A1M1 in shambles... yes, things are going swimmingly in Iraq.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m21440&l=i&size=1&hd=0


March 11, 2006

"Meanwhile in Eastern Baghdad, a US tank was devastated when a highly explosive charge went off this morning and an Interior Ministry source said the tank caught fire in an explosion in Canal Street, Eastern Baghdad."
Two soldiers killed in Kirkuk, US tank blown up Eastern Baghdad March 10, 2006

[KyuzoGator]

1. Damn, those Abrams tanks are pretty badass, too.

Musta been one hell of a bomb.

[ChristianLibrul]

5. Boom!

They're not armored underneath. A fairly small bomb will ignite fuel or main gun ammo. Since the blast panels are all gone, it was probably the ammo that went up. The panels are meant to release and vent a blast outwards instead of containing it and scrambling the crew. It looks like they ran over a buried bomb that lifted it up and repositioned it. It would take a big bomb to move 70 tons around.

[TheBaldyMan]

7. a shaped charge mine can punch through damn near anything

n/t

[rzemanfl]

2. How many million are these? n/t

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Doesn't matter.... the right people with the right connections are

selling them to YOU. Therefore cost is of little concern.... hey did you see the Knicks game??? How about the Nascar race.... I myself prefer the two wheeled variety..... I think you get my drift though :)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Someone really should inform the Insurgency that they've "failed".

They obviously haven't got the word yet.

Either that, or inform the White House and Pentagon, that their latest venture into imperialism is a flop.

[Swede]

6. I think we're about to turn the corner.

What a fucking cluster fuck.

[damntexdem]

8. Yeah, we're about to turn the corner ...

but that street is mined, too.