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Re your #133:

Very interesting post - thanks!

It's kind of a shame so many Iraqi tanks etc. got blown up, when we might be using a few of them to protect our troops over there.

Why can't the main gun of one of those Soviet-type tanks be replaced with a 7.62mm Mini-Gun for Convoy support missions?

Do they generate sufficient electrical current to run one?

And if wer'e going to be getting all these vehicles blowed up so frequently, at least it seems economical to use captured enemy vehicles to absorb the abuse rather than the ones us Taxpayers have to pay for.

When we turn the Country back over to the Iraqi authorities, they can have their toys back modified compliments of the good ol' USA, rather than having US foot the bill for brand new equipment.

Of course there is too much money to be made by politicians, beauraucrats and contractors alike to allow anything that makes too much sense to happen, isn't there?

BTW; In Nam, we were told once, they used to pack hot asphalt between the door panels and under the plywood floor boards of their vehicles, and apparently it didn't weigh much more than equivalent steel armor but was quite effective. I wonder if someone over there could test this theory on some junked vehicles just for hoots & hollers.