[TaMoDee]

I agree. But blowing the thread or blowing the tank is the same. One less tank in action. 100 kilo HE in an IED on the side of a road takes out the tank. Remember there is a human crew in the steel shell.
In Anti-Tank Warfare never forget the human element.

[Spktyr]

Except that now, unlike in the Korean War, the tank has a lot more options. Disabling a modern MBT is unlikely to injure the crew, and MBTs don't ever operate alone any more. All that has to happen is that the area is secured and a tank recovery vehicle can retrieve it. Or it can be towed home by another tank - especially in urban warfare against a guerrila type enemy.

Some guerrila warfare experts recommend that the guerrilas NOT attempt to blow the tracks off a modern MBT, because then you just sited a hostile pillbox with some of the best armor known to man as well as some of the best armament in the world *right in your backyard*.

[familyop]

"100 kilo HE in an IED on the side of a road takes out the tank."

Even as an IED (rather than a "human mine," as mentioned in the posted piece), over 200 lbs. of compact demo would be expensive in more ways than one for the generic Arabs in Israel. And the trash that they make would be huge at that kind of weight.

They could avoid another defeat and more easily find a home with their friends, allies and neighbors in western Europe.