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Marines Quiet About Brutal New Weapon
Defense Tech ^ | 11/14/05 | David Hambling

Posted on 11/14/2005 5:13:10 PM PST by baystaterebel

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To: Darksheare
Eeep! Shambling nightmares from the nether realm.

What we have here is

A really pressing need for a flame thrower.

121 posted on 11/14/2005 7:04:59 PM PST by MNJohnnie (100% of Islamic Terrorists disapprove of the job President Bush is doing)
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To: Conservative Firster

I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification.


122 posted on 11/14/2005 7:08:12 PM PST by manwiththehands
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To: sionnsar
That's right! We need more Friendly New Weapons!

Easier done than said!

123 posted on 11/14/2005 7:09:47 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Let O'Connor Go Home! Hasn't She Suffered Enough? Hasn't The CONSTITUTION Suffered Enough?)
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To: MNJohnnie

Maybe they're some form of fungus based life.
Some tolnaftate should do the trick.
;-)


124 posted on 11/14/2005 7:09:58 PM PST by Darksheare (I'm not suspicious & I hope it's nutritious but I think this sandwich is made of mime.)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
I was thinkin the same thing. I bet that it could take out a few gophers. LOL

Waste that on GOPHERS, when there are so damned many prairie dogs begging for it?

125 posted on 11/14/2005 7:19:34 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: SandRat

It is a FAE.


126 posted on 11/14/2005 7:19:45 PM PST by JustAnotherOkie
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To: Lancer_N3502A

Yes God love'm.


127 posted on 11/14/2005 7:20:54 PM PST by JustAnotherOkie
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To: baystaterebel

Geez. All we had were the LAAWs.
They're coming up with some pretty cool stuff these days.


128 posted on 11/14/2005 7:25:40 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SandRat

Sounds like Bill Cosby's long ago bit on requiring coin tosses before a war. For the Revolutionary War, the British lost the coin toss. The colonists got to dress in buckskin and hide behind trees. The British had to wear red and march in stright lines.

The terrorist enemy wears no uniform and kills innocent women and children indiscrimminately, but we are over the top when we find the right weapon to blow their cowardly a**es away. The faux moralist positions these people dream up are absurdly amazing.


129 posted on 11/14/2005 7:26:43 PM PST by RatRipper
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To: Darksheare

During the war, if you remember the incident where a tank on the main bridge in downtown Baghdad killed an al-Jazeera cameraman.

The tank shot two rounds in about 10 seconds. The first leveled a 3 story building next to the bridge. The second, seemingly aimed right at al-Jazeera's window, just knocked a little plaster off the wall of the Palestine hotel (the cameraman just got in the way unfortunately.)

I was amazed that a tank could fire two rounds with such differing effects. It was clearly a planned effect as part of the strategy in winning Baghdad with the least amount of damage or loss of life.

No more filming the battle or shooting at US troops from the cover of the rooftop of the Palestine hotel full of reporters.

Leveling a 3 story building required a special shell. So did knocking a little plaster off the wall of the hotel.

Different firepower for different needs is an excellent way to win a war.


130 posted on 11/14/2005 7:27:45 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: al baby

Look at the pretty flower!


131 posted on 11/14/2005 7:29:20 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none!)
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To: JustDoItAlways

Was quite interesting to see a building evaporate.
I want one of those too.


132 posted on 11/14/2005 7:29:36 PM PST by Darksheare (I'm not suspicious & I hope it's nutritious but I think this sandwich is made of mime.)
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To: Texican

Semper Fi, thanks for your service Marine!


133 posted on 11/14/2005 7:33:52 PM PST by sgtyork
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To: sgtyork
Sgtyork:
Just did my duty my friend.

Good evening and the very best to you and yours.

Semper Fi
Tommie

134 posted on 11/14/2005 7:38:13 PM PST by Texican (An)
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To: Yo-Yo; bt_dooftlook
Take a look at this photo:

Has the "folding bipod" in the rear.

135 posted on 11/14/2005 7:40:32 PM PST by FReepaholic (I don't look good naked anymore.)
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To: Blueflag

In an air gas mixture it may or may not help. I have no idea but FAE (Fuel Air Explosive) is kind of like setting off a Propane bomb. It is nothing like conventional highexplosive. I am sure someone much smarter than me would have thought about it, if it would work. But I have redesigned a fuze or system in my day.


136 posted on 11/14/2005 7:43:31 PM PST by U S Army EOD (LET ME KNOW WHERE HANOI JANE FONDA IS WHEN SHE TOURS)
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To: baystaterebel

Texas dove would not have a chance... limit bagged in one kill shot.


137 posted on 11/14/2005 7:47:23 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the ping.


138 posted on 11/14/2005 7:49:08 PM PST by GOPJ (Frenchmen should ask immigrants "Do you want to be Frenchmen?" not, "Will you work cheap?")
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To: al baby

Wow!


139 posted on 11/14/2005 7:52:27 PM PST by GOPJ (Frenchmen should ask immigrants "Do you want to be Frenchmen?" not, "Will you work cheap?")
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To: MojoWire
SMAW=NE (sounds like a request for a pedicure, or....

An Al Jolsen song.

140 posted on 11/14/2005 8:00:13 PM PST by ArmstedFragg
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