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FAIL: Watch a US TOW Missile Fail to Penetrate a Russian T-90 (Video)
Russia Insider ^ | February 27, 2016 | RT

Posted on 02/27/2016 2:37:22 PM PST by marvel5

A video published online by a Syrian rebel group shows what appears to be a direct hit by a US-made BGM-71 TOW on the turret of a Russia-supplied T-90 tank of the Syrian Army.

The video is one of a multitude of instances of the use of TOW missiles by rebels in Syria, but it may be the first time the anti-tank weapon was used against the advanced T-90 main battle tank.

The clip shows the optically-guided missile approaching the partially-covered tank, followed by a bright explosion and a cloud of smoke. Moments later one of the tank crew members is seeing escaping the turret hatch and diving for cover.

(Excerpt) Read more at russia-insider.com ...


TOPICS: Russia; Syria
KEYWORDS: agitprop; astroturf; bgm71tow; bhomiddleeast; bhorussia; gwot; paidrussiantrolls; putinsbuttboys; russia; russiainsider; russianstooge; russianstooges; syria; t90; vladtheimploder
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To: marvel5

Listening to those cretins sounding like chickens clucking “allahu akbar” makes me hope that the next frame is an SU-27 zapping them with a laser-guided missile.


41 posted on 02/27/2016 3:47:12 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Repeal The 17th

Was “TLOTWG” really THAT hard to say?


42 posted on 02/27/2016 3:47:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

yes


43 posted on 02/27/2016 3:56:07 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: marvel5

i would say mission accomplished. when the crew bails, you are out of the fight.

and who the heck is “akbar” and why are they always saying “hello” to the guy?


44 posted on 02/27/2016 4:00:57 PM PST by beebuster2000
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To: Kozak

Because if it did penetrate, he would have ceased to exist.


45 posted on 02/27/2016 4:20:02 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: PIF

Very, very few tankers have experience with a penetrating anti-tank missile. Death is not a learning experience.

Closed breach is normal = no smoke from muzzle.


46 posted on 02/27/2016 4:31:49 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: rineaux
Ah, a paltry "several hundred million" there!
Ponder once again the $150B-b-b-billion to "our friends" in Iran that want "Death to America".

HF

47 posted on 02/27/2016 5:52:06 PM PST by holden
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To: holden
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” Henry Kissinger.

Send countries money and they send back bullets.

48 posted on 02/27/2016 5:54:46 PM PST by rineaux ( Trump Tuesday GEAUX TRUMP)
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To: Vetvoice; af_vet_rr; ALOHA RONNIE; American in Israel; American Soldier; archy; armymarinemom; ...

ATGM vs armor ping.


49 posted on 02/27/2016 6:32:49 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

There are some good comments in the thread on this linked in post #9 of this thread.


50 posted on 02/27/2016 6:53:02 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Kozak

Spalling. it hurts. it kills.


51 posted on 02/27/2016 7:04:29 PM PST by Theophilus (Ignore Powerball Trump, Acknowledge Almighty God)
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To: McGruff
A T-90 fends off missle attack.
52 posted on 02/27/2016 7:05:08 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Blueflag

The BGM-71E has a tandem warhead designed to defeat reactive armor. The BGM-71F is a top attack warhead. I never fired the top attack version and we had the older MGS so unsure whether the missile just did the work itself or if there was something the gunner has to do. That was definitely a lazy tank crew though not being able to spot the TOW set up that close. Gotta hand it to that TOW gunner, it took some major huevos to guide that missile in.


53 posted on 02/27/2016 7:05:29 PM PST by Tailback
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To: goldstategop

No the German rounds smoked them. They were lightwejght. But they had numbers and diesel engines.


54 posted on 02/27/2016 7:08:20 PM PST by Theophilus (Ignore Powerball Trump, Acknowledge Almighty God)
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To: marvel5

We can certainly trust the Russians while they make Obama look like a Nancy-boy.


55 posted on 02/27/2016 7:10:27 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kozak

Mission kill, not actual destruction - i.e., the tank is damaged, not destroyed, but is unable to continue to fight without repairs. Or at least the crewmember thought it was.

My guess is the electronics got knocked out from the concussion.


56 posted on 02/27/2016 7:33:56 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Yo-Yo

I didn’t think export T-90s came with a reactive armor pack.


57 posted on 02/27/2016 7:36:44 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Theophilus

Not when first encountered - the Panzer III and IV crews got a really ugly wakeup call in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa when NONE of their 50-75mm shells could reliably penetrate a T-34’s armor sloped frontal armor at anything but suicide range; the KV-1 was even more nightmarish as pretty much everything but *some* of the 88mm flakcannon rounds just bounced off without leaving a mark, sometimes even at suicide ranges.

One assault-gun armed KV-1 variant, called the KV-2, is particularly famous. The crew of one decided that enough was enough and stood their ground - alone against the German 6th Panzer Division. That lone tank and it’s unknown crew played Horatius at the bridge and fought off the *entire* 6th Panzer for an entire day - until they ran out of ammo for the 152mm main gun, until they ran out of machine gun ammo, until they ran out of fuel. At which point, the Germans were finally able to close to contact range of the tank, breach the armor with antitank charges and then finally throw grenades through the breached armor to kill the crew (who were still firing back with personal arms from within the tank).

This wasn’t Soviet propaganda. We literally do not know who those brave men in the tank were because the only records that survived the war were the reports from the *German* commander of the 6th Panzer Division explaining why he had been unable to advance as directed. Soviet propaganda never really figured it out until much later.


58 posted on 02/27/2016 7:55:50 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: marvel5

Brain fart.


59 posted on 02/27/2016 8:58:43 PM PST by baltimorepoet
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To: ThunderSleeps; Kozak

Shock damage.
Despite the vehicle surviving, the shock is still enough to knock out equipment inside.
“Soft kill” basically.


60 posted on 02/28/2016 3:47:39 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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