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No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: crystal
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: crystal
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: crystal
10000 would win easily. Who said anything those 10000 guys will charge the tanks head on? Their weight/armor will be their down fall. Just digs a few deep traps and those tanks are dead in the sand. Once the tanks are stuck, you can burn them, drown them or buried them. Nothing they can do really.
Because obviously the tank crew can't see the pits. Nor can machine guns not go out a football field or two in range. Nor can the main gun shoot more than 4,000 ft. Other versions of the standard HEAT can fragment and have a bit less range. The most anti-personel weapon is this.
The new M1028 120 mm anti-personnel canister cartridge has been brought into service early for use in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It contains 1,150 ten-millimeter tungsten shot projectiles which spread from the muzzle to produce a shotgun effect lethal out to 500 m. The tungsten balls can be used to clear enemy dismounts, break up hasty ambush sites in urban areas, clear defiles, stop infantry attacks and counter-attacks and support friendly infantry assaults by providing cover-by-fire.
1,500ft, or over a quarter mile. Within that range can mow down hundreds of troops per shot. Outside of that it can still use it's other rounds. Inside of that it can use the machine guns located all around.
Essentially, the tank can be extremely lethal at all ranges. Avoiding tank traps would be easy in open ground.
Man, you think people are so stupid as to create a trap and not cover it up. You see that those men & horses - they could ride over a perfectly looking ground but the tank would fall right through. Like I said, their weight and all those armors work against them.
Again, why would they even move? Unlimited ammo? Is a regular cavalry weapon good out to a quarter mile plus?
If they did move, they could even just have somebody walk out in front, since nobody would get near them within a quarter mile.
A tank trap big enough to snare one will have to be pretty well disguised. Not to mention it'll have to be built a long way out since thermal sites could pick out what's going on for miles.
You don't need to used small fire arm to kill the tank - just need to take out the tank operators when they get out for fresh air or taking a sh*t. Could they hold up in their for a however long since they are only mortal unlike the machine they operated on.
Speaking of unlimited ammo - you see those unlimited gun powders those 10000 men carry - they can used that to make however big bombs they need to take out any tanks you got sitting there.
How are they going to take them out if a tank can fire a shell that'll kill them at about 1mile? Regular rifles suddenly have the power to go that far against moving targets? Can they even aim that well?
Think of it for a few minutes. The two tanks can rush, firing those anti-personel shots at a rate of about 6/m. That means they can fill the air with 13,200 tunsten projectiles per minute, or 792,000 per hour. You really think that it'd take that long for them to whipe everybody out? For those sitting further away? The longer-ranged fragmenting rounds, which have over a mile range hits with about 500 fragments.
How are they going to carry the bombs big enough to kill a tank? They'd have to use slower methods, meaning the tank can spot it and kill it easily, exploding it and probably killing a few hundred at the time. Not to mention that regular gun powder needs to be a massive volume to do much damage. Those IEDs have explosive equivs to hundreds of pounds of TNT and rarely kill a tank.
err, guns melt you know?