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2008-06-23 Afghanistan

British Army 'vacuum' missile hits Taliban

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Posted by tipper 2008-06-23 16:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Got hit by a vacuum missile, eh? That sucks!

Posted by Mike 2008-06-23 16:23|| 2008-06-23 16:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Basic Weapons Theory: The louder Human Rights Watch screams, the more effective the weapon.

Posted by tu3031 2008-06-23 16:32|| 2008-06-23 16:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Human Rights Watch argues they are particularly brutal and that their blast makes it virtually impossible for civilians to take shelter.

Um... I hate to break it to you, but a 500lb bomb hitting your building doesn't allow you much for "taking shelter" either. At least with the "enhanced blast" hellfire, the orphanage for fuzzy ducks and baby bunnies isn't peppered with pieces of building, bomb and terrorists. Limits collateral damage so to speak.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-23 16:46|| 2008-06-23 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 And, since the organ shredding and asphyxiation happens fairly quickly, the terrorists don't suffer for very long.
If HRW had their way, troops would be armed with squirt guns and Nerf bats.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-23 16:51|| 2008-06-23 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 As Monty Python put it, "lightly killed..."

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-06-23 17:09|| 2008-06-23 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 If HRW had their way, troops would be armed with squirt guns and Nerf bats.

Agreed. Spitballs would be banned (after all they have 'spit' on them.....) while the terrorists will be armed with nukes and defend themselves with human shields.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-23 17:40|| 2008-06-23 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 They can say the big boy words.

/Mr Rogers voice

Can you say Thermobarics?

Ther - mo - bar - ics.

Of Course you can!

Posted by OldSpook 2008-06-23 17:43|| 2008-06-23 17:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Thermo-Barak O-BAM-a!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-23 17:57|| 2008-06-23 17:57|| Front Page Top

#9 We use thermobaric rockets too don't we?
Shoulder fired units, they knock the hell out of em, usually collapse the whole building.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-23 18:15|| 2008-06-23 18:15|| Front Page Top

#10 XM1060

Posted by Gomez Cravins9023 2008-06-23 19:07|| 2008-06-23 19:07|| Front Page Top

#11 GC9023, that story should be highlighted under "Why we win"

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-06-23 19:15|| 2008-06-23 19:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Wasn't that big mother propane tank bomb thingee we used in Viet Nam to clear LZ's and collapse tunnel complexes essentially one of these Thermobaric gizmoes?

Posted by James Carville 2008-06-23 20:03|| 2008-06-23 20:03|| Front Page Top

#13 Someone needs to ask these twits this question:

If we're killing them, does it really matter HOW they die? Do they really think Thermobaric weapons are MORE painful than putting 3-4 holes in their body and them bleeding out over several minutes/hours?

Personally, the more they suffer, the better.

Course, I have no mercy or compassion for the enemies of my country.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-06-23 20:05|| 2008-06-23 20:05|| Front Page Top

#14 British forces in Afghanistan have used one of the worlds most deadly and controversial missiles to fight the Taliban.

Apache attack helicopters have fired the thermobaric weapons against fighters in buildings and caves, to create a pressure wave which sucks the air out of victims, shreds their internal organs and crushes their bodies.

What's so controversial about that? It's what they want. They get to go to heaven and have their 72 virgins and not have to consider the wife and kids they leave behind.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted to the use of the weapons, condemned by human rights groups as brutal, on several occasions, including against a cave complex.

OK. Fine. All you ~~parasites~~ "human rights" groups can just take care of clearing the terrorists out of the caves and convincing them to go back to farming wheat and I promise I will be against the use of TB technology. Until then, STFU. And what about the rights of all the folks killed by their actions? Seems to me that ought to be the first item on the Pareto chart ought to come before terrorist "human rights". F-ing muppets. ;-)

The use of the Hellfire AGM-114N weapons has been deemed so successful they will now be fired from RAF Reaper unmanned drones controlled by pilots at Creech air force base in Nevada, an MoD spokesman added.

That's how it's done! and those "pilots" can use the human rights groups headquarters for target practice until they get it just right.

Posted by gorb 2008-06-23 21:19|| 2008-06-23 21:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Let's bring back napalm and than they can be more squeamish.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-23 23:24|| 2008-06-23 23:24|| Front Page Top

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