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ISIL captured 52 U.S.-made howitzers; artillery weapons cost 500K each
Washington Times ^ | 7/15/2014 | Doug Ernst

Posted on 07/16/2014 3:36:03 PM PDT by mojito

Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) may have captured as many as 52 U.S.-made M198 howitzers in their march across Iraq in June.

“They shouldn’t have too much trouble shelling large area targets like a city if they have sufficient ammo,” Jeremy Binnie of the British military consultancy HIS Janes toldMcClatchy news service Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: howitzers; iraq; isis
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Big gun go boom.
1 posted on 07/16/2014 3:36:03 PM PDT by mojito
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Its the Obama lend lease program , in support of establishinhg a world wide caliphate. But lets applaud for a while at least. The skanks are using the howitzers on each other and doing a better job at killing themselves off than we ever could have done.


2 posted on 07/16/2014 3:40:49 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: mojito

Complements of Osama Bin Hussein


3 posted on 07/16/2014 3:42:22 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: mojito

http://olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m198howitzer.php


4 posted on 07/16/2014 3:44:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: mojito

Big hucking gun!


5 posted on 07/16/2014 3:48:56 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Candor7
Thanks for that link, with lots of good info. I don't know much about the capabilities of this weapon: can it be used in an anti-aircraft capacity?
6 posted on 07/16/2014 3:52:57 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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ISIS will soon be renovating and ventilating Damascus and Baghdad.
7 posted on 07/16/2014 3:57:23 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: mojito

Lovely. Just lovely.


8 posted on 07/16/2014 3:59:55 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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More info here:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M198_howitzer

L


9 posted on 07/16/2014 4:01:22 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: mojito

No. The M198 is an indirect fire weapon. It fires 155mm projectiles. It has largely been replaced in US units by the M777.


10 posted on 07/16/2014 4:20:06 PM PDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
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-——Big gun go boom——

Allepo goes doom


11 posted on 07/16/2014 4:28:37 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. NEgypt.C. GOPc.+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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Allepo is first on the list.

Damascus might take some doing to get within range.

Baghdad?........ probably more trouble than it’s worth for now


12 posted on 07/16/2014 4:30:27 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. NEgypt.C. GOPc.+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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It’ll be a miracle from Allah if they don’t blow themselves up trying to figure out how to use it.


13 posted on 07/16/2014 4:44:15 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Candor7

Obama has graduated from supplying guns to Drug Cartels across the Mexican border to supplying 155mm filed howitzers to al -Qaeda.

The evolution of Hope and change


14 posted on 07/16/2014 4:46:37 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

Clown Prince nobama is oooooooh so clever. His foreign policy is paying many, many dividends. Thank goodness he has the-numb-one secretary of state skerry and drunken-degenerate hagel as backups. And, oh, yes, he also has lunch bucket biden (the foreign policy whiz) to back him up. What a dream team! Happy days are here again!!!!!


15 posted on 07/16/2014 6:25:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Any American equipment given to an Arab nation should immediately be considered scrapped. It’s only a matter of time.


16 posted on 07/16/2014 6:28:39 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: mylife

Soon to be used shelling the Green Zone in Baghdad. The next big battle will be the seige of Baghdad—it will fall by December first. Then comes the real bloodbath. But the Iraqi leadership will be in Europe feasting safe in Paris or Bern.


17 posted on 07/16/2014 9:52:54 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

They know how to make shells.


18 posted on 07/16/2014 10:06:59 PM PDT by mylife
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To: SgtBob

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????


19 posted on 07/17/2014 3:29:16 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: mojito

If a helicopter hovers in front of it for a few minutes


20 posted on 07/17/2014 3:32:38 AM PDT by Rome2000
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