Yup, these ones:




- The Danish army has a history of shipping out tanks to trouble-spots. In the 1990's Denmark was charged with light patrolling duties in Ex-Yugoslavia. "What better way to protect a light patrol than by mounting it in a Main Battle Tank", they thought, and so sent tanks down there, to the chagrin of the Serbs...

More here on that story. The Danes tanks fought in the biggest battle by Danish armed forces since WWII..: http://www.milhist.dk/post45/boellebank/boellebank_uk.htm#prof

Viking badass.

Hooah!

Apparently his crew was bad-ass too!

Strange detail, there's something lacking in this article. The loader's position has a machine gun, the TC's position has the periscope for observation. Did he use the TC override and slew the turret around and use the coaxial machine gun?



Bad idea. The most trained, skilled RPG gunners are good about to about to 300 meters, anything after that is impossible to predict. The best tactic would be to lob many of them up at that distance so that they detonate in the air like improvised mortars above the target.





This part of the story is all but glossed over.

That sounds very, very odd. I've never heard of US armor crews staying together that long, let alone even serving in the armored branch. Twelve years implies that they aren't conscripts. So, it's as if none of the crew were never promoted, or never changed specialties or anything like that. Sooner or later the most senior troops are going to be sitting behind a desk.

This must be a recent development. I did not see a single MBT there a year or two ago. However, I wasnt in RC-S.

Erm- another curious detail. Assuming the crew got a good lase on a human sized target at 500 meters, it's likely they would have never actually seen the impact of the round at that distance with the flash and obscuration. Rather, they would have picked up the pieces of what was left. I don't doubt that the person in question was hit and did his job, but other details aren't filled in so much that the reporting is kind of sketchy.

As you can see, there isn't much to see but a quick flash and lingering dust when the gun is fired. Even in the thermal channel, 500 meters is too short to observe the round impacting with the muzzle flash.

It doesn't say that they saw the impact, it is simply reported that the round hit the insurgent in the abdomen. This could have been reported any number of ways after-the-fact, for instance by seeing the insurgent laying there through some binoculars and seeing a massive wound in his abdomen.