Posted on 11/24/2015 10:56:16 AM PST by xzins
The U.S. military conducted a second wave of attacks on (parked) ISIS oil tankers in Syria on Sunday, Nov. 22, but the attack fell short of its goal:
"The goal was to destroy every truck there. They ran out of ammunition before they were able to do that. But the desire was to destroy every single truck there," said Army Col. Steven Warren, the spokesman for the U.S.-led coaltion fighting ISIS.
At a news briefing on Tuesday, Warren played video of the ISIS fuel tankers being bombed or shot with machine gun fire from the air. Warren said all the trucks were targeted, but the video just shows "the good shots that you'd like."
As was the case with an earlier U.S. strike on ISIS fuel tankers, the Americans dropped leaflets warning the truck drivers that an attack was coming, so the tankers were not moving.
Warren called the airstrikes "another example of the type of accuracy that we're capable of here in the coalition."
A total of 283 fuel trucks were destroyed by American planes on Sunday: "A bomb would have been from an A-10, and then when you saw the guns, you know, the machine gun fire, that could either have been an A-10 or AC-130 Spectre Gunship."
"It's not a movie where you kind of fly along and just strafe, and you know, the trucks blow up. No, it's -- they struck each truck, or groups of two or three trucks. It is a machine gun, so there is a certain area aspect to it, right? You know, the gunfire isn't laser guided...So it's individual strike a truck, or two or three trucks; move to the next batch, strike them; move, strike; move, strike.
"So the goal was to destroy every truck there. They ran out of ammunition before they were able to do that. But the desire was to destroy every single truck there."
Combined with an earlier U.S. strike on ISIS fuel tankers, the U.S. military has now destroyed 399 of them, but Warren would not say how many are left: "I'm not going to tell you the total number of trucks out there...but we've still got a long way to go on trucks," he said.
Warren also disputed Russia's recent claim that it had attacked and destroyed 500 ISIS fuel tankers in the "same general region" last week.
"From what we saw, the battle damage assessment they issued seemed to be exaggerated. More than likely the Russian attacks did not produce the results that they claimed it produced."
Warren said the U.S. estimates that Russia destroyed only around 100 tankers.
...Why don’t they destroy the fuel source?...
Too much for Obama
Russian jets attach fuel trucks
Youtube:
Combat Cam: Russian jets destroy ISIS oil refinery & tanker trucks in Syria
We never, ever see any war porn from Obama's War on Terrorism!
“OK, Barney. You can have one bullet. But you have to keep it in your pocket.” Sheriff Andy Obama
So we aren’t using cluster bombs during the strafing runs...
1 truck = 1 bomb???
But they had plenty of leaflets.
There’s also such a thing as rearming. Have to wonder why that wasn’t planned for. Maybe the distance to the targets precluded doing that.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
Ahh....Morgan Fairchild handed me the message personally.
“Honest... I ran out of ammunition. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My uniform didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my jeep. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts!”
Blues Brothers
Like Andy giving Barney only one round for his revolver.
Tell me again which side obama and the US military is backing?
You know that this story is another Administration lie.Our planes couldn’t destroy those tankers because they ran out of ammunition.
I’m sure they could have could have destroyed all of those trucks by flying additional sorties until there were no trucks left.
Obama thinks he’s Lyndon Johnson and he’s telling our pilots they can’t bomb any additional trucks without his permission.
283 tankers destroyed is still pretty impressive. Would like to know how many A-10s were involved, and how many sorties, which would give a good indication of how much ammo was expended per truck. There is such a thing as running out of ammo before targets, even for the A-10.
I recall pretty vividly the images of the “Highway of Death” during the Iraqi retreat from Kuwait, which was a maximum effort by several squadrons, using area weapons (cluster munitions) rather than the en vogue GBUs. In addition to guns.
I’m calling B.S.
Everyone knows Putin is doing this. There is a lot of videos of it, and even ISIS admits it.
So along comes the Administration pretending they are doing all of this.
Keep in mind we were supposedly doing this for over 15 months before Putin came into Syria. We NEVER saw anything like this before.
“Why’d you shoot him 44 times?”
“Ran outta ammo.”
My reaction, too.
Sorry bout the dupe post. Set my phone down and when I picked it up again it was still on the posting screen.
“We ran out of ammo????â€
I see that as a failure of the Commander in Chief.
Post of the Day!!
You forgot “I broke the heel of my shoe off”, LOL.
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