A U.S. soldier who survived a deadly Taliban ambush last month tells CNN's Barbara Starr what his troops faced. | Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Describing Taliban assault - video |
| 2008-08-20 |
| A U.S. soldier who survived a deadly Taliban ambush last month tells CNN's Barbara Starr what his troops faced. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #4 The Russians just improved the German designed Panzerfaust: Yeah, I know, but they sure turned it eventually into a great versatile system, carried ready to fire, and the last warheads from russia are quite sophisticated (thermobaric, dual-charges, high frag,...). Plus, it's cheap, rugged, and numerous, and quantity has a quality of its own, this really gives a lot of local firepower to non-western ground troops. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-08-20 14:04 |
| #3 It really annoys me that they MSM feels *obligated* to throw in digs at the military, their leaders, and continual references to Vietnam into their opinionated "reports". They have lost the ability to actually "report" any more. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-08-20 13:53 |
| #2 The Russians just improved the German designed Panzerfaust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust The single weapon responsible for the destruction of an amazing number of Russian tanks. It would "open them up like a piece of ripe fruit", according to the Germans. I also noted that the Airborne have their maroon beret back. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-08-20 13:47 |
| #1 Very interesting vid; my salute and respect for those who fell there. Also, the Rpg really seems to be the other real big soviet/russian success story, cheap, efficient, widespread, it looks like it actually gives even thirld world riff-raffs a great deal of firepower. Third world man-portable field artillery. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-08-20 13:33 |