(OT) Was Re: UN ship design

> John Atkinson wrote:

> > the rule for impfor or whatever it was called in sarajevo was that
french
> > troops quickly took advantage of a loophole in the orders and, when

Um. Well... if you're thinking of the incident that earned them the nickname
"Nordblast", the "sniper fire" they responded to consisted of
anti-tank missiles fired at a couple of Swedish-crewed APCs. Fortunately
for the APC crews, the armour of those vehicles was so thin that the
missiles didn't explode in the crew compartment - in one of the two
vehicles hit the missile went in through one wall and out through the other,
in the other one the engine was destroyed but the crew got away with a few
minor scratches. After this, the Danes flattened the Serb position from which
the missiles had been fired. There was no more problem from the local Serbs
afterwards.

(I got this from one of the guys in the flown-through APC. Not sure if
he was just bragging, but he seemed serious enough. You have to admit that
buzzbombs or other AT missiles qualify for heavier counterfire than rifle
rounds, though <g>)

Later,