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i dunno how many mraps they actually have tho. i wonder if they are training anyone on helicopters to take advantage of the blackhawks they captured
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theres no way those guys are going to be able to fly heli's
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THS posted:i dunno how many mraps they actually have tho. i wonder if they are training anyone on helicopters to take advantage of the blackhawks they captured Probably not it's sort of counter to how a force like ISIS operates. To have a air force you need piles of people with specialized training from mechanics to actual pilots. Plus I'm sure the US would bomb the airfield to kingdom come if they somehow decided they wanted to go that route.
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Davincie posted:theres no way those guys are going to be able to fly heli's how much harder is it to fly a blackhawk than to steer a 767 into a skycraper
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Aug 18, 2014 01:13
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who gives a poo poo about maintenance just pile up a few with c4 and fly them into the us embassy
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turdriver posted:who gives a poo poo about maintenance just pile up a few with c4 and fly them into the us embassy the old battlefield 4 strategy
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Davincie posted:theres no way those guys are going to be able to fly heli's considering the one major group which eventually merged into ISIS was AQI which consisted largely of former iraqi army personnel laid off overnight by CPAO 2 i wouldn't be so sure
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Plus isn't IS being supported by a cabal of millionaires from the Arab world? I bet they could always buy a merc. or two to fly the choppers in a pinch.
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THS posted:how much harder is it to fly a blackhawk than to steer a 767 into a skycraper they went to flight school for that
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ethanol posted:a world first jihad reaper drone is gonna hellfire the dam, it's gonna be sweet why would ISIS flood themselves
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IMO ISIS could fly the Blackhawks, but they'd have no reason to (even if they had trained pilots, which isnt outside of the realm of possibility). And if they flew them, then maintenance would be a huge issue that I dont think could be overcome easily. Without all the support infrastructure its just a waste of time and resources.
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So this is one of those times where we funnel our enemy a bunch of monkey model M-16s and M113s and Humvees and Bradleys etc, so we can watch them try and play US Marines toys for a while until they abandon them and go back to AKs and Toyotas. Pentagon had some sneaky project in Vietnam where they gave some people booby trapped explosive soviet 7x62 rounds they they were supposed to plant in enemy pouches and magazines to convince the enemy that the M-16 was superior because AK-47s blew up a lot.
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RevSyd posted:Pentagon had some sneaky project in Vietnam where they gave some people booby trapped explosive soviet 7x62 rounds they they were supposed to plant in enemy pouches and magazines to convince the enemy that the M-16 was superior because AK-47s blew up a lot. Yeah, but read up on how that project turned out. There's no need to funnel them anything tbh. Things are at a kind of stalemate for now. I imagine the threat of US air hitting moving groups limits the chance for any real action since ISIS is just hunkering down in villages etc where airstrikes wont hit. Everyone is just sort of chilling while the Kurds get their breath back, and try to figure out where to go from here.
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Dandywalken posted:Yeah, but read up on how that project turned out. what was the name of the project
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Frostwerks posted:what was the name of the project Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Eldest_Son Honestly didnt know til I googled "CIA fake ammo vietnam" or some such 
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Davincie posted:no seriously, send in the anime helicopters why do they make the anime eyes so big? they dont look asian at all
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america culturally dominated japan with Disney back in the 50s-60s
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Japan as a nation is deeply ashamed of who they are as a people Ever since America nuked and made them their submissive bitch, they've been in a steady cultural and social decline because they have lost their SAMURAI SPIRIT and now they shall know shame for the rest of time
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Zzulu posted:Japan as a nation is deeply ashamed of who they are as a people No you see it will be ok because gaijin like their cartoons
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:Plus isn't IS being supported by a cabal of millionaires from the Arab world? I bet they could always buy a merc. or two to fly the choppers in a pinch. IS is at this point completely self-sustaining finance wise. They collect taxes from the population they've conquered and sell oil on the black market because they've captured several oil fields. They also have captured oil refineries, so all their gasoline is self-produced.
