Reddit reviews Inside the Great Tanks

MVTF tour guide HERE! Can also confirm!

That up there is one of the pictures from this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Great-Tanks-Hans-Halberstadt/dp/1861262701

It's from back in the days when the place was really active, but before it was open to the public, so people wouldn't see the vehicles at all aside from these pictures. It's worth picking up for the used price there.

Inside the Great Tanks by Hans Halberstadt

Article is shit. The merest suggestion that the T-72 is superior to the M1 is completely and utterly laughable. The book cited as a source is a coffee table photo book, hardly a rigorous analytical look at the situation. He cries throughout the article about how "If they were equally trained they would perform just as well" (with no citations on that last bit), except when it comes to the Russians (whom he holds up earlier in the article as well-trained) bullying Pakistani military (hardly an elite fighting force). When discussing the Cope India exercises the author conveniently fails to mention that the F-15s were at a numerical disadvantage (3 to 1 against), with no AWACS, and within visual range. The F-15s were not equipped with their standard long-range radars. The F-15s were not equipped with radar-guided missiles. Furthermore, the US had performed other wargames in which conditions were similarly stacked against them and won every time, Cope India was only noteable because they didn't, despite the artificial disadvantages.

The entire section about stealth is just dripping with butthurt. "Oh, Stealth? Yeah, we could have totally made that. We could make that any time!" "Why don't you?" "Because we don't want to!". They also act as though one single case of an aircraft being shot down invalidates the entire concept, despite the fact that Russia is developing stealth aircraft of it's own.

The bit in the Korean war is utterly laughable too. The Chinese had absurd numerical superiority and the US forces were small in number under-equipped, it was not decided based on technology at all. The author also "conveniently" forgets that the Chinese advance was halted and the whole situation stalemated. Russian tanks and aircraft being instrumental to that? Don't make me fucking laugh. Stanky-ass hand-me-down T-34/85s which were barely a match for the Shermans still in service let alone the Pershings, Pattons, and M103s? No. Chinese successes in Korea were not in any way, shape, or form a result of "superior soviet stronk weapon technology".

>a 10-to-1 kill ratio against the MiG-15, a myth that lasted over 30 years. As new data were released, that came down to 7-to-1, and now it’s 2-to-1.

Oh no, 2-to-1, how incredibly well-matched they are! I should point out that while the 2-to-1 figure is not accurate (the real number is around 4-to-1) the two aircraft are in terms of performance fairly comparable.

The grounding of the Blackbird is no mystery at all. It was expensive to run, and satellites do the same job but better.

Even having a header titled "Pentagon Propaganda" is pretty hilarious in the slavaboo nationalistic fantasy article, I laughed.

Russia makes a lot of really great weapons systems. In particular, their jet engines and surface-to-air missiles are on par with anything the west puts out. They had some really excellent submarines when they could afford to buy them.

However, the article you linked is an atrocious piece of shit. It is not in any way shape or form an objective look at these systems. It is the insane ramblings of an analfractured slavaboo pining for the days of the Soviet Union. The arguments he makes are bad arguments and he should feel bad for making them.