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The Cougar - Zero Casualties
Gizmag.com ^ | 6/23/06 | Gizmag.com

Posted on 06/22/2006 7:05:09 PM PDT by Reaganesque

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To: Ainast
Also how do troops get out of this thing quickly without getting hurt?

Jump out those back double doors, and do a parachute landing fall?

21 posted on 06/22/2006 8:05:30 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: ElCid89
So I suppose we shouldn't do anything more to protect the troops, just give up and get out?

The best defense is a good offense. Ask Zarqawi. Oh, you can't he's dead. When the rest of them are as well, no more IEDs.

22 posted on 06/22/2006 8:08:09 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

parachute landing fall? doesn't that mean they roll on the ground? Its still pretty slow.


23 posted on 06/22/2006 8:11:12 PM PDT by Ainast
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To: Texas_Jarhead

How long until we see these cruising the streets of Hollywood, painted gloss black and pulling up to the finest restaraunts?


24 posted on 06/22/2006 8:14:12 PM PDT by poindexter
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To: El Gato

Absolutely. Cougar's a great thing to have, but nailing Zarq and the intelligence we gained will go much further towards protecting our guys than the 50 or so Cougars we've got. Like all weapons Cougar will only be effective when used in the right way in the right place and time. Another step forward.....


25 posted on 06/22/2006 8:16:46 PM PDT by ElCid89 (the corps...the corps...and the corps...)
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To: Reaganesque
Almost anything with a "V-shaped" bottom is better than the flat bottomed Hummer.

Besides we try to put all kinds of platforms on the hummer frame. The M997 ambulance is impossible to up-armor, already heavier than other hummers (so it has trouble keeping up on patrols) and the patient compartment is poorly designed.

We should look at replacing the hummer over the next decade or so with wheeled vehicles that are better suited to wartime requirements.

26 posted on 06/22/2006 8:26:15 PM PDT by 91B (God made man, Sam Colt made men equal)
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27 posted on 06/22/2006 8:44:48 PM PDT by Cannoneer No. 4 (Potius Mori Quam Foedar)
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To: centurion316; Reaganesque; Cannoneer No. 4
This is part of the headline article from today's edition of the local newspaper:

Central Hardin graduate gives ‘the ultimate’ in Iraq

Chris White grew up on farm in Eastview, died in roadside blast.

Chris, a machine gunner, and four other Marines were riding in the last Humvee in a convoy traveling Tuesday through Al-Anbar Province when a roadside bomb exploded, William White said. Three Marines, including Chris, were killed.

28 posted on 06/23/2006 3:33:15 AM PDT by SLB (Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
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To: Texas_Jarhead

It's just Hummers with extra steroids. :P


29 posted on 06/23/2006 4:48:40 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: CougarGA7

Cool ride.


30 posted on 06/23/2006 4:54:34 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Funny how the military always name their best equipment after me.

Now, where can I buy one of those.


31 posted on 06/23/2006 8:49:53 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: centurion316
Right, working for the Dept of Navy leaves me out of the loop.

In any event, you are claiming that 500-1000 lbs of explosives
- you can't hide that much blast power easily.
32 posted on 06/23/2006 11:13:29 AM PDT by RetiredSWO
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To: RetiredSWO

I would have a hard time. The ragheads are managing to get it done. You don't have to believe it, but talk to someone in theater - they believe because they are seeing it.


33 posted on 06/23/2006 2:25:39 PM PDT by centurion316 (Democrats - Al Qaida's Best Friends)
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To: RetiredSWO

FYI. Things those pesky insurgents are doing(From a NewsMax story):

When the Marines first went into the city they were aware of the tight control insurgents exercised over Haditha. They discovered that the insurgents had freshly paved-over dirt roads leading into town under the auspices of civic works projects.


They were, according to a NewsMax source, "beautiful asphalt surfaced roads" adorned that even included painted lines. The only problem, the source recalled, was that insurgents had laid more than 100 mega-IEDs under that asphalt. And, in order to avoid having to change batteries in the triggering devices, they wired them into the city power lines lining the road.


34 posted on 06/26/2006 7:58:21 AM PDT by centurion316 (Democrats - Al Qaida's Best Friends)
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Got the report yesterday on how they did it.
They rebuilt the roads paving over IEDs and
even wired them into the city electric so as
to not worry about batteries running down.

Those barbaric fascists are losing troops fast though.


35 posted on 06/27/2006 4:49:30 PM PDT by RetiredSWO
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