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chitoryu12 posted:That said, they're still claiming that all green T-90s seen are gifts to the Syrian government and definitely not Russians actively fighting in Syria. Certainly possible. If I recall the Russian ground forces in Syria are speculated to be a Battalion Tactical Group of a Naval Infantry Brigade. I was under the impression that Morskaya Pekhota operates T-80s. Then again, BTGs in Ukraine operated all kinds of equipment "liberated from Ukrainian armouries". If it's Russian crewed, there must be another formation active in Syria.
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Ruse posted:He definitely got shot, you can hear the rounds snapping around him before he hits the dirt. Abu Hajaar keeps loving up.
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Had the tires come of a gun while towing it on the highway once. Then this happened the same year. 
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A breakdown of the attack that Abu Hajaar was a part of. http://spioenkop.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-islamic-state-going-diy-inside-diy.html?m=1 On the one hand, I'm impressed that they have workshops turning out up-armoured Humvees. On the other hand, they drive through open fields into the teeth of RPGs again and again.
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Maybe Abu Hajaar rolled through the field and lived?
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Chinatown posted:dont step on mines/IEDs is my takeaway from that video. Would that it were so simple.
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MA-Horus posted:Yeah tell that to the Koreans. They still butthurt about it. (probably not literally though) Although based on photos from Nanking that is also quite possible.
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:That went from complacent to negligent real fast. Yep. Holy gently caress.
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Don't the Russians make HE or Thermobaric versions of many of their ATGMs? Not the worst idea if you can't get close enough to use a Carl G or LAW .
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It looks like they downplayed how hard he is in The Right Stuff.
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go3 posted:ATGM Man probably has more kills than Chris Kyle and a hell of a better KDR Until he takes Abu Hijaar to the ATGM range to deal with PTSD. Still a great scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cq7hf4ylvY I once looked at the loss rates of RCAF and German Starfighters, those guys had balls. I wish The Right Stuff would return to theatres. I saw Apollo 13 on the big screen last year and it was incredible. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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The Elcan C79 would be nice if the mount wasn't loose. I can feel it wobble around whenever I handle my rifle, and that's being as careful as I can be to not touch the optic.
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:A lot of people forget that during WW2 it wasn't just the nazis rounding up and killing Jews A lot of people forget intentionally. You have Romania and Bulgaria fighting on both sides and most of Central and Eastern Europe handing over their Jews and fielding SS divisions, and that's just the start. Senior members of the French police as late as the 60's were former collaborators. De-Nazification may or may not have worked, even Strauss was a Nazi. Much easier to blame a handful of convicted war criminals for everything. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Even the fact that Greece and Italy both had civil wars against the communists in 1945-46 or that there was an insurgency against the Soviets in Poland and the Baltics complicates the tidy uncomplicated image of the war most people have.
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Iraq had pretty much everything lying around, including Italian Tankettes and Shermans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzoZq4TwDog
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I wish I had a pic, but Cubans put T-55 turrets on BTRs.
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Duke Chin posted:...people have too much goddamn time on their hands. Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales is the venue for the annual Man vs Horse Marathon which began in June 1980 following a conversation in the bar of the Neuadd Arms Hotel. The landlord overheard two men discussing the relative merits of men and horses running over mountainous terrain and decided to put this to the test.
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Russian SOF in Syria. There's some good footage of an ATGM hitting a truck.  Look for it at the 0:12 mark. those are the luckiest guys in Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUlDFt4m30 e: Replaced with youtube with english subs. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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The Mexican police reported 9 dead. It's gotta be way more than 9.
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Even during WW2 it the ratio of artillery rounds to enemy casualties was crazy. I imagine small arms even more so. If you can get the enemy to leave you in possession of the field, bodycounts don't mean a whole lot.
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My buddy was an EO tech and basically trained like an olympic athlete on his own time so he could make it through selection. He did, and eventually ended up in JTF2. OTOH I knew another guy who thought walking to his car through the parking lot everyday and drinking Soylent would get him on CJIRU. He's still trying, bless his heart. I heard SAR turns down would-be olympic athletes, and their recruiting pool probably doesn't include as many brodude crossfitters from battalion.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Isn't the Mexican Military or at least their Marines or commando or w/e the nation's police force. I've heard a lot of good things. They aren't corrupt as gently caress and do their job etc Part of it is that they aren't local, and don't live in the community so it is much harder to threaten them or their families.
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I suppose they could be tinkering with the fuses, because out of the box I thought they had to spin a certain number of times before arming.
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Iraqi Army still hasn't figured out "cover"  https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d3b_1406825957&comments=1
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In the spirit of fairness there are not many armies that would have done better against Israel in 1973 or the US in 1991.
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I wonder how much westerners with the Kurds gently caress.
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MikeCrotch posted:I like to think that PissPigGrandad is getting his boots filled on the reg I find it endlessly funny that a guy who hangs out with the Chapo/Cumtown crowd is still fighting while most of the former military types went home.
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Leftist comedians. Their post-election episodes are really good. Somehow a member of the NYC comedy/left crowd ended up with the Kurds.
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So he just filled a grill with tannerite?
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Yeah I know but its just a lot different from the videos you saw in 2011 in Libya and Syria when this poo poo all first started. I guess there are some dudes who have been in the poo poo for 6 years and know what's going on now. Probably not many though Didn't some Chechens set up the first Muj PMC? I think I read they were offering training services somewhere.
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The Blackwater of Jihad A consortium of elite, well-paid fighters from across the former Soviet Union are training jihadis in Syria. Their business model could go global.
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chitoryu12 posted:He runs Tactical Response, a tactical training company, which recently got banned from the Sacramento Valley Shooting Center because one of their instructors had a negligent discharge that put a hole in someone's truck. Is he the guy that suggested putting axle grease in ARs or was that another HSLD type guy?
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not caring here posted:Is there anything else that is a glaring problem with that? Sand, dust, and cold temperatures would almost certainly cause jams almost right away.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Was he even ever in the military? I thought he was part of some backwater police department and parlayed his SWAT type training he got there into "IM UH OPERATOR" cred that landed him a job in Iraq. Until, you know, he hosed up and got people killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prS_QpGIB8Q He seems like a winner.
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Beastie posted:Where can I read about this? Another bald man with goatee explains http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1110003,00.html#ixzz2HpY88cmC e: Here's the actual ambush video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fjrRB7WPQ Who taught this dickhead how to write a report? James Yeager posted:We followed our written S.O.P. in relation to dress which is a locally procured ankle length shirt (also known as a “man dress”) that had been cut off at the waist to make me look like an Iraqi while seated in a car. Everyone wore something like that and/or a Shemag (the “rags” locals wear on their heads that gets them the “rag head” moniker). Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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Missionary Positron posted:Are there any books that deal with the clusterfuck that was the One of the first big ones was Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq. It's a look at how despite being pile of shitheads they were pretty much a law unto themselves, and had poo poo like M72s, AT4s and even a M113 squirreled away in their compounds illegally. There are also countless times they opened up on civilians and escaped prosecution.
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I would read a sociology paper on the spread of the image of Special Forces in popular culture. It seems like until 2001 or so line infantry was the common conception of the military. Most people now could rattle off the names of units that were entirely out of the public imagination in say 1999. Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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