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mmmm, no the Air Force, Navy, and Army Aviation was doing the blowing up/friendly fire (truly odd expression), I will see if I can get the info and link about the M-1 that got stuck in a wadi, the units had to move on and higher-higher ordered them to blow it inplace. They fired three times.
M-1s are designed with blowout panels, so if/when the ammo in the turret gets hit it blows out away from the crew, then the shape of the inside is supposed to deflect rounds back out. It oddly enough work as advertised on TV....
I will also see if I can find the link on the fit people through about the sellnig of M-1s to Egypt, most of the bells and whistles were there, not much of the computer and fire control systems, but that doesn't matter when a Merkava gets one in its sights, hits, and nothing much happens.....
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quote:Don't let any Marines hear you say that Snayer.
Well, when they start beating me up, I tell them they heard me wrong and I said the Navy was part of the Department of the Marine Corps. Then they giggle, slap me on the back, buy me a beer, and break my nose.
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Incidently, the president of Venezuela has just recently been deposed by a military coup.
Even more incidently, Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" for "Venezuela" sends you to a Venezuelan site selling X-Boxes. (Among other things, presumably.)
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Well, regardless of what they may like to think, the Marine Corps is a division of the Navy. Just like the early incarnation of the the Air Force was a division of the Army.
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Yom Kippur Started Oct 6, 1973 21 Oct, 1973 Israeli forces surrounded the Egyptian forces, on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal 25 Oct, 1973 U.S. pressures Israel in to accepting cease fire, this happens when the U.S.S.R. threatens to intervene....
Too long.....
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Well, you really shouldn't put complete faith in the Abram like that, Ritten. It's a good tank, no doubt about it, but there are many tanks just as good out there, better in some areas. It's just that because they weren't American and blazing trails through Iraq, they didn't receive as much public attention.
I already know about the M1 that got stuck in the wadi, it was mentioned in Tom Clancy's Armor Cav.
Blow-out panels are like an industry standard in modern tanks, anyways. So are computerized fire controls, composite armor, and DU/tungsten penetrators. There are tanks that are much more innovative than the Abram in service.
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Yeah, this is true.... It just has a special place in my heart..... They had to use one as an ambulance for me when I was in the Army, Medivacs couldn't get in through the trees.....
So I am, highly, biased towards it.....
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