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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks sukhoi-30mki.
The missile's accuracy is 0.7 meters circular error probable, and at an attack angle of more than 30 deg. penetrates 800 mm (31 in.) of steel armor.
There's not enough armor in or on anything to match the amount of exposive available. An IED triggered by a cell phone, with a kid as lookout giving the signal, is cheaper than this tank-mounted missile, and will take out a tank. In tank-on-tank warfare, the fight is over quickly nowadays, based on capabilities. In the Gulf War -- which is the most recent large scale tank-on-tank warfare in the world, I believe -- it came down to US tanks' better night vision and ineffective and inappropriate tactics by the Iraqis.

The previous large-scale tank-on-tank warfare was probably the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and much of that was asymmetrical, with Egyptian tank-killer teams using nice cheap (and numerous) recoilless anti-tank missiles to attack and destroy Israeli tanks under cover of the SAM umbrella from west of the Canal. The tank-on-tank battles also took place in the Sinai, but the anti-tank infantry was more significant IMO. The Syrians used 1300 or so tanks to try to overwhelm Israel's skeleton force along the frontier, and couldn't quite close the deal against the IDF and IAF.


25 posted on 04/23/2011 4:48:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv
Talking about cheap AT warfare, here's a little something that was spread from Iran some time before the EFP's started killing people in Afghanistan. It is basically an EFP designed to be throwable. The instruction film (very detailed) was spread by Iran as early as 2005.

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28 posted on 04/23/2011 6:16:07 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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