![]() ![]() The armchair historian debate over the Sherman's war legacy could blaze up once more with the new war film "Fury", starring actor Brad Pitt as a U.S. from supplying tens of thousands of Sherman tanks to U.S., British, Canadian and other Allied forces, tipping the scales against the smaller numbers of elite German tanks on World War II battlefields. British tank crews gave Sherman tanks the unflattering nickname "Ronson" - a grim reference to the Ronson cigarette lighter's ad slogan "lights first every time" and the unfortunate fact that Sherman tanks often burned after taking just one hit. Sherman tanks who faced an uphill battle against more powerful German tanks during World War II. Such a fact probably gave very little comfort to the five-man crews of U.S. The Turkish air force is many times stronger than all Balkan countries airforces united (around 200 F-16’s for example, while in the Balkans, Serbia and Bulgaria have downgraded export Mig 29’s, combined maybe 10-15 in working order, they do have ground attack aircraft too, but if you don’t have air superiority, they’re useless), the only good thing in the Balkans inventory would be the S-300 of the Bulgarian army, which still wouldn’t be enough to fight with +200 F-16’s.īottom line, Turkey has air superiority, 350 Leopard 2 tanks and Balkans has Soviet equipment from the 80’s, some of which is downgraded export variants, any way the Balkans could stop the Turks from invading them? As I said the scenario is of course unrealistic, but I am interested in how big of a change does a modern MBT actually make, since they cost so much.Sometimes a "good enough" military technology can achieve victory over better military technologies. They have T-72’s, old Soviet AT guided missiles, the newest are the AT 7 and AT 10 Metis in the Bulgarian army, but they are still too old to do any damage to modern tanks, unless you hit a sweet spot, here is the equipment list of the Bulgarian army, which is maybe the strongest by equipment quality List of modern equipment of the Bulgarian land forces - Wikipedia Again, I am mostly interested in what could the Balkan countries (except Greece) do in my example? They don’t have Javelines, A-10’s or anything similar. ![]()
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