So WE, you really are stupid. One doesn't need to blow a hole in a tank to disable it! All one needs to do is knock off a track and it's disabled. If it's immobile and set afire, well it's a bit like an oven or a smoker: quite untenable for the crew.
Several Abrams that were irrecoverable due to loss of mobility or other circumstances were destroyed by friendly forces to prevent their capture, usually by other Abrams. Some Abrams were disabled by Iraqi infantrymen in ambushes during the invasion. Some troops employed short-range anti-tank rockets and fired at the tracks, rear and top. Other tanks were put out of action when struck in critical places by heavy machine gun rounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams
Here's laughing at you, WE!
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Gosh Einstein that post made you look like the idiot- show me one incident where a civilian possessing a hand gun or an Assault Rifle took out a tank? I have seen videos of M1 surviving a direct close range RPG assault. Do you realize what they mean by "heavy machine gun" these are not ordinary hand weapons you MORON.
Here's a video of an M1 surviving a direct hit from a car with an IED:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJqBSr_FEs
Also, do you realize when tanks have been damaged or become unrepairable that we(U.S troops) destroy them so they can't be used by the enemy or to protect classified info- and then the enemy uses it as propaganda to say they destroyed the tank?
By the way- for you to say that a simple handgun can take out an M1 Abrams then either you believe that those who create the M1(American based company General Dynamics) need to be fired for producing a shitty tank- even though every military report rates the M1 as the top tank in the world- it's even used by the Isreali army. I can also assume that you must agree that we need to seriously cut back our military spending since each tank cost roughly 10 million a piece? But wow a 10 million tank that the U.S makes can be dismantled by a citizen carrying a hand weapon SMH at your stupidity.