October 20, 2004

Back here in November, I covered the story of an American tank that was destroyed in Iraq by a previously unknown weapon. Wild speculation reached for suggestions as wild as a second world war anti-tank rifle given depleted uranium rounds or an electromagnetic railgun, but it now seems that it was almost certainly an RPG7…

Link “An Air Force search and rescue alert was trigged by Chris van Rossman’s flatscreen Toshiba television set. It has a built-in VCR, DVD and CD player. And an undocumented feature that has authorities scratching their heads. Some sort of electric glitch was causing van Rossman’s TV to transmit on the international distress frequency. The…