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Old August 30th, 2005, 08:10 AM
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French are really funny. They develop 3rd gen tank from 1970, but came with nothing, then they change plans to 4th gen tank, to this day it has 10-11 versions becouse it is not what they thought it would be (superior in every aspect to American equivalent), and now they come with stealth tanks... i think that if they develop one, it will be after 40-50 years and by then it will be totaly obsolete, and they will allways have AMX-30...
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As I said, this is mainly because of the policy (dating back to De Gaulle) saying that [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img]"small though we are, we can still do better than these arrogant American imperialists and take market shares / political influence that they won't have"[img]/threads/images/Graemlins/MusicalNote.gif[/img]. As a result, French procurment programs run happily over budgets and deadlines (the French generally are no friends to these ), and though generally pretty interesting all in all, end up in service some ten years too late to make any difference. In the mid 90s the Leclerc would have been astounding (early hunter-killer, fast, agile, light, evolutive...), but by now there are many equals on the market and on the field.
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