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CeeJee posted:This should go down well for the conspiracy minded: Why's that? Looks like a standard 81mm illumination round. Edit: Further googling leads me to believe it is a British 81mm illumination round of French manufacture. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Apr 16, 2011 |
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Young Freud posted:Star of David looking symbol as the manufacturing company's logo. I think that's a symbol to represent that it is a parachute illumination round.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:Let us be realistic here, whether the rebels are armed with F2000s or AK-74s will do very little to change the overall strategic outcome. Infantry weapons simply have a very limited impact on modern warfare, and on the grand scale of things the difference between the AK-74 (which I assume is what the rebels are mainly using) and the F2000 is fairly minuscule. However, if your choice is between an F2000 and that homemade shotgun you had to unscrew the barrel to reload.... Especially when you consider that the vast majority of the shooting going on is generally aimed at nothing or just sort of in the vague direction of the enemy and on full auto.
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May 29, 2011 18:21
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Scaramouche posted:At what point would action take place in Yemen? Never. It's an underdeveloped country with no significant resources full of heavily armed crazy people. The West learned that lesson in Somalia.
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May 31, 2011 05:03
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mr. nazi posted:That's a 3-inch piece of shrapnel near his heart, and it's not clear whether he would need surgery? Is that code for "he might just die instead"? More likely it means that they aren't sure which is more likely to kill him, the shrapnel or the surgery.
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Jun 4, 2011 18:37
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Nenonen posted:Going into surgery NOW would likely mean that Saleh would be out of the picture for weeks - his government would have a zero chance of staying in power during that time. At a critical moment like this, when he's struggling for his own position, he'd rather just take antibiotics and go to surgery later, if at all possible. That's my take, anyway. One of the problems with being a tyrant is that anyone who could do your job while you recover from surgery could also do it after you are killed in a
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Pureauthor posted:I was under the impression that authoritarian regimes were supposed to be good at this whole propaganda thing. Why is everything they do so... clumsy? Because now instead of broadcasting propaganda on a state controlled TV station they're trying to do it on major international networks. Your average member of Congress or MP probably has a better funded propaganda department than the Libyan government and CNN and BBC are used to finding the story in the bullshit.
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Jun 6, 2011 14:25
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Xandu posted:The resolution didn't call for or allow for international action of any kind.
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Feb 4, 2012 23:12
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Sivias posted:Wait, no international action at all? Then what is the Arab Peace resolution anyway? What are they vetoing? If they're all in agreement that what Assad is doing is wrong? They vetoed a resolution to write Bashar al-Assad a strongly worded letter.
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Feb 5, 2012 01:20
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Sivias posted:What would be the outcome if Syria failed to do this? Wouldn't international military action then be required? Sivias posted:I just don't understand why this resolution would be brought up without any actual backing of action put in place.
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Feb 5, 2012 01:32
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Hamelekim posted:What do you make of the various government sources that have said that the US has a military plan to reshape the middle east, and that includes overthrowing Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, the list goes on. Hamelekim posted:These US supported groups were training people to overthrow the Egyptian government while at the same time supporting the Egyptian government publicly. You don't see the conspiracy in all of this?
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Feb 6, 2012 20:06
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The Angry Spaniard posted:That's why I think that while countries and governments don't take international stuff seriously enough and work hard to implement all its measures, nobody has legitimacy to impose their will onto others.
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Feb 6, 2012 22:42
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McDowell posted:
Would be a perfect opportunity to prove what a wise decision the F-22 was by blowing the poo poo out of a bunch of 40 year old Soviet surplus.
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well by the logic of 80's Afghanistan we can now provide the rebels with anti air weapons (not a good idea) or we can enforce a no-fly zone- also not a good idea. The missile test seemed like Russia declaring it doesn't want NATO so close to the Black Sea and the Baltic.
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New Division posted:A lot of the FSA is former military, I'm sure a lot of them are familiar with the operation of mortars. They're not all rag-tag civilians. How good is Syria's military exactly? Libya's was basically just a very heavily armed thug squad. Which is about par for the course in the Middle East.
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Xandu posted:While this is pretty explicitly a war crime, I think the ICC going to get some bad press for focusing on this given all the other problems in the country. Shouting "Stop or I shall say stop again!" probably isn't helping their image either.
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Jul 1, 2012 22:13
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MothraAttack posted:A separate Islamist group, Mujao (The Unity Movement for Jihad in West Africa) is evidently occupying the city of Gao in Mali and has mined the area to prevent MNLA incursion.
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Jul 3, 2012 21:08
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Orange Devil posted:You'd think it'd be important to inform people.
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Jul 9, 2012 01:18
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Torpor posted:In their defense, those things did just fall from the sky and not explode; throwing it couldn't do much more. Explosives can become unstable over time and become more deadly.
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Vernii posted:Its far better for the Russians to stick by the regime even if it starts gassing the poo poo out of rebellious settlements than for them to abandon it.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:40
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Vernii posted:If Tartus was an American naval base instead the revolution would have been eagerly snuffed out by the US and NATO, and its importance to the Russians is why they aren't just going to roll over and let the US have its way (if its even motivated to, which I doubt). For that matter, I highly doubt the US administration is going to do anything that could potentially hamper the president's reelection, which a showdown with Russia could easily do. Russia will likely spin a lack of NATO involvement as fear of Russian wrath, but that'll be internal propaganda for Putin's nationalists. Putin's popularity is based largely on maintaining the charade that Russia is still a superpower. He won't risk proving himself wrong by actually challenging anyone to a shootout over some Syrian dirt. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jul 15, 2012 |
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i poo poo trains posted:And don't believe Putin is bluffing when it comes to escalating his position in Syria, there has been a pattern of leaks from the military that intervention is imminent followed by official denials, which suggests that they still haven't made up their minds.
