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2004-03-10 Afghanistan/South Asia

Militants Attack U.S. Base in Afghanistan

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Posted by Evert Visser 2004-03-10 12:44:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 U.S. forces responded with gunfire and called in an A-10 ground attack aircraft.

Ouch. A-10 vs shahids = shahid chunks.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-3-10 1:08:39 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-3-10 1:08:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Gawd...I have had a crush on those A-10's since I played the PC game Tank Killer and read the little brochure...

two excerpts stick in my mind:
"the recoil from the A-10's main gun is equal to the thrust from one of its two engines"

"A-10's main gun can maintain a rate of 2400 milk-bottle size, DU rounds per minute"...

(sigh)

Posted by mjh 2004-3-10 1:29:24 PM|| 2004-3-10 1:29:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 mjh: Ditto! Thanks to Tank Killer, I looove the Warthog!

Posted by BH 2004-3-10 1:55:57 PM|| 2004-3-10 1:55:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "that appears to be an area where Hekmatyar forces are operating."
"there were two rockets and that they landed several kilometers from the airfield."

Yup, that's Heks boys.

Posted by Steve 2004-3-10 2:00:24 PM|| 2004-3-10 2:00:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm glad they missed, but geebus, ballistics just aren't that hard.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-10 3:32:21 PM|| 2004-3-10 3:32:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 What's the CEP on Hek's rocket attacks? Same city? Same province?
Take your time catching him, boys. They might get somebody to replace him who knows what he's doing.

Posted by tu3031 2004-3-10 3:34:52 PM|| 2004-3-10 3:34:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 moths to a flame.

Posted by B 2004-3-10 3:36:56 PM|| 2004-3-10 3:36:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ballistics just aren't that hard

There nothing in the Koran about quadratic equations.

Posted by ed 2004-3-10 3:49:40 PM|| 2004-3-10 3:49:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 There nothing in the Koran about quadratic equations.
Yeah... math is hard. But I think it's likely the toxic influence of kickball had more to do with it.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-10 5:31:39 PM|| 2004-3-10 5:31:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Kunar Gov. Fazel "Allan" Akbar

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-3-10 10:45:00 PM|| 2004-3-10 10:45:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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