Smoke looks photoshopped. ;)
TOW missiles are nasty things.
Hezzies do have advanced anti-tank weapons. Seems to be the weapon of choice even on Israeli infantry.
Doesn't the burning tank look more like an M-1?
Looks like the front track got hit by one of the more modern ATGMs that Hezbollah got from France or Russia via Iran/Syria.
The rear track looks like it might have popped smoke (started to generate a smoke screen). Neither one looks to have been equipped with the Israeli anti-tank-missile-defense system.
An Israeli soldier, wearing an United States bandana, has camouflage make up applied to his face as troops gather along the Lebanon border preparing to enter southern Lebanon in northern Israel Thursday Aug. 10, 2006. Israel has put plans for a new ground offensive in Lebanon on hold to give a chance to cease-fire efforts, senior government officials said Thursday, a day after Israel's Security Cabinet approved a major expansion of the monthlong war. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder
And while the first tank is certainaly in flames, the second tank looks like it might be making smoke to mask its position.
why is Israel doing this?.....they should take a little territory to make a sufficient buffer for their own country.....Lebanese could still live there and probably would be HAPPY to live under sane conditions....
These are pictures of the first two. Rueters is working on pictures of the rest. Ignore any similarities between these two and the other ten.
FYI!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJLHX7gxxg&NR
I apologize ahead of time if this link is broken.
A dozen Israeli tanks destroyed by Russian weapons funnelled through Iran and Syria and operated by Russian and/or Iranian trained personnel.
Smart Syrians no longer live there. It's sort of like how smart truck drivers here are doing something else to make a living, and hopefully buying stock in railroads.
More fauxtos?
The iraq war proved that when muslims are claiming numbers of enemy killed or hardware destroyed, reduce the number by atleast 90% to get the true number.
That looks like 2 tanks, not a dozen. And the flames and smoke look Photoshopped.
30 Tanks Wiped Out in Lebanon
12:01 Aug 11, '06 / 17 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) IDF officials admit that the biggest surprise of the ongoing war against Hizbullah is the ease by which terrorists have destroyed IDF tanks.
At least 30 tanks have been totally destroyed or seriously damaged in bomb and anti-tank rocket attacks involving state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets.
About one-half of the military personnel killed in southern Lebanon were inside tanks.