Amen
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Hmmm... Not sure why he would have hated them, as alot of them were equal if not better than the other Allied Nations... The earlier Yak aircraft were a joke, but the later on Yaks were good aircraft... Yakolev was in Stalins back pocket, so he got what he wanted... Too bad Lavochkin didnt get that kind of treatment....he said that he really hated the russian weapons and aircraft. my opinion is that the
yak aircraft were the suckiest ww2 aircraft.
lesofprimus said:Sorry for ur loss... I was in Iraq during the first War, and have my best friends over there right now...... Its very very hard to compensate for a loss such as yours, but always remember, he gave his life so that u and I and CC and Skim and Adler and Lanc and evan and erich and planD and GrG and Pips and Hotspace, and all of us here, we can live ours...Very well said Les!
dinos7 said:well my brother was in the 3rd id 2nd brgd combat team.
I was (and still am) with 1st ID 4th Brgd Combat Team. Again my condolences to you and your family.
lesofprimus said:I think the concept of going into battle in a steel coffin to be reprehensible... Id rather be on my feet in a fire fight.....
plan_D said:The tank has a presence that strikes fear into ill-trained combatants. The modern RPGs penertration values claim they can punch through the M1 Abrams, but it's just not true.
Details of the M1 losses were given, including one where 25mm armour-piercing depleted uranium (AP-DU) rounds from an unidentified weapon disabled a US tank near Najaf after penetrating the engine compartment. Another Abrams was disabled near Karbala after a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) penetrated the rear engine compartment and one was lost in Baghdad after its external auxiliary power unit was set on fire by medium-calibre fire.
Left and right side non-ballistic skirts were repeatedly penetrated by anti-armour RPG fire, according to the report, but only cosmetic damage was caused when they were struck by anti-personnel RPG rounds. There were no reported hits on ballistic skirts and no reported instance of US tanks hitting an anti-tank mine. Turret ammunition blast doors worked as designed. In one documented instance where a turret-ready ammunition rack compartment was hit and main gun rounds ignited, the blast doors contained the explosion and crew survived unharmed except for fume inhalation.
http://www.janes.com/defence/land_forces/news/jdw/jdw030620_1_n.shtml