Frag Out! Magazine

Frag Out! Magazine #23

Frag Out! Magazine

Issue link: https://fragout.uberflip.com/i/1086092

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 31 of 157

T he answer is simple – nowadays only tanks are able to op- erate relatively safely on a battlefield full of light and heavy armor-piercing weapons. What a tank may find a moderate "obstacle" (e.g. a section with a 9K111 Fagot or a squad with RPG-7 grenade launchers) may be a deadly threat to a light WAV or MRAP. This is where readers well-familiar with Internet classics may say something like: "Hold on! But tanks catch fire and get burnt easily! What about YT videos? And what about the mass disappearance of tanks?!". There is a simple explanation – there is the fictional truth and then there's life. The former shows us what the manufacturers of armor-piercing weapons and the advocates for terrorist/nation- al-liberation groups (delete as appropriate, depending on your views) wish to show us to produce a certain effect. But the battlefield reality ("life") is way different. So how effective is anti-tank warfare in real life? In the first two years of the First Chechen War, Russians lost 192 tanks, with 65 of them becoming completely unserviceable. It's necessary to stress One thing should be made clear at the very beginning – tanks are not leaving the battlefield anytime soon, and the period since OIF (2003) has been actually a renaissance of their role. At present, almost each major conflict involves mass engagement of armored weaponry – Iraq in 2003, the pacification of the 2006 Shia uprising in Iraq, the battles in southern Lebanon (2006), the Russian operation in North Ossetia (2008), Operation Cast lead in Gaza (2008-2009), the war in Syria (since 2011), and the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014–2015. How come is armored weaponry so popular? www.fragoutmag.com

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

Archives of this issue

view archives of Frag Out! Magazine - Frag Out! Magazine #23