RE: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

["jon s kowitz" <jonskowitz-at-hotmail.com>]

  From personal experience I can't really argue.  A main battle tank is a 
hideously short-sighted beast which is why we need infantry escort in 
built-up areas.  However, that isn't to say a lightweight IFV wouldn't be in 
its own in convoy escort missions (ever ridden in a "duce-and-a-half"?  you 
wanna talk engine noise!).  Just something heavy enough to withstand 
shrapnel and rifle fire and resistant to RPG-fire would likely be 
sufficient.  Heck, I'd feel better just with something with a little bit of 
cover for the gunner!  A HMMWV's gunner is horribly exposed to all manner of 
badness.  Pardon me, I seem to be babbling, my roomie left the TV on all 
night so I don't think I quite got a proper sleep in (LOL).  See you again 
when I'm a little more lucid :)

>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