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>From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: 21st Century Soldier
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Date: 16 Sep 92 17:34:14 GMT
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In article <1992Sep14.174847.11303@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
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|Point:  Remember who's gunsights worked in the northern battle where the oil
|smoke was REAL think:  the iraqi tanks or the higher tec US tanks.  The first
|clue (according to reports) that the iraqis had was when their forces started
|exploding.  The smoke was so think that they couldn't detect, but the US
|systems could not only detect but could target.

You better believe it.  The Abrams targeting system is awesome.  It is
designed to hot the target with the *first* shot (no more ranging shots).

And I read about a situation in European wargames where the Abrams battalion
*deliberately* smked the battlefield - because *they* could target through
it but the opposing M-60's could not.

If I had to go into a battle zone, the Abrams would be *my* choice of
vehicle.  You can take those low-tech tanks and trash them, the Abrams
is unmatched.
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