Blue on Blue - Sun releases Video

[luckyluke 2]

Blue on Blue sounds like one of Jimbo's home movies.

 

Credit where credit's due to the Sun, were it not for them then the US would have gladly kept this under wraps. They're saying the person who leaked it could have commited a criminal offence...but surely getting the truth out is less criminal than lying to the family of Matty Hull that no tape existed.

 

Cernts.

[Super_Steve_Howey 0]

Never mind any arguments about orders, intelligence or locations, this comes down to one simple question:

 

Since when have Iraqi insurgents had Scimitar tanks?????

[Park Life 71]

Never mind any arguments about orders, intelligence or locations, this comes down to one simple question:

 

Since when have Iraqi insurgents had Scimitar tanks?????

 

 

Point made.

 

 

 

Unfortuanately if you can just about read and write you get to fly the planes.

[Fordy 1]

The damned american radio channel sounded a right mess the only professional one was costa which for any one who missed it was clearly british.

 

seems like they got most of the armoured vechiels painted a certain colour (friendlies that is) would have thought with the amount of doubt the pilots had command would have called off the attack just incase

 

on another note did the brits shoot any americans during the war?

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3984]

When they killed those fusiliers in the first gulf nothing happened.

[Rob W 0]

the yanks don't even hold a court martial if they reckon there was "no negligence"

[TheMoog 0]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

[Park Life 71]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

[Super_Steve_Howey 0]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

[Park Life 71]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2006127,00.html

 

 

There you go fella.

 

 

"American military commanders in Iraq have been forced to adopt new security tactics in the wake of a fresh threat from insurgents after it was confirmed that all four US helicopters that have crashed there in the past two weeks were brought down by ground fire."

Edited February 7, 2007 by Parky

[Super_Steve_Howey 0]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2006127,00.html

 

 

There you go fella.

 

 

"American military commanders in Iraq have been forced to adopt new security tactics in the wake of a fresh threat from insurgents after it was confirmed that all four US helicopters that have crashed there in the past two weeks were brought down by ground fire."

 

 

only 25 to hostile fire? how does that work?

 

They should start buying from the Russians if it's just rifle fire.

[Park Life 71]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2006127,00.html

 

 

There you go fella.

 

 

"American military commanders in Iraq have been forced to adopt new security tactics in the wake of a fresh threat from insurgents after it was confirmed that all four US helicopters that have crashed there in the past two weeks were brought down by ground fire."

 

 

only 25 to hostile fire? how does that work?

 

They should start buying from the Russians if it's just rifle fire.

 

Well they've tried flying high making them vulernable to SAM's which are plentiful now in Iraq, then they tried fast and low...Thus making them targets for rifles and rpg's. Kids shoot at them apparently for a laugh. Better than sitting at home with the old playstation I guess.

 

I always thought they were too well armoured to have trouble from machine gun fire.

[Super_Steve_Howey 0]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2006127,00.html

 

 

There you go fella.

 

 

"American military commanders in Iraq have been forced to adopt new security tactics in the wake of a fresh threat from insurgents after it was confirmed that all four US helicopters that have crashed there in the past two weeks were brought down by ground fire."

 

 

only 25 to hostile fire? how does that work?

 

They should start buying from the Russians if it's just rifle fire.

 

Well they've tried flying high making them vulernable to SAM's which are plentiful now in Iraq, then they tried fast and low...Thus making them targets for rifles and rpg's. Kids shoot at them apparently for a laugh. Better than sitting at home with the old playstation I guess.

 

I always thought they were too well armoured to have trouble from machine gun fire.

 

 

Apache's are pretty fragile, not even sure they have bulletproof canopies

 

I can't see a reason why they would suddenly have just got better at firing at helicopters, it's not that easy. They could have got lucky a few times where the chopper was flying straight at / away from them. They may have learned to wait to the optimum range and fire as a group, I hear even insects have learning abilities.

 

RPG hits would be nearly impossible unless fired from behind while the chopper was hovering.

