APACHES taking out the bad guys

[platoonDaddy]

Awesome display of technology.


http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=f213b73d647e

[austinN4]

30mm and Hellfire

[JW5219]

Yes, that was awesome ! Thanks for posting that.

[Safetyhit]

Can never get enough of those wonderful clips. Amazing how calm the livestock appears to be while all hell breaks loose around them.

[_Stormin_]

Amazing how calm the livestock appears to be while all hell breaks loose around them.

Isn't it just weird that 30MM cannons don't seem to phase horses or donkeys?

[skijunkie55]

Isn't it just weird that 30MM cannons don't seem to phase horses or donkeys?

I would imagine the donkeys are thinking something along the lines of "finally I can give this tired ass a break!"

pun intended...


but that is an exceptional display of technology and firepower.

[WillBrink]

When I see such vids: I wonder where they come from? Does the mil approve them posted to public access after download from the choppers drive? Guy in the chopper downloads the vid feed to a thumb drive and send off without permission, which seems unlikely to get away with more than once before you're busted.

If mil approves, is it considered good PR to show the tech and just how selective it can be? The source of such vids always interests me almost as much as the vids.

I have conflicting feelings when watching such a vid. Turning BGs setting up on US troops into red mist, check. But, it starts to seem like a scene from Iron Man or something and in our modern world, there's a % of people watching them that simply can't differentiate between the results of vid games and movies and what's happening to actual human beings in these vids I feel.

Thoughts?

[skijunkie55]

I have conflicting feelings when watching such a vid. Turning BGs setting up on US troops into red mist, check. But, it starts to seem like a scene from Iron Man or something and in our modern world, there's a % of people watching them that simply can't differentiate between the results of vid games and movies and what's happening to actual human beings in these vids I feel.

Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8aJjgXKjA

Take away the gaming HUD, voice over, and "+100" for enemies killed and you could play this in the same Live Leak channel. I think it starts to desensitize us to the fact that a human life can be snuffed out just like that... With the creation of social media, we at home can now watch from the comfort of our desk chair what our troops, as well as the enemy, see in almost real time. The footage coming out of syria especially is just astounding. Looking back 40 years from now, our kids are going to see pretty much every facet of modern war.

[jmp45]

I have conflicting feelings when watching such a vid. Turning BGs setting up on US troops into red mist, check. But, it starts to seem like a scene from Iron Man or something and in our modern world, there's a % of people watching them that simply can't differentiate between the results of vid games and movies and what's happening to actual human beings in these vids I feel.

Thoughts?

I'm conflicted with this also, very cool on one hand, disturbing on the other. I'm not in the % that can't differentiate. But I do realize these things need to be done.

[yellowfin]

What they don't see is operating rooms, amputations, plastic surgery, changing gauze dressings, weeks of rehab and physical therapy, burns, worried families, psychologist sessions, bureaucracy and paperwork, etc. It's interesting that the movie M*A*S*H (and later the TV show) was intended to show the unglamorous, immediate real consequences.