More pix/videos at source
Posted on 11/24/2015 12:44:52 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
More pix/videos at source
Perhaps saving the more sophisticated/accurate ones for later? How much later?
Absolutely! As a born blonde.. I have to say I am waiting for the dumb bomb jokes. Who would send their best and most expensive arsenal to do the same job with dumb arsenal at half the price.
I agree, our Pansy in Chief is just sitting there in his mom jeans planning his next taxpayer funded vacay.
There has been footage of usage of cluster munitions, but this article does not mention it.
Vlad’s just usin’ up old ordnance.
Yep, all of them have a shelf life.
What's the difference between a dumb bomb and a toilet?
The toilet doesn't follow you around before you're used by it.
Yeah, it’s called kgb shoot sheep cheap.
What kind/whose uniforms are those? Look imminently practical.
Boo f-n hoo. Anyone who hangs around with the sand-Nazis takes the chance of getting blowed up. So don’t hang around with sand-Nazis.
Its war—and war is hell. Why don’t the Rebels surrender to Assad ? Lee that to surrender to Grant didn’t he? Ever see pictures of Richmond when it fell—looked a lot like Berlin 1945. You can’t be humaine in a war—sorry—its not like that and it hasn’t been for ages.
Russia is probably using up leftover Cold War inventory.
Article seems to spend much of its time complaining the bombs the Russians are using are just not expensive enough. It works, it’s cheap, it’s good. What’s the problem,
Tyler seems to be the major contributor to Foxtrot Alpha site - some good vids of AC130s - and the upside down AC130J in the process of being totaled.
Our author seems to be of the ‘kinder, gentler’ variety of war/mil reporter, who finds himself reporting on an actual war machine in operation and comes away a bit dazed.
>>(Be warned that what you’re about to see is the bombing of an actual city caught on video, one that may have resulted in casualties.)
When you drop bombs, you hope that it results in casualties. That’s how war works, Nancy-boy. You make the enemy beg for peace.
“You can’t be humane in a war—sorry—its not like that and it hasn’t been for ages.”
When you make a war humane your enemy will persevere and eventually defeat you using the most inhumane techniques he has available. This does not mean target civilians intentionally but it does mean the presence of civilians is not a factor in your choice of targets. In the case of total war the civilian population is a legitimate target as they are part of the war machine of the enemy.
IN WWII the USA and Britain used bombing raids that burned cities to the ground. We also nuked Japan. The tactic was brutal and it worked.
(Be warned that what you’re about to see is the bombing of an actual city caught on video, one that may have resulted in casualties.)
I have a ton of WWII videos of all sorts of cities and places being bombed. I’m pretty sure people were killed. They have no such warning because people were adults in the 20th century.
“Russia is probably using up leftover Cold War inventory”
As I recall, in Gulf War II, we used Vietnam (and earlier!) bombs in the B-52’s.
I’m not sure that using “smart bombs” is now table stakes in warfare. War is, well, war. Kill people and blow up stuff in order to achieve your objectives. It was making me crazy that we were expending $200,000 smart missiles to blow up two easily replaced idiots in a 50 cal machine gun equipped pickup truck. War is partly an economic battle and it always has been. It’s good to be on the “cheap” side of this. For example, a $200,000 MANPAD to take out a 20 million dollar airplane and the millions in cargo and personnel and training. Or, the $1000 RPG that takes out a 2 million dollar APC and its (trained) personnel.
We say “collateral damage”.
The Russians say “bonus damage”.
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