Here’s some information about the Leopard 2A4 tank: they’ve been around since 1979, weigh in at over sixty-eight tons and are powered by a MTU-sourced twin-turbo V-12 diesel good for 1,500 horsepower. It’s top speed is about 42 miles per hour, and anything that is dumb enough to remain in it’s travel path will be flattened in a way that even Wile E. Coyote will cringe at, because there is no coming back from that kind of carnage. When the Leopard is forty-four times more mass than the PT Cruiser, that’s bound to happen. And the little Chrysler speck isn’t the only machine that’s about to become a glorified speed bump, either: an early Honda Odyssey and a BMW 3-series are also on the menu. The Odyssey is hit at a relatively slow speed, while the Beemer is turned into a jump, with the Leopard driving through it like pure butter.
What’s the point of this? Two-fold: one, it’s part of a precision driving course that tank crews need to navigate to hone their skills, and two, it gives the crew a kind of confidence boost in their machine. In a controlled environment, they can learn just what their Leopard can do to anything that gets in their way. Running through a car that is parked as a roadblock is an event that can happen in a combat theatre, so it actually is a proper training situation and not simply for the entertainment of all involved in the training.
That being said, you know someone in that tank was over the moon that they got to steamroll a car without any mercy whatsoever.
Can we have them put kanye west and the lardassians in a people carrier and repeat this a few times?
Best day at work ever!
Very satisfying. Makes me all warm and runny inside. Too bad Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer weren’t in there……..