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| This is a tank. Note the sloping, thickly armored glacis and the revolving turret. The main gun is usually rifled and it's designed for direct fire. Unlike artillery, most tanks have stabilization systems that allow them to fire on the move. |
| Gazan rockets misfired again? How mortifying for the rocketeers. |
| The key difference I see between the two photos is that the howitzer has a much bigger gun thingy. This is probably why the Army never hired me. |
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| This is artillery, to whit, an M109A3 self-propelled howitzer. The turret sits to the rear of the chassis and the armor is much lighter than that on a tank, designed to protect against shrapnel and maybe small arms fire. Some flavors don't even have turrets. On this particular model there is a brace to keep the cannon from flopping around when the vehicle's moving. In firing position the cannon's elevated way, way up, rather than pointing forward, though there have been occasions when it's been used in direct fire. They weren't pleasant occasions. |
So if it wasn't the Israelis and two projectiles were reportedly launched from the Gaza strip, who do you suppose might have maimed the innocent Paleofarmer?
Friday saw four airstrikes hit locations across the besieged coastal area, reportedly in retaliation for a series of mortar shell barrages launched by the An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. The strikes killed three and injured two.
Betcha the aircraft were Israeli...
Could have been Ruritanian ...
The PRC encouraged all resistance factions to step up efforts against Israeli targets, while the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine accused Israel of using limited incursions, airstrikes and targeted assassinations as mechanisms to lure resistance fighters into a new cycle of violence.
I'm not sure I follow that logic. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it doesn't even look like logic.
| Perhaps it made more sense in the original Arabic. |