To: TeleStraightShooter
Yeeouch! Serious piece of hardware there. A lucky (or skilled) shot will take out an Abrams.
(FYI the Abrams is optimized for mobility and not armor protection.) Maybe the Israelis will sell us some Merkavas for this operation.
Say- can we send in some SEAL teams disguised as AP/Reuters/Al Jazeera cameramen? They seem to find the terrorists with no trouble at all.
711 posted on
11/08/2004 1:27:13 PM PST by
Ostlandr
(Nationalist, small-r republican, fiscal conservative, social liberal, pagan. NOT a Bush partisan!)
To: Ostlandr
"can we send in some SEAL teams disguised as AP/Reuters/Al Jazeera cameramen? They seem to find the terrorists with no trouble at all."
........or have Col. West do some persuasive interrogation work on these boys.
714 posted on
11/08/2004 1:31:51 PM PST by
Gucho
To: Ostlandr
I digress.
That piece of hardware is a POS when compared to modern weapons.
The only thing that has defeated the M1 Abrams (which is the best in the world) is the Russian Kornet HEAT missile designed specifically for that propose.
IIRC we only lost two M1 Abrams in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
720 posted on
11/08/2004 1:40:01 PM PST by
TeleStraightShooter
(Lurch planned to graft postVietnam policy on Iraq: Surrender and let the Syrian Baathists take over)
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