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2016-05-24 Iraq

Ford pickup trucks with rocket launchers used by Iraqis

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Posted by badanov 2016-05-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Not an F-150, but it will do.

Posted by gorb 2016-05-24 00:28|| 2016-05-24 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 military grade.
commercials say so

Posted by Gloluper Chusotch3457 2016-05-24 00:42|| 2016-05-24 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Multiple Rocket Launch System based on Ford F-350 Super Duty is a commercial pickup truck. The Iraqi rocket launchers having a range exceeding 3,500 miles (5,630 km) and It has two missiles on the launcher.

*blinks* Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot, over.

J- school grad was either pulling random factoids from wikipedia to fill column inches, or got confused between miles, meters, and Km's

The only possible explanation that makes any kind of sense to me at all.

Posted by Nguard 2016-05-24 00:56|| 2016-05-24 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, but what are the cup holder and in-dash entertainment options?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-05-24 03:20|| 2016-05-24 03:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I was wondering what the 'INSERT LAUNCH CODE' was in the Ford SYNC app was for?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-05-24 04:20|| 2016-05-24 04:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Old wine in new bottles. The 'desert chariot', an armed Toyota truck, was used quite successfully in the nineteen eighties by Chadian forces in their war with Libya.

Posted by Creanter Angeregum3386 2016-05-24 09:34|| 2016-05-24 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 It a Ukrainian blog. Machine translation errors from Arabic-Ukrainian/Russian, then to English and with typical carelessness.

My guess is the TOS-1 rocket repackaged in a Dual launcher. 220mm thermobaric warheads with a max range of 3,500 meters.

Posted by Eohippus Snore8229 2016-05-24 11:23|| 2016-05-24 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 3,500 Meters?

That might be usable.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-05-24 11:24|| 2016-05-24 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Possible launch video of their new system here

Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-05-24 11:27|| 2016-05-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Pretty cool. And yeah, 3500 meters is a more realistic range of those things.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-05-24 11:44|| 2016-05-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Quick Google of the BM-27 220mm MRL sez it's got a range of 35km.

Duh. That burned 45 seconds.

Posted by Fred 2016-05-24 11:44|| 2016-05-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#12 If that is what the National Police are launching then it is definitely not the TOS-1. Looks like a refinement of the Syrian civil war explosive filled water heater powered by a BM-21 class rocket motor. 3,500 meters is very optimistic (maybe on the moon).

Posted by Eohippus Snore8229 2016-05-24 11:54|| 2016-05-24 11:54|| Front Page Top

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