RE: re-draft the prototype rule ?

[William and Melissa Johns <gizmology-at-gizmology.net>]

Yea, what Steve said.  The spokes were heavily redundant, so a shell would 
pass right through them, leaving only a few broken spokes and lots of 
unbroken spokes to support the load.  The same principle as the "cage 
masts" used on US battleships before WW II.

Either that or the idea was to laugh the enemy to death.  :)

B.



At 03:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>All I can say is wow. That Russian tank is the dumbest looking thing.
>One good hit to one of those wheels and it would have been a goner.
>
>Nick
>Kingston, WA
>Home of the original TLAR Swampcat





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