Wednesday, February 20, 2013

How Not to Employ Armor in Urban Areas

This explains a lot about why the Syrian army isn't winning its war. When you deploy armor into urban environments you need to support the armor with infantry. When you don't enemy infantry will move into flanking positions and employ from cover anti-tank weapons. Then this is what happens.
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  1. Blue MaxFebruary 21, 2013 at 11:59 AM

    Wow, that is a catastrophic hit. Was the guy seen running blown out of the tank, had he been on the outside when it was hit? I know the tank has an escape hatch on the underside, not sure on that model where on the belly it is. Would have had to act fast to get out of it though. Very fast!

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