Posted on 10/21/2005 7:56:29 AM PDT by robowombat
" North Korea's main battle tanks - T-62s - have 155 mm guns and can travel as fast as 60 km per hour. The US main tanks - M1A - have 120 mm guns and cannot travel faster than 55 km per hour. North Korean tanks have skins 700 mm thick and TOW-II is the only anti-tank missile in the US arsenal that can penetrate this armored skin..."
Yeah Yeah...my guns bigger than your gun. It is shot placement that counts!
Ya know, that is EXACTLY what went through my mind when I read this.....
This takes you to the home page of the kook page this is on then put the title in the search window:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
I recognize that the original meaning of decimate was to reduce by 1/10, a punishment applied to mutinous legions in the Roman Army. However, most usage experts have long accepted a broader meaning of decimate: to destroy or kill a large part of a population or group. I do not like it's usage when referring to things other than populations of people or animals.
Usage beyond the original meaning dates back for at least 300 years.
Sometimes I feel older than 300.
Well, if you are 300, you've got a right to gripe about 'decimate', having witnessed it's decline first hand.
I believe all of the half-dozen or so KH-11s that were actually orbited in the 1970-80 period are now "hovering" at the bottom of the Pacific, replaced by much better stuff.
See post 13 for the original.
This is the second time today that I've gotten beaten to the punch.
I had missed that wild statement. That's quite a traffic jam of satellites.
Does anyone else find this to be a "strange" statement??
I lived a few miles south on the coast at the time. The joke was the NK used these as 'finals' for their special forces. If you made it back alive you graduated. If you didn't, you failed the class.
even the best spy gadget in the US arsenal cannot read what's on Kim Jong Il's mind.
Where do they think he gets his thoughts FROM?
Blitz Klieg!
Blitz Klieg!
Blitz Klieg!
The sad part is these idiots believe this crap and it's going to get a lot of people killed.
A little more on the sbject of tanks....
The North Koreans said " American and Western tank commanders do not know how to fight tank battles in rugged terrains like those of Korea. Tank battles in Korea will be fought on hilly terrains..."
Short term memory on the part of the North Koreans. The US and NATO trained for WW3 to be fought in Europe which has rugged hilly terrain. Hills can be used by US tanks too. US tankers would have a field day popping more of the very same T-62 and T-72 tanks that were in the Iraqi arsenal.
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