Hey folks,
Well it seems now even the Mighty Challenger Tank is no longer invulnerable. So our troops are no longer safe it seems, not a bad month for the Iraqi’s, a Warrior holed by IED, now a Challenger, what next? The Venerable refurbished a million & one times AFV 432 ( time to show its age, my dad learnt to drive the Mk1’s back in the 60’s).
Well, sooner our Boys & Girls come home the better, before I get poo pooed here, I know we Brits dont give up on a fight, but in my view Iraq is gettin even dodgier than the streets of Belfast all those years ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6583607.stm
Bex
By: bexWH773 - 23rd April 2007 at 19:42
Does not make the Challenger ‘invulnerable’, just lucky.
Incidently a british soldier died in a fire fight in Iraq today.
Re Challenger, thats fair enough.
Todays death is yet another sad and tragic event 🙁 Atleast his fight is now over, I hope he may Rest in Peace.
Bex
By: sealordlawrence - 23rd April 2007 at 18:40
Possibly the minor detail of no Challenger tank, either Mk1 or Mk2 has been lost or breached in combat until now, same with the Warrior. Correct they survived, but I doubt very much the driver is happy at loosing his legs though. Bex
Does not make the Challenger ‘invulnerable’, just lucky.
Incidently a british soldier died in a fire fight in Iraq today.
By: bexWH773 - 23rd April 2007 at 18:06
Who said the Challenger was ever completely invulnerable, anyway the crew survived, didn’t they??:confused:
Possibly the minor detail of no Challenger tank, either Mk1 or Mk2 has been lost or breached in combat until now, same with the Warrior. Correct they survived, but I doubt very much the driver is happy at loosing his legs though. Bex
By: Levsha - 23rd April 2007 at 13:11
Hey folks, Well it seems now even the Mighty Challenger Tank is no longer invulnerable.
Who said the Challenger was ever completely invulnerable, anyway the crew survived, didn’t they??:confused:
By: sealordlawrence - 23rd April 2007 at 13:08
The Challenger was never ‘invulnerable’. No tank is. The Americans have lost a number of Abrams to IED’s in Iraq. Frequently they drive over a buried artillery shell that is then exploded. No tank can survive that.
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