Liquid soap as an anti-tank weapon !

I have read that the Hungarians successfully employed the use of drums of liquid soap against Soviet armour on cobbled hills during the Hungarian revolution. Can anyone advise further about this ?

 

Steady on, lad. That's a slippery slope you're treading on.









Gawd, that was terrible! :roll:

 

Damn right! Go wash your mouth out with soap :lol:

 

Alright, I'm sorry.

I promise, I'll clean my act up!

 

it's a new way to stop the enemy and you leave the street and enemy a little cleaner than you found them. it's new low impact warfare.

 

No dirty bombs here

 

Those poor Soviets must have had really stingy eyes

 

To be a kill-joy, I would imagine that it was quite effective - the soap/cobblestones/hill combination would mean that the tanks would lose all/most of their grip on the road, and presumably would then slide down the hill and crash into whatever was at the bottom.

Result - a very shaken tank crew and a possibly damaged tank (tracks or gun damaged).

 

Well, that's what I meant!

 

New meening of a good and clean fight! =D

 

is this true? that would be kinda crazy.

 

neh, I think tanks are way too heavy to be bothered by soap on a hill.

 

PP, I would submit that if the soap was in concentrate form, and there was enough of it, it would be enough for them to lose traction. That could be all it takes. The best tank in the world is no good if it can't get in the fight.

 

On the other hand, all you can do with this method is isolate yourself on a hill. Presumably the enemy has more tricks up his sleeve than merely rolling tanks over to wherever you are - and from downhill he can probably still shoot you.

Undeniably it will be fun when the enemy first tries to scale that ill though... Especially the infantry, too.

And damn all of you and your puns.

 

Tom.

Alias, Atilla the Pun!

 

"Comrade, what is this remarkable liquid?" "I think this is what they call "soap" " We dont have it, on the count we have communist economy.

For the nerdy guys in this forum.

 

Wouldn't a steel treaded track cut into the road way? you never see any tracked construction vehicle on the road (mostly cause they aren't street legal) since the tread would chew up the concrete.

CPS aren't we all nerds here?

 

soap

Actually I understood that CSP stood for ...........
'Canadian Soap Platoon'. ( a secret canuk organisation specialising in Clean Bubble Warfare, converted Churchill Crocodiles squirted concentrated Fairy Liquid onto dirty, scruffy Russian tank troops during the Cod War, whoops sorry, COLD War!!! The Russian combat troopers were so over come with the effect that they decided that 'Making Love, not War' was a better option so they all painted their tanks pink, went to the Berlin Pink Pride Parade and lived happily ever after!
(Well, if we are going to have a daft thread let's go for it!)

 

Not quite - it could also effectively isolate the enemy on top of a hill. And potentially allow you to destroy or even capture a tank while its crew are still dazed after their toboggan ride, and while their comrades are desperately trying not to meet the same fate.

Yes, the enemy have other tricks, but doubtless so will the defence.

It is quite a good short-term 'area-denial' method against tracked (and even wheeled) vehicles. And soldiers are much easier to kill than tanks if you lack any specific anti-tank weaponry.

 

Don't forget, that cobblestones, being fairly hard would not allow the tracks to dig in, and steel tracks are quite slippy, anyway. Tracks usually are on dirt for good reason. I have heard of tanks slipping down hill with the loss of all crew, when the vehicle rolled.