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F-16s destroy insurgent mortar team
2nd BCT, 3rd Infantry Divison Public Affairs via F-16.net ^ | November 17, 2007 | Sgt. Kevin Stabinsky

Posted on 11/18/2007 8:31:25 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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To: quark
Three dead terrorists and no injuries to American warriors.

Yep, glad they are visiting allah.

41 posted on 11/18/2007 10:04:46 AM PST by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: Mark was here
Now if you want a cost effective weapon, just not for moving targets yet, I give you the JDAM.

Take a general purpose bomb body $1-2 bucks per pound, plus an $18K guidance kit. Not only that, but they are exceptionally easy to deliver. Punch the coordinates in and the aircraft displays a zone from which the bomb can make it to the target.

42 posted on 11/18/2007 10:09:44 AM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: quark
Cost of the F16 ‘flying hour’? - $6,000

Cost of the Maverick missile? = $126,000

Seeing the goat humpers and their mortar turn into flaming bits of high speed debris in your FLIR?

Priceless..........

43 posted on 11/18/2007 10:12:57 AM PST by ASOC
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Seems like overkill but better overkill than underkill.


44 posted on 11/18/2007 10:14:47 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Way to go F-16s!!!

And to their pilots!

45 posted on 11/18/2007 10:22:25 AM PST by Texas Eagle (Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Tell me that thing is laser guided. If not what’s the record for tighest grouping over 1M rounds? :o)


46 posted on 11/18/2007 10:25:02 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature
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To: em2vn

Only problem with the A-10 on low value targets is the uranium depleted ammo they shoot with their centerline gun. Creates an environmental hazard and fairly expensive. They could load them with HE rounds though. They probably just made a call to the closest package with the stuff to do it.

But i agree, AQ vermin don’t deserve to die by our high tech equipment. Boiling in oil would be nice i think.


47 posted on 11/18/2007 10:57:18 AM PST by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

“Coalition aircraft spotted the insurgent mortar team loading a van with a mortar tube and tripod.”

More imperial aggression against peaceful Iraqis who were loading a baby swing set into a van.


48 posted on 11/18/2007 11:00:17 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (The WOT will end when pork products are weaponized)
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To: chiefqc; Excuse_My_Bellicosity
But on the plus side these morons decided to get out of bed and the rest is history.

Yep. They won't be launching any more mortars at the good guys.

49 posted on 11/18/2007 11:08:46 AM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: quark

“How much does one Maverick laser-guided missile cost?”

“Three dead terrorists and no injuries to American warriors.”

LOL! GREAT ANSWER!!!! (and the only one that counts!)


50 posted on 11/18/2007 11:40:13 AM PST by Levante
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The jets engaged the van with one Maverick laser-guided missile...

Is this the same as: Terminate with extreme prejudice."

51 posted on 11/18/2007 12:56:08 PM PST by stevem
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To: ChinaThreat

Are the depleted uranium rounds being used against soft targets?


52 posted on 11/18/2007 1:21:45 PM PST by em2vn
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To: ChinaThreat

Are the depleted uranium rounds being used against soft targets?


53 posted on 11/18/2007 1:22:39 PM PST by em2vn
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That's just so touching. What a wonderful story! sniff...


54 posted on 11/18/2007 1:26:19 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; SandRat; Seadog Bytes; ASA Vet; BIGLOOK; Ernest_at_the_Beach

It is fairly obvious that the good Iraqi people have had enough and are supplying our side with real time/specific info re the al Qaeda serial killers still alive in Iraq.

We will probably see articles before the end of the year telling us about the Good Iraqi people taking matters in their own hands and removing these al Qaeda serial killers in Iraq.


55 posted on 11/19/2007 8:17:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave (("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007))
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To: Grampa Dave; SandRat

Thanks for the good news ping!


56 posted on 11/19/2007 2:01:57 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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