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To: brytlea
Tanks are really scary. I love my rifle, but faced with a tank column I think I'd run too. You have to give some credit to the Jihadi's (starting in Afghanistan in the 1980s against the Soviets and forward all the way to Iraq) for taking on tanks with small arms. They are the pre-eminant low tech tank and armored vehicle killers out there.

Before he died Jeff Cooper wrote that he had underestimated the importance of the RPG and that it was probably the third key squad level weapon, along with the rifle and machine gun.

39 posted on 08/11/2008 1:50:16 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

Tanks have very real weaknesses that can be exploited by trained infantrymen under certain circumstances.

Tanks that are buttoned-up are relying on their viewports. They can see a long way on open terrain, but might not see an infantryman standing next to them. That’s the key.

Catching tanks at river crossings, urban areas, wooded roads — that’s where you set up your defense. You can’t beat them on open ground with a lot of arty or air superiority.


70 posted on 08/11/2008 2:14:08 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: Jack Black
Tanks are really scary. I love my rifle, but faced with a tank column I think I'd run too............

Like a frickin rabbit...... the only way to screw with a tank column is with a radio. Otherwise just delay them with mines and rockets till you can get the heck out of their way....

I'd hate to even think about going against an Abrams tank.... cause it wouldn't last very long... for me.

Without air superiority, the Georgians are just targets.

145 posted on 08/11/2008 6:50:32 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Jack Black

“They are the pre-eminant low tech tank and armored vehicle killers out there.”

I disagree, the Ewoks from the forest moon of Endor were better.


159 posted on 08/11/2008 10:04:22 PM PDT by Dave Elias
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