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Whew! Lotsa captions to wade through.

By The Armorer on January 22, 2005 | | Comments (5)

And some lurkers turned into commenters. Kewl. Down side to the success... I hafta wade through it all and see which one I like best. I might try an online poll for that one.

Here's a reward for weekend visitors, as my posting habits will probably push it off the page before the new week gets cranked up: some more combat video. This is work-safe except in anti-war offices. No goriness, this is nice technical destruction.

Reason #4594 and 4595 why you need to really pay attention to your maintenance, and not sleep during those camouflage and concealment classes.

Guys (and gals) like Dusty and Bill the Rotorhead. (Right click and "save as" the link)

Really. If you cammo'd up, they, being aviators, woulda gone for something easier - Dusty especially, with the speeds and altitudes his ROE put him at. This guy is in violation of Rule #1 in combat. Look unimportant.

Though actually, in the film clip - this looks like an insurance kill. The tank is probably abandoned due to damage/casualties from the bomb/artillery hit visible to the left rear, on the road.

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By cw4billt on January 22, 2005 10:44 AM
Camouflage a tank and you get something that looks like a camouflaged tank. "Gunner,target--one o'clock, two-thousand, rhododendron clump moving left-to-right. Go hi-mag and get the TC's name." But a shrubbery is aways a nice touch... =]
 
By John of Argghhh! on January 22, 2005 10:53 AM
But - if you're camouflaged, and the others aren't... you've at least bought the time to unass the beast and find a hole to hide in... and look Unimportant!
 
By SangerM on January 22, 2005 11:17 AM
I've seen videos from Gulf War I, wherein F16 guys would go out at dusk, use thermal to find the hot tanks buried in cooling sand, and paste them with a guided bomb. One vid even shows the guys running from the tank within minutes after they park and bury it. That just saved them; the tank was toast. Now the AC-130s have all kinds of cool night stuff, and they ain't lying when they say, "You can run, but you'll just die tired!" Man, I _love_ technology! -SangerM
 
By cw4billt on January 22, 2005 2:06 PM
John - By the open hatch covers and the distinct absence of hair, teeth and eyeballs flying past the camera, I'd say it was, indeed, abandoned. However, as Dusty has so cogently observed in the past, "A kill's a kill." That's what happens when you try to hide in a DRY pond... heh... =]
 
By cw4billt on January 22, 2005 3:15 PM
SangerM - Good point about using FLIR to find buried tanks. Bare eyeball works after dark, too, if you're looking for PT-76s. 'Specially PT-76s. Not expecting to these days, but "one nebber know, do one?"