Re: Combat dropping AFV\'s?
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basesurge said:
For what it's worth, if anybody has any of those old Salamander Books "Soviet War Machine" books, there was a pic of a BMD or ASU (don't remember which) being "rocket-braked". I *strongly* suspect there was no crew in the vehicle at the time. This procedure was probably "semi-administrative" rather than something that would be conducted tactically. Did they do the LAPES thing with M551s? I'm not sure.
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The Russians have quite a bit of experince using "Rocket Breaking" for landing objects. They use the same system for their Soyuz spacecraft (Perichute then Rockets before touch down). Unlike our (the USA's) spacecapsule programs they land on the ground in Siberia not at sea. Also I don't belive there has ever been a major acadent durring landing of the Soyuz (one whent off course and landed in the woods, the only fatality aboard one was on reentry IIRC.)
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