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Syrian tanks getting hammered

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1 posted on 07/14/2012 11:51:50 AM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

Pretty hairy experience. Looks like it glanced off, then exploded.


2 posted on 07/14/2012 11:57:39 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: moonshot925

So was the first one knocked out? Seemed to be.


3 posted on 07/14/2012 12:00:07 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: moonshot925

He kept going, but it looked like the guy on the tank had his head fall off.


4 posted on 07/14/2012 12:03:02 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: moonshot925
Now would be a good time to sell tank munitions and napalm to the Assad regime; IED materials, stingers, and RPGs to the muj.

Good times all around.

5 posted on 07/14/2012 12:07:21 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
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To: moonshot925

Hear that turd insurgent narrarating the vid,, when it hits he starts with that Allu Akbar crap. This is the side everyone is pushing us to join in with.
When they win, they’ll be the standard issue America hating, Israel hating, terror supporting moslems.

We have no business there.


6 posted on 07/14/2012 12:11:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: moonshot925

Does Syria use surplus Russian armor?


12 posted on 07/14/2012 1:21:06 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: moonshot925

boom


15 posted on 07/14/2012 1:27:09 PM PDT by dewawi
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To: moonshot925

That tank made his saving throw versus RPG...


16 posted on 07/14/2012 2:36:29 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: moonshot925

Them little fellers get just downright excited and all!

Just a hootin `n hollerin.

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17 posted on 07/14/2012 2:47:58 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: moonshot925

A typical RPG is fairly dinky, and it hit on the turret, one of the most heavily armored parts of the tank. 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.


20 posted on 07/14/2012 3:34:21 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: moonshot925

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.


26 posted on 07/16/2012 6:11:40 AM PDT by cunning_fish (.)
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