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To: holymoly

Nah.

The reactive armor is a poor second place design intended to "mimic" the Chobham armor on earlier tanks that can't apply the real stuff.

Look at the true tank-tank fights in Gulf War I & II to see the resutls: the chobham armor is the best out there.

But it isn't perfect against every weapon form evry angle. It can't be.

We've now lost TWO tankers since 1992 that got only two weapons through the armor - both to hand-held weapons at close range in city-type environments. That ain't bad.

The M1 wasn't intended for "police" patrols inside cities where somebody can basically walk up to the tank with a mine or RPG at 3 paces and fire!


58 posted on 06/07/2004 12:21:19 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly ... But Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS press corpse lies every day.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
The M1 wasn't intended for "police" patrols inside cities where somebody can basically walk up to the tank with a mine or RPG at 3 paces and fire!

Amen.

60 posted on 06/07/2004 12:42:05 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com - The next World War)
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