Tank Lovers Group
Hobbies & Interests
This group is for everyone who like tanks, sci-fi tanks, real tanks, funny tanks, you can put here tank mods, tank maps, simply everything with straps, armor and gun :D
Purchased in 1943, this was a 4 man light tank. Mexican M3A1 and M5A1 light tanks, together with the M8 SPG and M8 Greyhounds served with the 12th cavalry regiment in Chiapas, some of these vehicles bore the brunt of the Zapatist-attack in 1994 until reinforcments arrived. The Mexican tanks in Chiapas where posted there not to counter any rebel movment but the refrain Guatamala from staging an invasion. Guatamala and Mexico have an longstanding frontier-dispute over the Chiapas territory.
These relics were used in combat as recently as 1994! O_o Mexico has since updated their armor divisions to an extent. But they still lack any actual "tanks". Instead operating wheeled AFVs.
It's easy to forget that not every country has the luxury of building and operating the modern MBTs that most of us take for granted.
A tank is a tank, be it 1944 or 1994. If the enemy has no proper anti tank weapons, anything with tracks, armor and a gun will do the job just fine.
Sorry, but no. Tank in 1944 is far not the same thing as a tank in 1994. With the same success we can compare a bow and a Colt. That fact that these artifacts of past succeed in few combats with badly equipped gangs is not an indicator of quality. Honestly these tanks should serve their duty in the museums, not on the battlefield.