From:	Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject:	Anti-Vehicle sniping
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:07:09 +0000

In article <199902231734.MAA03089@****.vtc.vsc.edu>, Kevin Dole
<kdole@***.vsc.edu> writes
> Not the tank itself, but if you know what you are doing, you can
>negate the tank with a good rifle. You aim for things like the sensors
>(range finder/designator, the thermal sight, et al), the exposed parts
>of the communication equipment, that kind of thing.

The Croatians developed a 20mm rifle (a _big_ beast) designed to shoot
out the thermal imaging sights on Serbian tanks from ranges of a
kilometre or so. (It's _hard_ to move around when a tank with a thermal
imager is watching you: the tanks were dug in and being used as heavily-
armed and armoured observation posts). Worked reasonably well,
apparently.


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Paul J. Adam