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Originally Posted by DRG
.....and HOW MANY Po's are there realistically ?? I'll be wildly optimistic and say it's considerably below the total of 120 mm armed tanks in the SK armoury and even if it's 3 or 4 hundred ( which it won't be ) the SK solution to the 120 /105 gun "imbalance" is to adopt the "Firefly" model of tank distribution and there will always be a 120 around to slice and dice the PO's.
The NK strength is arty, not tanks. The Po seems more of a propaganda exercise.
Don
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Well, if you recall Russia kept buying tiny amounts of T-80s and T-90s back in the 90's even when the economy was in the gutter.
Ukraine buys the odd modernized T-64 from Morozov every other year. Iran has its indigenous AFV program that will have replaced the existing fleet by the 22nd or 23rd century etc.
Why are such things done? Various reasons: attempts to keep production lines open (which at least in the T-90 case paid off handsomely), bureaucratic inertia, the idea that limited modernization is better than no modernization at all, propaganda etc.
That being said even a single "èlite" tank battalion could make a difference in, let's say, a coup attempt.