I seriously doubt the T-90, T-90MS or the Armata has anything but composite armor with ERA (explosive reactive armor) layered over that. Those tanks are designed to face the M1A2 Abrams, Challengers and Leopards with their large smooth bore canons and state of the art armor. Resign impregnated plywood? Not.
ETA, From Military-today.com [T-90MS, Tagil]…combat machine has new composite armor as well as built-in Relikt explosive reactive armor (ERA) in place of the previous Kontakt-5. The Tagil is fitted with side skirts with built-in Relikt ERA. It provides protection against tandem warheads and reduces penetration of APFSDS rounds by over 50%. …
When was there ever a time in history when there weren’t any trees growing in Jerusalem? There were certainly trees there at the time of Jesus. Not as many as in Brazil, sure, but there have always been trees there.
Back to wood composites, I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned their biggest advantage over steel: Wood is cheap. It might not be as good as steel for a lot of applications, but there are still plenty of applications where it’s good enough, and so if cost is an object, you make things for those applications out of wood. Sure, nothing made out of wood is going to stand up to a modern main battle tank like the Abrams, but it wouldn’t be too hard to make wood armor that can withstand small arms fire. And so, if you’re just worried about small arms fire, you might make an armored vehicle out of wood.
Magog has been proven to be located where modern day Russia is located via archeological discoveries of ancient maps. Magog is Russia. Gog is a person who is either in control of Magog or is empowering the person in control of Magog. All of these things are easily provable with a little scholastic historical research and a little examination of the passages in the Bible, but truth is not what you’re looking for, an opportunity to demean the Bible and anyone who believes in it is. You’re a very shallow person. Perhaps you should move to another forum if you don’t have anything positive and/or factual to add.
What you want is to cast doubt without having to do the leg work of proving/disproving with research and factual findings. It is common knowledge and easily provable with a little research of history that Jerusalem was a desolate bone yard of a desert. Mark Twain went there in 1867 and wrote about how crappy it was: Netanyahu's Embrace of Mark Twain - The New York Times
I pulled that up from a 5 second long Google search. Do you care about facts or are you merely here to cast doubt on a subject that you have zero knowledge of?
Is. 35:1-10
1 The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands. 2 The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the Lord’s splendor, see his greatness and power. 3 Give strength to hands that are tired and to knees that tremble with weakness. 4 Tell everyone who is discouraged, “Be strong and don’t be afraid! God is coming to your rescue, coming to punish your enemies.” 5 The blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear. 6 The lame will leap and dance, and those who cannot speak will shout for joy. Streams of water will flow through the desert; 7 the burning sand will become a lake, and dry land will be filled with springs. Where jackals used to live, marsh grass and reeds will grow. 8 There will be a highway there, called “The Road of Holiness.” No sinner will ever travel that road; no fools will mislead those who follow it. 9 No lions will be there; no fierce animals will pass that way. Those whom the Lord has rescued will travel home by that road. 10 They will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever, forever free from sorrow and grief.
Here’s a novel idea, how about you do some research and find out what the Book says before you make assertions as if you were speaking factually. That is what Euclid taught you to do isn’t it?
<A chemical engineer’s perspective> Even if there was enough epoxy wood available, you may not want to burn it. Burning epoxy produces toxic compounds and if Israel started burning them on the scale predicted here, the folks there may not live for 7 years.
Critical thinking isn’t being taught in schools any more, is it? I have news for you dude. You are wrong. Completely, absolutely, totally wrong. Always and forever wrong. Learn to live with it.
Glad you started this thread. I remember this from a Jack Chick comic book when I was a kid in the 70’s. Even at that age I recall thinking it was just silly to build a tank out of flammable materials, because the obvious counter would be flamethrowers (ignoring you know, high-explosive projectiles that they tend to get exposed to).
Also good to know there was some nugget of truth to the story. Water “tank” supports. hee hee.
If it’s that easy, would you mind walking us through this little scholastic historical research? I’d Google it but I want to make sure I’m looking at exactly the same scholastical historical research that you’re referring to.
I wouldn’t consider stating that Israel would be scattered abroad and then brought back to Jerusalem from the East, West, North, then South (In That Specific Order) vague, which is now a historically accurate fact.
Here is another prophesy that has been fulfilled:
(8) The prophet Moses foretold (with some additions by Jeremiah and Jesus) that the ancient Jewish nation would be conquered twice and that the people would be carried off as slaves each time, first by the Babylonians (for a period of 70 years), and then by a fourth world kingdom (which we know as Rome). The second conqueror, Moses said, would take the Jews captive to Egypt in ships, selling them or giving them away as slaves to all parts of the world. Both of these predictions were fulfilled to the letter, the first in 607 BC and the second in AD 70. God’s spokesmen said, further, that the Jews would remain scattered throughout the entire world for many generations, but without becoming assimilated by the peoples or of other nations, and that the Jews would one day return to the land of Palestine to re-establish for a second time their nation (Deuteronomy 29; Isaiah 11:11-13; Jeremiah 25:11; Hosea 3:4-5 and Luke 21:23-24).
This prophetic statement sweeps across 3,500 years of history to its complete fulfillment—in our lifetime.
(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 10 to the 20th.)
If you TRULY want to investigate the accuracy of the bible and it’s prophesies then apply the same rigorous standards of research to it as we do to other sciences and theories. The problem you have is that you have chosen to believe what you want without fact, and that is not science or research, that’s religion.
Could you show your work on that? Because given the example of history, the chance of any given people being conquered eventually is, at absolute best, 1/2, and given that a people is conquered, the chance of them being transported by ship and enslaved is so close to 1 that it’s not worth tracking the difference. What part of the prophecy is the hard part?
You don’t get to count things written after the fact as a foretelling, even if they are attributed to people speaking before the fact. Also, still waiting on those maps.
It’s always tricky to define the strength, singular, of wood, because it’s a non-isotropic material, and often non-homogeneous as well. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some woods are stronger than steel in some directions, but probably not in all.
Nah the prophecy is saying that the Israeli people will invade the OTHER country, claiming wit as the winners prize… Funny, No one does that these days. Somewhat immoral and callous… its not going to work unless you enslave the population for a few centuries… Who does that ?
I guess though if the enemy only had flammable weapons, they deserve to lose, and its not really much of a statement about Israel’s strengths is it… “in other news, in the Battle of Israel vs a two year old boy, Israel won the lollypop” ???
The USA navy has destroyers made of wood… One hit a reef/atoll in Phillipines a few years ago… (2011 perhaps) , and it was beyond repair, flooded wood isn’t good… yet they didn’t want to lose it to the sea, so cheap way to get it removed back to Hawaii or something, for careful salvage of entire rooms or devices in the ship, the US Navy cut it up with a string … The string has cutting surfaces attached/embedded, and they drag the string all the way around the boat in one direction, and then reversed it the other direction, and back and forth, cutting through the ship.