Posted on 02/27/2016 2:37:22 PM PST by marvel5
Listening to those cretins sounding like chickens clucking “allahu akbar” makes me hope that the next frame is an SU-27 zapping them with a laser-guided missile.
Was “TLOTWG” really THAT hard to say?
yes
i would say mission accomplished. when the crew bails, you are out of the fight.
and who the heck is “akbar” and why are they always saying “hello” to the guy?
Because if it did penetrate, he would have ceased to exist.
Very, very few tankers have experience with a penetrating anti-tank missile. Death is not a learning experience.
Closed breach is normal = no smoke from muzzle.
HF
Send countries money and they send back bullets.
ATGM vs armor ping.
There are some good comments in the thread on this linked in post #9 of this thread.
Spalling. it hurts. it kills.
The BGM-71E has a tandem warhead designed to defeat reactive armor. The BGM-71F is a top attack warhead. I never fired the top attack version and we had the older MGS so unsure whether the missile just did the work itself or if there was something the gunner has to do. That was definitely a lazy tank crew though not being able to spot the TOW set up that close. Gotta hand it to that TOW gunner, it took some major huevos to guide that missile in.
No the German rounds smoked them. They were lightwejght. But they had numbers and diesel engines.
We can certainly trust the Russians while they make Obama look like a Nancy-boy.
Mission kill, not actual destruction - i.e., the tank is damaged, not destroyed, but is unable to continue to fight without repairs. Or at least the crewmember thought it was.
My guess is the electronics got knocked out from the concussion.
I didn’t think export T-90s came with a reactive armor pack.
Not when first encountered - the Panzer III and IV crews got a really ugly wakeup call in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa when NONE of their 50-75mm shells could reliably penetrate a T-34’s armor sloped frontal armor at anything but suicide range; the KV-1 was even more nightmarish as pretty much everything but *some* of the 88mm flakcannon rounds just bounced off without leaving a mark, sometimes even at suicide ranges.
One assault-gun armed KV-1 variant, called the KV-2, is particularly famous. The crew of one decided that enough was enough and stood their ground - alone against the German 6th Panzer Division. That lone tank and it’s unknown crew played Horatius at the bridge and fought off the *entire* 6th Panzer for an entire day - until they ran out of ammo for the 152mm main gun, until they ran out of machine gun ammo, until they ran out of fuel. At which point, the Germans were finally able to close to contact range of the tank, breach the armor with antitank charges and then finally throw grenades through the breached armor to kill the crew (who were still firing back with personal arms from within the tank).
This wasn’t Soviet propaganda. We literally do not know who those brave men in the tank were because the only records that survived the war were the reports from the *German* commander of the 6th Panzer Division explaining why he had been unable to advance as directed. Soviet propaganda never really figured it out until much later.
Brain fart.
Shock damage.
Despite the vehicle surviving, the shock is still enough to knock out equipment inside.
“Soft kill” basically.
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