so you are saying that terrorist camps should not be destroyed? not sure what your point is as usual.

"focus attention on what matters"
what would that be exactly?

you are watching too much BBC. :winkwink:

WOW!!

Pleasurepays:

Beneath any comment - I was not discussing "terrorist camps" either nor BBC TV.

Suppose the point must be lost or ya just could not get it anyway...:)

They have these mounted in special SUV's (Suburban size) with steel grating floors (so the hot shells fall out on the ground and don't burn the personel). The slide up and out of the roof and can clear up trouble in a hurry for diplomats and VIPs. Cool article in an old Road & Track or Car & Driver.

do you really think that everyone that is not some 15 yr old, female Euro Hippie like you... "just doesn't get it"?

there is a reason that the world is not full of 20 year old, liberal, female politicians. in spite of what you think, it is not because the world just "doesn't get" the fact that your short and limited life experience and both narrow and biased perspective has given you some sort of enlightened and perfect view of how things ought to be.

Poor Saddam...

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Fuckin wild

What are they yelling when something blows up?

It sounds like they're saying "BANG BANG"

I want to see more towel heads getting gunned down.

The Famous Gunship Video

Site traffic went way up (probably all GFY traffic) after I posted the long video clip of an AC-130 in action in Afghanistan. What was cool was that a former gunship crew member sent me a message and answered some questions I had about the plane and the weapons. Good news to the taxpayers, by the way: turns out it's relatively cheap to send one of those monsters into battle.

"I flew AC-130s (both H and U models) for 9 years, but have been 'flying the desk' for the last two.... The guy who said that we are dropping '$10,000 bombs' couldn't be farther off [NOTE: He's referring to the smartass comment my buddy Ollie made]. The 105mm is actually an exploding shell, or, in essence, a big bullet. Gunship 105mm has been stockpiled from old Army stores for decades (as the Army uses very few 105s these days). When I last checked, a 105 round cost the Air Force about $30 each. Once those stockpiles are exhausted and they have to contract out for new rounds, they will probably triple or quadruple in cost. Though that is still years away, it is still only about $100 per round. Had they used a single 'smart bomb' on that target, it would have cost about a quarter million dollars! Gunships are very economical and extremely accurate.

--Spiney