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2007-10-14 Iraq
Six IED emplacers killed, planned attack disrupted
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Posted by Fred 2007-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top
 File under: Iraqi Insurgency 

#1 That's terrible! How did that one guy get away? :-)

Too bad it took 21 rockets to get those three guys. Seems like it could be pretty expensive. Don't we have something that can home in on motion like that? Or are they some kind of cheap dumb rockets?
Posted by gorb 2007-10-14 02:58||   2007-10-14 02:58|| Front Page Top

#2 The rockets were probably Hydra 70 folding fin attack rocets. They have no guidence system (so far!). It is unusual, but the pilot may have elected to Salvo an entire pod, after one or two spotter rounds. If so, Wheee!

Part of the confusion is that for the military, rocket implies no guidence system after launch, while missile implies that the weapon can modify it's trajectory after launch. example: a hellfire missile has a seeker head that homes in on a spot of reflected laser energy. A Hydra 70 rocket is a powered ballistic projectile guided only by Sir Issac Newton.

You can be sure that most journalists are neither interested in nor capable of understanding the difference.
Posted by N guard 2007-10-14 07:10||   2007-10-14 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 the rockets couldn't be too expensive considering they did their jobs and our troops weren't hurt by the bomb
Posted by  sinse 2007-10-14 07:38||   2007-10-14 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe it was a cool straffing run. Waiting to see it on YouTube.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-14 08:38||   2007-10-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 You can be sure that most journalists are neither interested in nor capable of understanding the difference.

[chuckle] Candidate for Snark of the Week?
Posted by Bobby 2007-10-14 09:55||   2007-10-14 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 “These enemy fighters were in the act of placing an IED when our helicopters positively identified them, killed them and maintained observation on the area until ground forces arrived and removed the countless body parts the device, saving countless Iraqi and Coalition lives,”
Posted by Sigmund Freud 2007-10-14 10:19||   2007-10-14 10:19|| Front Page Top

#7 WTF is emplacers?

Another way not to say terrorists?
Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-14 11:54|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info]  2007-10-14 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 WTF is emplacers?

From the article: "nine enemy fighters attempting to emplace a roadside bomb"

Another way not to say terrorists?

There is a difference. It's like calling marines, sailors, and airmen 'soldiers'.

But call them anything you want. I call 'em corpses.
Posted by Pappy 2007-10-14 12:16||   2007-10-14 12:16|| Front Page Top

#9 "Emplacemats"
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-10-14 12:20||   2007-10-14 12:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Why not call them IED enablers ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-10-14 13:41||   2007-10-14 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Heh, Frank!

Seems like we are seeing more reports of heli-zapping. I wonder if it is due to more jihadis getting ratted out while they are in the act, or due to more aerial surveillance. Or maybe just better reportage.
Posted by SteveS 2007-10-14 14:36||   2007-10-14 14:36|| Front Page Top

#12 "...as well as a 9mm pistol and a sledgehammer."

Hmmm, sledgehammers; the detonator of last resort.

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Posted by Whiskey Mike 2007-10-14 15:32||   2007-10-14 15:32|| Front Page Top

#13 They found a propane tank IED with an initiator in the middle of the road, as well as a 9mm pistol and a sledgehammer.

Does this mean we have disrupted the flow of IED high explosives from Iran? Does this mean the availability of high explosives in Iraq are starting to dry up? Or were these guys just using what was readily available?
Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-14 18:09||   2007-10-14 18:09|| Front Page Top

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