To: familyop
Has a suicide bomber ever stopped a tank?
4 posted on
07/01/2006 8:19:12 PM PDT by
RedRover
To: RedRover
No. It takes a shaped charge to burn through the armor. Usually the kamakazi just messes up the paint job, leaves a red film on the finish to hose off later.
5 posted on
07/01/2006 8:21:07 PM PDT by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: RedRover
OH YES! During the start of Korean War Counter-Offensive
the North Koreans used soldiers who place Anti-Tank Mines
on their chests and ran from structures along the roads
into the sides of our tanks. It worked!
The original suicide bomber. The Hamas will start to use
IED within the next couple of days. IED are their only defense against tanks.
8 posted on
07/01/2006 8:33:19 PM PDT by
TaMoDee
To: RedRover
If the suicide bomber is really, really, really lucky, he might cause the tank to throw a track, which would temporarily stop it. However, modern tanks (including the Israeli tanks) have protective covers over the more vulnerable parts of the drive system:
An Israeli Merkava 
17 posted on
07/01/2006 8:49:37 PM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: RedRover
Has a suicide bomber ever stopped a tank?Dunno but there's a picture floating around of where a suicide bomber tried to take out a Bradley and left a stain on the Bradley
41 posted on
07/01/2006 10:04:30 PM PDT by
fso301
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