jlrogers wrote:
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Martin Baxter wrote:
Lovely, "He's wounded", "Roger", "Hit him", "Roger", machine gun fire, "Got him"

I don't feel to great about watching people with sophisticated weaponry using
it to kill wounded people.

Yep, I find it depressing to think that we have now got video game screens showing
real people being killed. OTOH, it was nice of them to put that guy out of his
misery (IMHO). From the looks of it, he was in bad shape and not anywhere near
likely to get good medical care.

It also made me wonder what those people were doing and why the Army had a chopper
watching them.

Regards
Doug King

OTOH, it was nice of them to put that guy out of his
misery (IMHO). From the looks of it, he was in bad shape and not anywhere near
likely to get good medical care.


I doubt the guy would agree with you.


RB

OTOH, it was nice of them to put that guy out of his
misery (IMHO). From the looks of it, he was in bad shape and not anywhere near
likely to get good medical care.

Bobsprit wrote:
I doubt the guy would agree with you.

Maybe, maybe not. He might have welcomed the chance to die for his beliefs, or he
may have been enough of a realist to say to himself, "Self, you've just been gut
shot with depleted uranium and engine parts. You have major wounds on at least two
extremities including broken bones. You are going to bleed to death in the near
future. Self, you are in great agony and this is just the beginning. Although you
can only hope for 3rd world first aid, even if you were, right this second, being
rushed to a major metropolitan trauma center and are tough enough to survive,
Self, you will be severely crippled and disfigured for life."

Of course, compared to your every day life Bubbles, maybe the guy wasn't so bad
off.

DSK

DSK wrote:



OTOH, it was nice of them to put that guy out of his
misery (IMHO). From the looks of it, he was in bad shape and not anywhere near
likely to get good medical care.


You may be right there, he may just have had his eardrums ruptured, but at
the very least he'd probably soon get cancer and die from ingesting all the
depleted uranium dust that was flying about.

Cheers
Marty

Martin Baxter wrote:


You may be right there, he may just have had his eardrums ruptured, but at
the very least he'd probably soon get cancer and die from ingesting all the
depleted uranium dust that was flying about.

It seems pretty likely to me that he stopped a lot of debris from the truck he was
hiding under. I'm not trying to make a long-distance medical diagnosis but the guy
was dragging himself along the ground and looked pretty badly hurt, leaving a thick
trail behind him among other things. A friend looking over my shoulder says he was
already stopped moving (dead?) when they shot him the second time.

BTW the Army says it is not using depleted uranium any more... I wonder how true
that is? Those bullets look like they went right through those trucks like wet
tissue.

DSK

What were 'metal piercing bullets' made from before? My 30-06 Springfield
(military model) came with some clips full of MPBs.

Scotty

"DSK" wrote in message
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Martin Baxter wrote:


You may be right there, he may just have had his eardrums ruptured, but
at
the very least he'd probably soon get cancer and die from ingesting all
the
depleted uranium dust that was flying about.

It seems pretty likely to me that he stopped a lot of debris from the
truck he was
hiding under. I'm not trying to make a long-distance medical diagnosis but
the guy
was dragging himself along the ground and looked pretty badly hurt,
leaving a thick
trail behind him among other things. A friend looking over my shoulder
says he was
already stopped moving (dead?) when they shot him the second time.

BTW the Army says it is not using depleted uranium any more... I wonder
how true
that is? Those bullets look like they went right through those trucks like
wet
tissue.

DSK

Martin Baxter wrote in message ...
DSK wrote:



OTOH, it was nice of them to put that guy out of his
misery (IMHO). From the looks of it, he was in bad shape and not anywhere near
likely to get good medical care.


You may be right there, he may just have had his eardrums ruptured, but at
the very least he'd probably soon get cancer and die from ingesting all the
depleted uranium dust that was flying about.

Cheers
Marty


Marty depleted uranium is saved for bigger things than trucks.
Mostly found on tanks. Typical DU round has to cost a couple of grand.

If your gonna spend that kind of money on a few cut throte murders
running in fields you might as well vaporize the whole bunch with a
hellfire missle.

If you do not want to be killed in a field by someone you can not
see, you should not be running around with weapons used to kill the
guy who just killed you. You follow me?

How do you think the average man in the back of a helo hit by a RPG
feels when he's spinning to the ground about to die?

And the rat that shot the RPG runs down his rat hole to strike
another day.

Joe
MSV RedCloud

Joe wrote:



Marty depleted uranium is saved for bigger things than trucks.
Mostly found on tanks. Typical DU round has to cost a couple of grand.

You may well be correct about the cost of the round, however the average soldier
doesn't usually pause to consider the cost of the ordnance, and if he did he
probably wouldn't care. Armed forces have never had a great image of being misers
with the taxpayers money.

Further, could you tell me how you would select a different round for the 30 mm chain
gun on an Apache, you shoot what you were armed with.

Probably moot anyway if Doug is correct and DU has been withdrawn.

If your gonna spend that kind of money on a few cut throte murders
running in fields you might as well vaporize the whole bunch with a
hellfire missle.

I don't know why they didn't do just that, I have an uneasy feeling that
they were having fun, like at a video arcade.

If you do not want to be killed in a field by someone you can not
see, you should not be running around with weapons used to kill the
guy who just killed you. You follow me?

How do you know for sure that was a weapon? Maybe they were just farmers
going to install some new drainage tile in the ditch?


Cheers
Marty

Excellent footage. The gunship must have been in silent hover mode. Those
victims "blowed up" real good!
I've got Jane's LongBow Cobra game to practice with but it never provides
people to shoot at... only air/ground vehicles and installations.
I wonder if they have any footage of "Friendly Fire" exercises? I mean they
must practice considering how good they are at it!! With all that technology
how could you make a mistake?

CM

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Capt. Mooron wrote:
The gunship must have been in silent hover mode.

If you soak your turban in salt water they can't see you!

Cheers
Marty