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Nenonen posted:OTOH there is a limited supply of them, and at some point you'll start harming your agricultural production by stripping countryside of not just young men but all horses as well. http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/us-taliban-both-claim-success-in-offensives-1.76564#.Uulhv7SzOlQ
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Ah yes, horses, critical for a height advantage over the enemy in battle! Also, don't forget donkey. While meek in its default configuration, it could be upgraded with a radio and anti-tank capabilities. 
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Ensign Expendable posted:Also, don't forget donkey. While meek in its default configuration, it could be upgraded with a radio and anti-tank capabilities. How much does it cost in World of Tanks?
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Hogge Wild posted:How much does it cost in World of Tanks? An assload.
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Arquinsiel posted:There was some speculation thrown around about replacing quad ATVs with horses for SpecOps teams in Afghanistan not that long ago. No idea if they actually followed through on it post-invasion period. The Northern Alliance in combination with some US observers managed to conduct a cavalry charge juuuuuust after a late laser-guided bombing run in 2001 which worked out pretty spectacularly for them. Sabres and all! In a place like Afghanistan, horses would realistically be much better for special operations with limited logistical support, but I don't think it meshes well with the US military's techno-fetishism. You can't really have a laser guided horse.
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Slavvy posted:In a place like Afghanistan, horses would realistically be much better for special operations with limited logistical support, but I don't think it meshes well with the US military's techno-fetishism. You can't really have a laser guided horse. Can't you do incredibly expensive Kevlar armor for them like they do for dogs?
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AATREK CURES KIDS posted:An assload. 
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wdarkk posted:Can't you do incredibly expensive Kevlar armor for them like they do for dogs?
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Frostwerks posted:What are we looking at here? There are homing pigeons in those guys' packs.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Ah yes, horses, critical for a height advantage over the enemy in battle! Wouldn't the horses start fleeing like hell if they heard a shot right in their ears? All the horses i've met seem to panic whenever a slight breeze passes near them.
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Mans posted:Wouldn't the horses start fleeing like hell if they heard a shot right in their ears? All the horses i've met seem to panic whenever a slight breeze passes near them. Are those horses trained for war and raised in a general noisy military environment?
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Yeah, war horses don't give a poo poo about gunfire.
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Slavvy posted:Yeah, war horses don't give a poo poo about gunfire.
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Interesting, I never knew that! Also it's occurred to me that specops horses will never happen because of PETA.
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Slavvy posted:Interesting, I never knew that! But think of the market for Horse Kevlar body armour plates!
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I sincerely doubt the military gives a poo poo about PETA.
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SeanBeansShako posted:But think of the market for Horse Kevlar body armour plates! $1.5 million DLC
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Slavvy posted:Interesting, I never knew that!
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There's a really affecting passage in a war memoir by a Wehrmacht soldier about how Germany has been stripped of all its horses and they've all died on the Eastern Front. Maybe it was Guy Sajer? That's just a shot in the dark
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Slavvy posted:Interesting, I never knew that! have you ever been right in this thread 
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Ah, the Russian M1901 Bird-poo poo Vest. Useful for when you must disguise yourself among piles of guano.
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This is awesome, although I can't but help feel he should be wearing a Stetson. Obviously they DID follow through.
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Rodrigo Diaz posted:have you ever been right in this thread Nope 
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Slavvy posted:Yeah, war horses don't give a poo poo about gunfire. Could any horse be gunbroke past adolescence or was it you can't teach an old horse new tricks territory?
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Mycroft Holmes posted:$1.5 million DLC Took someone long enough.
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Frostwerks posted:Could any horse be gunbroke past adolescence or was it you can't teach an old horse new tricks territory? In some account I read, farm horses that were used in the front panicked after the war every time they saw an airplane, thinking the Sturmoviks are coming again. Horse PTSD. The Entire Universe posted:Speclops Bronies in arms.
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Yeah, I thought one of the more iconic moments of the War in Afghanistan was CIA/Spec Opsy dudes riding around on horses with the Northern Alliance to call in airstrikes from B-2's to dunk on the Taliban. The media got a real kick out of the ancient transport, laser-guided smart munition payload vibe.
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My great-grandmother had her favorite horse requisitioned from her for the war effort in 1941. However, the horses weren't returned to their owners but the owners were compensated instead. Late 1944, she travelled all around Finland for the state horse auctions to find the horse. Finally she did, won the auction and returned home with her horse. That's my war horse story.
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In actual military history news (how often does that happen!) Ferguson continues to add to the pile of evidence that makes his naming to Harvard inexplicable. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/britain-first-world-war-biggest-error-niall-ferguson?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 e: vvv yes Gove's article is just one big 
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Fascinating how a conflict 100 years ago still manages to spark heated debate like that.quote:In his article, Gove said dramas such as Oh! What a Lovely War and satirical programmes such as Blackadder, combined with leftwing interpretations of the war, had allowed deeply unpatriotic myths to take hold, and had led some to denigrate the "patriotism, honour and courage" of those who served and died. What's more, they depicted the Virgin Queen as an utter twat!  
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At this rate who can tell what sacrilege will be next - somebody calling the royal family a band of useless moochers on national television? The moral decay of today's generation...
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Un-patriotic? Literally the worst thing to be.
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Gove is a moron who I wish would stop obsessing over funny alt history comedies and actually do some fort of vaguely positive work in my countries government. Oh wait never mind. He can just go away. That'd be cool too.
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steinrokkan posted:At this rate who can tell what sacrilege will be next - somebody calling the royal family a band of useless moochers on national television? The moral decay of today's generation... Or even worse, calling them...Germans.
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Baldrick, The true unsung hero and soldier of the trenches. His soul stirring war poetry will be remembered for generations. It is actually pretty heart breaking, as the cast and crew when filming that series of Blackadder understood the sad gravitas of the whole thing and it is all pretty respectable and tastefully done.
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