Maybe DOJ was right...

Louis Schroeder · 2003-10-29T20:28:59+00:00

Could be an Aerotech Initiator modified for a J-350...Oh, and I'm kidding about DOJ being right.--------------------------------------------------Defense NewsOctober 27, 2003 Pg. 1What Killed A U.S. Tank?Mystery Projectile Punches Through Abrams ArmorBy John RoosShortly before dawn on Aug. 28, an M1A1 Abrams tank on routine patrolin Baghdad "was hit by something" that crippled the 69-ton behemoth,according to an unclassified U.S. Army report.Service officials still are puzzling over what that "something" was.The mystery projectile punched through the vehicle's skirt and drilleda pencil-sized hole through the 4-inch-think steel hull. The hole wasso small that "my little finger will not go into it," wrote thereport's author.The "something" continued into the crew compartment, where it passedthrough the gunner's seatback, grazed the kidney area of his flakjacket and finally came to rest after boring a hole 1½ to 2 inchesdeep in the hull on the far side of the tank.As it passed through the interior, it hit enough critical components ?including the turret network box ? to knock the tank out of action,making it one of only two Abrams disabled by enemy fire during the warthis year and only one of a handful knocked out since they rumbledonto the scene 20 years ago. The other killed in Iraq was hit by anRPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade earlier in the Iraq war.According to other experts, whatever knocked out the tank was not anRPG-7 but most likely something new ? and that worries tank crews whohave come to regard their M1s as invulnerable to enemy fire.The M1 has been touted by the Army and its maker, General DynamicsLand Systems, Sterling Heights, Mich., as the best-protected tank inthe world by virtue of its sophisticated armor plating and novelprotective features. For example, the highly classified armorincorporates dense depleted uranium panels to protect against enemyrounds.Mystery and AnxietyTerry Hughes is a technical representative from the Army's Rock IslandArsenal,...

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Tom Binford 22 years ago

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Christopher Deem 22 years ago

That should be " Constitutional Realignment and Antiterrorist Protection act". Better acronym.

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Jerry Irvine 22 years ago

Point. What are WE going to do about it?

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