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To: Red Badger
Have you seen the WW2 version, a tank with a drum of flailing chains on the front. If a mine exploded it would do no harm as it would be out in front of the tank where the armor is thickest.

Fearsome beast!

3 posted on 07/26/2011 11:53:53 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: count-your-change

Google “hobart’s funnies” for the “flail tank” mine sweeper and other clever ideas they used in WWII.


23 posted on 07/26/2011 1:34:10 PM PDT by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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To: count-your-change

Google “hobart’s funnies” for the “flail tank” mine sweeper and other clever ideas they used in WWII.


24 posted on 07/26/2011 1:34:20 PM PDT by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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