Monday, August 15, 2005

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Battle

The loss of an Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT) has experts scratching their head.

On 28 August 2003, an M1-A1 Abrams MBT was destroyed in a manner that has caused considerable confusion to many military experts and personnel. Here’s an article on the incident

The agent that destroyed the tank left a hole smaller than a pencil. It traversed the crew compartment, passing through the seat back at the Gunner’s position, the Gunners flak vest, various key components of the tank’s weapons systems and “came to rest after boring a hole 1 to 2 inches deep in the hull on the far side of the tank.”

The experts continue to attribute the loss of this tank, with no casualties amongst the crew, to enemy action. Possibly what is called a ‘golden B-B’, a special round that has all the luck in the world in penetrating the armor of an Abrams tank. Something that even enemy main battle tanks find hard to accomplish. There were rumors of a new type of RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) munition that was a double-whammie, two explosive charges timed to go off in sequence in order to burn through the two layers of amor.

I don’t think so. Why? Well, for one thing, every known weapon system that the Iraqi insurgents have would, if it penetrated the armor of the tank, killed all the human occupants of the crew compartment with what is termed ‘spawling’; molten pieces of metal flying through the compartment as a result of the energy released as the weapon penetrated the armor. That didn’t happen. Furthermore, if it were a new weapon, one would think that the Iraqi insurgents would have got their hands on more of them and we’d have a lot more tanks knocked out as a result. That hasn’t happened either.

So...what was it?

I think it was something completely out of this world. I mean that quite literally. Here’s a report on these things.

They weigh as much as a ton, take up the space of less than the tenth of a width of a human hair and travel at 900K mph. They whiz through space and occasionally slide through the Earth as if it weren’t there, coming from any direction. Nothing can stop them, as far as we can tell.

Fortunately for us, they are rather rare. I think our Abrams tank got hit by one of these things.

Monday, August 08, 2005

When Are Rights Actually Wrongs?

Or, how to really torque off the liberal women near you.

Vox Day, a fellow M living someplace outside of Colorado, has an interesting article up on World Net Daily.

He’s got an equally interesting discussion going on over at his blog Vox Populi about how someone circulated the WND article and the feminazis called down their Human Resouces CattieBert on his poor a--.