i doubt you would do field maintenance on the battlefield considering the threat of drones and infantry ambush in the terrain at the Thai-Cambodia border, not to mention, the climate of Ukraine is much cooler than the hot and humid jungles. The stress of the high intensity firing from earlier days and the sudden need for burst fire at the moment of the incident could also blow the barrel.
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We don't know how the Thais are maintaining their tanks. If they aren't doing it well obviously accidents might happen more frequently.
An Indian T-90's barrel exploded and killed its crew, accidents happen.
Then to be fair we have to see the western built tanks that operated by Thailand. Are they suffer the same fate as VT-4? If no then how can western tanks stay intact in bad maintaining situation?
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They might not be used as much.
Wait a minute, Cambodia is not an ally, Hun Sen plays both sides to say the least.
Are they even used anymore? Did not see any footage with them either.
They might be held in reserve because the 105mm isn't as good for fire support missions though any gun is better than no gun.
lol. I got nothing else to say other than that you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
As opposed to the abrams.. during training.. and what high intensity conflict exactly?
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Yes, because they're stationed the closest to the border where the past and current conflicts were most intense.
plawolf
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There doesn’t need to be a RPM limit because the ammo carriage of the tank itself is the hard cap.
The gun barrel design was spec’d to allow you to shoot your whole magazine load at max fire rate and be fine.
What it was not designed for was for you to mag dump your full ammo load, top up the autoloader as quickly as you can and mag dump again and rinse and repeat.
If you want to use the tanks for fire spam like that, then you need to change out the barrels at the manufacturer recommended intervals. Just like how machine gunners are trained to change out the barrels of their machine guns after a certain number of belts of sustained fire.