Video: Coalition forces attack jihadi anti-aircraft guns
posted at 5:26 pm on March 8, 2007 by Allahpundit
Something to cleanse the palate, courtesy of reader Eric S. It’s true, you can’t win the war through military means alone.
But every little bit helps. Click the image to watch.
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God Bless fire control!
rightside on March 8, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Can we see some more of this please? Remember Gulf War 1? Everynight we got to see this stuff.
Nice work Troops!
Tony737 on March 8, 2007 at 5:40 PM
“No one will find us behind these trees! Ha! Stupid Americans…oh wait, I’m dead.”
Enrique on March 8, 2007 at 5:42 PM
How about a subtitle for the last several frames.
Terrorists sent on one way trip to meet Allah.
Hiding in trees. Heh.
fogw on March 8, 2007 at 5:44 PM
Makes my week!
Kini on March 8, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Do you think it was a warthog that brought the heat to the treeline?
Having a son currently in flight training, I am always interested in the platforms. The warthog is one of my favs but man, you have to have balls of steel to drive one. Low, slow and veeery deadly.
Babs on March 8, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Allah Akbaaaaaaaaaaaaaughhhhhhhhhhhhhh*
Say hello to Saddam.
csdeven on March 8, 2007 at 5:52 PM
You can run, but you can’t hide – from thermal imaging!
RedinBlueCounty on March 8, 2007 at 5:52 PM
A little HIDE-N-SEEK
ALI-ALI- Akbar, can you save us please..
right2bright on March 8, 2007 at 5:56 PM
The A-10 can deliever every type of ordinance we saw there. The tree line looked like it was hit with a bomb that dispences bomblets. The truck was an iron bomb I am sure.
Yeah, I love that stuff too. A relative of mine helped build the B2 and I couldn’t get enough.
csdeven on March 8, 2007 at 5:59 PM
A thing of beauty.
May those bastards rot in pieces
Texyank on March 8, 2007 at 6:00 PM
What kind of martyr status is granted to terrorists who,
Run across a field fleeing the enemy …
Climb a tree to hide from the enemy …
Get blown to smithereens.
Three slightly used virgins?
fogw on March 8, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Awe-freakin’-some.
flipflop on March 8, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Allah, please give us more of this amazing stuff….the elation this video gives me helps me make it through those “View” clips.
Great work troops, keep givin’ those pukes HELL!!!
omnipotent on March 8, 2007 at 6:12 PM
Hosing them down. Freeze gopher…
Zorro on March 8, 2007 at 6:15 PM
That was before the MSM changed sides.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Yes, but 72 virgins await me, unless they ran out of them (scroll down a bit to witness the shortage).
Entelechy on March 8, 2007 at 6:28 PM
csdeven – You don’t think it was the nose cannon that hosed down the treeline?
Babs on March 8, 2007 at 6:34 PM
This is from the article.
The video was compiled from reconnaissance footage shot by an unidentified aircraft. The video appears to have been shot by an unmanned aerial vehicle, possibly an MQ-1 Predator, on patrol somewhere northwest of Baghdad between Taji and Fallujah.
At that point, an aircraft, most likely an A-10, is cleared to fire on the insurgents. The ground around the al-Qaida gunmen explodes as cannon rounds strike.
Then, attention turns to the hidden gun truck. A single shot explodes the gun truck. While a press release from Multi-National Force—Iraq doesn’t identify the plane that attacked the hidden truck, a summary of air strikes from Central Air Forces credits two aircraft with strikes on parked vehicles: an MQ-1 with firing a Hellfire missile and destroying a gun truck and an F-16 dropping laser-guided 500-pound bombs.
Sven on March 8, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Hate to be a wet blanket, but all that damage to those trees can’t be helping our campaign against global warming.
SailorDave on March 8, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Good point Dave, Hmmmm. Gotta buy us some of those offset credits.
Babs on March 8, 2007 at 6:46 PM
Inshallah!
Too bad Allah’a mean spirited practical joker and you’ve all fallen for it.
Canadian Infidel on March 8, 2007 at 6:46 PM
Wait! That was an orphanage an old folks home!
/sarc
Mazztek on March 8, 2007 at 6:47 PM
crimeny… please insert the word “and” where appropriate in the above post.
Mazztek on March 8, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Mazz… are you saying that old folks can’t be orphans too?
SailorDave on March 8, 2007 at 6:52 PM
Looks like they were trying to follow them back to the nest. Kinda like what the Israelis did with that one dude on the motorcycle.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 8, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Good point, SD. I’ll buy a carbon offset to equal it out.
