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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on November 16, 2011, 09:37:52 PM
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Geez............
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEUfJt-xhM[/youtube]
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That's gonna leave a nasty scar.
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Mannnnnnn, all the fun military stuff got invented after I'm too old to play with it...
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I've seen that clip with all sorts of BS attached to it, like claiming it was the Israelis lighting up a Syrian tank in a day-to-day unchronicled combat along their border (Yeah, that really looks like the Golan, doesn't it? :whatever: ).
I don't believe it's phosphorus at all, it appears to be a promotional shot of something like the Bofors Bill top-attack shaped charge missile (A HEAT warhead) striking a fully combat-loaded radio-controlled target vehicle. The fireworks aren't WP (which bursts in a huge star and then round cloud of smoke and burny bits immediately on impact), they are the propellant of the tank's basic load cooking off.
FWIW a tank doesn't need to get any closer than the far tree line, let alone the near tree line, to find and **** up a static position, and the Abrams doesn't carry its ammo in the same place as the obsolescent runner they used for this, it's kept behind a blast door in the rear of the turret, so even if the main gun ammo is hit, the crew isn't.
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I've seen that clip with all sorts of BS attached to it, like claiming it was the Israelis lighting up a Syrian tank in a day-to-day unchronicled combat along their border (Yeah, that really looks like the Golan, doesn't it? :whatever: ).
I don't believe it's phosphorus at all, it appears to be a promotional shot of something like the Bofors Bill top-attack shaped charge missile (A HEAT warhead) striking a fully combat-loaded radio-controlled target vehicle. The fireworks aren't WP (which bursts in a huge star and then round cloud of smoke and burny bits immediately on impact), they are the propellant of the tank's basic load cooking off.
FWIW a tank doesn't need to get any closer than the far tree line, let alone the near tree line, to find and **** up a static position, and the Abrams doesn't carry its ammo in the same place as the obsolescent runner they used for this, it's kept behind a blast door in the rear of the turret, so even if the main gun ammo is hit, the crew isn't.
oh what would you know, you dumbass tanker. :-)