Latvia borrows tank to Estonia for training

**Inese** · 02-01-2010, 06:54 PM

http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-28/ta...html?fullstory
http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/baltic_news/?doc=4588

You can play with our tank Estonia but please give it back to us later

And get own tanks!!

**Jarl** · 02-01-2010, 06:56 PM

OMG! Look who's back!

It's not just the Latvian tanks that are so popular!

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**~~Svarog~~** · 02-02-2010, 08:49 AM

Anyone else finds this article kind of funny?

**Moustache** · 02-02-2010, 09:03 AM

Chuck Norris punches through enemy lines with his mind.

Forget the crappy tanks and offer the man a contract.

**Tabiti** · 02-02-2010, 09:09 AM

Tanks are useless today, unless to scare angry civilians on the streets

**~~Svarog~~** · 02-02-2010, 09:27 AM

Georgians beg to differ

**EWtt** · 02-02-2010, 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by Inese

You can play with our tank Estonia but please give it back to us later

And get own tanks!!

There's a joke here that goes like this: Russia declares war on Estonia. Estonians ask Latvians to help by deploying their tank force. Before they do, Latvians ask "shall we send one tank, or both of them?"

Our landscape is quite marshy, heavily wooded, etc. The Estonian defense strategy has had a greater emphasis on efficient anti-tank weaponry. I think we have a few of those Soviet T-55s (the one Lativa sent) as well, but we'll rather keep them as museum exhibits...

**~~Eldritch~~** · 02-02-2010, 10:26 AM

The T-55 is a piece of shit anyway. Just ask Saddam Hussein -- or rather, you should ask him, if he wasn't dead. See what I mean?

**The Lawspeaker** · 02-02-2010, 10:44 AM

I am actually more amazed that Latvia still employs that piece of crap..
It would be a good idea for both Estonia and Latvia to start shopping for a decent replacement.

A good type of tank destroyer for you lot would be a dusted off and modernized S-tank though- combined with some Leopard II's