Iraq Insurgent Video

merlin · 07-07-2005, 04:53 PM

This video seems to be doing the email rounds:

This is a night vision movie from Iraq, showing real live action against Iraqi insurgents.

The pictures were taken from an AC130 Specter gunship (plane) two and a half miles away. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up for the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=IraqiNight

MrQuan · 07-07-2005, 05:23 PM

That's insane... they Yankies sure have an awesome arsenal.

sfr rob · 07-07-2005, 06:02 PM

HELL YEAH... what i like to see!!!!!!

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svo347 · 07-07-2005, 06:07 PM

Theres heaps of that around if you know where to look.
"Hit him hit him!!"

vino3o2 · 07-07-2005, 06:08 PM

Awsome footage! " smoke em! "

sfr rob · 07-07-2005, 06:14 PM

yeah i am just searching through that site.. AMAZING footage of the war.
HUGE eye opener!

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BOSS 540 · 07-07-2005, 06:30 PM

Off to Allah! They should be in paradise right about now.

MITCHAY · 07-07-2005, 06:55 PM

In the words of Grand Theft Auto- WASTED!!!!!

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dansedgli · 07-07-2005, 06:56 PM

Thats awesome!

**Falcon Coupe** · 07-07-2005, 07:01 PM

I saw a version of Star Wars Kid in that footage, he destroyed them with his light saber

http://www.screamingpickle.com/members/StarWarsKid/

Envious · 07-07-2005, 07:40 PM

good vid, but so very old...

lv619 · 07-07-2005, 08:06 PM

Pwn3d!!!

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T_Terror · 07-07-2005, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

I saw a version of Star Wars Kid in that footage, he destroyed them with his light saber

http://www.screamingpickle.com/members/StarWarsKid/

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

mcflux · 08-07-2005, 01:06 PM

madcrazy!!!

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The Mighty Red · 08-07-2005, 01:11 PM

would look better if there were a couple of machine gun touting looneys hanging out of each back window

out: and then it flipped a couple dozen times

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Aussie Falcon · 08-07-2005, 02:00 PM

Isn't the AC130 basically a Hercules plane with guns? How was it able to stay still for so long? It must have been a Helicopter instead I think.

Aussie Falcon · 08-07-2005, 02:07 PM

I was right http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/apache.asp

lv619 · 08-07-2005, 07:54 PM

Here's another one I found on ogrish.com...
Download 'apache_shoots_insurgents.wmv'

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July 01, 2005
Apache Helicopter Takes 3 Insurgents Out in Iraq

"Army units in Tikrit come under a light ambush but work their way through. The Apache helicoptor was close by and monitered the area where the ambush was. What you dont see in the video are the guys stashing there guns in the vegetation and heading back into Tikrit, Iraq"

LuvinmyEB · 08-07-2005, 08:29 PM

Really amazing footage and display of weaponary whether it be recent or a couple of years old. Loved the "Smoke 'em!"

The mood that I'm in at the moment after the bombings in London, I'm all for "Shoot them all and let god sort it out!"

Disclaimer: Yes I do know that Iraq has nothing to do with the bomings in London.

08-07-2005, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Falcon Coupe

I saw a version of Star Wars Kid in that footage, he destroyed them with his light saber

http://www.screamingpickle.com/members/StarWarsKid/

This one actually ended up in an American court with the parents of this boysuing and winning the case against the 'boys/parents' involved in 'editing' the film taken.

merlin · 09-07-2005, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by LuvinmyEB

Disclaimer: Yes I do know that Iraq has nothing to do with the bomings in London.

I though it did? On the news they were saying the terrorists who set the bombs in London did so in retaliation to European involvement in Afganistan and Iraq?

Sourbastard · 09-07-2005, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Aussie Falcon

Isn't the AC130 basically a Hercules plane with guns? How was it able to stay still for so long? It must have been a Helicopter instead I think.

The AC130 Spectre is an excellent weapons platform, armed with miniguns and a howitzer it can deliver a frightening amount of firepower onto a target, about 4 times that of your average apache gunship.

Its also a very flexible platform and can be equipped with monitoring equipment mounted on pods, including IR imaging like seen in the video. The plane moves, but the IR Imagers are moveable and can lock onto a point on the ground while the plane moves. Depnding on the system, it can have movement of up to 360 degrees on the horitzontal, so it can fully rotate while the aircraft stays in its pattern or racetrack.

This enables the aircraft to stay in safe zones(or zones of less threat) while monitoring areas outside of that zone where hostiles may be operating.