Re: [sg2] Non-lethal/riot weapons

Chen-Song Qin wrote:
 
> Well, according to my old history textbook, they also put dishes
upside
> down on streets so that the Soviets thought they were mines.	This
> actually stopped armored columns, especially when the Hungarians shot
at
> combat engineers coming up to clear the "mines".

Read about this from someone who did it in recent issue of military
history magazine.  
 
> >	  One group of Hungarians also managed to drop a high voltage
> >	  power line on a tank, electrocuting the occupants.
> 
> Now they didn't pay attention to their electricity safety class, did
they?
> "Don't touch any metal parts when you're inside a vehicle..."

What's not metal in a tank?
 
> >	  But mainly they would have one brave soul run up to the
> >	  tank and insert a crowbar into the tread, immobilizing
> >	  it.  Then the Molotov cocktail teams would close in
> >	  and sent the tank to inferno.
> 
> That's a mighty brave soul.  And those are mighty stupid souls who
> advance tanks into a city without infantry support so some bozo can
run
> up to them.

Russians aren't that bright.  It took them years to get that combined
arms stuff down (Finland in 1939-40, Barbarossa 1941) and then after the
Great Patriotic War, they got rid of all their experienced enlisted men
and a lot of their experienced officers.  Combined arms is something
that takes practice, and the Russians just don't understand it.  They
did the same thing in Chechnya and the first half of Afghanistan.

John M. Atkinson