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France Brings Bigger Gunships, Heavy Artillery to Mali as Militants Dig In (Link Only)
January 22, 2013
Posted on 01/22/2013 5:46:52 PM PST by JerseyanExile
This is a Wired.Com article, and as such, can only be linked to, not directly posted.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; france; frenchmilitary; mali
To: JerseyanExile
Heeee! Heeeeeee! Heeeee! That be some big stuff!
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posted on
01/22/2013 5:54:50 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: JerseyanExile
In any event, Paris lacks the airlift capacity to haul all the hardware bound for Africa. At the strategic airlift level, the capability gap has been since long considered as problematic, Henrotin says. Early on, Paris appealed for help from allied nations. Canada and the U.K. were the first to offer up C-17 transport planes one and two, respectively; the U.S. sent five of its own C-17s over the weekend. The four-engine C-17 is big enough to carry a Caesar and any other French vehicle. What a joke.
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:01:07 PM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Timber Rattler
I guess this is France’s chance to demonstrate its weaponry to future buyers.
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:06:51 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
To: JerseyanExile
France has gunships? Who knew?
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:07:04 PM PST
by
microgood
To: JerseyanExile
Goodness, some of the blood of Napolean still runs thru the veins of Frenchmean. Who knew?
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:12:39 PM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! [You can vote Democrat when you're dead]...)
To: JerseyanExile
We are sending 5 C-17’s to transport French arms
I wonder if we will be sending over unarmed drones
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:21:15 PM PST
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(Pay attention - the inmates ARE running the asylum!)
To: JerseyanExile
Gunships to Mali? Isn’t that a landlocked country?
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:25:39 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: JerseyanExile
Here is the real question - will the French and the Malian gov’ts have the guts to level mosques and suppress Islam in the recaptured territory?
If not, why bother?
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:31:03 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: JerseyanExile
French Foreign Legion?
I HOPE SO..!!!
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:05:39 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: JerseyanExile
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:19:47 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: gaijin
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:27:00 PM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: JerseyanExile
Let’s see.The French move into an exotic land. We lend some support. The French get their ass kicked. We move in to take their place and we end up with............Vietnam.
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:38:07 PM PST
by
DaveinOK54
(Freedom is not Free and I'll never quit defending it.)
To: Free Vulcan
It should not be forgotten that after WW II, France fought two bloody and losing colonial wars — Indochina (Viet Nam) and Algeria — then expended vast sums building a nuclear deterrent and substantial conventional forces.
To: Free Vulcan
Goodness, some of the blood of Napolean still runs thru the veins of Frenchmen. Who knew?Indeed it still does, and it is beginning to awaken from its almost century-long slumber in the form of Generation Identitaire. A brutal backlash will begin in France, and the French Army won't need any borrowed C-17s to reach the Muslim invaders who now ring its major cities. When it happens, the Mohammedans will have nowhere to hide. Mali is practice.
To: Free Vulcan
Goodness, some of the blood of Napolean still runs thru the veins of Frenchmean. Who knew? Napoleon was Empereur of the French, but he was Corsican, which is to say Italian.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:02:50 PM PST
by
Pilsner
To: JerseyanExile; microgood; Don Corleone
Nice looking chopper the Tiger is
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:47:42 PM PST
by
BBell
(And Now for Something Completely Different)
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