[WAR] Weapons/units currently being used

Jon Sagara

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/coalition/index.html[^] ;P

Jon Sagara

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

I suspected CNN would have something like that. I tried to find it, but I couldn't see the forrest because of all the damn trees. :rolleyes: -- Tune your mind, reach inside, peel away Touch, Taste, Feel, Saturation

Kant

IRAQ...[^] Flash content, Broadband required. Choose the "Background" in the Menu. Don't :beer: and drive.

David Wulff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/default.stm[^] The "fact file" link is near the bottom in the centre.

David Wulff

"Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" - Strong Bad [^]

Jason Henderson

Iraq http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/index.html[^] U.S. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/index.html[^] Very cool new gun.[^]

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Roger Wright

If you have plenty of money, this[^] is a good source. Ancient man conquered his rivals with the jawbone of an ass; modern man uses the jawbone of a politician.

Paul Watson

Jason Henderson wrote: Very cool new gun.[^] Crumbs, and I thought the IT industry had it in for outsiders when it came to trying to read an IT article.

Paul Watson
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Jason Henderson

:laugh: BTW, they are considering adding thermobaric munitions to this gun. The MOAB and Daisy Cutter bombs are thermobaric. That's some serious firepower. http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,58094,00.html[^]

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Paul Watson

Thanks for the link, Wired know how to spell it out for weapons dummies like me :) That thermobaric stuff sounds awful, very cool but awful. Correct me if I am wrong but in the begining of Outbreak (the movie with Dustin Hoffman about the Ebola outbreak) they used a similar bomb, a fuel bomb isn't it? They dropped it over a village, it exploded and took all the oxygen out of the air (which the virus needed to survive) so that they could come in later to check the village out. I think. I can't imagine a canister fired from a rifle that can explode and take the oxygen out of the air of several rooms, and for the effect to last so long that people asphxiate! The programmeable idea is very cool though. Still, they had better make it bloody reliable or you are going to get canisters that explode the moment they leave the barrel. Also hack proof would be nice. Imagine an Iraqi managing to send out a broadcast signal that told all those canisters to explode within 1 foot. Lots of failsafes I assume. Amazing how we can get all gee whizz, oh cool over technology designed to kill so well. It is amazing, but also quite sickening.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Macbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.

Jason Henderson

Paul Watson wrote: That thermobaric stuff sounds awful, very cool but awful. Yeah, I'd hate to be in the target zone. The OICW is a part of the Land Warrior[^] system, a high-tech warrior. I've even rad about the military looking into augmenting the soldiers' leaping and running abilities with suits or a prothesis of some kind. Reminds me of the Mobile Infantry from Robert Heinlein's book, "Starship Troopers".

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