Peter Cairns Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Just looking at the BBC News on the Assalt on West Mosel and saw this! Thought it was posting.Humvee Firing Rockets. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 (edited) Jesus! They're firing that thing into a city? Seems kinda 'barrel-bomb' to me. Here's another view, along with a warning from the UN: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iraq-launch-operation-western-mosul-isis-1.3990211 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/nato-says-civilians-at-extreme-risk-as-west-mosul-offensive-begins Edited February 19, 2017 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 They have been firing TOS-1A and whatever is available during city assaults of Tikrit, Fallujah, Mosul. This humvee missile seems like a large crude missile, but abstractly not so different from 155mm incoming for any civilian to be unfortunate enough to be in it's blast radius. Mosul was always going to take a heavy toll on the civilian population. It is winter there now, with temperatures similar or colder than west europe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Am bothered that we are so critical of Syrians firing blindly into populated cities with this sort of ordinance. Where is the outrage for this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool breeze Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Erwin, you are clearly not getting the divided nature of the American populace, WE are the GOOD guys, WE do GOOD! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted February 21, 2017 Author Share Posted February 21, 2017 Oh Oh can we have these as well!!!!! Mad max's Humvee! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool breeze Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 wow that thing is straight out of a post Apocalypse. PRETTY BADASS! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 On 20/02/2017 at 6:47 PM, cool breeze said: Erwin, you are clearly not getting the divided nature of the American populace, WE are the GOOD guys, WE do GOOD! Divided is the wrong word, personally I'd use 'bi-polar', but sadly for all those countries you 'liberate' your sentiments are all too accurate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 6 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: Divided is the wrong word, personally I'd use 'bi-polar', but sadly for all those countries you 'liberate' your sentiments are all too accurate. Do you want to keep posting here? If so, stop trolling. It is against the Forum rules and I've just warned you in another thread as well. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Cairns Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 Lethaface, Is this the TOS-1A, if so they are using it again. Part way down the article there's a Pic. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39061811 Peter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Yeah that's a Buratino.....God help the people on the receiving end of that thing, selective it isn't! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 3 hours ago, Peter Cairns said: Lethaface, Is this the TOS-1A, if so they are using it again. Part way down the article there's a Pic. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39061811 Peter. Indeed it is. Basically it's a thermobaric MLRS, I found a decent video showing the characteristics: I suppose it's a very effective platform when assaulting urban positions. It is unfortunate that such systems are used on densely populated area's, but what are the alternatives? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 They could test it on Acton. That area could do with complete redevelopment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 On 2/20/2017 at 0:22 PM, Erwin said: Am bothered that we are so critical of Syrians firing blindly into populated cities with this sort of ordinance. Where is the outrage for this? Well there is a difference barrel bombing with the intent to hit civilians vs barrel bombing with the intent to hit combatants. The bombs themselves don't discriminate, unfortunately. Even if I do think that the Syrian regime is a necessary (evil) tool to transition the country towards a future, it's quite obvious Bashar has been mass murdering civilians with just that intent. Are the current Iraqi Shiite clique in power any better? I don't know. To put things in some perspective: the Brits did consciously firebomb Dresden in WWII in order to break the will of the german populace. I think Bashar's motives for barrel bombing certain civilians are similar in nature. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 6 minutes ago, Erwin said: They could test it on Acton. That area could do with complete redevelopment. ??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 You have to come visit this exotic suburb of London to appreciate... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 15 minutes ago, Erwin said: You have to come visit this exotic suburb of London to appreciate... I'm hoping your not talking about what I think your talking about. Anyway I've spent plenty of time in London, particularly around bow/mile end. Not sure why you'd want to lay waste to parts of that nice city using a thermobaric MLRS. Makes me wonder what you'd want to do with the neighborhood I live in: Overvecht. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 God help you.....What did you do to deserve Acton? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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