BooYa C-130 gunship taking out tillibans(vid divx 5.0codec needed)
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BooYa C-130 gunship taking out tillibans(vid divx 5.0codec needed)
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Red Dawn is nothing but a fantasy...
Truly disturbing to see the ease at which human life can be ended. God forbid you are fighting the USA.
When I saw the sniper rifle the Israelis used against the people in the church there, I was saddened that someone had shown the Israelis how to make a remote sniper rifle. When I watch that video, I am struck by how potent American technology really is. It gets the job done with minimum loss of American life, right or wrong. One has to pray that innocent people are never at the end of that barrel. That far away, innocence is not visible.
Truly disturbing to see the ease at which human life can be ended. God forbid you are fighting the USA.
When I saw the sniper rifle the Israelis used against the people in the church there, I was saddened that someone had shown the Israelis how to make a remote sniper rifle. When I watch that video, I am struck by how potent American technology really is. It gets the job done with minimum loss of American life, right or wrong. One has to pray that innocent people are never at the end of that barrel. That far away, innocence is not visible.
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Re "sniper" rifles and the Israelis:
Since WWI most of the armies of the world have used marksmen to operate as snipers. Their weapons have ranged from the standard issue infantry rifles to full-scale target rifles w/ high-powered telescopic sights. Many of the more sophisticated special-purpose rifles were accurized and used target ammunition. In short, any rifle can be a "sniper" rifle and the man behind the gun is what counts the most. Many rifles can shoot consistently into a less than one half-inch circle at 100 meters.
The trick does not require the use of a super accurate rifle, but the ability to "dope" the wind currents. After all, a projectile that travels at more than 2500 feet per second for over a half mile may well encounter several different wind conditions - left, right, quartering, updraft, downdraft, varying wind speeds, etc.. Figuring out where the bullet will be moved by that wind is the real magic, since w/ a single-direction cross-wind of say . . . 25 mph, the bullet strike could be as much as six feet left or right of the target at 800 meters.
During the Vietnam war, the most successful sniper was a Marine Gunnery Sgt. (Carlos something or other - Hathaway?), who used a target grade Remington bolt action rifle in Cal. 7.62 NATO (.308 Winchester), which is not exactly a state of the art weapon. He made consistent kills at ranges up to 800 yards (2,600 ft.); more than a half mile.
In fact, even during our Civil War both sides used specialized rifles and well trained marksmen to take out enemy soldiers. The Confederates killed a Union General w/ a telescopically sighted rifle from about a mile. The man was shaving at the time and was killed w/ one shot. If I recall correctly, the rifle was a .50 Cal. percussion muzzleloader.
In any event - the current crop of so-called "sniper" rifles, some of which use .50 Cal. BMG ammunition, are not particularly new, but are mere improvements upon what has been around for more than 100 years. The overwhelming majority are essentially upgraded bolt action rifles in .30 caliber; something which has been around since WWI. Using .50 Cal. BMG ammo is also not new. A Marine Corps Captain in Korea used one to great effect at ranges over a mile and that was more than 50 years ago!!
In short, the U.S. did not give the Israeli Army any technology that was not already extremely well known throughout the world. To give them their due, the Israelis don't require U.S. help in the manufacture of small arms. They did, after all, invent the Uzi, one of the best submachine guns ever made.
Don't take this as my defense of the Israelis, since if it were up to me, the U.S. would not even have diplomatic relations w/ them, much less annually to give them huge monetary and material aid.
Since WWI most of the armies of the world have used marksmen to operate as snipers. Their weapons have ranged from the standard issue infantry rifles to full-scale target rifles w/ high-powered telescopic sights. Many of the more sophisticated special-purpose rifles were accurized and used target ammunition. In short, any rifle can be a "sniper" rifle and the man behind the gun is what counts the most. Many rifles can shoot consistently into a less than one half-inch circle at 100 meters.
The trick does not require the use of a super accurate rifle, but the ability to "dope" the wind currents. After all, a projectile that travels at more than 2500 feet per second for over a half mile may well encounter several different wind conditions - left, right, quartering, updraft, downdraft, varying wind speeds, etc.. Figuring out where the bullet will be moved by that wind is the real magic, since w/ a single-direction cross-wind of say . . . 25 mph, the bullet strike could be as much as six feet left or right of the target at 800 meters.
During the Vietnam war, the most successful sniper was a Marine Gunnery Sgt. (Carlos something or other - Hathaway?), who used a target grade Remington bolt action rifle in Cal. 7.62 NATO (.308 Winchester), which is not exactly a state of the art weapon. He made consistent kills at ranges up to 800 yards (2,600 ft.); more than a half mile.
In fact, even during our Civil War both sides used specialized rifles and well trained marksmen to take out enemy soldiers. The Confederates killed a Union General w/ a telescopically sighted rifle from about a mile. The man was shaving at the time and was killed w/ one shot. If I recall correctly, the rifle was a .50 Cal. percussion muzzleloader.
In any event - the current crop of so-called "sniper" rifles, some of which use .50 Cal. BMG ammunition, are not particularly new, but are mere improvements upon what has been around for more than 100 years. The overwhelming majority are essentially upgraded bolt action rifles in .30 caliber; something which has been around since WWI. Using .50 Cal. BMG ammo is also not new. A Marine Corps Captain in Korea used one to great effect at ranges over a mile and that was more than 50 years ago!!
In short, the U.S. did not give the Israeli Army any technology that was not already extremely well known throughout the world. To give them their due, the Israelis don't require U.S. help in the manufacture of small arms. They did, after all, invent the Uzi, one of the best submachine guns ever made.
Don't take this as my defense of the Israelis, since if it were up to me, the U.S. would not even have diplomatic relations w/ them, much less annually to give them huge monetary and material aid.
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If you were running from a C-130, youd be running from a fuel tanker wouldnt you? The A designation is for ATTACK, and it does that well with the work of our boys, doesnt it?
It warms my heart to see an AC-130 taking out some terrorist scum. Hmmmmmmm, I think I need to watch it again.
It warms my heart to see an AC-130 taking out some terrorist scum. Hmmmmmmm, I think I need to watch it again.
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