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To: Chainmail

I was impressed by the integration of iPhone and other modern technologies- for sure

You can see from their surroundings they’re poor as dirt


5 posted on 09/04/2014 7:41:47 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican
The folks commenting on the crudity of the equipment miss the important message: that lightly educated, poorly supplied people can build effective and reasonably sophisticated weapons. That large spigot mortar about halfway down the page is impressive - it's been a long time since I've seen that technology applied to deliver large payloads. The remotely-controlled machinegun is excellent and that homemade armored car with the television observation system is very clever. That remotely-fired mortar system offsets a technology I designed to detect the position of a fired mortar and then accurately send a 120mm round at in less than 18 seconds. Sends me back to the drawing board, so to speak.

It indicates to me that we should never be too arrogant to recognize and adversary's inventiveness. It causes underestimation and that leads to flawed tactics and techniques, then increased losses.

7 posted on 09/04/2014 8:14:31 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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