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If we could make this happen at more funerals over there, the war on terror would be over in six months as the cascade of corpses exponentially increased.
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Mar 28, 2017 22:18
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Allahu akbar? No wait! Inshallah 
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Mar 28, 2017 22:25
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Inshallah Akbar! What a time saver
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Mar 29, 2017 00:28
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I thought T-90s would be able to detect lasing (I don't think that's the right term but I'm using it)? Or are these the crap export models being used by SAA? I think the running away might point towards SAA but I dunno, I can't read squigglly letters I think that's a T-62M, not a T-90, but if it were a T-90 it would be able to detect being lased. There's no need to lase them to fire a TOW at them, though.
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Genocide Tendency posted:Pretty sure there is roughly 400 actual pictures of this that were set up/posed. Oh, easy. http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/19/t/153185.aspx That's actually his second cartoon for that - he did an earlier version with a much more clean-cut pre-war looking trooper, campaign hat and all, which I can't find easily with GIS.
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Mar 29, 2017 09:01
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That's actually pretty great. I generally think model dioramas that people build at home are dumb, but that...I like that.
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Mar 29, 2017 15:16
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Mar 30, 2017 11:43
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What's Gabe Newell doing in that picture.
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Mar 30, 2017 11:53
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It would be funny if they gave him a kippa-sized helmet to go with his kevlar cravat
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Mar 30, 2017 12:29
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That's apparently Gerry Brownlee, New Zealand's Minister of Defence, and he's in Iraq
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Mar 30, 2017 14:14
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That kiwi definitely don't fly.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:17
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Jaguars! posted:
NNNnnooooorrrrrrrmmmmmm!
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Mar 30, 2017 14:35
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You know that sharp, twanging noise bridge cables that snap make in movies? That's what I imagine some of those Kevlar strands are emitting.
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Mar 30, 2017 14:46
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The real crime is not shooting the person who took the footage. Do they have Parkinson's?
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Mar 30, 2017 14:49
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Jaguars! posted:
Man. Even if they can't hit the broad side of a barn at this range that guy's still in serious danger. Dammit. Comment seen elsewhere: "Meal Team 6" Phanatic fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 21:31
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I'm the dude cracking up in the background
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Mar 30, 2017 21:57
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Phanatic posted:Man. Even if they can't hit the broad side of a barn at this range that guy's still in serious danger. Sgt Shultz is the other comment making the rounds in NZ.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:46
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Plz don't disrespect our minister of defence, he tries so hard he took university entrance twice and I also want to know whether the other guy is an Iraqi or some other ally country.
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Mar 30, 2017 22:59
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Uh yea, the weird squiggly lines on his shoulder plus his baller stache confirm that he is indeed an iraqi.
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Mar 30, 2017 23:29
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That red patch is a specific IA unit, paratroopers I think.
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Mar 31, 2017 04:51
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Was the giant drawing of a parachute a giveaway?
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Mar 31, 2017 10:58
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Did the Iraqis have any cool morale patches?
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I don't the concept of morale is huge in most Arab armies
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bulletsponge13 posted:That red patch is a specific IA unit, paratroopers I think. You know how they get them to jump out of the planes? they fly towards combat
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Mar 31, 2017 18:53
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https://twitter.com/thinkdefence/status/847817858176430080
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aphid_licker posted:Did the Iraqis have any cool morale patches? The Iraqi army dudes I dealt with loved having anything we had, and I knew a couple of dudes who traded theirs away to some IA. And I know I've seen some pictures of IA SF dudes with morale patches. The Pi dude posted:You know how they get them to jump out of the planes? This one took me a second, but it's a pretty good joke.
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aphid_licker posted:Did the Iraqis have any cool morale patches? Yeah, they mostly say "Labayki ya Zaynab"
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Smashurbanipal posted:Yeah, they mostly say "Labayki ya Zaynab" Does that translate into "molon labe"?
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"gently caress This I'm Out"
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In https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3764654&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=91#post470783745 the Syrian Army are getting samples of TOWs quite easily - does this have implications intelligence-wise, or is it just assumed that the Russians/Chinese would already know of, or have samples of these TOWs?
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Pikehead posted:In https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3764654&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=91#post470783745 the Syrian Army are getting samples of TOWs quite easily - does this have implications intelligence-wise, or is it just assumed that the Russians/Chinese would already know of, or have samples of these TOWs? I doubt we are shipping anything that is not already out there. They have been making TOWs since the 60s. And in all the pics I've seen, they are using older variants (at least a gen behind the current issued system) and they can't even use some of the missile variants that are produced. If we are shipping some new poo poo, we would be hindered by the old targeting system.
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In a way, knowing how the Syrians/Russians are jamming the last gen probably helps keep the current gen ahead of those countermeasures. Good for Syria though. The intel work alone is impressive.
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do not listen to if you have bad PTSD https://soundcloud.com/magneticart/firefight-no-name-village this was posted here a long time ago PookBear fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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 Variation on a popular theme
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I've been on a Troubles kick because, well it's just interesting, and goddamn was it crazy. Maybe because it was an actual sectarian-insurgent-counterinsurgent war in the English speaking world in our lifetime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcS2LBx3nZ4 Also love the British colonel at 14:20. Brits have a way of saying "poo poo's hosed" without saying exactly that. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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Apr 2, 2017 09:10
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Reverand maynard posted:do not listen to if you have bad PTSD Jesus that's intense
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Wikkheiser posted:I've been on a Troubles kick because, well it's just interesting, and goddamn was it crazy. Maybe because it was an actual sectarian-insurgent-counterinsurgent war in the English speaking world in our lifetime. No idea why the Brits didn't just move the border a couple km back and washed their hands of the mess. If you look at the voting results up until even Brexit it's pretty clear where the ethnic divide is. Also this is kinda interesting: quote:According to Malcolm Sutton's Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland:[193] That civilian kill ratio for loyalist paramilitaries, yikes.
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aphid_licker posted:That civilian kill ratio for loyalist paramilitaries, yikes.  The loyalist paramilitaries were some scary people. I want to read more about them and also about collusion between them and the security forces. A lot of the easiest stuff to find, videos and such, are about the IRA. My guess is that's because all sides in the conflict had an interest in focusing on them, either because they were the "bad guys" in the British press, because the IRA's propaganda machinery played into this as well, and because foreign observers sympathized with them as the "good guys." Also this documentary is pretty dark. Focuses on some psychologically damaged ex-IRA men who drive cabs now. But poo poo was hosed. There's a lot of pointing out the window and "oh that's where my mate took a bullet to the dome on the second of October 1982." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQAusM72s7g BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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