NATO Secretary General wants solar powered tanks. [rolls eyes]
The comment there sums it up:
The stupid, it burns … an M1 tank gets 0.6 mpg. A gallon of diesel contains ~ 40 kWh of energy. A solar panel puts out ~ 1 kWh per day. A solar panel is about 17 sq. ft. You MIGHT fit four of them on an M1 tank without impairing the weapons and sensors. Then you’d need four Tesla Powerwall batteries, weight half a ton.With that setup, every ten days you could move your tank 0.6 miles …
Here's your sign.
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...and smoke generators as the new anti-tank weapon.
(Here's your sign indeed.)
Fake news.
Either that, or the general involved is a diversity hire....
Why are we still in NATO? Because our Euro Masters want us to pay for their defense.
As to Solar Power? Yeah, no, so darned no.
The stupid, it burns.
This is the point where, if we had an actual president, the NATO SecGen would have an inexplicable traffic accident, whereby his Prius got hit by a cement truck, and he was all squashied. What a coincidence, right?
This would keep happening every time some asstard was put into the post (much like the spontaneously exploding Iranian nuclear scientists), until such time as NATO got a clue, and started taking their responsibilities seriously, or we left them to be eaten by Russia once and for all, after their total Islamification.
Either way, hilarity ensues.
We should have been out of NATO the day after the Soviet Union fell. Instead Bush/Clinton/Bush did their best to make the old Soviet propaganda about NATO being an offensive threat to Russia seem true.
NATO is fundamentally unserious, and has been for 30 years now.
Soviet AGITPROP worked perfectly, it just took a little longer than expected.
Everybody knows that solar panels wont work.
The correct answer is wind turbines! The faster the tank drives the more energy it produces. It will also trim back vegetation and get rid of unwanted song birds.
Gerry
BTW the dismal fuel mileage of the Abrams was the reason the Canadian army went with the German Leopard tank.
A rifleman would be able to shoot the solar panels with a standard service weapon. The tank would then be range limited to the remaining charge in the batteries. At which point, it could be dealt with as a stationary object.
ASM826: ... And not only is the tank stationary, but the turret don't turn, and, well, I presume basically everything is dependent on battery power, so it's not even a parked armored gun platform. Just a very expensive can of crew, ammunition, fuel, and so on, waiting to be raided and looted.
They'll have to open the hatches soon for some ventilation, right?
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