Posted on 10/30/2014 10:14:50 AM PDT by Abakumov
In this footage from last spring, a Free Syrian Army rebel throws a grenade down the barrel of a regime T-72 tank — not once but twice. Why didn’t the tank move after the first attack? Was the crew knocked out? Was the tank even manned? Seems like it was abandoned. But then why blow it up instead of capturing it? Maybe the guy who comes on camera at the end is complaining that they should have just taken the tank. In any case the second grenade gets the job done for real.
And imagine if U.S. troops stood around shouting “God is great!” over and over and over after whacking the enemy. Sheesh, just do a round of fist bumps and move on, there’s a lot more fighting ahead.
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A must see for later.
Was the tank unmanned and the breech open ?
How could a grenade get all the way down and into the tank ?
Amazing! They performed the DARRYL DIXON TOSS. =]
Well, exactly. It doesn’t make sense. If it was abandoned, why not take it? If it was manned, wtf? Did first grenade somehow blow open breech? Or did they do it manually? Many questions that Allah Akbar does not answer.
Suspect first explosion enabled the second to impode the cabin. Big headache.
I can hot wire a Chevy but I wouldn't know where to start on a tank.......
Seems staged . . . like so much middle eastern reporting. What’s Daniel Day Lewis saying at the end?
I think the dude at the end is saying “Hey I wanted that!”
No need to hotwire an armored vehicle. Locks are only on the hatch(es). If low batteries, plug up a slave cable from another tank. Shift in park/neutral, fuel on, thumb the starter, & hundreds of eager horsepower should await your command.
After you have neutralized the crew, of course.
;^)
15 yard penalty for Excessive Celebration
They should act like they’ve been in the end zone before. Or the Allah zone or whatever they have.
I think they just leave the keys in the sun visor. No need to Hotwire.
Look at the way the tank rocked after the first grenade.
There was a live round in the barrel.
The round was fired with the grenade in the barrel or the round was touched off by the grenade.
You should watch "the Chieftain" review some tanks. Most have a master power switch, then a starter button, usually both accessible to the driver, since he's the guy who gets in first and warms the beast up.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/21/
not sure but doing that probably voids the mfg warranty on the main gun barrel.
Damn, everybody in the world knows that except me.........thanks for the tip!
LOL!
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