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2003-09-12 Afghanistan

Rockets Fired at Afghan Peacekeeper Bases

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-12 9:57:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds like the same 120mm B-40 rockets the VietCong used to attack American bases in Vietnam. If you were lucky, one in ten would fly in the direction it was aimed. In one attack on Tan Son Nhut (a HUGE airbase), eleven of the fourteen rockets fired didn't come within a mile of the base. The only one to cause any 'damage' was the one that took out about 1/3 of the 13th green at the golf course. If the Taliban are as 'successful' as the VietCong were, our guys don't have anything to worry about. Being killed by one of these rockets is such a fluke, you could almost consider it about as dangerous as a lightning storm.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-12 10:34:56 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-12 10:34:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So Vietcong made much easier to get the par on that green. I would have had an investigation on all the lousy golfers of the base. :-)

Posted by JFM 2003-9-12 11:04:30 AM|| 2003-9-12 11:04:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The same rockets were the primary offensive weapon of the anti-Russian resistance in Afghanistan. Most of the logistics effort in the latter part of that war went into supplying rockets for this sort of attack. Of course, they used much larger numbers of rockets. See "The Bear Trap".

Posted by buwaya 2003-9-12 12:10:00 PM|| 2003-9-12 12:10:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 An IR equipted blimp that could stay on station over camps at night would be an effective way to track personel movement.

Would it be effective to rig several likely rocketlaunch points with command detoanted claymores?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-12 12:54:07 PM|| 2003-9-12 12:54:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Let 'em shoot. If you waste these clowns, they might throw somebody in there that knows what they're doing. Then you got problems. These guys seem happy when they hit in the same hemisphere that the target's in. Then they strut home and impress the chicks with their tales of Attacking the Infidels.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-12 5:23:23 PM|| 2003-9-12 5:23:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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