Show sawf 10G The Salt Lake Trilium’ Sundi h JO v I'ljL Soldiering Soviet Military Sacrifices Quality for Quantity t don't believe that reality has much place in a column — a view clearly shared by most columnists -bu I thought we should take a realistic look at Soviet tanks To this end I ve been reading an early copy of ' Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles hv- Steve Zaloga and James Loop Sterling Publishing Co ) Tanks don't just appear magicallv cheap as well as to make them small They are the result of other decisions targets and tneir accuracy is poor and of an army regarding the nature To keep their tanks from wearing its purpose For example the Sovout the Soviets don t use them mm h iets after World War II were aware whuh means that training is poor they had been very badly outfought This wav the Soviets can keep a and for man man Germans the by short lived tank in service for a weapon for weapon fSo generally table period of time but the speaking were we ) As late as early crews aren t much good 1944 the Soviets were losing four The need to keep price down also tanks for every German tank deled to technically crude tanks As has The same situation general stroyed a rule Soviet tanks dojmt have the held for airplanes The Soviets won computers sophisticated by vast numerical superiority and gear that ours do After the war knowing this a Some in America believe the crudethough not admitting it the Soviets ness of the Soviet tanks springs from would decided that in the future they a philosophical devotion to simplicity have to rely on numbers once again and the consequent reliability but in In a sense this is understandable fact Soviet tanks are riot very reliRussia has always lagged behind the able The simplicity is actually a reWest in quality of nearly everything sult of poverty the desire for very except numbers and the miserable-ne$- s of the Soviet winter And numlarge armies and the lack of high-tec- h know manufacturing capacity bers as we all they assuredly As one means of alleviating this have today However an economically primiproblem the Soviets have typically a high-lomix meaning canUnion employed like the Soviet nation tive that they have built a few advanced not afford to equip and maintain pricey tanks and a great many cheap equiplarge armies with first-rat- e tanks They have done the same with ment Dictatorship or not semi-wa- r vehicles such as areconomy or not the Soviets just can t mored personnel carriers In condo it trast Western nations have typically So they deliberately sacrifice evtanks bought only top of erything to cheapness thus allowing The Soviets Steve Zaloga tells me laie quantities Ordinary quality of now have a new tank as yet unnamed construction has gone by the boards bv us which resembles the Ml The Soviet tanks get far fewer miles bewhich was supposed to be a modtween major overhauls than ours do ern tank turned out not to be He exand fewer miles before they wear out pects this to be the high end of the Their guns fire far fewer rounds behigh-lomix fore wearing out Further Soviet The chief defect of current Soviet tanks are made small to keep them ' ours Iips in the inferitanks and ority of their equipment To see at night US tanks use what is called image intensification which amplifies light such as starlight and gives a sort of grainy image and thermal imaging which picks up the heat of tanks or men and shows them clearly (clear enough to shoot) in no light at all The Soviet tanks don’t have thermals which is bad because with thermals it is easy to see through smoke in daylight There is nothing terribly secret about thermal imaging that I know ol but it is expensive vis-a-v- fire-contr- mght-visio- n TV’-lik- e modern tanks (whether American or German or Israeli) use ballistic computers stabis lized turrets and laser coupled to give a high rate of accurate fire The results are quite good The Soviets lag behind in this area What it all comes to in my estimation is that the Soviets have chosen to e have a huge poorly trained because in large part military they don't have much choice The same pattern holds elsewhere in their defenses Their submarines spend little time at sea their pilots flv few hours but they have a lot of both AND FOR THE LAST TIME! 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