Re: [SG2] weapons

At 5:18 PM -0800 11/18/03, John Atkinson wrote:
>--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
>
>>  John, didn't you hear about that incident before you
>>  left Iraq?
>
>Nope.	The only one I heard about was the M1A1 that
>rolled over a 300lb IED and lost two crewmembers.

Some kind of light AT weapon punched a hole in an 
M1A1 that went through the skirt, side armor 
(under the turret ring) through the inside, 
across the fighting compartment (grazed the 
gunner's vest) and imbedded itself in the left 
side armor to a depth of about 2-3 inches.

-- 
--
Ryan Gill	       rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
----------------------------------------------------------
      |        |		   |	     -==----	  
      | O--=-  |		   |	    /_8[*]°_\	   
      |_/|o|_\_|       | _________ |	    /_[===]_\	  
      / 00DA61 \       |/---------\|	 __/	     \--- 
   _w/|=_[__]_= \w_    // [_]  o[]\\   _oO_\	     /_O|_
  |: O(4) ==	O :|  _Oo\=======/_O_  |____\	    /____|
  |---\________/---|  [__O_______W__]	|x||_\	   /_||x| 
   |s|\        /|s|   |s|/BSV 575\|s|	|x|-\|	   |/-|x| 
   |s|=\______/=|s|   |s|=|_____|=|s|	|x|--|_____|--|x| 
   |s|		|s|   |s|	  |s|	|x|	      |x| 
'60 Daimler Ferret '42 Daimler Dingo '42 Humber MkIV (1/3)
----------------------------------------------------------