Apache gunship goes to work in Iraq. Warning: Graphic Video

Me

[Double Tap]

Apparently this is a clip of a longer video of an Apache gunship engaging Iraqis.

Warning: This video is graphic!!!

http://www.lunitixx.com/sharefoo/224Helicopter_Kills.mpeg

I forget how to post a link, so if someone can do the honors, I would appreciate it.

[Kevin Curry]

Firebird. But I went ahead and downloaded it to the desktop instead. Now it plays just fine separately through windows media player.

[Dick Vomer]

That first hit looks like the scene from "Saving Private Ryan" when the Germans open up on the Allied soldiers standing on the tank and get blow to bits... grisly. But better them than our boys and girls... They took out a couple of our choppers over the last several weeks. Plus all the casualties from mortar attacks...

so for all the comments from the "sorry to see them die crowd". My pop (former Jarhead) and buddies currently in theater have a little saying.

Payback!!..... ain't it a BEEAAAATTCCHHH!

[PokeyJoe]

never mind. See you got it covered. On six.

[antaresequity]

Here is the original uncut version of the Spookey Gunship video/audio of the raid on the Raghead camp in Afghanistan...this original version quickly evaporated from the net when this thing first surfaced...35 MB full length This requires the DIVX 5 Codec...if you dont have it get it... Full resolution, full audio...this will be pulled in 48 hours... DIVX CODEC GUnSHIP RAR

[B4Ranch]

Damn "Been There, Done That" Too many days I wish I could just forget.

[antaresequity]

Only cause I love ya guys as much as love seeing ragheads fragged....

Thanks for this apache clip for my library...

[PokeyJoe]

I'll post it to my server. I have 20GB month bandwidth that I'm not using. =)

[antaresequity]

See 184 For DIVX CODEC Spookey Download...I yank this in 48 hours...

[j_tull]

were far bigger than what was needed to kill the men, but said it is the smallest weapon the Apaches have.

What, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch wouldn't do?

[Kevin Curry]

range is 1/4 - 1/2 mile based on elevation and resolution.

i.e., 400 to 900 yards. At the top of the display a number in the range of "700" appears to be registering. Sounds about right.

[antaresequity]

This one is way higher resolution than the one on the first page of this thread...and longer...

This is keeper

[antaresequity]

UN_RAR it...

Most of these folks dont have WINRAR

[FreedomCalls]

In the middle of the night?

What leads you to believe that it is nighttime when this video was taken? IR looks like IR, day or nighttime.

[wimpycat]

When I was in highschool, I dated a guy whose dad was a retired Marine, did 3 tours of duty in Vietnam, one of them as a door gunner. He told me they went to see "Platoon", and his dad fell asleep. A wonderful critique of Oliver Stone's filmmaking, maybe. But when he came up from Florida for a visit and took us water-skiing in New River, near the Main Gate, I noticed he kept track of every helicopter that was flying in the area out of the corner of his eye.

[FreedomCalls]

In the middle of the night?

Why do you think it is night in the video? It was taken in the afternoon judging from the time indicator in the display.

[bootyist-monk]

I've downloaded the video and watched repeatedly. As the first guy crosses the road, it appears that he reacts to the sound of the cannon and starts moving faster. He stays at the tractor, while the second guy that was at the tractor starts back across the road and then get vaporized (gunner now auto-ranged). Then, the first guy (now by the tractor) immediately whips some sort of cover (looks like canvas) off a long object a split second before he gets the hard goodbye as well.

From the look of them, they were up to no good (and they were apparently being followed by the Apache long before the video starts). Looks like three less terrorists to me.

[Happy2BMe]

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

[FreedomCalls]

Why did 4 guys in the middle of the night

What makes you think it is night when this was taken? This is what IR video looks like in the day as well as in the night. It appears to me to be daytime.

[SAMWolf]

I'm thankful there are people who can and will do the dirty work and despise the enemies who make the job necessary.

[F16Fighter]

Army officials acknowledged that the 30 mm cannons used by the Apache gunners were far bigger than what was needed to kill the men, but said it is the smallest weapon the Apaches have."

The Janeane Garofalos of the world: "It's so d*mn unfair!"