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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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Libyan War - Second Mothership | 308 comments (308 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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