Reply With QuoteRussia has stated that they will not sell Assad the latest weaponry until the situation has calmed down.
Pantsir
Air Defence System at the Syrian army exercises
(may be shot down Turkish fighter)
(It seems that Russia does not skimp on the Assad regime with something)
Is it not enough right of veto in the Security Council? To provide him most recent weapons?
And He is currently bombarding the cities and towns rebellious internationally banned cluster bombs
Russia has stated that they will not sell Assad the latest weaponry until the situation has calmed down.
Russian warships sailing past Norway on their way to Tartarus port in Syria:
«Admiral Chabanenko», landingships «Alexander Otrakovsky», «Kondopoga» and «St. George the Victorious» plus two support vessels outside the norwegian coast.
http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/a...artid=10066896
Pantsirs are from 2009 IIRC in Syria. And Cluster bombs are not international banned.Originally Posted by bomba
Pantsir
Air Defence System at the Syrian army exercises
(may be shot down Turkish fighter)
(It seems that Russia does not skimp on the Assad regime with something)
Is it not enough right of veto in the Security Council? To provide him most recent weapons?
And He is currently bombarding the cities and towns rebellious internationally banned cluster bombs
Interesting, is that some kind of maritime tracking software?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhiMK6TV9sk
remote controlled car
What you say explains the behavior of the crew of the first tank.
The behavior of the 2 others is even more weird. They don't fire, don't release smoke. They advance. Once the second is hit, they start to retreat, again without returning fire.
Nice, remote controlled bomb-car
2nd round seems to be short, hitting the ground maybe 2 or 3 feet before the tank.
I've just finished watching several video clips showing shaped charge weapons hitting a variety of different tanks. The vast majority of impacts do not result in the shower of sparks that we see in this video. There certainly is a bright flash and a lot of smoke, but not the fireworks that we see here. Based on this quick bit of research, this doesn't look like a shaped charge impact...more likely another tank or even an anti-tank gun.
Shot at 2012-07-12
It got destroyed shortly after:
That^ was the tank that was towing the first one that got hit while rolling by the gas station:
Could be one of these rounds-I've just finished watching several video clips showing shaped charge weapons hitting a variety of different tanks. The vast majority of impacts do not result in the shower of sparks that we see in this video. There certainly is a bright flash and a lot of smoke, but not the fireworks that we see here. Based on this quick bit of research, this doesn't look like a shaped charge impact...more likely another tank or even an anti-tank gun.
Last edited by gresh; 07-15-2012 at 02:04 AM.
It seemed to me like they might have been maneuvering to simply provide cover for the crew escaping the tank in from of them. If there were wounded soldiers there, they might need assistance if they were to start evacuating from the lead tank. The tanks behind them might have simply tried to block small arms fire with their armor. Just a guess of course. They simply might not have understood what happened to the lead tank and what the explosion was and kept advancing until it dawned on them.
I don't get why the Syrian army does nothing to improve their tank's armor against RPGs. Sideskirts, spaced sheets of steel on the front and all around the turret, and some "slat" on the back of the tank isn't hard to make. Really, anything that leads to a premature/spaced detonation of the RPG round is probably enough to prevent penetration. They should really invest in some sideskirts and the above mentioned armor, especially when driving around inside buildings without infantry support.
Also, why do their tanks never seem to fire back? The 3 tanks that get hit by RPGs don't fire a round, the T-55 that was hit from behind the gas station doesn't turn its turret and fry them with a HE round and MG fire but instead keeps on driving blindly with its turret forward and getting shot at from behind...
It really seems like "Arabs" (I mean Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans, everyone in the middle east) have the sense of operating machinery, especially tanks, amputated at birth, I can't explain it any other way.
US is using cluster munitions.Pantsir
Air Defence System at the Syrian army exercises
(may be shot down Turkish fighter)
(It seems that Russia does not skimp on the Assad regime with something)
Is it not enough right of veto in the Security Council? To provide him most recent weapons?
And He is currently bombarding the cities and towns rebellious internationally banned cluster bombs
That sentence just made my day, good sir!
Lack of training plus not having any situational awareness at all leads to so many catastrophic losses. Is anyone counting, how many tanks and IFVs Assad has already lost?
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