[OutSpot]

Dam!

[templar]

Can anyone tell me how the Iraqi insurgents are able to penetrate our invincible Abrams tank?

Nothing is invincible. If the weapons (supplied by our good friends China or Russia, maybe) aren't available, ingenuity will (eventually) suffice. There is an old saying that where there is a will there is a way.

[dila813]

If you read the press reports before the war, there were shipments of thousands of shoulder fired missiles smuggled into Iraq from Syria before the war.

These Missiles were made in Russia with love.

[Jeff Head]

Can anyone tell me how the Iraqi insurgents are able to penetrate our invincible Abrams tank?

Yes. They are not invincible.

[MEG33]

#14.."10 year old" info

[Atlantic Friend]

There's no invincible tank as there were no unsinkable battleships in WW2. The United States, Russia, France, Germany, China and maybe other weapons producers field antitank missiles that can knock off any known tank.

Plus, tanks in a urban environment are very vulnerable because the urban compounds give enemy missile crews great cover to attack, be it with RPGS, Molotov cocktails or state-of-the-art antitank missiles. Think of Stalingrad, 1943 ; Paris, 1944 ; Berlin, 1945. That's why, as another Freeper pointed out, tanks are not supposed to go alone in the streets : they need an escort of infantrymen to scout the place.