ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by ordinaryforces

Why is it whenever I post something? rambling sid rumpoe aka the iron duke quotes it and then proceeds to add a load of bollox to it.

And you don't have a grasp on modern fighting. Or in fact fighting at all.
If you don't annihilate the enemy then you're doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by JoeyDeacon

Apache or A10...A10 or Apache..i just cant decide...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d7d_1265481565

Defo A-10, no mistaking that Buuuzzzzz!!

Originally Posted by ordinaryforces

Nope I don't get it!
men on the ground clad in flip flops and worn out aks ..mown down by someone with a video game who then kills wounded men.
hardly man to man combat...ragheads they may be , but that was just murder.

No it,s not, it,s called destroying the enemies will to resist, or the pursuit of politics by other means.

Originally Posted by Badger_Heed

Did I imagine a Lynx door gunner opening up on a PIRA unit (vehicle?) in S Armagh during the early nineties?

I'm sure it did take place but my memories of the actual facts concerning the incident are fading.

ISTR Lx5 and Lx7 Dogwatchers put several thousand rounds of 1B1T into the area roughly occupied by a sandbagged artic in the Jonesborough area. Lx 7 nipped-back to BBK to appropriate the ones that the Puma Slider never took out of the can, before they went lifex.

Doubt if they show this on Al Jazeera

Originally Posted by Gun_Nut

Possibly you are thinking of the Derryard checkpoint attack in 1989. As I recall the Wessex came very close to catching PIRA's improvised armoured vehicle in the open, but just missed them.

Attack on Derryard checkpoint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You mean just for a change we did not have enough helos... some things never change eh?

Originally Posted by ordinaryforces

Nope I don't get it!
men on the ground clad in flip flops and worn out aks ..mown down by someone with a video game who then kills wounded men.
hardly man to man combat...ragheads they may be , but that was just murder.

Welcome to the new world. Were they enemy... cast around for a hearts and minds text from MOD RSS... bet you a cheap beer that another expensive Brit is going to loose his or her life before the time is out

Originally Posted by Thai_exile

Actually, there was an incident when, had the technology been available, an air strike on PIRA could have been used. In '78 or '79 an AAC Beaver was returning from a photo-recce job down near the Border. They saw something suspicious so they took a closer look. It turned out to be a PIRA illegal VCP. All the boys were looking up at the aircraft and the crew could see their sweet, little, pasty-white faces staring up at them. So what does a good photographer do? He takes a photo - in this case a 40" x 40" arial type. (It was excellent, by the way. The M60 cutoffs were in position and the killing zone was well covered). One of the boys took a shot at the Beaver. (A hit was found on return to Aldergrove)

Now, that meant the terms of the Yellow Card would have been met (under fire etc.) and so, Rodney2q, put an Apache in place of the Beaver and the crew could have legally done the business. We can only dream, Old Boy, only dream!

Remember seeing that phot--think it was a 5 x road crossroad type junction,couple of M60's,12 PIRA,(think there was a Russian 50 caL)

Kept you more alert when in a "covert" drop off Merc or Bedford van!