Re: D-Day was Shermans

--- "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:

> Just think of, for example, anti-tank guided
> missiles against assaulting
> hovercraft.

The Swedes have truck-mounted Hellfire missles in
their coastal defense units.  I think that would ruin
anyone's day--and since they are mobile they are
harder to neutralize.
 
> BTW. I have read press reports that in the Kosovo
> air campaign the number of
> fighting units (tanks, AFV, artillery) destroyed was
> quite low - as opposed
> to fixed installations like barracks, depots etc.
> Can anybody comment on
> this ?

This is true.  Also true is the fact that until the
KLA started a ground offensive to start trying to take
down the Yugoslav Army units, they were dispersed
enough to practically ignore the air strikes
indefinitely.

John

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