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Not sure, I’ve just put it down to 16th century fashion choices.
Serious answer? As the Russians are currently discovering, doing long-term storage is expensive and bringing stuff back from it is even worse. That goes double if you've got small orphan fleets as we tend to: spare parts for M109 are easy, AS-90 or Abbot much less so.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:23 pmSide note. I remember armoured stuff & panzery things everywhere in the 90s. Challies, 432s, Warriors, AS90 (and Abbots)… what on Earth was gained from scrapping them? I know I know. Politics. But dammit it’s frustrating.
Well. I remember the fuss made about the costs for putting 2/3 of the Chally2 fleet into environmentally controlled storage. And then they screwed up the storage…Pdf27 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 9:01 amSerious answer? As the Russians are currently discovering, doing long-term storage is expensive and bringing stuff back from it is even worse. That goes double if you've got small orphan fleets as we tend to: spare parts for M109 are easy, AS-90 or Abbot much less so.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:23 pmSide note. I remember armoured stuff & panzery things everywhere in the 90s. Challies, 432s, Warriors, AS90 (and Abbots)… what on Earth was gained from scrapping them? I know I know. Politics. But dammit it’s frustrating.
We're currently in the process of both screwing up and fixing it at the same time on different fleets, but that's another thread.