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lonesomedwarf posted:what i would say to isis good luck on your quest!!!!!!!!
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lonesomedwarf posted:who maliki hes no rafiki thats for sure he was iraq's leader, but very bad at his job. everyone wanted em to resign, and he's really dragging his butt to do so.
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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. What did they do to obtain such all-reaching approval? Just minding their own business?
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monkey models change a ton though on a case-by-case basis money model jets often are fine, but without a few features that can the Soviets didnt want to share (datalink in the MiG32MLD IIRC) and ammo being of older generations rather than new. I dont think monkey model helicopters exist as they crash on their own whether monkey modeled or not. monkey models arent innately poo poo, they're just based off older generations of tanks from the get-go. So they arent upgraded "properly" and poo poo ammo wise and composite armor wise etc. Automotive poo poo is generally the same. wonder if they monkey model ships? Like their missile-frigates etc Dandywalken fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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TheIllestVillain posted:i don't think he was actually actual targeted, these green on blue attacks are almost always committed by some disgruntled pleb who ends up emptying his weapon into nearby foreigners Yep, pretty much. It doesnt seem to have been a big planned "TRAIN GUY IN AAF TO ASSASSINATE GENERAL" thing so much as a guy getting pissed and capping a dude.
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Zippy the Bummer posted:i've said this before but i unironically enjoy the fact that my tax dollars in some small way aid the instadeath of isis the genocidal psychopathic cartoon bad guys, and in entertaining movie fashion no less but are the kurds winning or able to hold their own? Is US air support helping them really, or just allowing ISIS a chance to rest and fortify its towns/upgrade its watch towers to guard towers?
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obelisk of light? more like obelisk of FRIGHT! When I heard em "UmmMMMMMMM" I knew someone was about to get zippity-zapped!
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US Navy fighters were dropping bombs on moms too from manned jets
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THS posted:lol yeah the more and more our military becomes remotely operated - the less likely it becomes that anyone at all will be harmed on our side - the easier its going to get to sell any fuckoff intervention. whats the cost to us, really? bomb the evil fucks. send vice in to make a spooky documentary. itt we are liberal humanitarians advocating war yeah pretty much sadly
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THS posted:the consolidation of incompatible sects, the abolition of colonial borders - all of this is bloody, hosed up, and probably better for everyone in the long run Does your stance include being against the evacuation operations that took place? Or primarily just "Dont bomb poo poo"?
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THS posted:im not ideologically opposed to stuff like evacuating the yazidis and im overselling what i actually think because its gbs I agree entirely with your opinion. You're a good mensch.
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1gnoirents posted:also its one thing to do this stuff, which by all accounts actually happens pretty often all over the world at some point or another. its really kind of weird and retarded to post stuff like this on youtube though, like its not good for your cause or self preservation of your "movement" Yeah, thats a big part of what makes this so weird to me. The active use of social media and poo poo makes it seem like its a parody of a hypothetical whack-assed future, except its actually happening.
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The Brown Menace posted:the question is will they pay the debts 
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Davincie posted:no seriously, send in the anime helicopters It is time. Let them soar. And let ISIS know fear.
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RevSyd posted:Japan and Germany missed out big when it came time to draw cartoons on weapons. They were taught to embellish their vehicles with proud totems and historical symbols, while we'd draw slutty woman and drunken mascots. That versus ISIS's weird internet-culture references would be amazing to see tbh
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couldve bought so many boxes of swisher sweets instead. drat.
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THS posted:american weapons and armored vehicles are all far better than their soviet equivalents, unironically
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I dunno if them using it is a sort of discredit to the whole "M16's cant work for poo poo in the desert you IDIOTS!!!" talk, or if they're just out of AK's. But I dont think you can run out of AK's in the Middle East.
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Speaking of russian stuff, what happened to the TOS-1's and Frogfoots that the Russians sold them? Have they seen any action yet?
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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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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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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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WAMPA_STOMPA posted:and thats why you always send 2 guys long a on dust 2
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Egypt did ok in the 2nd war I think? I had a hundred-page thesis/examination someone did on their performance in that compared to earlier and later ones. It was the one with the Suez crossing, and the proliferation of anti-tank missiles. They actually had made some very sound plans, and pulled it off drat well to boot. The writeup kind of blamed Syria for the loss more or less, but idk how much of that is true.
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Vernii posted:They did well but it was an operation with very limited aims and literally scripted out to an obsessive level of detail. They built a full size replica of the canal, and had every unit rehearse its particular role in the operation every day for two years. That meant if you're some enlisted grunt who's only job is to hook up a hose to wash away a sand berm, you repeated that process over seven hundred times before the actual launch of the offensive. Yeah, that makes sense. I wonder if this was a thing inherited from Soviet doctrine or what. Alot of Russians claim that the demand to "stick to the plan" is way overstated, but I dunno. I'd totally forgotten about the berm-blasters though. Didnt they covertly buy 'em from Italy or some-such just for that purpose? As you said, it really was a well rehearsed operation. But once the guy who's line is ahead of yours gets shot, it all goes to hell :P
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