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From: jeffj@cbnewsm.att.com
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Subject: Re: Tank surface to air, anti missile capabilities
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Date: 10 May 91 17:13:23 GMT
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From: jeffj@cbnewsm.att.com


johnhall@microsoft.UUCP (John Hall) writes:
>Someone has mentioned (maybe Dunnigan) that a modern tank like the M-1
>can do quite a number on a slow flighing helicopter -> with the main gun.

I read that during the Iran/Iraq war that Iraq developed a method for shooting  down virtually all of the Iranian helicopters. During Iranian assualts in the
early days of the war the Iraqis would aim all of their weapons towards the
helicopters and shoot them down in a hail of lead. While primitive it took
the Irainian helicopters right out of the war. They also tried this against
Tomahawks with some limited success.

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