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Dingleberry posted:These fuckers got a free flyover at a wedding and all they're like is "wahhhhhh we're babies..." 
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"You can't do that with that, man."
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Jan 11, 2015 04:29
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shooting your AKs up in the air for a wedding celebration is a terrible idea haha
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Jan 11, 2015 04:45
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Dingleberry posted:These fuckers got a free flyover at a wedding and all they're like is "wahhhhhh we're babies..." 
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Jan 11, 2015 04:58
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Now he's outed himself they should send him a bill for the Hellfire E: Loling at this bit "After talking with victims and family members in the area, it was clear a majority of civilians were among the carnage of the targeted wedding convoy." Hahaha, these fuckers were by admission chilling with AQAP and are all butthurt because they got lit up.
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Jan 11, 2015 05:13
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Should charge them for the pre-dug mass grave.
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Jan 11, 2015 05:20
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Booblord Zagats posted:My guess would have been Pakistani
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Jan 11, 2015 05:36
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Dead Reckoning posted:Are those guys Hezbollah? https://archive.moe/k/thread/24286988/#q24286988 That one is, supposedly.
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Dingleberry posted:These fuckers got a free flyover at a wedding and all they're like is "wahhhhhh we're babies..." 
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Jan 12, 2015 04:57
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"We received flour and sugar today from USAID with US flags stamped on it, but before we could even eat it they dropped their bombs on us," Whoever devised that tactic needs a medal.
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Jan 12, 2015 14:11
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Bernard McFacknutah posted:"We received flour and sugar today from USAID with US flags stamped on it, but before we could even eat it they dropped their bombs on us," That has to be something out of the bush wars, but refined for today. Stick a $25.00 phone in the aide package, whatever bullshit warlord grabs it you let the gps guided bombs do the rest. Most of that airdropped aide goes to the strong-arm fucks, let them take it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2lxgplJVo8 Completely guilt free jdams.
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Jan 12, 2015 14:33
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 'It's kind of like the game 'The Floor is Lava' but with subtle differences'
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Accretionist posted:
Where's the 'after' picture when the sink comes off the wall?
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Jan 12, 2015 18:13
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http://www.funker530.com/u-s-f-16-dodges-six-sam-launches-on-camera/
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Jan 13, 2015 05:42
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That's some serious pucker factor.
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Jan 13, 2015 05:54
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he was slow nearly the whole time no weasel support??
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Jan 13, 2015 05:55
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That's the infamous downtown baghdad raid, right? It was very poorly planned.
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Jan 13, 2015 06:06
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bahgawd 
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Koesj posted:That's the infamous downtown baghdad raid, right? It was very poorly planned. Yup. Poorly planned, poorly executed, and the added bad luck of bad wx on the tanker tracks that threw everything into disarray before they even ingressed. The majority of the strikes against Baghdad after this raid were conducted strictly by F-117s. The wiki write-up isn't too bad, but in response to the question about SEAD the Weasels were lightly loaded (only 2xHARM a piece) because they were range limited. This also meant that they had to RTB before most of the package had even struck their targets, much less were clear of the SAM rings. So for the majority of the raid the F-16s were hanging out there in daylight over downtown Baghdad without any SEAD or EW support. And to add insult to injury, the F-16s got chased down by some MiG-29s after egressing...which they had to turn around and engage (nevermind that they were insanely short on fuel) because their F-15C escort had also RTB'd with the Weasels.
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Jan 13, 2015 06:57
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iyaayas01 posted:Yup. Poorly planned, poorly executed, and the added bad luck of bad wx on the tanker tracks that threw everything into disarray before they even ingressed. The majority of the strikes against Baghdad after this raid were conducted strictly by F-117s.  after reading palace cobra i didn't think they would be so dumb about weasels. did they forget the lessons from nam? :/ edit : meh i don't know what was going on i just remember seeing that poo poo on cnn when i was a teenager
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Jan 13, 2015 07:42
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ded posted:
The answer is no. No the military does not learn from previous lessons. Ever.
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Mike-o posted:The answer is no. No the military does not learn from previous lessons. Ever. they learn to throw more bodies at it, that i know for a fact!
