Posted on 10/21/2014 12:38:58 PM PDT by barmag25
In a new video posted online, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims it has captured weapons and ammunition dropped by the U.S. military that was intended for Kurdish forces defending an embattled Syrian city near the Turkish border.
The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani.
In the video, ISIS claims some of the weapons and ammunition was air-dropped by mistake on its positions in Kobani.
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The photo over his shoulder says it all.
Yes I did see the movie “A Bridge Too Far”.
However, technology has changed A LOT over the last 70 years since World War II.
Keep in mind too the military, technology wise, is 20 years ahead of what’s available in the public.
So like I said I am not buying “it’s an accident” B.S. from the same group of people that brag they can pin point targets.
Read and my response again and tell me what part sounded like the expectation you referenced. Thanks
yet another massive cluster F@@@
all going along as planned
Your assumption is that air drops are very precise and all drop zones are precisely delineated.
That assumption is incorrect. You expect results beyond the air drop precision capabilities. Some waste is to beexpected
It can pin-point targets. Without people on the ground it can’t reliably identify targets.
Any chance this really was done on purpose?
Possible plan: Drop a few guns & a bit of ammo to them (that they already have plenty of, a bit more would be no game-changer), but the guns have tracking devices embedded in them to help us find their position. Maybe throw a few dozen pair of tracking-enabled boots in for good measure.
Without people on the ground it makes no sense to proceed with the drop. All it takes is one satellite phone, and I cannot imagine any difficulty in delivering it.
In World War II supplies were dropped to guerillas at night, guided by the light of a few small fires in a specific pattern. The CEP was within a hundred yards, even though GPS back then wasn't readily available :-)
In this particular case why would one even drop the supplies over the front line, where they can land on whoever controls this or that pothole? Why not to drop them a few miles deeper into positions of the intended side, where they can be safely accessed? Nobody likes to recover supplies under enemy's fire. The airplanes can approach over the territory held by friendly forces; they don't have to cross the front line and risk taking damage.
I started years ago trying to get the Pentagon to fight this ME krap to win. I wrote to Rumsfeld suggesting he start to salt the whole place with defective weapons. I wanted to use the same ammo, 762 X 39 that was reloaded with a chunk of C4, that we used to salt the Hocheemin trail. I also wanted to build RPG’s that wouldn’t shoot strait and maybe detonated out of the muzzle. There’s a whole range of simple stuff we can do to take the diaperheads out of their own fight.
I guess I’d still be in jail if they’d let me fight the way I wanted to? Semper Fi.
Oops. Well, I’m not committing ground troops to establish overland supply lines, and I’m getting squat worth of help from Turkey, Iran, Syria, or any neighboring former Soviet republics. They’re just jealous of my superior diplomatic skills./s
He was probably flying the plane.
Tell ‘em the ammo was made with pig grease.
IIRC, this has happened before.....
Accident? In this day & age?
Just like the IRS and EPA losing their emails?
Just like “if I like my doctor, i can keep my doctor”?
How about: “YOU LIE!!!!”
Old Joe Wilson was right.
Now THAT would get the attention of the guy snackbarring next to Mackmood.
My apologies, I placed that comment to the wrong FR.....
Well, fighting from the air is a huge liability. Air is supposed to be support for the ground, not the whole combat effort.
“Air is supposed to be support for the ground, not the whole combat effort.”
Not if you are a democrat that won the Nobel pieces prize.
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