Posted on 07/29/2014 7:39:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Photos have appears on Iraqi social media depicting Russian-made rocket artillery arriving in Baghdad. The snapshots, published on July 25, show TOS-1A systems unloading from giant An-124 cargo planes.
The rockets could help Baghdad battle Islamic militants.
TOS-1 was the Soviet army’s secret hammer during the last decade of the Cold War. It fires powerful rockets to smash enemy trenches, fortifications and buildings, cracking defensive lines to allow tanks and infantry to punch through.
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It doesn’t matter what you send them, if the Iraqis won’t stand and fight. I hope the Sov, er, Russians sent a planeload of spines along with the rockets.
Nice weapons. But they’re not going to be used for ‘bunkers.’ Try the Mosques and schools in which the Islamist terrorists will be hiding.
Oh, soetoro abandons another ally. Russia steps in to fill the void. Vlad could enhance his resume by rescuing Iraq’s Christians.
For my purposes, war is boring site is useless. It doesn’t work in my usual browser.
If America had a qualified CIC those weapons would be taken out by air power.
France of all places is offering asylum to Iraqi Christians.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/russias-bunker-smashing-rockets-have-arrived-in-iraq-5672b754870
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Works fine for me.
In that part of the world, “mosque” is a synonym for “bunker.”
I hope we get to the critical point where the crazy extremists piss off all the World powers (especially China) at the same time. It would be great to have a coordinated war uniting the US, Russia, China and others against the Jihadists.
What would be the point of that?
It doesn’t matter what you send them, if the Iraqis won’t stand and fight. I hope the Sov, er, Russians sent a planeload of spines along with the rockets.
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Agreed. Only time will tell; but I’m beginning to believe that the I-told-you-so crowd of leftists, isolationist libertarians, and Buchannanites has give the current Iraqi government a premature burial.
I think we are going to see a Iranian/Sunni Iraqi force, equipped by the Sov, er, Russians, contesting ISIS.
I hate cheering for Iranians and Russians, but I hope they win.
I think we are going to see a Iranian/Sunni Iraqi force, equipped by the Sov, er, Russians, contesting ISIS.
I hate cheering for Iranians and Russians, but I hope they win.
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It would help if the Obama regime would simply stop stabbing friendly Iraqis in the back. For example,the administration has been stalling on sending them fighter planes that they want to buy with their own money. The Pentagon has been scripting all sorts of excuses for this, but where there is a will there is a way.
Strong message to Russia that we won’t stand by and let them arm terrorists.
How so? The arms are being provided to the government of Iraq to fight ISIS.
Imagine that I can’t keep track of the scorecard in that region, regarding who’s on which side....
Do they have any MOABS to spare?
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