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Jan 13, 2015 07:59
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WE JUST NEED MORE HEART
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Jan 13, 2015 08:11
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ded posted:
Almost every single one of them with the exception of Warden's Rings poo poo. We're killing off the training routines that were specifically designed to avoid Vietnam/Korea style fiascos, like Red Flag. Green Flag is worthless. Going downtown and want a little electronic support? Check out the USAF's current jamming inventory: Yeah. Zero. Self-protection capability, which falls well short of a dedicated platform (EF-111, for example, or EA-6B, or EA-18). I'll give the BUFF credit though, I've seen that poo poo get turned on and it was interesting to see. But there are a lot of reasons that's not the right/complete answer. As far as the Viper in that video, he never gets a chance to get his energy/speed back up. An F-16's thrust-to-weight ratio is barely above 1:1.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:48
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Mike-o posted:The answer is no. No the military does not learn from previous lessons. Ever. To be fair, in Vietnam with very few exceptions they would do the same thing day after day without any real change. The BUFFs in Linebacker II literally flew the exact same flight paths, down to the post-target turn, on the first three consecutive nights of bombings (which is why so many got shot down the third night). Contrast that with Desert Storm, where the AFCENT planners immediately looked at the results of the raid we're talking about and went "....yeah, maybe we don't send large F-16 packages downtown all by their lonesome anymore, that was a bit of a bad idea." They should've known better in the first place but at least when it blew up in their faces they stopped doing it as opposed to trying it for another week just to see if something would magically change. But yeah, re: long-term lessons from Rolling Thunder and Linebacker...Godholio's basically spot on.
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Jan 13, 2015 08:56
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The F-117 shootdown could fit in that paragraph, too. Something something don't learn from history something something.
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iyaayas01 posted:Contrast that with Desert Storm, where the AFCENT planners immediately looked at the results of the raid we're talking about and went "....yeah, maybe we don't send large F-16 packages downtown all by their lonesome anymore, that was a bit of a bad idea." They should've known better in the first place but at least when it blew up in their faces they stopped doing it as opposed to trying it for another week just to see if something would magically change. That was an AF that had basked in a decade of Reaganbucks and was still very much op for the Big One™ against numbah one top peer opponent. I can only imagine how the current nickel-and-diming troupe would react, especially with institutionalizing the bombing mud people for more than a decade now.
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Godholio posted:The F-117 shootdown could fit in that paragraph, too. Something something don't learn from history something something. I had an instructor at NPS who was a retired AF LtCol who had been a 117 planner. We had a nice long discussion about that incident one day. He had a lot of really good insight into it as he was a planner in that conflict, though not for that mission.
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chitoryu12 posted:The uncensored video is here if you don't mind seeing the guy get blasted so hard he ends up in the air ricocheting off the doorframe. I don't think anyone's taken that many bullets since Bonnie & Clyde. Couple pages back but.. LoL. Like 6 dudes just clip dumped a dead body. That and Ahmed Al Dumbass thought he was going to jump through a doorway and make a break through an entire raid team.. Its like everything I love rolled into 40 seconds of video footage.
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Jan 13, 2015 13:58
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Do they rotate firing positions because of the low capacity revolvers or another reason? Seems like a weird tactic.
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Jan 13, 2015 14:24
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Flight of the Intrudohwaittheyshotitdownandbeheadedthepilot
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Just Military Things!
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Godholio posted:The F-117 shootdown could fit in that paragraph, too. Something something don't learn from history something something. The weirdest thing about that story is how the pilot and the missile operator became friends. Also, an old mil-vid classic Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 13, 2015 22:42
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Wasabi the J posted:The weirdest thing about that story is how the pilot and the missile operator became friends. 
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Jan 13, 2015 23:24
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http://theaviationist.com/2015/01/12/typhoons-over-grand-canyon/ A few neat photos of Brit typhoons flying over the grand canyon.
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Wasabi the J posted:The weirdest thing about that story is how the pilot and the missile operator became friends. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20209770 Wow, no kidding
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beta as gently caress
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Jan 14, 2015 18:27
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Seatbelts are for pussies.
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Mike-o posted:Seatbelts are for pussies. Not according to that gif.
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