Saiid, I watched some of the others last night. While I'm certainly not a fan of the ANNA, I also have a problem supporting those guys on the other side when they yell Allah Akbar every 5 seconds in their video - because if they are aligned with Al Queda, I hope they die too. Having said that, I also understand the opposition is heavily fractured and divided. I do not want the successors of Assad to be Muslim Extremists - look at Egypt for example.
The only reason the ANNA appears to win these engagements is because the people they are fighting are severely outgunned (and not very smart). The ANNA's tactics are sh*t; their personnel seem incompetent, and tactically they are extremely vunerable to an enemy who actually knew how to fight armor in a built-up area. With the right tools, I'd mine the daylights out of their approach routes, targeting the track so the tank becomes immobile, and molotov cocktail the living daylights out of a disabled vehicle. You get a big enough fire started on a disabled tank, and it's done.
It's a shame to watch them destroy cities, homes and lives whole. That's a lot of indescriminate tank fire that really serves no purpose other than to inflict suffering....
P.S. I didn't see what you were getting at when mentioning the 4 minute mark - Can't tell if the infantry running behind the tank were Syrian or insurgent (from the sound of it, they were insurgent); but they could have put an IED/sachel charge on those tanks and didn't. The 29 minute mark where they got a RPG off on the roof of the tank (Normally the thinnest and most vunerable part of a tanks turret) was exactly what I was talking about - that's how you'd fight armor in a urban setting - because the ANNA does not appear to have the infantry to protect the tanks...in that setting, the tanks only option is to keep moving so as to not give RPG teams the chance to set them up...
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