Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[Andrew Crystall]

On 13 Aug 2001, at 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I guess what I based my asumptions on was reports of Iraqi Tank
> squadrons having been thouroughly shell shocked by the air war, and
> tanks that, while they hadn't been destroyed, had been rendered
> inacsessable by being burried in their hiding places.
> 
> Certianly the destruction of Iraqi infrastructure and complete air
> superiority facilitated the rapid progress of the brief ground war. 
> Would you have an idea on what the casualties were in the
> abovementioned tank battle?

Well, the Iraqi tanks had very limited supplys of modern amunition, 
many of them were using solid steel SLUGS! A modern Western 
MBT can take a hit from one of those at point blank range and not 
even have it's armour penetrated....

Andy
Dawn Falcon