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To: Held_to_Ransom
My father spent some time designing futuristic anti-tank weapons. He used to say that he thought that in the future, the place not to be was in a tank.

He's probably right. But if you do have to take a hit or near hit from such fiendish devices, the vehicle to be in at the time remains the big fella.

-archy-/-

31 posted on 11/09/2003 6:48:37 PM PST by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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To: archy
Actually, in point of fact, anywhere on the modern battlefield is no place to be, at least not in a fight against someone one your own technological level. This fact no doubt goes a long way towards making suicide bombing acceptable to the mind, since for a simple soldier going onto the modern battlefield against a higher tech opponent, just showing up is often tantamount to suicide. If you're surely gonna die, what's the difference?
33 posted on 11/09/2003 7:49:43 PM PST by Held_to_Ransom
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