UK: Tanks at Heathrow

Elias Castillo said "George Sassoon is wrong in describing the vehicles around Heathrow as tanks". George retorts: "The Daily Mail describes them as Scimitar 'light' tanks with 30 mm cannon". RH: I think we should not go further into the details of this matériel. Why do the military use this French word?

Ronald Hilton - 2/13/03