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...aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding his Snapper [antitank missile] to destroy a 50-ton tank has been refighting the Battle of Crécy." Indeed, for the first time since 1916, when the tank made its combat debut in the Battle of the Somme, a single infantryman armed with an antitank guided weapon was potentially an equal match...
Other Russian weapons have also contributed greatly to the improved Arab showing. Soviet-built Snapper and Sagger antitank rockets knocked out as much as a third of Israel's 1,900 operational tanks in the first ten days of fighting. These solid-fuel rockets are accurate at distances of a mile or more and are directed by a gunner who merely keeps the target tank in his cross hairs. Electronic signals from the gunner's controls are transmitted through hair-thin wires that uncoil from the missile as it closes in for the kill. But the Israelis...
...much as the SA-6 has been the nemesis of the Israeli air force, the Soviet-built Snapper antitank missile has tormented Israeli armor. With a range of roughly one mile, the Snapper can literally be steered to its target by a gunner who guides a pair of hair-thin wires that unravel from the back of the soaring rocket. It has accounted for most of Israel's nearly 300 tank losses. More conventional but nonetheless effective has been Egypt's use of the Russian T-62 main battle tank. This is the first time that...
...arrival of Restic & Co. helped him to decide to pursue football again. In his junior year, he was a second-string center, and now, after beating out strong competition. Snavely is the Crimson's starting snapper...
...seem obliged to come across as loudmouthed smart alecks. "Jim, old buddy, how's your sex life?" is a Westport way of saying hello. "What are you running here, a desert?" is a necessary preamble to ordering drinks. Even the boozehound on doubles has a wretched little snapper handy: "Two Scotch on the rocks, put them in the same glass, will you?" The irony is that Dillon is painting a verbal desert inhabited by people who live off words. His achievement, modest but real, is that he manages to populate the place with recognizable, sympathetic forms of life...