Today for some reason in my town military drills were being conducted by a unit from a base hours away. I happen to come across some military vehicle that looked like a small humvee but far less armor and about the size of a small van. I don't know what its called but standing on the sidewalk and seeing it pass by……. It was sending EXTREMELY LOUD sounds. The LOUDEST THING I EVER HEARD. I could literally hear what seems like a large motor machine and a ton of mechanical parts moving s it rolled down the street.The sound alone as really making me tense and have difficulty simply walking.
But as the vehicle passed the lane my sidewalk was on…. I felt the ground moving a little. And even though it was a small vehicle for a military machine with heavy calibre guns and so on, just seeing it approached made me finally understand why the Romans saw war elephants as terrifying when they fought Hannibal for the first time.
So it made me wonder……….. Nowadays its so easy to see people put a load of list of ways to easily defeat tanks from Molotov cocktail to throwing stones into its canon gun and seeing it explode when it shoots and so on.
But witnessing even a light vehicle not meant for heavy frontline fighting and getting hurt so much by its loud noise in addition to feeling it move the ground underneath me made me wondering……..
Were tanks-even whose used as support role for infantry in the way the French used them, terrifying to face? Too many people nowadays list the flaws of German tanks and blanther about how its a cakewalk o beat them.
Do we underestimate how un-nerving tanks would have been to face esp at the start of the war? Just the loud noise made me so tensed out with adrenaline!