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i just dealt a blow against isis by downloading one of their songs, without paying 
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Does anyone here have a link to that go pro video shot by insurgents in Yemen, where they attack an outpost surrounded largely by flat terrain? It kind of looks like Call of Duty Yemen. I saw it early on in what I believe was the first iteration of this thread, but I can't find it anymore.
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HalPhilipWalker posted:IS is at this point completely self-sustaining finance wise. They collect taxes from the population they've conquered and sell oil on the black market because they've captured several oil fields. They also have captured oil refineries, so all their gasoline is self-produced. lmao it's 2014 and there's seriously a loving caliphate up and running
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KomodoWagon posted:lmao it's 2014 and there's seriously a loving caliphate up and running I mean we are only literally a century from the collapse of the last caliphate so... also http://www.vox.com/2014/7/10/5884593/9-questions-about-the-caliphate-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask Lawman 0 fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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But it's 2014! We got the internet and tumbler now things are only looking up from here.
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THS posted:how much harder is it to fly a blackhawk than to steer a 767 into a skycraper it took years of planning and training just to do that. with how quickly ISIS is burning through any sympathy/supporters they're not going to have time to learn how to use attack helis by themselves also helis are loving hard to keep flying. i'd never get in one of those things.
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now we can watch poors slaughter eachother in glorious high definition slow motion backed up by sick vocals and music
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holy poo poo
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The middle east is literally turning into call of duty Send our dumbasses to go no scope these trolls
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isis dudes would probably be fun to hang out with in the same way it's kind of fun ride atvs with your racist cousins who live out in the country except instead of having to listen to them bitch about mexicans you'd have to assist them in a beheading, too bad
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this is all well and good so far but have we decided whether the war nerd has great insights or is just cuckoo i really need and answer on this.
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We live in a world where Iraqi special forces look exactly like american Policemen.
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KARMA! posted:this is all well and good so far but have we decided whether the war nerd has great insights or is just cuckoo people keep saying he hasn't but those same people don't offer a single reason why so i'm guessing he knows what he's talking about
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just drop ebola on them
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Pooned posted:We live in a world where Iraqi special forces look exactly like american Policemen. speaking of which
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Dandywalken posted:the kurds are strange to me because it seems that everyone Ive ever spoken to or read about thinks they're good guys aside from the Turks. The Kurds have the advantage of all the bad stuff they did as Ottoman Henchmen is getting attributed to the Ottoman empire by large and therefore the Turkish people in general. So nobody really cares about them with the exception of those countries the Kurds claim as beeing part of the future Kurdistan which, by now, is free of the Armenians that used to be situationed there but were kind of wiped in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, with the help of the Kurds... but like I mentioned, everybody just blames current day Turkey for anything the Ottoman empire ever did.
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Davincie posted:people keep saying he hasn't but those same people don't offer a single reason why so i'm guessing he knows what he's talking about You should look up his predicitons on how the current conflict would play out, how the Peshmerga would school ISIS and send them running back to Syria as soon as they entered Kurdistan proper. Peshmerga turned out to be a bigger letdown than the Iraqi republican guard during gulfwar 1. Warnerd posted:The biggest and strongest of the hill tribes, the Iraqi Kurds, are a little safer. Not only do they have the best fighting force in Iraq in the Pesh Merga, but they are safe behind a wall of high hills. The big Kurdish cities, Erbil and Suleimaniya (my beloved home in 2009-10), are safe behind high hills, far from the Sunni plain. Suleimaniya has an official altitude of about 2900 feet/900 meters, and the hills that surround the city are much higher, with Halgurd, Iraqi Kurdistan’s highest point, reaching 12,000 feet. Terrible, terrible ground for a light, mobile attacker like I.S.I.S—thank god, or tectonics, or whatever. Yeah not really, kinda need US support to hang on to Erbil. E: edited in the even more hilarious analysis. NihilismNow fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Talking about ISIS music, does anyone know how the cool track is called that plays during their crazy drive-bys? The one with the chanting. tia
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Vittek posted:Talking about ISIS music, does anyone know how the cool track is called that plays during their crazy drive-bys? The one with the chanting. tia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6Us5_BaVU This one?
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No, it's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
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