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2008-01-07 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF develops tiny bulldozer for warfare inside Palestinian cities

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Israeli forces have sent full-size bulldozers ahead of ground troops, causing considerable damage to buildings

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Posted by gorb 2008-01-07 03:16|| 2008-01-07 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 How sad. They've been screwing around with the same shithole for so long that they've broken down and developed a piece of equipment just to fit it's streets better.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-01-07 03:49|| 2008-01-07 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Wanna bet your Army would be placing an order for a gross of them with IMI in less than a year?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-01-07 05:43|| 2008-01-07 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 My advice is to make it remote controlled, and go to a Cat D12 chassis. Happy motoring!

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-07 08:06|| 2008-01-07 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The D12 is the right machine. Those alleys will only be a tight squeeze the first time.

Posted by Grunter 2008-01-07 08:34|| 2008-01-07 08:34|| Front Page Top

#6 It's for mini pancakes.

Posted by Penguin 2008-01-07 09:54|| 2008-01-07 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Best thing is, they're cheap.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-07 11:42|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2008-01-07 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Ow! My foot!

Posted by Rachel Corrie 2008-01-07 12:45|| 2008-01-07 12:45|| Front Page Top

#9 In previous operations, Israeli forces have sent full-size bulldozers ahead of ground troops, causing considerable damage to buildings.

I fail to see the problem...

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-07 13:03|| 2008-01-07 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 bigjim-ky has the right idea.

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-07 14:18|| 2008-01-07 14:18|| Front Page Top

#11 How could anyone protest against a cute bulldozer (a calfdozer, perhaps?) with a straight face? It'll make those stone-throwing youths look like they bullies they are, picking on those poor, little things like that!

Posted by trailing wife 2008-01-07 16:48|| 2008-01-07 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Wanna bet your Army would be placing an order for a gross of them with IMI in less than a year?

Nah. Maybe we'll just steal the plans from Israel. Then maybe sell them to China. Or we'll trade a few of them for Pollards head.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-01-07 18:59|| 2008-01-07 18:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Wanna bet your Army would be placing an order for a gross of them with IMI in less than a year?

Nah. Maybe we'll just steal the plans from Israel. Then maybe sell them to China. Or we'll trade a few of them for Pollards head.

Posted by Mike N. 2008-01-07 18:59|| 2008-01-07 18:59|| Front Page Top

#14 How could anyone protest against a cute bulldozer (a calfdozer, perhaps?) with a straight face? It'll make those stone-throwing youths look like they bullies they are, picking on those poor, little things like that!

I can see them now: done in pink, with Hello Kitty decals on the sides. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2008-01-07 19:13|| 2008-01-07 19:13|| Front Page Top

#15 "Israeli forces have sent full-size bulldozers ahead of ground troops"
Since that wasn't effective, they should have gone bigger, not smaller.

Posted by Darrell 2008-01-07 19:21|| 2008-01-07 19:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Problem with a mini-dozer is traction, there isn't enough weight to keep the tracks from sliding instead of biting in and pushing. Unless you build in huge weights it's pretty useless.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-07 20:19|| 2008-01-07 20:19|| Front Page Top

#17 From the article:

"a vehicle taller than it is wide or long, painted olive drab, with small wheels, and a black shovel attached to the front. It has room for one person behind heavily reinforced and protected windows.

The main innovation, besides its small size, is a firing post for the driver, the article said. The driver can fire in all directions, staving off attacks and "destroying targets." Ordinary bulldozers do not allow the driver to open fire."

Posted by Pappy 2008-01-07 21:17|| 2008-01-07 21:17|| Front Page Top

#18 done in pink, with Hello Kitty decals on the sides. ;-)

So long as the Hello Kittys are wearing those silly Israeli hats, lotp. ;-) Olive drab is fine for the Israeli uniforms, but for a calfdozer? The firing post sounds like a good thing, but can the 'dozer driver shoot and knock walls down at the same time?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-01-07 21:44|| 2008-01-07 21:44|| Front Page Top

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