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Another 4 said to be destroyed in the attack on Misurata today.

Adding it all up, over the last couple of weeks the regime has lost somewhere between 30 to 40 tanks and about the same number of BMP Infantry Fighting Vehicles.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:25:41 PM EST
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problem is finding a journalist who can tell the difference between the two

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:28:42 PM EST
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If its tracked and got a rotating thingie with a gun sticking out on top ... it's a tank!

Right?

:-)

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:39:18 PM EST
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Who needs a rotating thingy with a gun, seen M113's described as tanks and theyre just a tracked armoured shoebox.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:47:49 PM EST
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'Twas ever thus.

Reading a silly book on WW 2 and discovered a picture of a Bren Carrier captioned as "British Tank advances from Caen."

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 04:59:16 PM EST
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Looking at pictures 6, 8 and 10 here, where they say Tanks they mean SP Artillery (although other pictures include tanks. Going agressively after that stuff is a far better way of defending civilians than going after tanks.

Detritus of War - Photographs - NYTimes.com

A bomb from an allied aircraft exploded among vehicles belonging to forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi during an airstrike Sunday on the highway outside of Benghazi.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 07:16:25 PM EST
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I agree.

Looks like the French caught a Palmaria SP 155mm howitzer battery on the move and blowed-it-up real good.

Libya Army has about 160 of these things and they are the "heavy" artillery of the Libyan military. There's all kinds of munitions available for a 155mm tube including a laser guided anti-tank missile, though the Libyans shouldn't have any. They will have HE, shrapnel, and white phosphorous and that's bad enough.

A very high value target. Good on you, whoever spotted these.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun Mar 20th, 2011 at 07:55:49 PM EST
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