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JaM said:
About resistance to IOD, Israeli had problems with IOD,
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So did South Africa and they are generally acknowledged to build the best vehicles in the world regarding IED protection. Weirdly enough they are all wheeled... they must be stupid or something, right?
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JaM said:(maybe you know that the Palestinians used them first)
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Eh, ok, except that I'd think that "improvised explosive devices" came along with the invention of gunpowder sorta predates the reconstituton of the state of Israel by a couple of centuries...
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JaM said:there were incidents when they blow Merkava Mk3 Dor Dalet,Most powerfull Israeli tank,crew was killed.(Same thing happened to M1A2 in Irak in 2004),in second incident Israeli Zelda APC hit similar IOD,crew survived it.You are forgeting that even antipersonel mines could stop Stryker,not M113.
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Have I stated anything contrary to this? I even mentioned the Abrams getting its turret popped earlier...
Build a bomb sufficiently big and... Things is that the lower profile of a tracked vehicle makes the vehicle more vulnerable to blast waves, a V-bottomed high profile vehicle is generally better designed to deflect the blastwave
This was perhaps more intended as one more smokescreen regarding the "In everything, they are more versatile" statment?