23 April 2007

Undoubtedly it was the Iranians

The armour of a British Challenger tank has, for the first time, been penetrated by a bomb in Iraq. Demonstrating a gift for understatement Professor Michael Clarke from King's College's Defence Studies centre said:

"Most of the things on a battlefield are not much of a threat to a tank, usually. ..This is worrying, because if there are many of these sorts of very heavy penetrative Improvised Explosive Devices around in the area then no vehicle is safe."

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