Rich on March 8, 2007 at 6:55 PM
No need for a carbon offset, the terrorists aren’t breathing anymore.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 8, 2007 at 7:00 PM
LOL Good one!
RedinBlueCounty on March 8, 2007 at 7:06 PM
Hey, no worries Hot Air readers. This round of carbon offsets is on me. Kinda like buying a round for the house.
GO WARTHOGS!!!
Babs on March 8, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Ka-Blamo!
askheaves on March 8, 2007 at 7:18 PM
HOT DAMN!!!!
Troy Rasmussen on March 8, 2007 at 7:21 PM
THat’s addictive. You got anymore?
Drtuddle on March 8, 2007 at 7:22 PM
Buh Bye
Alden Pyle on March 8, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Where the heck does one buy carbon offsets? Are there any wholesale distributors? What’s the profit margin?
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 7:52 PM
Here’s another one that I just ran across on DU of all places.
Is Blue Thunder deployed to Iraq?
rw on March 8, 2007 at 7:59 PM
It just so happens my Costco card will get me 5 offsets for what you mere mortals pay for 1. And I can get a 20 pound bag of frozen hot wings to boot.
Eat my carbon-neutral dust!
SailorDave on March 8, 2007 at 8:02 PM
20 pounds of hot wings doesn’t sound very carbon-neutral…unless they come with a case of Beano.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 8:13 PM
Fortunately, I can get a 3 year supply of Bean-o there for $3.50! Maybe the cure to global warming is all these big-box membership stores.
To tie this back in to the real topic, here’s a version that streams better for me on LiveLeak.
SailorDave on March 8, 2007 at 8:24 PM
Sailor Dave Well, considering I left the word “and” off of my post, I think I might be qualified as an old folk…
Mazztek on March 8, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Infrared cameras are awesome. We had a company demo one in our tank farm (compressed gases) for leak detection. Leaks that would otherwise never be detected show up as black clouds on IR. The camera was developed for use by Navy Seals, so it was completely water-proof with a self-contained cooling system – $75K!
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 8:39 PM
RedWinged Blackbird And I’m sure you’ve seen the other use of an IR camera to detect a release of compressed gasses…
Mazztek on March 8, 2007 at 8:45 PM
I think that that Warthog set-off their tree offsets.
CyberCipher on March 8, 2007 at 8:46 PM
So many Americans who can’t or won’t volunteer for military service, because of age, health, family, responsibilities, or even simple fear, could take part in combat if the available technology gave them a stable remote connection to an airborne weapon system. Say “Wii!”.
Kralizec on March 8, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Umm, not to be too technical, but I think a brief explanation of thermodynamics is appropriate here. A gas under high pressure cools when it expands, so it appears black on IR. In the example you cited, the gas is not under high pressure, so it doesn’t expand significantly. The camera is actually detecting the guy’s body heat, so it appears white on IR.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 9:03 PM
Hey, this is environmentally beneficial. Instant compost.
StuLongIsland on March 8, 2007 at 9:17 PM
BOOM!
Lawrence on March 8, 2007 at 9:18 PM
The mini explosion were the give away.
That cannon shoots a depleted uranium round that is designed for heavy tank armor. I’m sure it would be less effective against soft targets.
csdeven on March 8, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Interesting idea, but how would we stop people like Pelosi and Murtha from shooting at our troops?
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 9:19 PM
That vid has been floating around for about a year. The MSM says they were a bunch of innocent farmers that this Apache killed.
Do farmers throw hot weapons out in a field?
csdeven on March 8, 2007 at 9:27 PM
Probably just a couple of innocent jihadis throwing out their leftover hot wings from Costco.
RedWinged Blackbird on March 8, 2007 at 9:34 PM
Farmers? No those were for sure just volunteers from the Mujahadeen Meals on Wheels, taking a load of jumbo sausages to some poor orphans in Basra, when one of them, who had a little English, noticed that one of them was labelled Jimmy Dean.
smellthecoffee on March 8, 2007 at 10:26 PM
Military.com has many such treasures.
If they’re “farmers” then we were just crop dusting with 30 mike mike.
Mojave Mark on March 9, 2007 at 1:04 AM
This is some war pr0n I had not seen before. It’s pretty long, but the clip by Samuel L Jackson at the beginning was pretty cool.
csdeven on March 9, 2007 at 9:28 AM
MirCat wrote:
I’m not familiar with that one. Care to elaborate with a link, please?
ricer1 on March 9, 2007 at 11:11 AM
Thanks csdeven, I love a good use of “du hast”… if for nothing else but to bounce while watching our fantastic troops. (It’s the goth girl, in me. :)
tickleddragon on March 9, 2007 at 7:56 PM