Emuna News Special Report: Meet the BTR 80
Russian BTR 80 Armored Personnel Carrier (photo courtesy of Army-Technology.com)
The BTR-80 8x8 armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by the Arzamas machinery Construction Plant of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, is intended to carry personnel on the battlefield and provide close fire support. It can also carry out reconnaissance, combat support and patrol missions.
Not only is it fast (up to 80 kph on land and 9kph in water!),versatile, and amphibious, it's equipped to carry ten personnel: commander, driver/mechanic, gunner and seven troops. There are seven ball-swivel firing ports in the vehicle hull, four on the right and three on the left side of the vehicle, as well as ports in the upper hatches of the firing compartment for anti-aircraft heavy machine guns. The hatches have armoured doors and are situated on both sides of the vehicle.
The BTR-80 is fitted with NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) protection system, automatic firefighting system, camouflage devices, bilge pumps, night sight equipment, and a self-recovery winch.
The BTR is outfit with awesome firepower. See all the specs here.
Whenever we think that the lunacy and corruption of the anti-emuna appeasement and assimilationist Condi-controlled puppet regime here has reached new and unprecedented heights, we get a new surprise. Now here this: Against the advice of the IDF and the Shin Bet, Olmert has approved the transfer of Fifty (equivalent to 4 battalions, or a regiment) BTR's from Russia to the PA.
And the beat goes on...
The Maccabees had much more grief from their Hellenistic assimilationist fellow Jews than they did from the Greeks. Nothing is new. The Maccabees walked away winners - miraculously - against all odds. With emuna, so will we.
Update: The whole world is now publicizing the above news item, but the Uncle Tom Israeli press isn't saying a word, for obvious reasons. They don't want to upset the Annapolis apple cart. Also, the anti-emuna government wants a nation of bare-headed (in more than one sense of the word) pot-bellied sidewalk-cafe philosophers. They're in for a rude awakening, because Hashem won't let that happen...