For some reason, the last month has seen several articles in the media about reporters driving tanks and armored vehicles.  Two of these pieces have appeared in Business Insider.  The first of which is an article from March 23 by Lianna Brinded called “I went to Lithuania to drive a tank and it was one of the coolest things ever.”  Of course, the use of the term “tank” in the headline is misleading.  As usual the media call any vehicle with tracks a tank regardless of what it actually is.  In this case, the tank in question was actually a FV432 APC.

A few days later Business Insider ran another story about a reporter goofing around with tanks called “We visited a farm in England that lets you crush cars with military tanks.”

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