CRITIQUE OF BATTLE TANKS The £4million German tank dubbed 'one of the best in the world' is shown up in Syria: Leopard 2 bought by Turkey to fight British-backed Kurds has numerous faults exposed in lethal fashion The German government has come under domestic pressure after images showed Turkey deploying the tanks From the late 1970s to today, more than 3,000 of the tanks have been built at a cost of around £4million a unit Turkey bought 354 of them, and has started using them to fight Kurdish fighters in cities in northern Syria But they are proving to be ineffective, with the tanks being picked off by allied forces as they are sent in alone s A German-made tank, which Berlin once dubbed one of the best in the world, has had its shortcomings embarrassingly exposed on the battlefield in Syria . Photos from the Turkish military operation dubbed 'Euphrates Shield', which began in August 2016, show the charred remains of one of th...
The great strength of American capitalism is also its great weakness, namely, its extremely high weapons productivity. A number of factors have produced increases in productivity, like, the mechanization of the production process that got under way in England as early as the 18th century. In the early 20th century, then, American industrialists made a contribution in the form of automatiion. ..Amor Patriae