To: Destro
The Hummer was never meant to be armored. It was a replacement for the Jeep. And a mighty fine one at that.
7 posted on
04/28/2004 10:34:46 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
The Hummer was never meant to be armored. It was a replacement for the Jeep. And a mighty fine one at that. Amen. The guy who wrote this article didn't know this? Sheesh!
16 posted on
04/28/2004 10:42:44 AM PDT by
SkyPilot
To: Blood of Tyrants
The Hummer was never meant to be armored. It was a replacement for the Jeep. And a mighty fine one at that. Amen. The guy who wrote this article didn't know this? Sheesh!
17 posted on
04/28/2004 10:42:45 AM PDT by
SkyPilot
To: Blood of Tyrants
Agreed. It was never meant to be an armored car equivalent or an APC equivalent. Of course, the Vietnam era ubiquitous M-113 (and variants) was replaced as an APC by the tank-wannabe Bradley, leaving us without a mass quantity, reasonably armored APC for this sort of warfare. But, as someone else pointed out, the M-113 was designed (with aluminum armor) to stop rifle and light machine gun rounds (i.e. up to .30 cal or 7.62mm NATO AP rounds) not RPG, LAW, or heavy machine gun (.50 cal or 12.7mm) rounds. To stop RPG rounds, you need a Bradley or at least an M60A1 MBT.
28 posted on
04/28/2004 10:57:24 AM PDT by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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