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To: ItisaReligionofPeace

"What better way to test new weapons?"

Point taken.

But all the intel we had going in said that the Koronet's weren't ANYWHERE in the reigon. Until then we were working under the assumption that the Iraqi's didn't have anything that could knock out an M-1.

The first we knew of them being in country was when a tank from 3/7 Cav. got nailed with one.


237 posted on 10/27/2004 7:46:27 PM PDT by txradioguy (HOOAH!!!...Not Just A Word...A Way Of Life!)
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To: txradioguy
Hold on now. It's my understanding after talking to a treadhead on one of the old Stryker threads that the KORNET was never in theater. Analysis of the two Abrams kills led away from the conclusion that they got tagged by the Russian weapon.

IIRC, both Abrams got hit in the ass. The Abrams is to armor today what the PzKW VI Ausf. A Tiger I was to armor in 1943: the baddest damn thing on the battlefield. However, like the Tiger, you could disable an Abrams by a good hit in the ass. Unlike the Germans, we were able to come up with workarounds to the threat of the "Kornet" within days of the first tank being hit.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

376 posted on 10/27/2004 8:03:48 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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