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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
Not so sure about that, the UAE uses the Leclerc and they don't seem to have too much in the way of enviromental issues.
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Actually the Leclerc sold to the UAE are quite different from the French ones. Still, conditions in Lebanon are in no way conditions in UAE.
Stainlesscynic has a point and I should have recall that the German had tracks problem in USSR and not only in winter.
That must make things even more complicated as the need for mechanical replacements are more common on tracked vehicles than on wheeled ones. As someone said, with time most tanks will be turned into pillboxes.