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Gone in 28 seconds: Rapid-fire sniper takes out five Taliban soldiers to protect British patrol
Daily Mail ^
| May 6, 2010
Posted on 05/06/2010 3:12:46 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: count-your-change
I thought that was Ralph Feinnes (?)
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:34:27 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(I won't be happy until Jet-A is less than $2.00 a gallon)
To: rdl6989
The enemy targets were more than a mile away ....
[the rifle,] which has an effective range of 1,100 metres
... a mile is 1600 metres, so at "more than a mile away", the targets were well outside the effective range, making this even more impressive.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I read an article about Americans being pinned down and asked for air support. The “commanders” called a lawyer and were told not to send them.
They have to call a lawyer to approve of air strikes??
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:54:21 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: rdl6989
.338 Lapua for the win. That round, that rifle, and the well-trained Brits using it are certainly making waves!
}:-)4
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:57:53 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
These days all snipers are chained to the weenies. One of my kids friends was a marine sniper in Iraq. He spent five years there. After the initial invasion him and his spotter had to get permission to fire on terrorist unless they were actively shooting at US troops. he is certain that many times they were radio linked directly to the Pentagon when asking for permission to shoot. This guy had Mookie dead to rights once and was denied permission to shoot because fatboy was inside a Mosque wall. In the second battle of Fallujah he was denied permission to shoot some guys that had a mortar and were shooting from inside a Mosque compound. They killed five Marines.
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:01:39 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(If you can read this you are the resistance.)
To: GeronL
They are running our country in Washington. They are now in charge of wars. Shakespeare had the right idea.
To: verity
"He's chained to the staff weenies" "Staff weenies" are not in the chain-of-command. Neither is the unit's JAG. Doesn't mean he doesn't have input.
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:10:28 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
To: GeronL
Is this a war? Or is it a police action? A ‘reconstruction’? A ‘nation-build’?
Unfortunately our soldiers are put in the position of fighting an enemy not for the purpose of smashing them and taking their territory, but for stabilizing a nascent—and quite corrupt—government. When the enemy blends with the local population, killing him at any cost may impede the larger ‘mission.’
I’m glad it isn’t me.
To: ivyleaguebrat
I totally agree. If we are not there to kill baddies, then get out.
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:18:05 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
usually dead before the sound hits them.....so no, but if your the last one standing and you don’t believe it came from a mile away....your sh*t is short
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:24:43 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: rdl6989
“The object of war is not to die for your country, its to make the other poor, dumb son of a bitch die for his” - General George S Patton
and the quote we should use more often overseas ——
“Men, fetch some more pig carcasses.” - Gen “Black Jack” Pershing
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:26:22 AM PDT
by
Illuminatas
(Obama - Dumber Than Bush!)
To: FormerACLUmember
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:26:39 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: PhiloBedo
harris and law were the snipers hunting each other.
Jude Law ... Vassili Zaitsev
Ed Harris ... Major König
Rachel Weisz ... Tania Chernova
Joseph Fiennes ... Commisar Danilov
Bob Hoskins ... Nikita Khrushchev
Ron Perlman
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:34:05 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Tatze
54
posted on
05/06/2010 7:48:41 AM PDT
by
Renegade
("Bring it on while I still don't need glasses to shoot your eye out ")
To: ArtDodger
here, maybe this will calm your senses....*smiles*
Please do note, the original poster here at YT has it wrong...there was never a missile, you can clearly see the shock wave from the Abrams milliseconds before the end of the sniper...(CAUTION...LANGUAGE)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTH2unJNROs
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:57:42 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
To: rdl6989
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posted on
05/06/2010 8:34:33 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Renegade
“
Jude Law incarnate !
“
Cinematically, yes.
Real Life, more like
Chuck Mawhinney or Carlos Hathcock Incarnate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Mawhinney
That recently-aired documenatry on History Channel with re-enactments
of Hathcock and Mawhinney’s most notable actions...
scary stuff.
Just very glad they are on our side.
Like the gentleman in the current article.
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posted on
05/06/2010 8:41:11 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Mopp4
"Well, what I mean by that, sir, is... if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight, sir... pack your bags, fellas, war's over. Amen."
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posted on
05/06/2010 8:44:58 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Izzy Dunne
4th Battalion, The Rifles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rifles
The Rifles are a descendant of the 95th Rifles. Those who have read Bernard Cornwall's Sharpe series will be familiar with the regiment.
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posted on
05/06/2010 8:48:41 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: count-your-change
Thanks. I should have checked IMDB. Great movie.
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posted on
05/06/2010 9:11:12 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(I won't be happy until Jet-A is less than $2.00 a gallon)
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