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2006-07-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For Christ f*cking sakes, please stop calling artillery rockets Katyushkas. Katyushka are a relic of WWII and are not made anymore.

Likely the Grad 122mm, and now the Urugan 220mm artillery rockets are being used by Hezbollah.

Posted by badanov 2006-07-19 00:37|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-07-19 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 But "Katyushka" is so much more fun to say!

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2006-07-19 02:16|| 2006-07-19 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Bad - Heh. Trying to get the MSM to be militarily literate. Kinda like trying to get a dog to learn physics.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-07-19 02:19|| 2006-07-19 02:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Bad, this is the same media that calls AK-74s "submachine guns" and any APC with a cupola-mounted grenade launcher "a tank". They are lucky to be able to identify aircraft as not being submarines, and that is on a good day.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-07-19 02:59|| 2006-07-19 02:59|| Front Page Top

#5 You would think they would gain some familiarity and knowledge of weapons that have taken so many of their colleagues lives. But I suppose when it comes to military matters, ignorance remains bliss.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-19 06:10|| 2006-07-19 06:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Beosoker-
And therein lies the rub...to acknowledge these things is to acknowledge that there is a need in the world for people with competence in such things.

And they'd sooner die.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-07-19 06:54|| 2006-07-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#7 whether Ein el-Hellhole's been struck

Would it look any different if it had been?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-19 07:59|| 2006-07-19 07:59|| Front Page Top

#8 please stop calling artillery rockets Katyushkas.

Heh, indeed. Far be it from me to excuse or defend the abysmal media ignorance of matters military, but I think we are seeing one of those linguistic constructs where the name of a specific product or brand, like Kleenex or Band-Aid, becomes a generic term for the whole category. Katyusha is becoming a generic term for any big-ass rail-launched bottle rocket.

That, and the media ignorance thing somebody mentioned.

Posted by SteveS 2006-07-19 08:35|| 2006-07-19 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 If they'd sooner die than perhaps they should, and decrease the surplus population.

Posted by Ebenezer Scrooge 2006-07-19 08:44|| 2006-07-19 08:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Katyusha and rocket storage sites and 350 launch sites

Wonder how many of those 12-15k rockets were blown sky high with the attacks on these locations.

Posted by Charles 2006-07-19 09:42|| 2006-07-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Those really big boom thingies . . .

Posted by ex-lib 2006-07-19 10:41|| 2006-07-19 10:41|| Front Page Top

#12 "Barrage rockets" is admirably descriptive.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-19 11:07|| 2006-07-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#13 You cant find them in the Damascus market,
Gotta disagree with that. If there is such a thing as a For Sale Nuke the Damascus market is where I'd look.

Posted by 6 2006-07-19 14:26|| 2006-07-19 14:26|| Front Page Top

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