How on Earth do you beat the 8th level? I always get killed by those rapid fire tanks before I can even see them...

Not having beat that level in a long time I can only guess, but I think unless your radar shows you the locations of those tanks thne you're gonna have to remember roughly where they show up. If they have a ton of armour like I think they do, your best bet is to shoot a Hellfire missile and a bunch of rockets as fast as you can to take them out, preferrably flying over at a high speed so it doesn't have much time to react.

You are trying to destroy these towers, and it is an early warning zone. There are also several of them, so I get killed almost instantly.

Ah man, that is tough no doubt, I just took a crack at it and died. I think the problem is the minute you start hitting a tower those tanks arrive and start to demolish you. >_< I think taking out the towers as fast as humanly possible is the only way to do that without losing a life, you can't destroy the tanks, they're too powerful it seems.

Blast...>_< That is going to be a pain...

as said before, dust the towers then the m1s become easier to beat

basic rule of the strike games: all stats in the game (speed, firerate, armor, damage) of enemies are correct UNLESS they are protected by early-warning (usually told in the missions eg another task, radar, towers, other units tho sometimes you have to guess)

if they are protected by early-warning, you can quadruple those stats, meaning even a lowly bazooka soldier can dust you in seconds

But there are quite a lot of those tanks, and they randomly patrol the area around the towers.