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2015-05-30 Terror Networks

ISIS' favorite tactic for overrunning cities is brilliant, devastating, and insane

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 23 of them with the force of OKC bombing, followed by intense ground-fire is enough to end a check on route of passage.

Posted by newc 2015-05-30 00:30|| 2015-05-30 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 There is little defense against a multi-ton car bomb; there is none against multiple such car bombs

Yet, everybody---except for glorious Iraqi army---somehow manage.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-30 03:51|| 2015-05-30 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 A couple of months back a Peshmerga took one out. He stood in the middle of the road and hit the front with an RPG at close range.

Posted by phil_b 2015-05-30 03:58|| 2015-05-30 03:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Just think what ISIS could accomplish with a suitcase nuke.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-30 06:48|| 2015-05-30 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Or something similarly sized, Mr. B.

Coming soon, I fear.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-05-30 07:24|| 2015-05-30 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 Or something similarly sized, Mr. B.
Coming soon, I fear.

Yes, and our Intelligence Community will be caught totally unawares.... yet again. Unforeseen strategic surprise, unthinkable deed, no contingency plan, a more advanced capability than previously estimated, dastardly and unavoidable.....

The standard spin. Did I miss anything ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-30 08:47|| 2015-05-30 08:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Besoeker, "authorities have ruled out terrorism"

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-05-30 12:11|| 2015-05-30 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 There is little defense against a multi-ton car bomb

Basically, the kamikaze approach.

You hit them as far out as you can to diminish the number that arrive on station. Close in you zero elevate the big guns to throw as much lead into their vector.

For landlubbers, mines, wires and obstructions are available. You have to do away with straight roads, forcing the vehicles to decelerate to make turns. Trenches with bridging elements that will only support only so much weight will also reduce delivery capacity.

So the real trade off is inconvenience for security. Being dead is probably most inconvenient, but there will always be whiners who refuse to contemplate the cost of making their job easier.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-30 12:42|| 2015-05-30 12:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Drawbridges and portcullises.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-30 15:04|| 2015-05-30 15:04|| Front Page Top

#10 We never solved the kamikaze problem in 1945. We ended the war with a nuke.

As long as they have trucks, APCs, and the like they can keep doing this. There is really scary video of a massive car bomb using a ready mix cement truck. It killed two marines who stood in the road and emptied their weapons at the driver, who died triggering the dead man switch on the bomb.

When our Air Farce takes this all seriously and makes it impossible to put a vehicle on the road for fear of an A-10 saying hello, we might have a solution. As long as it takes an hour to get the white house to approve an air strike in Iraq, the Iraqis and their allies are basically screwed.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-05-30 22:58|| 2015-05-30 22:58|| Front Page Top

#11 the Iraqis and their allies are basically screwed Allahu Fubar!

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-05-30 23:48|| 2015-05-30 23:48|| Front Page Top

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