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Subject: RE:Auto-loaders....definately good!!! T-65?
mike_golf    12/16/2003 9:00:15 PM
I can pretty categorically state that the T-64 was never exported by the Soviet Union, not even to Warsaw Pact states like Czechoslovakia or East Germany. The T-72 was widely exported outside the Soviet Union. The T-64 design may well have been licensed to Warsaw Pact countries. But at the time of your "story" no Warsaw Pact country would have dared to cross the Soviet Union.

However, even if we accept the story as true, and assume the tank was a T-72, which does indeed have an auto-loader, one tank's auto-loader surviving battle damage from mortars and RPG's does not contradict evidence acquired from other sources. Per evidence gained in the Israeli conflicts, among other sources, it is clear that the auto-loader can be damaged even if the tank is not catastrophically killed, like any other sub-system within the tank. The most internal damage from non-catastrophic kills are the electronics (fcs and radio) and auto-loaders, if the tank is so equipped.
 
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