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But Seriously...

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Juice, Jun 19, 2015.

  1. Crown Royal

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    His top spokesman just resigned LOL. He’s off to exactly the kind of start I predicted— people in their precious red states are already dead because they put their faith in these know-nothing clowns. Great job.
     
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    Shhh don't give them any ideas.
     
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    A rapist showed up on Amber Loudermilk's embalming table, while she was teaching a student how to embalm. She cut the dead man's pecker off and shoved it down his throat, and told the student, "You didn't see this." Her career is likely ruined, because she couldn't read the room, and see that the student was a snitch.

     
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    There has been another completely unnecessary child death in Texas due to measles. Meanwhile the dumbass in charge of HHS has put a complete antivaxx fraud in charge of finding a link between vaccines and autism. Which is complete fucking nonsense because autism is genetic in origin and happens during fetal development. Anyone know how to get to an alternate universe where Harris was elected? I'm so tired of being surrounded by mental midgets who buy into this shit.
     
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    In response to a rep, no RFK Jr. didn't cause the Mennonites to refuse vaccination. He just wants the entire US to be as ignorant as they are.
     
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    Trump wanted to NAFTA this shit by slapping a fresh coat of paint on something that another President had negotiated and claiming to be a master dealmaker. Netanyahu is fucking that up for him.
     
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    It's insane.

    One of the pics I saw was of an apartment in a building that had an entry hole through the outside wall that blew up one of their commanders. It looked like only that apartment was blown up, with smoke coming out the patio doors window... it sure looked like the apartments above and below were left intact.

    Fucking crazy precision, if they got the guy they were targeting.
     
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    Might be a hellfire missile. They’re a jet-fired ninja star instead of a bomb. But I figure the interior would be more cropped up.
     
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    Quite possible it was an AGM-114 RX9, or something similar.

    Whatever it was it's likely it had no explosive warhead and the fire is from the rocket motor. Any explosive blast would've blown out a lot more of the walls on that corner of the building. Plus there'd be noticeable spalling.

    Something like thsese: Guided Advance Tactical Rocket
     
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    I wonder if that was intended or a failure? I mean, I could see that an incoming missile at that speed could cause severe bodily damage via block shrapnel, missile body itself, etc, that maybe they figured they didn't need the explosives at all? Or did it fail to explode?

    Still... it surprised me at how clinical that hit looks with such little apparent collateral damage.
     
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    That depends on what weapons effects you want to achieve. The smallest explosive air to ground warhead I'm aware of is on Hydra 70 rockets and that's ~10lbs with a 10 meter lethal blast/frag radius. That would've likely blown out the walls of that apartment unless they're reinforced concrete. Even then, there would've still been noticeable spalling of the exterior facade. Also, with an explosive blast, that window frame would've been gone as well.

    The size and shape of the entry hole makes me think it was a Hellfire sized missile, but it could've been some sort of precision guided Hydra 70 variant like the link I posted in my previous post.

    Some of these are scary accurate.
     
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    Iran's military is entirely designed to suppress its own population first-and-foremost. They came into power through revolution and built a security apparatus so they don't lose it the same way. As far as fighting offensively, they are terrible because they've never really done it at scale since they fought Iraq.
     
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    I saw this post, then five minutes later I went to reddit, clicked on a post about the whole current attack. Comments were talking about how targets were hit in their apartments, and everyone was discussing the humongous collateral damage from it, saying “it’s like if somebody took out a professor from MIT by leveling half of Cambridge.”
     
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    Aren’t there warheads with no explosives on them that basically shoot out blades or something? I’m not a weapons guy or anything but I heard about something super precise that can limit damage to basically a single room.
     
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    Some other pics do show significantly more collateral damage. Part of the reason I was wondering if this one was a misfire or something.