mood, that the govt doesn't want MBT's out there, because then the public would be even more against the conflict due to the 'holy sh!t they've had to send tanks' effect - an effect that warrior and CVRT doesn't have.