Talk:Lince (tank)

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[edit] GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Lince (tank)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review. I've given the article a thorough copyedit and left one comment below, but I am happy to pass this as a well-written and sourced article on an interesting minor military topic. Congratulations.--Jackyd101 (talk) 14:28, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• "the Spanish Ministry of Defense agreed to modernize the Army's AMX-30Es and alloted 155 million dollars" - Why are dollars used here when pesetas were used earlier? Stick with one, preferably the currency in use in Spain at the time.
• Any internet source needs full publication information. - title, date, publisher and last access date.

[edit] Why did this exist?

Can someone explain why there was any effort to develop this tank? Considering it consisted mostly of L2 parts, what's the purpose of building a new tank? Was this a case of NIH? The article states that the Lince was slightly lighter than the L2 and slightly more mobile. However, the degree of both of these strikes me as very low. I really don't see how they expected it would be able to compete internationally with the L2, and given the L2's record of local production, I don't see much of a reason for it either. Maury (talk) 21:52, 12 June 2008 (UTC)