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I'll try to find more video clips, but most of the video clips featuring smashed US military equipment are from Iraqi insurgent videos and I'm not about to post that up here...

Those are hard on the eyes because they show a lot of death ,mangled bodies and the like. Thanks for your consideration.

War just simply sucks!

1) U.S. military personnel look at a Soviet-made SA-2 surface-to-air missile launcher demolished in an Allied attack during Operation Desert Storm. A section of the missile is in the foreground. (Released to Public)

2) A demolished Iraqi BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle and demolished tank stand on a roadway in the Euphrates River Valley after they were destroyed by Allied attack during Operation Desert Storm. (Released to Public)

3) An abandoned Iraqi ASU-23-4 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun lies in ruins in the Euphrates River Valley after it was demolished during Operation Desert Storm. (Released to Public)

4) A demolished Iraqi helicopter litters Tallil Airfield following an Allied attack during Operation Desert Storm. (Released to Public)

5) Smoke and flames pours out of several open hatches of a confiscated Serbian Army T-55 Main Battle Tank (MBT), parked in the field artillery area of Camp Dobol, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after C-4 explosive charges, rigged by a US Army TF 1-26 EOD unit, were detonated inside the tank to destroy it during Operation Joint Guard. (Released to Public

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Pictures of smashed US military equipment in Iraq, taken at Camp Anacanda.

Many American CV's were SMASHED by IJN Kamikazes during WW II. Here are some pics of the damage. No Essex class CV was sunk by kamakazies during the war.

The USS Franklin CV-13 was so severly damaged it returned to the US and was totally re-fit. However it never was placed back in service and was laid-up in reserve until 1959.

1) CV-11 Damaged in action on 30 October 1944. View showing work progress on 3 November 1944 at 1230 – flight deck at Fr. 125. (Ship's Photo No. 1003, taken 3 November 1944.) Puget Sound Navy Yard photo # 3984-44.

2) CV-13 damage>> View on the flight deck, looking forward, while the carrier was in New York Harbor, circa 28 April 1945. She had just returned from the Pacific for repair of battle damage received off Japan on 19 March 1945. Note damage to her flight deck, large U.S. ensign flying from her island, and the Manhattan skyline in the background. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-K-4760).

3) USS Franklin (CV-13) burning off the Japanese coast after she was hit by air attack, 19 March 1945. Photographed from USS Santa Fe (CL-60), which was alongside to help with firefighting and rescue work. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (photo # 80-G-273888).

4) CV-14 damage.>> Puget Sound Navy Yard image # 943-45. Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking stbd. showing damage to superstructure caused by Hit #2.
Seattle Branch of the National Archives photo. Record group 181.

5) CV-17 damage>>Aircraft wreckage on the flight deck, after most fires were out following hits by two Kamikazes off Okinawa, 11 May 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives (# 80-G-259904).

IED's or roadside bombs can cause major destruction..Check out this Humvee. The driver, a US Army SGT, was killed.

Let's get this thread going again!

1) A policeman inspects the wreckage of a military helicopter that crashed, killing three Bolivians and one Venezuelan, on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, 28 June 2007. The aircraft was one of two lent by Venezuela and might have been used even by President Evo Morales, local media reported. EPA/JORGE ABREGO

2) American and Turkish ISAF soldiers secure the area after a car bomb blast in eastern Kabul, 28 June 2007. A US civilian female, a Nepalese Gurkha and the suicide bomber lost their lives during the attack on a private American security convoy. Eight others were injured. The convoy was heading to notorious infamous Pul-i-Charki jail where an additional facility is being constructed for Guantanamo Bay prisoners. EPA/SYED JAN SABAWOON

3) Iraqi men inspect the wreckage of cars at the site of a car bomb in the Baiyaa west of Baghdad on 28 June 2007. At least 20 people were killed and 42 others wounded, according to police reports,. . EPA/ALI ABBAS

4) This is the explosion as the 755th Expeditionary Explosive Ordnance Disposal detonation team disposes of over 1,000 pounds of stored munitions, mines, and weapons caches at a controlled detonation outside of Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan June 13.

5) The remnants of a marketplace in Saqlawiyah, Iraq, destroyed after a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device was detonated April 19, 2007. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Neill A. Sevelius) (FOUO) (Released to Public)

Air crash video clip. A AN-24 airplane with 22 people onboard crashed into a mountain southwest of Cambodia. No survivor. Sad! This is a second major air accident since the last one happened in 1997 when a Vietnam airline crash near Pochentong airport. In the video, you can see the airplane in the forest and the spokeman is the Prime Minister, Mr. Hun Sen.

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The picture where you say it is a BMD-1 is not true. Compare the rollers to this BMD-1 Im taking a wild guess but it looks more like an YW-531 series APC.

Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 13's ordnance maintenance section prepare a recently destroyed Amphibious Assault Vehicle to be removed from the side of the road after being hit by an improvised explosive device.

Demonstrators walk next to burned cars during a protest in Villa del Rosario, Colombia, at the border with Venezuela, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007. The protest was held against Colombian government's decision to establish toll booths at the border crossing. (AP Photo/Edgar Cusguen)

An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier collects evidence after a suicide bomb attack targeting an ANA bus in Kabul, Afghanistan, 29 September 2007. A suicide bomber targeting an Afghan Army bus, today blew himself up killing at least 27 people, most of them Afghan Army members

An African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) peacekeeper from Nigeria points to the blast point of a rocket-propelled grenade on a destroyed armoured personnel carrier at Haskanita military group site (MGS) October 1, 2007. Twenty AU soldiers were killed or injured and nine missing after a "deliberate and sustained" assault on the Haskanita base in Darfur on Saturday night by armed men in 30 vehicles, who looted and destroyed the base, the African Union said.

Pakistani soldiers and residents tried to rescue victims of the helicopter crash near the village of Ghori, 11 miles south of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Photo: Amiruddin Mughal/Reuters

Iraqi soldiers inspect a damaged car after a parked car bomb exploded, killing two people and wounding 16 others, according to police, in Baghdad's predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Shaab.

Well, this thread has kept silent for quite a long time. I've just found some pix of the unlucky tanks. Here goes the link: http://mil.qianlong.com/37076/2009/0...@4885428_4.htm