Syria Disintegrating: Part 2

[derspiess]

I read somewhere that he was likely actually forcibly blown out the hatch by expanding gas within the fighting compartment. Hard to say if he lives through it though - almost certianly going to have extreme burns, you can see most of his clothes are blown off.

He was able to get away under his own power-- I bet he survives.  Until he gets whacked by rebels, of course.

[11B4V]

Syrian T-72 w/ reactive armor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeYGcp0ATlk

[11B4V]

Syrian urban combat porn with old tanks :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=x2TLS1sqMl8

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efb_1359418903

I'm guessing the reactive armor didn't work. It made pretty bangs when the thing was burning though....

Those T-72's do not have Reative armor in the vid.

[11B4V]

This has got to be the biggest truck bomb I've ever seen! Damn!

Because you've been around so many.

There's a thing called video Seedy, you might want to look into it.

You can't deny that one's huge.

That's what she said.

[Viking]

We did see what the rocket firers did after firing... they ran like crazy. We did hear firing in the background, presumably a good deal of it was into the smoke cloud the rocket left. T-72s run on diesel, perhaps they were pre-heating the fuel, perhaps they were more worried about small arms fire. Perhaps they have been trained to stick together and not scatter.

[CountDeMoney]

I read somewhere that he was likely actually forcibly blown out the hatch by expanding gas within the fighting compartment. Hard to say if he lives through it though - almost certianly going to have extreme burns, you can see most of his clothes are blown off.

Yeah, it looked like he got tossed right out of the hatch by the blast;  he ran, but probably only because his body didn't know how fucked up it was at the moment.

[Razgovory]

We did see what the rocket firers did after firing... they ran like crazy. We did hear firing in the background, presumably a good deal of it was into the smoke cloud the rocket left. T-72s run on diesel, perhaps they were pre-heating the fuel, perhaps they were more worried about small arms fire. Perhaps they have been trained to stick together and not scatter.

Or perhaps combat simply doesn't move as fast as does in the movies.  It's hard to see out of those tanks, they probably didn't know which way to run.

[11B4V]

I read somewhere that he was likely actually forcibly blown out the hatch by expanding gas within the fighting compartment. Hard to say if he lives through it though - almost certianly going to have extreme burns, you can see most of his clothes are blown off.

Yeah, it looked like he got tossed right out of the hatch by the blast;  he ran, but probably only because his body didn't know how fucked up it was at the moment.

It would appear the ammo storage for the T-72 auto loader is not conducive to very good crew survivability.   

[DGuller]

Yeah, Soviets definitely have a habit of blurring the distinction between ammo racks and reactive armor.

[11B4V]

Yeah, Soviets definitely have a habit of blurring the distinction between ammo racks and reactive armor.

hehe. Igor I told you the explosive armor goes on the outside of de tank  .

[Phillip V]

40 Syrian soldiers killed in Iraq

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/world/middleeast/fighting-escalates-in-syrian-city-opposition-says.html

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, Soviets definitely have a habit of blurring the distinction between ammo racks and reactive armor.

hehe. Igor I told you the explosive armor goes on the outside of de tank  .

In Russian Tank, armor reacts to you.

[derspiess]

Good thing SirHockey's not here.

[KRonn]

Given the various radical groups have  been more mixed into the Rebel factions as time has gone on, I'm almost hoping that Assad remains in power. This is going to be a major mess if/when Assad falls, with the stronger possibility of more extreme factions taking/sharing power. At least that's how it looks to me at this point.

The West has stayed out of it for too long, worried that they'd be supporting extremist groups. But that waiting seems to have been self defeating, giving the extreme groups more chance to get more involved. Perhaps the US and what ever Euro nations that would be so inclinded should have tried harder to work with at least some of the identifiable more moderate factions. Plus if Assad falls the West will have less influence, having kept out of things for so long anyway.

[Phillip V]

Syrian Rebels Abduct 20 U.N. Soldiers in the Golan Heights

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/world/europe/syria-developments.html