"Steve Harris" wrote in message ...
"Uncle Al" wrote in message
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In the first Mideast War, the most abundant, dense, and
expensive
conventional anti-aircraft emplacement in the history of
the world was
defeated by 35 weird-looking planes. In the second, the
best tank
armor supplied by the Eastern block was trivially holed by
Humvee-mounted M60 machine guns with DU ammo. Battle
tanks were taken
down by Jeeps.


Hyperbole. I know of a case where a main battle tank with
Soviet armor was nailed by Bushmaster cannon fire from a
Bradley fighting vehicle, but there's a hell of difference
between the 25 mm DU round from the Bushmaster and anything
you can fire from an little M60.

The Browning M60 fires basically .30-06 rounds, which the
military calls 7.62 mm, and which don't even come in DU.
They do have a tungsten AP which is maybe good for holing
the fancy armored automobiles of the rich g.. They might
work against Arnold Swartznegger's Hummer, but probably not
a military Humvee. Certainly a tank would laugh at them,
even a Soviet one.

But, since both jeeps, tanks, and Arnold Swartznegger
where holed by submarines, stealth fighters, and
cruise missles, the caliber of their ammo is actually
irrelevent. Since all of them, including their Iraqi-depleted
camel-chemists, and their Bush&Son health-insurance morons are D.O.A.


SBH