Abrams Tank Attacked And Destroyed By Insurgents In Iraq

news wires | 11/04/2004 | Outspot

[OutSpot]

Can anyone tell me how the Iraqi insurgents are able to penetrate our invincible Abrams tank?

[OutSpot]

Dam!

[backhoe]

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[armyboy]

WTF! where did they get the weaponry to do this?

[CasearianDaoist]

Well four places I can think of are Russia, China, India, the EU and Israel.

[demlosers]

You cannot tell from those pics if the Abrams tank had its armor penetrated. What I see is a fire on the outer part of the tank. It could have been a Molotov cocktail.

[canalabamian]

"Well four places I can think of are Russia, China, India, the EU and Israel." I'm no math whiz, but isn't this a list of five?

[canalabamian]

Appears to that way to me, too.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It's in the fourth picture: The strategic XD-15 hyper assault bicycle.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Maybe they penetrated it with a thing called love... /sarcasm

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

It's combat. We will take losses. Equipment is no better nor smarter than it's operators, including the Field Commander (re: how he employs it).

Losses and deaths, though regretable and tragic, are acceptable. Losing the mission is not.

Bush and the JCS had better regroup and rethink the order of battle. We need to recognize that the enemy is Islam, and potentially, all Muslims. The U.S. had better understand the role of Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other countries where support flows from (either directly or indirectly sponsored by their governments), and take direct action to end support to the insurgents. If the battlefield needs to be expanded to win the war, it'd better be done now. If we need to be more ruthless, and engage in less "nation building" to guarantee victory and minimize the returning bodybags, then we need to change our tactics. If we need to double the number of troops in the field, and expand the standing military head counts, then Bush had better NOT be late doing so.

I can't think of anything that would cause me to support a lying, dishonorable, traitor like Kerry. But Bush will lose my support if we're not in this fight to win, if the U.S. will not take the bold steps necessary to win the war.

If we're not in this to win, and win with MINIMUM necessary losses, then better to bail out and let the Kerry Democrats have the country. As a military man, I'm losing my confidence in the Bush team. Election year politics cannot dictate military strategy.

SFS

[CasearianDaoist]

Soory, I added Israel at the end and forgot to update the rest of the sentence. I just got out of bed...give me a break.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

France.

[CasearianDaoist]

It looks like the just hit it with a cocktail. I do not see structural damage.

[konijn]

The attack by dozens of masked gunmen on a police station in a north-western Sunni Muslim area of Baghdad - the first of its kind in the capital - developed into a running gun battle with American soldiers. Elsewhere, a US tank was set on fire on a road west of Baghdad after, according to locals, it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a 10-year-old boy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1189821,00.html

[canalabamian]

No worries. Just some Friendly Ribbing (FR)! ; )

[CasearianDaoist]

As I said, The WU. But look at it. I think that someone just hit it with some gasoline. It does not seem structurally damaged. If they had blown the magazine or the engine housing it would look much different.

[Broadside Joe]

At one time (not any more they fixed it) they could get at the engine with RPG's.

[CasearianDaoist]

WU=EU. boy am I sleepy

[Eagle Eye]

Hint: It's not invincible.

[wretchard]

Hit, but recoverable. If there are no crew losses, we should remember the tank can be repaired.