[dljordan]

” Unfortunately, the terrorists already have it: one of the more effective IEDs we faced in Iraq and are facing in Afghanistan is exactly this type of warhead, fired laterally from a roadside.”

I recently watched a video from Syria (I think) where they were using anti-armor grenades. They seemed to work pretty well but you had to be within throwing distance from an armored vehicle which I don’t believe is very healthy in the long run.

[Chainmail]

Those old things work but you have to be nuts to use them. We used to have the M10 hand-thrown antiarmor grenade in the late '30s but nobody was strong enough to heave the thing any useful distance. A reserve colonel put a rocket motor on the thing and the bazooka was born. Unfortunately, the first pallet of the things for our Soviet "allies" landed in German hands, so we had to face the same kind (but more powerful) type of weapon in German hands.

The standoff antiarmor weapons the Iranians are furnishing are much more effective than anything we have faced before. The press hasn't bothered discussing it and the majority of the American people - except those with family members in the armed forces - aren't interested. The islamic enemy has learned how to kill our troops without risking anything themselves. Until we take the war to the puppet masters we will continue lose our young people to these things.