Russia’s tank force is largely staffed by teenagers drafted to serve their country for 12-month terms. The T-80UD has a manual transmission. Maybe you can see where this is going.
20 Mar 2017
The Moscow Drift
Russia, T-80D Tank
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In the 1970’s (think Cold War), the West German AF and army were largely composed of draftees. Also, the Bundesluftwaffe(?) was flying (relatively) antiquated F-105 fighter planes. Note the USAFE was deploying F-16’s.
They blamed it on maintenance. Forget about crew training and horrid weather. The crash and death rate among German fighter pilots was remarkable.
Dave
The F-105 was only flown by the USAF. The Germans flew F-104s and F-4s at around that time. Never did they fly F-105s.
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