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Old 08-10-09, 05:31 PM   #1
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Default Insurgents setting IED- big surprise

You can't see us, its dark!

They must never watch TV to know that they can be seen anytime day or night.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/wor...nsurgent.usdod
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Old 08-10-09, 05:48 PM   #2
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The big bad US military must be indescriminately killing people.

Watch the video and realise that isn't true.

The same big bad US military kept Western Europe safe for 30 years.
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Old 08-10-09, 05:51 PM   #3
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classic, if only they could catch more of em!
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Old 08-10-09, 09:25 PM   #4
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Something is wrong here...

First of all this video surfaced months ago.

It was attributed to a AC130 gunship not a helicopter.

I can only assume a helicopter called in the recon and the AC130 did the deed.

Note the time of report of the guns to impact of the projectiles. It was a long ways off.

Helicopters do not carry that kind of caliber either.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21789181083769

This kind of firepower is enough to make your blood curdle.
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Old 08-10-09, 11:31 PM   #5
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Isn't that from that game...?

Anyway, long gone are the days when people were somehow convinced and impressed by the US 'precision airstrikes'. Mostly it's just wedding parties etc. that get targeted.
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Old 08-11-09, 12:25 AM   #6
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screw em.

i say it was under kill
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Old 08-11-09, 02:24 AM   #7
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...0623-voa03.htm
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Old 08-11-09, 04:38 AM   #8
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Something is wrong here...

First of all this video surfaced months ago.

It was attributed to a AC130 gunship not a helicopter.

I can only assume a helicopter called in the recon and the AC130 did the deed.

Note the time of report of the guns to impact of the projectiles. It was a long ways off.

Helicopters do not carry that kind of caliber either.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21789181083769

This kind of firepower is enough to make your blood curdle.

that was defo a chopper kill not a spectre. first the missile strike, it looked like a hellfire or some such, second the vehicles movement alters to direct path when they use the cannon you can see they stop circling and move in direct to close distance for the cannon.
the impact blooms are dust rather then explosions.
also it looks alot like the FLIR from an Apache, the cobra usually has hard black crosshairs on their barrels. Apache's can use their 30mm chain guns out to about 1km.
defo a chopper kill that one
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Old 08-11-09, 04:41 AM   #9
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I never noticed any brides or grooms being harmed during the making of this film
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Old 08-11-09, 10:08 AM   #10
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that was defo a chopper kill not a spectre. first the missile strike, it looked like a hellfire or some such, second the vehicles movement alters to direct path when they use the cannon you can see they stop circling and move in direct to close distance for the cannon.
the impact blooms are dust rather then explosions.
also it looks alot like the FLIR from an Apache, the cobra usually has hard black crosshairs on their barrels. Apache's can use their 30mm chain guns out to about 1km.
defo a chopper kill that one
I think the camera view portrayed in this video was not the targeting system.

I still think this was the work of an C130
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Old 08-11-09, 04:59 PM   #11
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ok we'll agree to disagree then but at 2:39 the aspect of the aircraft changes, the movement is now forward so they can fire a missile at the guy in the road.
trust me its a chopper.
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Old 08-12-09, 04:25 AM   #12
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Judging by the vid I'd say it's definitely a chopper, and more precisely an Apache because at 1:38 you can hear the pilot telling someone ".. lead in with Hellfires and follow-up with the 30mm". Neither Cobras or AC-130s sport 30mms. Then the aspect chances from side to on-the-nose as they line-up for the attack-run. During the attack you can also hear the missile leave the rail.
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