“They look like deathtraps and from what I have gathered were.”
Tankski go boom!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdRnY-TUb4
I was talking to one TC during my summer vacation to Ft. Stewart that had been there and opposition armor was being engaged way beyond what their (Iraqi) guns could do and watching shells hit the sand. Then Abrams tanks would sit there, acquire and fire with hatches open and there would go turret and all up in the air when the 120mm connected.