We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:59:11 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Many of you have probably seen this video of a Javelin missile being fired at a fully combat-loaded T-72 tank. One of the things to notice is the little object that flies into the air above the smoke cloud. That would be the turret - the part normally containing guys like MajMike (Sorry, dude, hadta say that). Continuing that theme - at 28 seconds into it, you see the tank get hit from a rear angle... at 37 seconds, you see a small eruption of dirt on the right side of the frame. That would be the turret landing... All... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:32:03 -0600 Yup, yer Perfectly Safe (Tm) in a tank until somebody brings up an effective anti-tank weapon. Then it gets like naval warfare, in which weapons sufficient to damage the hardware do horrible icky violence on the soft(pink)ware. I mind a story I read about an M4 brewing up in the Second World War. After the fires went out, the hull glowed brightly enough to read by, for a while. When it cooled off enough to look inside, all that was left of each of the crew was a little puddle of congealed silver, consisting of the change in his pockets and maybe the fillings in his teeth. The Moving Foxhole does attract the gaze http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70932 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70932 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:21:52 -0600 Holy Cow! That's pretty astonishing. Makes me glad I'm not a Soviet Tanker. I was expecting what you usually see- Warhead detonation followed by cookoff of ammo, fuel, crew, etc. In this case, every single thing went off immediately. I wonder how often that would happen on the battlefield? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70921 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70921 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:57:17 -0600 won't be ready next week? Bummer!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70920 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70920 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:57:04 -0600 note that no boot straps were injured during the filming of this presentation.... had stringy laces been used, they would surely have been torn asunder. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70915 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/tossing_javelin.html#comment-70915 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:35:15 -0600