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U.S. Rocket Artillery Will Blast Islamic State From Turkey
War is Boring ^ | April 29, 2016 | Joseph Trevithick

Posted on 04/29/2016 6:00:15 AM PDT by C19fan

The United States will soon surround the Islamic State on three sides with rocket artillery batteries. The plans follow months of aerial bombardment, but the ground-launched rockets represent an expanding and less-publicized element to the war. On April 26, the Pentagon announced it will send U.S. Army troops and the rocket launchers to southern Turkey. The ground combat branch already has similar units in Iraq and Jordan — and the use of the launchers are by no means exclusive to these three countries.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; jordan; josephtrevithick; nato; receptayyiperdogan; rockets; turkey; waronterror
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A modern day version of the German Nebelwerfer.
1 posted on 04/29/2016 6:00:15 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

I assume these are a whole lot cheaper than sending F35s over target and approaching the same accuracy. Anyone know the range?


2 posted on 04/29/2016 6:04:51 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (wrote Harry Reid.s only biography www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: C19fan

The MLRS is a bit bigger than the Nebelwerfer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System

And the smaller “HIMARS”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMARS


3 posted on 04/29/2016 6:05:56 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

And I’m guessing the ISIS refugees will need somewhere to run and Obama will invite them here riight?


4 posted on 04/29/2016 6:10:54 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: C19fan

“In November 2015, the United States Army revealed they had deployed the HIMARS to Iraq, firing at least 400 rockets at the Islamic State since the beginning of summer. HIMARS detachments were sent to Al Asad Airbase and Al-Taqaddum Air Base in Anbar province. On “”4 March 2016””, Army HIMARS systems fired rockets into Syria in support of Syrian rebels fighting ISIL for the first time, with the launchers based in neighboring Jordan.”


5 posted on 04/29/2016 6:23:06 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: DaxtonBrown

.. The plans follow months of aerial bombardment...

Months of the professional military following lightweight orders from the Community Organizer in Chief who is in awe of his own imagined military brilliance and inept planning and execution of military operations and ROE.


6 posted on 04/29/2016 6:34:15 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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I'd REALLY rather not hear about this until the operation is over.

Why are we broadcasting military intent to God and [every] Country with ears?

7 posted on 04/29/2016 6:47:47 AM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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The Turks are cooperating?

We must be targeting Kurds and Yazidi.


8 posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:00 AM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: C19fan

Means we likely have forward observers in ISIS territory. Very brave souls.


9 posted on 04/29/2016 6:59:07 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: null and void
Agree.

Erdogan is an Islamist. He sides with ISIS. Has from beginning. So has Obama. Both plotted emplacement of Morsi in Egypt, overthrow of Gaddaffi, smuggling arms to al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria.

I live in the “Big Nothing”, if I get it from here, surely everyone in DC knows what lying traitors these b_tards are.

10 posted on 04/29/2016 7:08:16 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Sasparilla

“Where but in our great democracy could a common paperhanger rise to become both a military and naval genius?”


11 posted on 04/29/2016 7:15:05 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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To: C19fan

The first “non-combatant” to get it, and that’ll be the end of that.


12 posted on 04/29/2016 7:22:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: C19fan

Good to finally have the Queen of the Battlefield make her appearance. From what I have seen, ISIS uses their captured arty for point targets and to try and defeat minor obstacles. Once the professional US artillery makes its presence known, ISIS will soil themselves.


13 posted on 04/29/2016 7:24:57 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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“A modern day version of the German Nebelwerfer.”

My father in law used to call those “the screaming me me’s”


14 posted on 04/29/2016 7:36:37 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: lacrew

Indeed. Any Forward Observer is a brave soul. Usually a young Lieutenant and an enlisted person with him.


15 posted on 04/29/2016 8:03:40 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: W.
Why are we broadcasting military intent to God and [every] Country with ears?

I don't know, but it's probably the same reason Mrs. Bill Clinton gave "every country with ears" all of those emails.

Actually, I think the reason is just that Democrats, liberals, etc. are just not careful with security issues.

16 posted on 04/29/2016 8:09:16 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: C19fan

It doesn’t matter how many sides we can hold, the muzzy in chief won’t let our troops do anything to harm his buddies.


17 posted on 04/29/2016 9:24:41 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: lacrew
Means we likely have forward observers in ISIS territory. Very brave souls.

Drones are indeed very brave.

18 posted on 04/29/2016 9:33:56 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: C19fan

Are the guys in the truck when launching?
If so it must be quite the site and sound must be very loud.


19 posted on 04/29/2016 10:39:19 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks C19fan.

20 posted on 04/30/2016 5:04:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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