RE: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

Countless army studies have shown that troops in armor
have dulled sense of what is going on around them,
(hard to hear over the engine, hard to see through
armor) and limited reaction when attacked. 

Rick 

--- jon s kowitz <jonskowitz-at-hotmail.com> wrote:
>   (What kind of armor enthusiest are you anyway??? 
> LOL)
> 
>   I agree that the best way to get killed is to do
> nothing, but at least an 
> armored vehicle will survive a simple roadside bomb,
> something a HMMWV will 
> never do.  Besides, making that statement to a
> soldier who was wondering why 
> we aren't being supplied with actual armored
> vehicles so we can survive that 
> initial contact was stupid and had to be the single
> most demoralizing 
> comment I've ever heard any leader make... and I was
> in the 24th ID (LOL).
> 
>   Besides, even using a vehicle such as an M114
> would be better than using a 
> Hummer for the purpose they've been using them.  Any
> dope with a rifle is a 
> threat to a soft-skinned vehicle while it takes
> slightly rarer weapons to 
> threaten an armored scout.
> 
> >Sitting around in armored boxes is the easiest way
> to
> >get killed. It gives the enemy something to shoot
> at
> >and you are tied down to a single point rather then
> >being flexible.
> >
> >Rumsfield was stating that like Clausewitz has
> stated
> >everything changes on the moment of first contact.
> You
> >can not predict everything that was\is going to
> >happen. Only hope that you have a better ability to
> >adjust then the other guy.
> 
> 
> 


                
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