Posted on 07/01/2006 8:10:41 PM PDT by familyop
The Israeli tanks have an additional little innovation that the Palis really don't like much.
The Israeli Merkavas bring along their own indirect fire support in the form of an internal 60mm mortar in the turret. Imagine, if you will, the look on the Palis' faces when they discover the anti-personnel cluster warheads that those things can launch *over* their barricades.
Good point and one that should be made by Israel.
They should publish the names of civilians who were killed by suicide bombs as collateral damage for the "crime" of going about their daily lives.
Since each word of what Israel says is being printed now, they should use this opportunity to remind the world of what using restraint has cost them in the past.
Don't bust too hard on cats around here. It could get you the zot.
I agree. But blowing the thread or blowing the tank is the same. One less tank in action. 100 kilo HE in an IED on the side of a road takes out the tank. Remember there is a human crew in the steel shell.
In Anti-Tank Warfare never forget the human element.
They're like killer bees. I say just gas'em.
Peace Brother FreePer. I was only the engineer on site.
I didn't hit the starter button.
(We used a steam cleaner to remove "Tabby" from the radiator and sourrounding envions.)
Odd that these are still called refugee camps after 58 years.
If the suicide bomber is really, really, really lucky, he might cause the tank to throw a track....
So the obvious question for the Pali Pancake Squad is this: Do you feel lucky?
Except that now, unlike in the Korean War, the tank has a lot more options. Disabling a modern MBT is unlikely to injure the crew, and MBTs don't ever operate alone any more. All that has to happen is that the area is secured and a tank recovery vehicle can retrieve it. Or it can be towed home by another tank - especially in urban warfare against a guerrila type enemy.
Some guerrila warfare experts recommend that the guerrilas NOT attempt to blow the tracks off a modern MBT, because then you just sited a hostile pillbox with some of the best armor known to man as well as some of the best armament in the world *right in your backyard*.
He's a Palistinian. By definition, they're not lucky as a whole.
What is that?
It would seem to me that this would be a situation that
cries out for airpower. CBU clusters, Napalm, gunships,
it's time to stop playing at war.
i'd say to snatch their women and children and strap them onto the outside of the Merks... but the GoatHumpers would prolly figure its killing like two birds with one stone.
A disabled MBT is just that. The idea in Antitank Warfare
is to take out a MBT. If it has to be towed by another MBT the miner has done a twofer!
Infantry is tied up securing the area even if a recovery vehicle is used, a further plus.
I totally understand team concept but a 100 kilo IED will take out a MBT. I bet those "experts" would not want to be in a steel pillbox sitting in the middle of urban warfare.
See Comment #37
This is not the way to think about them. Terrorists are human. They had the choice to be good people. THEY CHOSE EVIL. They are still human. I think it's wrong to call anyone not human. We don't need to dehumanize terrorists to capture and kill them. We do so because they brought us to war and they are our enemy and they must be stopped from their evil.
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