![]() When it comes to tanks there are less than 300 of the newer K2 battle tanks in service together with 1,501 K1/K1A1/K1E1 battle tanks whose production started in the late 1980s. While it’s true the ROK Army’s size and inventory are smaller than its rival across the DMZ it more than compensates with better engineered and better performing vehicles. ![]() Today maybe half the M48A5’s are kept around for occasional live fire exercises. In the 1990s they numbered between 800 to 850 M48A3/A5 tanks in service while some 400 of the lighter M47’s were retired. If the numbers are accurate there are an estimated 1,200 tanks supplied by the US that remain in South Korea. Perhaps none are as diligent and fastidious as the ROK Army, whose arsenal still boasts some aging “platforms” for when things get out of hand, and strict maintenance schedules are kept for their tank fleet’s eldest members: the M48 Pattons. ![]() ![]() Via South Korean media.Ī lot of older US-made equipment and weaponry are kept serviceable by some Asian militaries to an astonishing degree. An M48A5 Patton undergoing maintenance at an ROK Army depot. ![]()
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