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platoonDaddy
07-01-16, 10:55
Interesting that the video was supplied by the Secretary of USAF
.@usairforce #Airmen rolled in w/ F-15Es, A-10s, B-52s, MQ-1s during the strikes against Daesh vehicles & fighters
https://twitter.com/SecAF23/status/748853998359158784
Unless they had U.S. troops counting heads afterwards I have to question the 250 KIA number. Not that I wouldn't relish seeing five times that smoked but really?
Outlander Systems
07-01-16, 13:57
KillTV!!!!!!!!
platoonDaddy
07-01-16, 14:08
Unless they had U.S. troops counting heads afterwards I have to question the 250 KIA number. Not that I wouldn't relish seeing five times that smoked but really?
Reminds me of Nam, head counts. Learned real time, never take that number to the bank.
that is sexy right there...
FromMyColdDeadHand
07-01-16, 14:54
Did I see a CH47 doing a gun run in other footage that was released?
That cheered me up immensely
Interesting that the video was supplied by the Secretary of USAF
.@usairforce #Airmen rolled in w/ F-15Es, A-10s, B-52s, MQ-1s during the strikes against Daesh vehicles & fighters
https://twitter.com/SecAF23/status/748853998359158784
B-52s?! That seems an odd choice, but what ever. I guess they all wanted a piece of it. What I'm assuming was an A-10 run at the end was full of win.
Unless they had U.S. troops counting heads afterwards I have to question the 250 KIA number. Not that I wouldn't relish seeing five times that smoked but really?
Well, there as a lot of vehicles in that convoy. Unless they were on the ground counting parts, a guess made in terms of number of vehicles and expected passenger count per vehicle perhaps? Like 200 give or take 50 kinda guess.
ColtSeavers
07-01-16, 16:44
No joy on my phone, click link and see the tweeker page, still shot of convoy in distance with no option to play video and peanut gallery below. :(
Even without sound you can hear the BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
So we finally stopped warning them ahead of time?
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FromMyColdDeadHand
07-01-16, 23:03
Unless they had U.S. troops counting heads afterwards I have to question the 250 KIA number. Not that I wouldn't relish seeing five times that smoked but really?
It's for situations like this that God passed the law of probability.
No joy on my phone, click link and see the tweeker page, still shot of convoy in distance with no option to play video and peanut gallery below. :(
Same here, I don't Twitter I guess.
B-52s?! That seems an odd choice, but what ever. I guess they all wanted a piece of it. What I'm assuming was an A-10 run at the end was full of win.
I saw footage earlier in the news that did indeed appear to be an arc light strike. I immediately thought B-52, but couldn't understand why they'd be in on a free for all on a convoy.
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KalashniKEV
07-02-16, 08:02
MOD posted a good one:
https://www.mod.mil.iq/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3325
Outlander Systems
07-02-16, 08:16
That...WAS AWESOME!
MOD posted a good one:
https://www.mod.mil.iq/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3325
MOD posted a good one:
https://www.mod.mil.iq/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3325
Holy Shiite, morning wood!
How about those dudes lying low, thinking it was over. That one dude was holding a bush on top of his head (like it mattered!). Kind of scary actually.
platoonDaddy
07-02-16, 09:37
First time I read the number of vehicles in the convoy, so there number of 250 should be close:
while riding in 175 vehicles following the Islamic State's defeat there by Iraqi forces.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/01/coalition-forces-kill-two-senior-isis-military-commanders-in-iraq.html?intcmp=hpbt1
KalashniKEV
07-02-16, 10:10
First time I read the number of vehicles in the convoy, so there number of 250 should be close...
I guess there was at least a Father and son among them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-axJZ5Lbpw
MOD don't care! They put it on youtube! LOL!
About the B-52's being in on the fun, I suspect good planning allowed them to be alerted and called in first so they could drop big loads of cluster bombs and then leave. I couldn't play the video but suspect that the old Nam arc-light formation of three ships was in play. A recent conversation with a friend who served on B-52's in Vietnam as an enlisted crew chief said that they flew out of Thailand and circled in South Vietnam until called in to bomb specific targets like enemy troop concentrations, areas with crew served artillery, and such. They had many field days at Khe Sanh where Gen Giap made the mistake of massing 10,000 NVA troops during the siege of the Marine base. He told me something that I haven't verified: while bombing NVA troops during this siege, for the first time B-52's dropped bombs within one mile of American troops instead of the usual three mile buffer zone.
Lets call it propaganda until some other time.
About the B-52's being in on the fun, I suspect good planning allowed them to be alerted and called in first so they could drop big loads of cluster bombs and then leave. I couldn't play the video but suspect that the old Nam arc-light formation of three ships was in play. A recent conversation with a friend who served on B-52's in Vietnam as an enlisted crew chief said that they flew out of Thailand and circled in South Vietnam until called in to bomb specific targets like enemy troop concentrations, areas with crew served artillery, and such. They had many field days at Khe Sanh where Gen Giap made the mistake of massing 10,000 NVA troops during the siege of the Marine base. He told me something that I haven't verified: while bombing NVA troops during this siege, for the first time B-52's dropped bombs within one mile of American troops instead of the usual three mile buffer zone.
Actually it was MUCH closer than that from what I've read.......more like within a kilometer. It was near the end of the siege and the NVA had dug to within roughly 600 meters of the base's MLR. The B-52's put an Arc-Light strike right along the most recent diggings and basically destroyed the enemy's last attempt at getting close enough for a Dien Bien Phu style assault. The Tet Offensive had failed militarily at that point and with his best chance at Khe Sanh now ruined Giap pulled everyone back.
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