Is it illegal for a tank driver to run over an enemy soldier

>>33524928
>Is it illegal for a tank driver to run over an enemy soldier in the heat of battle?

I don't think so. I knew a guy who was an M60 driver around the time the US was changing over to the Abrams MBT. He told me he was instructed to "use the vehicle as a weapon if need be."

>>33524928

Also, take note that it's considered "not okay" to use a tank to collapse enemy trenches and bury the enemy

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/world/us-army-buried-iraqi-soldiers-alive-in-gulf-war.html

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>>33524928
>rpg gunner getting that close
Typically a tank is the talk of the town and the only real running over of people you will be doing is that of the dead and the dying.

>>33524980
>some staff writer for a newspaper in 1990 gets to decide right and wrong unilaterally

>>33525005

It happens in the Iraqi army.

>>33524928
I read some story about an m1 abrams shooting a dude from about 50 yards.
A Sabot round straight through the RPG guy.

>>33525108
I read a story that said the pope was from the lizard from the galgamec region

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Not a problem

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Still not a problem

>>33525330
i wonder what was going through his mind in his last moments...

>>33525365
Tracks

>>33524928
No. Though odds are if someone jumps out in front of you like that the commander, loader, or gunner would just shoot them. Nobody wants to clean dead guy off the tank.

Pretty rare anyone ever gets close to a tank though, AAVPs and Bradley's ran a lot of people over in Iraq though.

>>33524980
Hippies whine about everything.

>>33525309
Noice

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>>33525383
Guess he should have tread more carefully.

>>33525365
"Maybe its true. Maybe hitler didnt really do anything wrong..."

>>33524928
>Is it illegal?
kek

>>33525309
>>33525330

Those seem less "heat of battle" and more "summary execution"

Those are war crimes.

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>>33524980

>Operating like snowplows, the tanks drove alongside the ditches, filling them in. Colonel Maggart said that in most cases, Iraqi troops had enough time to see the plows coming, jump out of the trenches and surrender. Gunners Beside Plow Tanks
>For those Iraqi soldiers who continued to resist from outside the trenches, Bradley fighting vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns and 25-millimeter cannon drove alongside the plow tanks, Colonel Maggart said.

Damn I want a video.

>>33525046
>>33525415

The writer doesn't seem to be soap boxing in the article. He just writes what happened and includes several quotes from multiple officers that state that's just how it is.

>"People somehow have the notion that burying guys alive is nastier than blowing them up with hand grenades or sticking them in gut with bayonets," said Col. Lon Maggart. "Well it's not."

He doesn't even imply that it was wrong. If this article was written today then immediately following that paragraph would be something like:

>Still, the public has raised concerns over the incident criticizing the military of using seemingly methodical tactics to systematically bury Iraqis alive. A number of hashtags have begun trending on twitter including #FreedomIsntUnderSand and #BulldozeEvil.

You faggots are conditioned to sperg out at any mention of war journalists. It happened. It was reported. Not a big deal you tumblrinas.

>>33525108
It was a HEAT round. It was from Greatest Tank Battles in History

>>33525459
damn you

>>33524928
fuck no it isn't. I have more vehicle kills than rifle kills. feels good man. (less to clean, desu.)

>>33525459
fukkin rekd!

>>33525309
That is a lot of potted meat

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>If this article was written today then immediately following that paragraph would be something like:

>Still, the public has raised concerns over the incident criticizing the military of using seemingly methodical tactics to systematically bury Iraqis alive. A number of hashtags have begun trending on twitter including #FreedomIsntUnderSand and #BulldozeEvil.

more like

>and yet some of the public don't like the idea of, um, MURDER WITH SAND. Like we live in this space age society of smartphones and smartcars and lattefukkicicinionis and we're just BURYING PEOPLE ALIVE. Like uh, never mind that this war is racist and problematic AF, the military keeps coming up with ways to kill brown people in the most horrible ways imaginable. #blacklivesmatter #FreedomIsntUnderSand #WeMustUndersandThem #RefugeesWelcome

>>33525662
kek

>>33526145
>#WeMustUndersandThem

kek

>>33526145
>Undersand

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>>33524980
>nytimes

Get this fake news outta here.

>>33525683
i can't wait for gulf war/iraq/afghanistan official footage to be declassified.

>highway of death guncam
>Bradley atgms at night vs t72s

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng

A guy on /k/ once posted a story of how he got his first kill in Afghanistan by running over a durka that was hiding in a shack.

>>33525662
Not sure if trolling

>>33528612
We had one episode of a Apache that scared a durka on a moped so hard that he drove of the side of the road and in pretty sure that guy died. We knew he was talib but as he had no weapon on him at the time, ROE dictated no weapons release but said nothing of low-level flying after the fucker

>>33524980
>not okay" to use a tank to collapse enemy trenches and bury the enemy

I'm really bad at seeing potholes.

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>>33528806
>ship out to Iraq
>pic related is driving the M1
>ohboy.mp4

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>>33524928
>s it illegal for a tank driver to run over an enemy soldier in the heat of battle?

Any enemy combatant is fair game. Don't listen to leftists or POGs.

>>33525309

Is it bad that the only real problem I have with this is that all the gore will get into the moving parts and be a bitch to clean?

>>33525683
>>Still, the public has raised concerns over the incident criticizing the military of using seemingly methodical tactics to systematically bury Iraqis alive. A number of hashtags have begun trending on twitter including #FreedomIsntUnderSand and #BulldozeEvil.

wow i didnt know twitter existed in 1991. really makes you think

>>33528844
Are you completely fucking retarded

>>33524928
Who's going to know?

>>33524928
Soldiers engaged in military operations are shielded from liability for things that would normally violate the laws of the nation they are in.

So a solider that runs a man over with a tank can't be charged with murder.

There's no regulation in the UCMJ that says a US solider can't kill an enemy with whatever is at hand, including a tank. The military at a whole is bound by treaty agreement not to use some tools as anti-personnel weapons as a matter of policy, but if a solider in the field uses them to kill an enemy it's not a legal matter.

>>33528875
What guy?
We can't see shit in these things!

>>33525459
He should give tanks that it was a quick death

>>33528918
oh god
>if boss texts thanks or whatever its always as "tank you" or "tanks alot"
serious cringeworthy shit from a fresh and over green LT

>>33524928
More infantry are killed by being run over by tanks than being shot by tanks.

>be Mohammed
>join Isis
>see succulent steel beast full of infidels
>Allah will guide my rpg!
>jump out in front of steel beast
>get squashed

Such is life in the dust bowl of fun

>>33528918
No

>>33528943
No

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>>33525459

>>33524928
It's war. Killing the enemy is encouraged.

>>33525206
SHUT IT DOWN

>>33529199
Historically speaking, it's true.

Less true these days with all the air strikes and mechanized infantry.

>>33524928

You mean running over your own guys to get to a position? If they attempt to damage your equipment, of course you're allowed to destroy them with any means possible.

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>>33528844

> If this article was written today

Anon pls

>>33529385
THIS

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>>33525459
goddamnit im fucking crying now

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>>33524928
>Is it illegal for a tank driver to run over an enemy soldier in the heat of battle?

No, tanks have used their tracks to collapse trenches and simply squish people in shallow ones, all done on purpose.

I don't know why it would be a war crime, it's not like you know who has a 20 kg shaped charge under a blanket in the trench...or something. And those guys in the trench, they are going to kill people if you leave there, in good cover.

Would YOU like to see your buddies die just because some purple-haired hippo back home said it's "evil" to kill people by burying them in their defensive positions? I sure wouldn't.

>>33528837

Just hit it with a pressure washer.