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WARPLANES: The Avalanche Weapon
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| March 22, 2002
| Stephen V. Cole
Posted on 03/22/2002 11:24:45 AM PST by John H K
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To: HardStarboard
Good things that Graves & Burial ain't unionized.
"No prob with youse guys bombing the little so-and-sos, but this burying them at the same time stuff? That's a major contract violation, we're gonna havta go to the local's Grievance Committee, per Section 12, Paragraph 3, we'll send the formal complaint via certified mail. In the meantime, as shop steward, I must formally request that youse cease and desist from further actions of this type. Youse guys have a nice day."
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03/22/2002 12:20:26 PM PST
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Poohbah
To: Poohbah
Victory through air power!
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posted on
03/22/2002 12:30:35 PM PST
by
hchutch
To: John H K
Surprise is unnecessary when you can hit them with thousands of tons of rock.
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posted on
03/22/2002 12:31:50 PM PST
by
Thud
To: Thud
To heck with finesse...sometimes a size 12 boondocker to the crotch is the most effective tactic...
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03/22/2002 12:39:47 PM PST
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Poohbah
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To: John H K
no wonder they're having trouble counting them all. We buried them under rock slides as well as in the caves. During the Gulf war invasion of Iraq, it was estimated that we buried over 100,000 of them alive when our tanks entered the country. The Iraqi's were hiding in trenches dug in the sand and the vibrations of our tanks caused the trenches to cave in. Some of our tanks had plows attached to the front of then to cut through the sand barriers that were constructed to keep invaders out.
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03/22/2002 12:47:39 PM PST
by
dglang
To: John H K
Excellent tactic. Use the mountains they hide in as a weapon against them.
To: r9etb
OK, so it was a mustard seed the size of a big-ass 2,000 lb bomb. But the mountain did move.Imagine what a micro-nuke on the order of 1kt would do!!!
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posted on
03/22/2002 12:49:42 PM PST
by
stboz
To: hchutch
Victory through air power!Major Seversky would be proud. I have the book, with preface by General William Mitchell.
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posted on
03/22/2002 12:53:20 PM PST
by
stboz
YAHOOO! Get some, zoomies!
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posted on
03/22/2002 12:54:35 PM PST
by
LouD
To: stboz
I've read John Warden's book. His theories are probably the best way for air power to reach the point where it will win a war on its own.
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03/22/2002 1:06:30 PM PST
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hchutch
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To: John H K
If memory serves me, this tactic was used in WWII in snow-coverd mountain areas.
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posted on
03/22/2002 1:09:37 PM PST
by
greydog
To: hchutch
I've read Horner's book. He lays out a pretty devastating critique of Warden's concepts in many "early intervention" ops.
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03/22/2002 1:10:26 PM PST
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Poohbah
To: Blood of Tyrants
Use the mountains they hide in as a weapon against them Now to finish off the job, send in the helocopters with lots of hungary pigs and wild boars, and let them feed on the rotting remains of these bas**rds!
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03/22/2002 1:11:57 PM PST
by
aShepard
To: John H K
Some rockslides have an interesting property. "Long run out" slides can move long distances across horizontal ground. They don't just pile up at the base of the mountain. They continue to run horizontally like a wave of water. Trigging one of these could nail an Al Qaeda unit even though it's no where near the base of the slide.
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03/22/2002 1:13:50 PM PST
by
Redcloak
To: Poohbah
ROFLOL
To: Poohbah
Well done.
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