GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 4/2/03-Rescues,Najaf,Nasiriyah,Arbil,Umm Qasr

DOD, IraqiTV, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 4/3/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

[El Gato]

That's most likely a TOW missile (surface-to-surface) -- wire guided by the launcher.

It's not a TOW, most likely a Swingfire being fired from a Striker AFV. A varient of the Scorpian AFV design. See drawing at lower left on page linked.

[Humidston]

"H. Blix was here." - LOL!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Laughing and crying at the same time. Dio, you're my hero.

[visualops]

SpaceBalls!

[Steve Van Doorn]

I am not sure but it looks like a particle ray.

[visualops]

ZOT!!!!

[Steve Van Doorn]

what is a ZOT?

[visualops]

My thoughts exactly!

[visualops]

Awesome! This rocks!!

[visualops]

When the Admin Moderator zaps (zots) someone!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/883212/reply?comment=22

[syriacus]

Thanks for the pictures, Diogenesis.

You really keep us well-informed.

[GWfan]

Just found out a friend of our family has been shipped to Kuwait to help with humanitarian aid.

Big bump for him, our military, and our allies.

God bless America.

[Rightly Biased]

Heroes Bump and a Big BTTT for
FR's very own War Reporter
Thanks Dio

[justlurking]

It's not a TOW, most likely a Swingfire being fired from a Striker AFV.

I should have been less specific in my answer: I used "TOW" as a description of how it is guided (TOW is Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Command). I didn't mean to identify it as the specific US system that operates that way.

From what I've been able to find about the Swingfire, it's certainly Tube-launched and Wire Command. Is it Optically tracked?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

030330-M-2176J-128 Umm Qasr, Iraq (Mar. 30, 2003) -- Two Iraqi boys wave at the passing Coalition Forces after receiving food and water . The Coalition forces conducting missions and Humanitarian Relief in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew R. Jones. (RELEASED)

[AdA$tra]

ZOT!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great pics. Thanks.

[DBtoo]

You know what, I bet that some day in the future, those images (paintings, mosaics, statues, etc.) of Saddam will be worth a lot of money, the ones that aren't destroyed that is, although there seem to be so very many of them that it may take years to remove them all!

[DBtoo]

That is sweet! That soldier looks like he likes babies.

[nutmeg]

Another awesome array of photos. Thank you, Diogenesis!