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Originally Posted by Olefin
Armor and the guns tubes would be the killer Webstral - armor on a tank only comes from certain specialized mills - like the one in Israel that I read got nuked to deny it to the Israelis. Ditto for gun tubes.
so while they might be able to make tracks or possibly engine parts, the armor and the main guns are goign to stop them cold.
Now saying that - it takes a lot less space to ship 35 gun tubes to Saudi Arabia than it does to ship 35 full tanks.
And keep in mind - you may be lookign at as many as 50 tanks due to replacing combat losses that occured from June 2000 to Jan 2001 to end up with a net increase of 35 tanks
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Depends if you are willing to downgrade the armour. The chobham on an M1 or Chally is going to be impossible to produce. However it would be possible to produce more conventional armmour.