What else do you expect in war? Everyone is going to be biased one way or another.
At what point is it better to just build a new tank rather than restoring and upgrading the mothballed ones? All the systems they are adding to the t-62 is almost like building a new tank, but on a 50-60 year old chassis.
The simple decision done by them to upgrade those tanks showing that tit is cheaper to upgrade them than to make new one.
Leopard 1s? Are you sure? I thought it was Leopard 2s heading there
Russia retained more remanufacturing and repair plants plus a big chunk of the original manufacturers were also turned into repair plants, so there is likely a surplus refurbishment capacity over newbuild ones.
Turned out a lot of the countries offering Leo2's weren't that willing to give them, but are more willing to pay for repairing Leo 1's i storage.
im not so surprised by that. Its a logical choice really, but these are only 105mm guns and terrible armor. The Canadian Forces deemed them woefully inadequate for anything more than direct fire support during our tour in Afghanistan, totally obsolete for facing modern battlefield. It resulted in their replacement by Leo2s, and as with everything CF procurement, we got shafted on that deal too
