Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Various questions Keywords: fire! Message-ID: <7595@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 20 Jun 89 03:46:54 GMT References: <7200@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7453@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 24 Approved: military@att.att.com From: fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) In article <7453@cbnews.ATT.COM>, jp@doc.imperial.ac.uk (John Precedo) writes: > > From: John Precedo > > I once heard a rumour and checked it out in a book (can't remember which) > that in Hungary in '68, they found that a Molotov cocktail to the > engine exhaust of Russian tanks would ignite the exhaust fumes after about > 10-40(?) seconds, and disable it. That should be either Hungary in '56 or Prague in '68, shouldn't it? In Budapest in 1956, the locals were having poor success in taking out tanks with Molotov cocktails. One day a big guy showed up and mentioned that they ought to make the cloth fuses about so much longer. Tank losses went up noticable (trucks and armored cars had stayed out of the neighborhood for a while before this). The fellow turned out to be Pal Maleter, an Hungarian officer (General?) who had been trained in urban anti-tank tactics by his fraternal socialist friends in Moscow a couple of years before.