ISIL captured 52 U.S.-made howitzers; artillery weapons cost 500K each

Washington Times ^ | 7/15/2014 | Doug Ernst

[mojito]

Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have captured as many as 52 U.S.-made M198 howitzers in their march across Iraq in June.

“They shouldn’t have too much trouble shelling large area targets like a city if they have sufficient ammo,” Jeremy Binnie of the British military consultancy HIS Janes toldMcClatchy news service Monday.

[mojito]

Big gun go boom.

[Candor7]

Its the Obama lend lease program , in support of establishinhg a world wide caliphate. But lets applaud for a while at least. The skanks are using the howitzers on each other and doing a better job at killing themselves off than we ever could have done.

[Viennacon]

Complements of Osama Bin Hussein

[Candor7]

http://olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m198howitzer.php

[mylife]

Big hucking gun!

[mojito]

Thanks for that link, with lots of good info. I don't know much about the capabilities of this weapon: can it be used in an anti-aircraft capacity?

[Mat_Helm]

ISIS will soon be renovating and ventilating Damascus and Baghdad.

[Lurker]

Lovely. Just lovely.

[Lurker]

More info here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M198_howitzer

L

[sean327]

No. The M198 is an indirect fire weapon. It fires 155mm projectiles. It has largely been replaced in US units by the M777.

[bert]

-——Big gun go boom——

Allepo goes doom

[bert]

Allepo is first on the list.

Damascus might take some doing to get within range.

Baghdad?........ probably more trouble than it’s worth for now

[Future Snake Eater]

It’ll be a miracle from Allah if they don’t blow themselves up trying to figure out how to use it.

[rdcbn]

Obama has graduated from supplying guns to Drug Cartels across the Mexican border to supplying 155mm filed howitzers to al -Qaeda.

The evolution of Hope and change

[hal ogen]

Clown Prince nobama is oooooooh so clever. His foreign policy is paying many, many dividends. Thank goodness he has the-numb-one secretary of state skerry and drunken-degenerate hagel as backups. And, oh, yes, he also has lunch bucket biden (the foreign policy whiz) to back him up. What a dream team! Happy days are here again!!!!!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Any American equipment given to an Arab nation should immediately be considered scrapped. It’s only a matter of time.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Soon to be used shelling the Green Zone in Baghdad. The next big battle will be the seige of Baghdad—it will fall by December first. Then comes the real bloodbath. But the Iraqi leadership will be in Europe feasting safe in Paris or Bern.

[mylife]

They know how to make shells.

[mabarker1]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????

[Rome2000]

If a helicopter hovers in front of it for a few minutes