RE: A question of Suppression

[snip]
> A crew member inside a tank will not be 100% sure of where or how
close the
> fire is comming while buttened up in their vehicle. This brings on the
> dreaded notion of the "Unknown Factor" which is when you just do not
know
> what could happen to you next. Just something for thought.
>						  Gary

	Is there much chance that the small arms fire can damage the
sensors
that a buttoned up crew depend on? On another note, I gather that
although the
fire control functions on todays armor do fine with the crew buttoned
up, they
still lose a great deal of "peripheral vision."

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Miguel Echavarria			mech@arm.com