Moving Syrian tank gets hit by an RPG

Youtube ^ | 13 July 2012

[TXnMA]

"There is a surfeit of much better antitank weaponry out there, which is why tanks are on the downside until somebody can invent a better way to protect them."

Yep, this hit by a new Israeli missile on a Syrian tank coming across a field is pretty spectacular

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCXKTTOpJQ4

as all the internal ammo stores burn without exploding...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks moonshot925.

[dfwgator]

He kept going, but it looked like the guy on the tank had his head fall off. Ooh! That could be series. And fatal.

That's no way to get ahead in life.

[PapaBear3625]

I hear reports of Syrian chemical munitions being moved to the area around Hom.They have Sarin,I wonder if they’re crazy enough to use it.

Why would they be crazy to use it? Look at the example of other Arab leaders who fell to the Arab Spring. Colonel Gaddafi: dead; Mubarik: imprisoned and near death. Assad knows that if he loses, he and his family will die. He might as well go down taking as many of his enemies with him as he can.

Assad is free to do as he will, because he knows the consequences of winning with chemical weapons are no worse than the consequences of losing. If he can credibly threaten chemical attacks in the capitals of those who threaten him, he might even be better off. MAD worked between the US and USSR for decades.

[cunning_fish]

Tankers are stupid in this video. First one was IEDed for a reason he drove into a place which was most likely mined. They has tracks exactly for avoiding intersections like that. As for a second one it must be some advanced ATGM, you won’t knock a tank with a single RPG hit. Also they are inside these tanks for mobility and it doesn’t look like they are using it being static targets most of the time.

[Revenge of Sith]

Yep, fewer American servicemen were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.