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let the russians send the palis a couple dozen of these
Posted on 03/21/2008 3:47:49 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - After months of delay, Russia agreed to Israeli conditions regarding the delivery of armored vehicles to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces, Israeli officials said on Friday.
Israel agreed in November to allow the Palestinians to receive up to 50 lightly armored vehicles but a dispute emerged over a Palestinian demand that they have guns mounted on them.
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I actually have no problem with this idea.
First off, unless an armed force knows how to properly support and utilize armor, it is useless in warfare.
In fact, they would be nothing but targets and rolling coffins for those foolish enough to ride that Russian junk into smoking holes in the ground.
Now as crowd control they would be effective against lightly armed rioters and such.
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let the russians send the palis a couple dozen of these
Why does a 80’s Swedish music group need this type of armory?
Not a problem, just “spam in a can” for the Israeli air force.
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