A village is destroyed. And America says nothing happened

The Independent ^ | 12.04.01 | Richard Lloyd Parry

[Travis McGee]

Please point out where I have ever gone "Whohooo" at civilian casualties? I regret every single one, but I am not so naive to believe that only Nazis cause them as you do.

BTW, I still want to hear your rationalization for the 100s of thousands of Japanese civilian casualties in the war which saved your bacon. You are mighty selective in your criticism. If the Americans are "Nazis" in this war as you say, what were we in WW2, Supernazis?

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...Byron, for gods sake, about six different people have told you a Hellfire is an ANTI-TANK missile that is physically incapable of being launched from a B-52....

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...the Hellfire Modular Missile System is a multi-mission anti-armor and precision attack missile that is effective against tanks, bunkers, structures, and helicopters. The Hellfire is employed on the U.S. Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter as the primary point-target weapon and is planned to be employed on the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter. The missile's simple control connections make it compatible with a variety of launch platforms including helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, trucks and ships. The missile homes on a laser spot that can be projected on the target by ground observers, other aircraft or the launching aircraft's own designator.....

and it's, "God."

[Qatar-6]

Byron, Byron, Byron

I can see that in common with most people who dabble in things military. A little knowledge and a web site or two can be dangerous things.

SLOW, fixed wing aircraft (IE predator drones)

Show me where the USAF has this in its inventory

Can't, can ya?

Because they don't

Lets check the logic trail on this. A B-52 that can carry tons of bombs instead carrying anti-tank missiles that have warheads of less than 100 pounds and who's attack profile would automatically mean a B-52 would have to descend to an altitude in which it was vulnerable to Al-Quaida MANPADS

Too dumb for words

The journalist used the word "Hellfire" because he wanted to conjur up the image of sadistic American pilots chuckling with glee as they rained "Hellfire" on helpless civilians

When it's all over I'll bet you that the number of proveable cases of civilian deaths to US bombing comes out to less than 200.

Which is too bad, but not too shabby considering the amount of weapons dropped and the effect we've had by dropping them

A lot more people would have starved to death if we hadn't won the war so quickly.

And that's what chaps your ass isn't it? AMERICA'S WON AGAIN!!!!

Damn yankees...

You live in your own little world Byron... But that's OK. Everyone knows you there and they're all your friends.

My recommendation stands. Do a tour in any Australian Infantry battalion. It might just grow you up.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...SLOW, fixed wing aircraft (IE predator drones)

Show me where the USAF has this in its inventory

Can't, can ya?

Because they don't

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Inside The Air Force
January 5, 2001
Pg. 3

State Department Finds No Treaty Implications In UAV Weaponization

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, OH -- The State Department has lifted its objections to the Air Force's demonstration of a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle's ability to carry and accurately launch a Hellfire missile, paving the way for the test in mid-February, according to Air Force officials here.....

...for the tests, one Hellfire will be fitted under each wing of Predator air vehicle No. 34.

During the following two tests, operators will launch the missile from an airborne Predator and assess how discharging the missile affects the UAV's in-flight characteristics, sources say. During one of these tests, service officials will lase the target from a ground location. Predator will self-lase its target during the other test, using a "Kosovo laser ball," a laser designator quickly fabricated with the help of the Navy when Predator was deployed in support of Operation Allied Force in 1999.

The fourth test will be a formal demonstration of an airborne Predator self-lasing and destroying a target using Hellfire, the sources said. The three airborne tests will occur at a facility at Indian Springs, NV, the officials added.

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Now, what was all that about people pretending to have a lot of military knowledge? (:^D)

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...if the Americans are "Nazis" in this war as you say, what were we in WW2, Supernazis?....

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[Qatar-6]

Byron, you truely are a loon

As I said the predator is a fixed wing slow moving air force drone.

Do they drop these things out of B-52s? Or off of any manned fast mover? The answer to that is no?

You remind me of myself as a 14 year old. In love with military technology and thinking myself an expert on it.

Some very good drill instructors disabused me of that notion in the summer of 1974.

Now 27 years later I like to think I've a pretty good grasp of war and things military

Join the Army kid, it will be good for you

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...some very good drill instructors disabused me of that notion in the summer of 1974....