KoTeMoRe Tue Aug 25, 2015 2:55 pm
Fred333 wrote: KoTeMoRe wrote: Fred333 wrote:well at least it is now possible to compensate the wahhabi apologist videos of "FSA" groups blowing up SAA stuff with videos of Houthis blowing up Saudi stuff
Yeah but that order of magnitude though. 30K USD Tow's blowing up marginally more expensive equipment. While 8K USD Konkurs wreck millions per shot. Wasn't it Dfarce that said Western Equipment is on par with Soviet? I guess the accountants will opine to the contrary.
WvO: Nope as you can see the said video clearly shows you only have to hit the M1 right. Upper Flank shot, ammo brew almost instantly, huge conflagration and what looks as a complete spillover to the fighting compartment (you can see it blew off the floor trap). Saudi BBQ ribs included. BTW the ATGM flies 10 seconds at 200m/sec =2000m range. The second attack is even closer.
Which makes me think WTF do the Saudis use those Thermals for?
A tank is only as good as its crew, an army is only as good as its soldiers /cliche
One destroyed M1 is more expensive than 5? 8? destroyed T-72s? Difference is, Syria cannot afford the manpower and equipment losses, KSA can, they still have lots of money to burn and legions of Wahhabi zombies to bother other countries with...
Actually the KSA can't afford the kind of losses we see so far. Bear in mind, they got mostly NATO-styled ORBAT with "small" number of Abrams (about 300 give or take); if they start losing them like this, soon enough they'll go back to AMX30's, which is like going to war on a coffin. All in all we're talking of about 1200 MBT's (most of them "obsolete").
As for buying, yes, they have the money, but they aren't many sources for the said tanks. If push comes to shove they'd be forced to induct US storage M1's. Those 400 M1's that Greece was eying from the US might go and "die fast" as Book put it somewhere in Yemen.
On the other side, the DRO produces the Tosan-1 at 3K USD. Hell the HJ-8 sold to Sudan and ending up in Syria is at 5K USD. Wrecking havoc will always be the cheapest soluton...