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MM>Young Voss used to get upset by maurauding tanks, so he'd take his
MM>issue greatcoat and stuff it in the tank's track guides where it
MM>would jam that side.  Then he'd ride the beast until the hatch
MM>would open to determine why the machine could only circle.

MM>A grenade went inside while Voss sat on the hatch ... working out
MM>where to get another greatcoat from.  Fortunately, there were many
MM>offers to keep him supplied....

MM>I'm sure he'd have found a use for an Itey 105....

Better than a greatcoat in the tracks -- but how would he USE the 105?
If you emplace it as an antitank gun, it's wrongly deployed to be an
effective artillery piece.  If you have it in battery, it's in the wrong
place for engaging tanks.

MM> MM>A walk-thru blast box that delivers a seriously massive EM pulse
MM> MM>or two strikes me as a likely start...
MM> VH> The problem is, how do you get them to walk through it?

MM>How about a couple of decent coils, one each side of any central
MM>approach road ?   Easily moved so that dispatching agencies might
MM>not easily work out why their fanatics prematurely pop ?

MM>We stop runaway cars thisaway - why not explosive toting clods ?

Plot the route of a convoy of some 50 kilometers, identify all the
routes where an enemy might approach, and tell me how many coils you
would need.  Then figure out how many men you would need to cover these
coils.

MM> VH> The only solution on the horizon is to root them out.  And to do that,
MM> VH> we have to isolate them, politically, culturally and financially.
MM> VH> Fortunately, we seem to be doing fairly well at that.

MM>And should improve as we get the hang of it.

And success will breed success.