The end of May (Take two)
Added 2024-05-28 23:53:48 +0000 UTCThe first recording was too quiet. Sorry Im very tired.
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Good day Tex thank you and thank your Team. Figured I would drop a line as I "celebrate" another trip around the sun with work. It got me thinking of a quote Mike Rowe said Happiness is a terrific symptom but is a terrible goal. This past weekend as I prepared for my daughter's celebration of another spin around the sun and created a lemonade stand. It was not great but the time spent with her making and painting was amazing. Keep swinging, no question this time and remember to enjoy the little things. Also can't wait to start the Russian viewing of ultimate Admiral. Thanks for making these videos.
Czarvak
2024-06-04 20:23:35 +0000 UTCThr M10 will always be thr Wolverine to me...
Czarvak
2024-06-04 20:16:32 +0000 UTCTank talk time, Tex. What’s your hot take on the M-10 Booker, the army’s “totally not a tank” tank? Feel free to not read aloud as this is another long one. I don’t see how it isn’t a tank or at least a light or medium tank. It weighs as much a T-64 or M47/M48 Patton which are very much tanks. Its only a few tons lighter than the damn M60 Patton and carries the same 105mm main gun that the early M1 used along with the M60 Patton (and many other NATO tanks of the era), is tracked, has armor, a turret and engages in direct fire with the enemy but it is somehow not called a tank. I get that maybe it doesn’t meet the definition of a MBT and maybe isn’t a “light” tank like what the M551 Sheridan was since it isn’t meant or able for scouting or a recon role, but more of a medium tank. We haven’t had a medium tank in…a long time. The point I make is this: if the M10 had existed at any point in the height of of the Cold War (late 50s until the modern MBTs in the late 70s/early 80s) it would have been considered a tank without second thought. To make a bad analogy: if the M1/British Challenger/Leopard 2/insert MBT of choice here was say the HBK-4G, then the Booker feels like it would be a HBK-4H. Also in this world of prolific suicide drones and potent ATGMs like what we see in Ukraine is the M10 even survivable and viable in a fight with a peer or near peer adversary?
MrToBeNamedLater
2024-06-04 03:50:02 +0000 UTC
