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2009-10-15 Afghanistan

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-10-15 04:35|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 They taught us to stay off the roads. If necessary, find another way around.
Lots of misses, but in between, those vehicles took some hits. RPGs hitting rocky ground kick up rock splinters which are more dangerous than the standard RPG fragmentation effect. There are RPG anti-personnel models, though. Might be as good as a standard anti-tank round hitting rock, too.
Convoy stopped.
No sign of return fire. Hope they got some tac air in, but it wouldn't have happened in four minutes.
Not a bad day's work for the Taliban.
This is not a reason for gloating.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2009-10-15 08:19|| 2009-10-15 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Since the RPGs are consistently undershooting the trucks, did they set up their ambush too far away?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-10-15 11:29|| 2009-10-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 CROWS and incoming fire radar should stop those sort of things, as this video is old, it probably has.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-10-15 12:39|| 2009-10-15 12:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Bright. Incoming fire radar doesn't work until the stuff is incoming. Problem is getting hit until you can return fire accurately.
Six guys, one medium machine gun, a dozen RPG rounds stops and damages a US/NATO/ISAF/ANA convoy. Half the gomers get away. They win.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2009-10-15 13:17|| 2009-10-15 13:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Got to agree to Richard Aubrey, I guess.

No sign of return fire.
US/NATO/ISAF/ANA convoy.

Civilian convoy? The lack of return fire is very weird.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-10-15 16:11|| 2009-10-15 16:11|| Front Page Top

#6 They taught us to stay off the roads. If necessary, find another way around.

In a mountainous area, going could mean a additional day's worth of travel, couldn't it?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-10-15 17:51|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-10-15 17:51|| Front Page Top

#7 #6.
wrt going around. In part, I was trying to be facetious. But this road is ambush heaven. They can't go fast, can't reverse, can't turn around. There are no ditches for cover,nor vegetation.
But if it took another day, that would be getting there sooner than getting blown up and not getting there at all.
But, given the terrain, it's probably another road like this one.

Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey 2009-10-15 17:53|| 2009-10-15 17:53|| Front Page Top

#8 No sign of return fire.

The video is way too far way and grainy to see .30 and .50 cal muzzle flashes. No way those humvees are not returning fire. It's a multipoint ambush.

CROWS and incoming fire radar

Yep, remote turrets w/ infrared optics slaved to audio gunfire detectors.

Posted by ed 2009-10-15 20:26|| 2009-10-15 20:26|| Front Page Top

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