Re: [ Way OT but babbling anyway...] Chi-ha

At 12:19 PM +1000 4/23/02, Alan E Brain wrote:
>
>They're not bad if the enemy has no tanks or anti-tank weapons. Except
for the
>tankettes - often their armour won't stop a .303 at short range. 
>Modern off-road
>vehicles have thicker panelling in places, based on the one I've seen
in the
>Australian War Memorial. Which is rather smaller than my Daihatsu
Charade.

Geeze. The the Boyes would have made short work of one. In one side 
out the back....

If it weren't for the massively inflexible and dunderheaded British 
tactics on the roads leading to Singapore, they'd have never gotten 
very far.

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