Thread: Int Corps "bombing the Taliban with text's"

Dunno why, just made me me laugh. You can just picture the Tora Bora hills in the dead of night singing with the sound of mobile phones going off.

"Intelligence chiefs* find out the numbers of the enemy’s mobile phones then send them waves of messages to confuse them and destroy morale.

Texts range from simple abuse such as “We know who you are, give up� or “Go home, you’ll never beat us�.**

* wheres the Indians?
** are trained veterans of the Soviet era are really gonna be scared by this? Surely send "I can see you!" would be more effective? Just an idea.. .. ..

Apologies if this has been posted before.
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/200...ntelli....html

I thought this forum had been quiet. it must be hell on your thumbs doing this all night.
Just hope your boss doesn't learn about MSN that will make you 'up close and personal'

read quite an amusing article yesterday (max hastings? anthony loyd? can't remember).

anyway, talking about being out in the sticks with the booties and speaking to the inhabitants of a rather out-of-the-way village.

"tell them we're British"

blank looks

"ok, try telling them we're American, they might understand that."

it works.

"American? The Russians aren't going to like that."

17 years later and some in the backwaters aren't even aware that the Russians have left

[quote="CRmeansCeilingReached"]read quite an amusing article yesterday (max hastings? anthony loyd? can't remember).

anyway, talking about being out in the sticks with the booties and speaking to the inhabitants of a rather out-of-the-way village.

"tell them we're British"

blank looks

"ok, try telling them we're American, they might understand that."

it works.

"American? The Russians aren't going to like that."

17 years later and some in the backwaters aren't even aware that the Russians have left [/quote]

Yet they've all got mobile phones. I blame those addictive Phones4U adverts. http://www.phones4u-on-sea.co.uk/

But have they bought the cheaper car insurence yet with that cut price on-line bank loan?

tut tut they really ought to be cross selling them insurance AS WELL as new handsets and text bundles. Plus they could try the old Nigerian 'I've got loads of money in a bank' style stuff too.

Nowt new is it tho - I mean in Bosnia radio networks were jammed with frontline commanders telling their opposite numbers a few metres away what they would like to do to their wives. Also apart from our British officers talking dirty to one another the Serbs/Muslims were doing THE SAME to scare each other into giving up or making a tactical error in anger.

taliban answering machine

not sure if it will work. audio file...

Originally Posted by FunkyNewBlood

Dunno why, just made me me laugh. You can just picture the Tora Bora hills in the dead of night singing with the sound of mobile phones going off.

"Intelligence chiefs* find out the numbers of the enemy’s mobile phones then send them waves of messages to confuse them and destroy morale.

Texts range from simple abuse such as “We know who you are, give up� or “Go home, you’ll never beat us�.**

* wheres the Indians?
** are trained veterans of the Soviet era are really gonna be scared by this? Surely send "I can see you!" would be more effective? Just an idea.. .. ..

Apologies if this has been posted before.
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/200...ntelli....html

Wouldn't "I can see you and if you look up you will see a JDAM heading toward you" be more effective?

Originally Posted by CrapSpy

Originally Posted by FunkyNewBlood

Dunno why, just made me me laugh. You can just picture the Tora Bora hills in the dead of night singing with the sound of mobile phones going off.

"Intelligence chiefs* find out the numbers of the enemy’s mobile phones then send them waves of messages to confuse them and destroy morale.

Texts range from simple abuse such as “We know who you are, give up� or “Go home, you’ll never beat us�.**

* wheres the Indians?
** are trained veterans of the Soviet era are really gonna be scared by this? Surely send "I can see you!" would be more effective? Just an idea.. .. ..

Apologies if this has been posted before.
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/200...ntelli....html

Wouldn't "I can see you and if you look up you will see a JDAM heading toward you" be more effective?

followed by "haha, made you look"?

Sorry for intruding on your forum lads and a slight serious note here but if you've got a mobile number you can track to location for the handset so wouldn't that be more useful?

Originally Posted by Wedgy

Sorry for intruding on your forum lads and a slight serious note here but if you've got a mobile number you can track to location for the handset so wouldn't that be more useful?

Really?

Originally Posted by Wedgy

Sorry for intruding on your forum lads and a slight serious note here but if you've got a mobile number you can track to location for the handset so wouldn't that be more useful?

Really?

Yep something to do with triangulating from the masts/cells it's going through and the strengths of the signal, don't get me wrong I'm no expert but I've been told you can get it down to a 300 meter radius

cheers for that

The police do it all the time for missing persons, kidnaps etc etc I've seen it on The Bill!!