30 Tanks Wiped Out in Lebanon

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS ^ | Aug 11, '06 | not attributed

[APRPEH]

(IsraelNN.com) IDF officials admit that the biggest surprise of the ongoing war against Hizbullah is the ease by which terrorists have destroyed IDF tanks.

At least 30 tanks have been totally destroyed or seriously damaged in bomb and anti-tank rocket attacks involving state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets.

About one-half of the military personnel killed in southern Lebanon were inside tanks.

[APRPEH]

Merkava info

[mrs tiggywinkle]

read later

[OKSooner]

Looks like a Stryker on tracks. Or, should we say a 21st-century Sherman?

[Types_with_Fist]

And we're going to support some POS UN resolution that will likely leave Hezbollah intact, while Israel does the same. Some "war on terror."

[goldstategop]

The IDF keeps being surprised. There needs to be a shakeup both among the civilian and military leadership of Israel. The way they have performed is a disgrace.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[driftdiver]

What are the implications for us and our tanks? Is Iran testing out weapons they plan to use against us in Iraq?

[Lazamataz]

Might be time to lend-lease them some M1A2's.

Of course, even the M1A2's are getting a little dated.

[Eurotwit]

anti-tank rocket attacks involving state-of-the-art Russian anti-tank rockets

How does this work? The Russians sell them to Syria, who hands them over to Hezbollah?

Anyhow...Darned Russians!

[in hoc signo vinces]

It's built on an old M-60 chasis...Israel refined the turret and fire control system, some have added armor...though a good tank, it's out of date by our standards...

We should give the Israelies some M-1A2s.

[Rummyfan]

There needs to be a shakeup both among the civilian and military leadership of Israel.

Agreed. I think this war with Hezbollah is the end of the Olmert government. New military leaders will also emerge from it.

[APRPEH]

weren't there similar stories coming out of Iraq?

[aimhigh]

I'm convinced there is only one correct way to fight Islamic terrorism. Use air power to take them back to the stone age. No treaty, no rebuilding. Every time they bark, bomb them hard.

[diamond6]

Not good.




God bless Israel!!!!

[HamiltonJay]

Assume it doesn't have reactive armor?

[APRPEH]

MSM story on M1 in Iraq with usual slant

[taxed2death]

"Anyhow...Darned Russians!"

Hey, play nice now. Everyone has to make a profit here.

[Types_with_Fist]

No treaty, no rebuilding. Every time they bark, bomb them hard

This is the only thing they understand and respond positively to.

[Alouette]

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[Mariner]

As always, tanks are good only when massed.

A few here and a few there will get a lot of them killed.

[magua]

Olmert must go.