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i poo poo trains posted:Turkey can't close their straits to Russian warships without violating the Montreux Convention, but if they wanted to avoid the straits, they could go for a roundabout course starting from Murmansk. At any rate, antagonizing NATO would be a bonus, not a cost of intervention. Also, Iraq today cannot even be counted as an ally of the US, much less a puppet; discounting the larger-than-the-Vatican Embassy the US no longer even operates military bases in Iraq.
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Xandu posted:How hard would it be to actually disarm one of those?
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zero alpha posted:I had actually wondered why the pilot who defected to Turkey didn't take out some Assad weaponry at least, if not the presidential palace itself.
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McDowell posted:The situation in Syria is well beyond our comfortable ideas of justice and morality, you really can't support or condemn something like this.
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Alchenar posted:What people need is swift closure and to know that the monsters who have lorded godlike power over them for decades are never coming back. Medieval Medic posted:Drastic times call for drastic measures, even if morally dubious.
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CeeJee posted:Biding their time seems like the best thing to do for them. Reports like this execution and appearance of radical foreign fighters strengthen their argument they are fighting dangerous terrorists and not a rebel force who just want to overthrow the Assad dictatorship.
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MothraAttack posted:They were found with the help of Robert Ballard, the undersea expert who helped locate the Titanic wreckage. They were then buried in well-documented ceremonies.
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Flavahbeast posted:Roger Ballard is a cunning man, I wouldn't put anything past him iyaayas01 posted:He's right about STOVL being dumb and pointless though.
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Fangz posted:What's wrong with STOVL? I thought the concept proved itself quite well with the harriers in the Falklands?
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Fangz posted:My thoughts are that the main advantage to STOVL is the reduced requirements with respect to, e.g. carriers. If the US wants to downscale the carrier battlefleet, with all the massive costs and inflexibility that implies, then doing something like switching to STOVL and smaller escort carriers is what they need to be looking at. With all their problems the harriers are at least a tried and tested technology, and still today sufficient to handle most roles versus enemies that are behind the tech curve. The problem with Harriers is that they really suck at everything that isn't VTOL. They're slow, they have no carrying capacity, their range is poo poo, and they are giant maintenance nightmares. If you don't want to have carriers it makes far more sense to just invest in carrying around a shitload of TLAMs to blow things up ashore. Helicopters operate better out of unprepared FOBs because harriers still need prepared pads to land on and runways if you want them to take off carrying anything other than their own fuel. (A full tank of gas in a Harrier makes it too heavy for VTOL) And if you can establish a FOB you can build a serviceable runway in a day and just fly Super Tucanos off it which are better at CAS anyway. And if you're the US you just gently caress up the whole world from Nebraska with a bomber designed during WW2. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Sep 30, 2012 |
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Fangz posted:I guess my mindset is fixed more in the British "should we keep the escort carriers we currently have, or should we invest billions in giant US style carriers just so that we can fly carrier variant F35s off them" debate. To get this somewhat back on topic: Does the current Libyan government still have any of the air force or navy left over from the Qaddafi regime or did it pretty much all get bombed during the revolution?
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Charlz Guybon posted:The regular army has much heavier arms and real training. The officer corp must be absolutely incompetent to be getting creamed like that. Low morale is also likely a factor.
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Corny posted:Hezbollah is probably not going to be launching waves of drones at Israel any time soon, considering the smaller ones around 11 million $ and the larger ones are around 30 million $, they're too valuable of a resource to waste like that.
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Baby Huey Newton posted:I would direct you in order to see the wikileaks documents showing the planning of the Libya and Syrian invasions:
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Nenonen posted:(Like, what of those who support both NATO imperialism AND Russian and Chinese imperialism? Where do they fall?)
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Crasscrab posted:The pilot is worth more to the FSA alive then he is dead.
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Jesus Christ....How in the gently caress did he manage to not at the very least get questioned after last time?
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suboptimal posted:Morsi can only go so far in terms of the Egyptian position to Gaza, as starting a new sunshine policy towards Hamas would likely piss off both Israel and the US and further jeopardize their aid deal with the US. Considering how much congressional outcry there was over the NGO workers flap back in March and how close they got to getting their aid cut off, making the Rafah border crossing open 24/7 would essentially make the blockade entirely useless and upset the status quo. Similarly, it would probably open up another political crisis between the Morsi administration and the military (since they've been the ones who have benefitted from most of the aid and still wield considerable political power even if SCAF isn't running things anymore.) It should also be noted that Hamas has a large and well armed paramilitary wing with serious international backing and a history of violence and human rights abuses. Encouraging them to operate inside Egypt wouldn't be good for Egyptian security, especially while Egypt's government is struggling to find its footing.
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suboptimal posted:Not saying I disagree with your other points, but to my understanding, Hamas' biggest backers are Egypt (in spite of what we've just discussed) and Qatar.
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