Well, we're going to war, so POST AWESOME MILITARY PICS - Page 12

Pedrunn · March 22, 2003, 13:56

For the Austin Powers fans

Dis · March 22, 2003, 13:58

something is not right with that bulldozer. Oh, I know!

. It's a shame that other people cannot find someone innocent until convicted in a court of law.

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 14:45

US Cobra fires at Iraqi Positions

847 squadron supporting the Royal Marine Commando assault on Iraq.

Near Al Faw, HMAS ANZAC fires Mk 45 gun as forces take the Al Faw peninsula.

British Royal Marines, 40 Commando, help secure the al-Faw oil field

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Pictures of the Convoy

Chemical Ollie · March 22, 2003, 14:49

Any info on that casualty carried on a blanket? Nationality? Dead or wounded?

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 14:51

I believe it's an wounded Iraqi.

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 15:07

Let's hear it for the US Air Force.

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 15:39

A U.S. Marine takes cover as a fire fight erupted near a military convoy in southern Iraq (news - web sites) on March 22, 2003.

U.S. soldiers of 3/4 Lima company, 1st Platoon, try to secure a farming area while burning oil pipelines are seen in the background near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Saturday, March 22, 2003.

A convoy of British Army Warrior armoured vehicles makes
their way towards the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of
Basra, March 22, 2003.

Kramerman · March 22, 2003, 17:21

nice informative pics, lonestar

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 18:08

I try.

ThePlagueRat · March 22, 2003, 18:24

What's that 15-year old girl doing in the cockpit?

Ned · March 22, 2003, 18:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Olaf Hårfagre
Here's the Swedish disposable tank buster Bofors AT4. US has aquired 600 000 of them. I bet some of them are carried by coalition footsoldiers in Iraq.

There has been a debate in Sweden if the weapons export to US, UK (and since last night, Denmark!) should be banned. It is a violation to Swedish law to sell weapons to either part in a conflict. However, the government and a majority of the parliament voted the export should go on. Our defence industry is too much integrated with US and UK to stop export to them.

Was this law put in place after WWII?

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 18:33

Quote:

Originally posted by ThePlagueRat
What's that 15-year old girl doing in the cockpit?

Those are all enlisted airmen. Well, not the pilots.(the Captain in the front, plus the other.)

I suspect it's a jet that requires lotsa enlisted personnel to operate it. Perhaps a KC-135 or an E-3....

Lonestar · March 22, 2003, 18:54

SMOKE OVER BAGHDAD

Dis · March 23, 2003, 03:54

It's well known that the air force has hotter chicks than the navy.

The ships I were on weren't outfitted for many navy women. But those that were on my ships were uuuuuuggglllleee. It's times like those you wish they did serve beer aboard U.S. navy ships like they do on British ships.

Ted Striker · March 23, 2003, 03:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Olaf Hårfagre
Here's the Swedish disposable tank buster Bofors AT4. US has aquired 600 000 of them. I bet some of them are carried by coalition footsoldiers in Iraq.

There has been a debate in Sweden if the weapons export to US, UK (and since last night, Denmark!) should be banned. It is a violation to Swedish law to sell weapons to either part in a conflict. However, the government and a majority of the parliament voted the export should go on. Our defence industry is too much integrated with US and UK to stop export to them.

US is using ALOT of these things.

Chemical Ollie · March 23, 2003, 04:20

Quote:

Originally posted by Ned

Was this law put in place after WWII?

That, or more likely during the war. We sold plenty of iron ore to Germany but I don't think we sold any more Bofors 88 mm AA guns after the war started.

Kramerman · March 23, 2003, 05:45

Quote:

Originally posted by Olaf Hårfagre

That, or more likely during the war. We sold plenty of iron ore to Germany but I don't think we sold any more Bofors 88 mm AA guns after the war started.

thats good, but they sure did use those sons of guns with great effectiveness.

Gangerolf · March 23, 2003, 11:19

bang

Lonestar · March 23, 2003, 14:12

More pics from the front.

In Tikrit, Baath party HQ is hit

In Tikrit, the Fedayin, Saddam's paramilitary volunteer
force, led by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's eldest son
Uday pose for the camera

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In Umm Qasr, the marines attack with Cobras.

In Umm Qasr, the Iraqis, freed by the USA, cheer

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The Battle for Basra, with Brit Troops

In Basra, Iraq, Iraqis, adults and children welcome the
British 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.

Lonestar · March 23, 2003, 14:14

Yet more pics from the front.

In Basra, burning Iraqi armored personnel carriers and abandoned Iraqi artillery.

Near al Nasiriyah, US 3rd Army fires MRLS.

In southern Iraq, at the al-Ratka oilfield, at the burning oil wells.

At the North Ramala oilfield, the British Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade
keeps watch.

Scots Dragoon guards move into southern Iraq.

In southern Iraq, US troops take control.

In southern Iraq, with the 101st Airborne Aviation Brigade, a group of freed Bedouins.

In southern Iraq, with the 3rd Infantry Division.

In Khormal, northern Iraq, Iraqi soldiers cover up the body of
Australian freelance cameraman Paul Moran, 39, who was murdered in
an Islamic attack or premature/inadvertant detonation. Journalists
had gone to the checkpoint to interview refugees, but one of
the cars coming out with the refugees exploded.

In Khormal, an Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga fighter faces the Ansar al-Islam
and Islamic Komala on the frontline with Iraqi al Qaeda..

North of Kuwait City, Patriot missile batteries protect the Ali al-Salem airbase

In Kuwaiti , a citizen shouts 'Bush is a real man! God save him, his
father liberated Kuwait, and now his son Bush is liberating Iraq.'.

On the USS Harry S. Truman, 2,000-lbs GBU-31 JDAM ordnance and F-14 Tomcat.

On the USS Kitty Hawk, GBU-24 'Bunker Buster' Hard Target Penatrator 2,000 lb bomb.

Somewhere below the magentosphere, KC-135 Stratotankers from
the 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, refuel a B-2
stealth bomber, forward deployed with the 40th Air Expeditionary
Wing in the first ever deployment of B-2 bombers.[/quote]

Lonestar · March 23, 2003, 14:26

Dis · March 23, 2003, 14:27

I don't believe they were cheering for the U.S. liberating them. We know that would never happen.

Dis · March 23, 2003, 14:31

LOL

That bomb is under warranty. So if it misses and hits civilians we can sue the manufacturer and the U.S. is not to blame

Unfortunately it is expired

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Lonestar · March 23, 2003, 14:33

Yeah, I thought that was funny too.

Lonestar · March 23, 2003, 15:10

U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division soldiers secure a field near Najaf, Iraq,
early Sunday. The U.S.-led forces were within 100 miles of Baghdad,
but had encountered some areas of stiff resistance from Iraq troops.

A British Royal Marine from 42 Commando fires a Milan wire-guided
missile at an Iraqi position on the Al Faw peninsula in southern Iraq
on Friday.

A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit discards a
portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein he removed it from
the command office of the southern Iraqi naval base in Az Zubayar.

In this image from video, a U.S. Marine fires a Javelin missile, a
portable shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon, at a building near
Umm Qasr, Iraq, during a battle with Iraqi forces Sunday,
March 23, 2003.

A British army soldier shows thumbs-up from the top of
a Challenger tank, as a big convoy of armored vehicle
rolls toward the southern Iraqi town of Basra, March 22, 2003