[Park Life 71]

Yank armed forces = thick cowboys tbh, they need us Brits there for the inteligence side of things, all the Americans do is charge around gung-ho shooting anything that moves. Biggest bunch of numpties in the West.

 

Lost 50 helicopters in Iraq now. Recently 2 a week. Some general was on telly saying they would have to look at the flight plans.

 

source?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2006127,00.html

 

 

There you go fella.

 

 

"American military commanders in Iraq have been forced to adopt new security tactics in the wake of a fresh threat from insurgents after it was confirmed that all four US helicopters that have crashed there in the past two weeks were brought down by ground fire."

 

 

only 25 to hostile fire? how does that work?

 

They should start buying from the Russians if it's just rifle fire.

 

Well they've tried flying high making them vulernable to SAM's which are plentiful now in Iraq, then they tried fast and low...Thus making them targets for rifles and rpg's. Kids shoot at them apparently for a laugh. Better than sitting at home with the old playstation I guess.

 

I always thought they were too well armoured to have trouble from machine gun fire.

 

 

Apache's are pretty fragile, not even sure they have bulletproof canopies

 

I can't see a reason why they would suddenly have just got better at firing at helicopters, it's not that easy. They could have got lucky a few times where the chopper was flying straight at / away from them. They may have learned to wait to the optimum range and fire as a group, I hear even insects have learning abilities.

 

RPG hits would be nearly impossible unless fired from behind while the chopper was hovering.

 

 

This has been happenning and apparently the reason for the downing of a stealth fighter iirc about 3 years ago. The were just shooting in pre-arranged squares at certain times of the night or summat when stealth missions were going on at a pretty high rate. I would have thought the Iraninan supplied anti- tank stuff would be equally as devasting to a helicopter at shortish range. But it must be also a case that the locals have thought through how to maximise damage to these helicopters and as you say some are quite fragile.

[BlueStar 0]

The Americans have now agreed to release the video (the one that didn't exist and then was classified)

 

Very noble of them

[@yourservice 67]

A good friend of mine has done a tour in Iraq with the Territorials and he said the yanks were as much as a threat as the insurgents, on one occasion he was in a landrover (unarmoured he tells me) when they took friendly fire and had to make a very hastily drawn union jack on a piece of A4 and wave it out of a window to make them stop.

 

Issued with crayons now?

[Park Life 71]

Another helicopter lost.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008112,00.html

[Park Life 71]

Friendly fire pilot PROMOTED.

 

"Since the ''friendly fire’’ incident, the American pilot has been promoted to his current rank to train colleagues in carrying out ground attacks, it was claimed. Until now, Col Kohntopp’s identity has been kept secret by the US authorities".

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...08/npilot08.xml

Edited February 8, 2007 by Parky

[@yourservice 67]

Friendly fire pilot PROMOTED.

 

"Since the ''friendly fire’’ incident, the American pilot has been promoted to his current rank to train colleagues in carrying out ground attacks, it was claimed. Until now, Col Kohntopp’s identity has been kept secret by the US authorities".

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...08/npilot08.xml

 

Apparently he's colour blind

[Guest alex]

Friendly fire pilot PROMOTED.

 

"Since the ''friendly fire’’ incident, the American pilot has been promoted to his current rank to train colleagues in carrying out ground attacks, it was claimed. Until now, Col Kohntopp’s identity has been kept secret by the US authorities".

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...08/npilot08.xml

Saw that on the front of some tabloid yesterday. He does have invalubale combat experience though tbf. "Ok lads, here's not what to do."

[Lazarus 0]

Friendly fire pilot PROMOTED.

 

"Since the ''friendly fire’’ incident, the American pilot has been promoted to his current rank to train colleagues in carrying out ground attacks, it was claimed. Until now, Col Kohntopp’s identity has been kept secret by the US authorities".

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...08/npilot08.xml

Saw that on the front of some tabloid yesterday. He does have invalubale combat experience though tbf. "Ok dudes, here's not what to do."

 

Corrected....

[Guest alex]

Friendly fire pilot PROMOTED.

 

"Since the ''friendly fire’’ incident, the American pilot has been promoted to his current rank to train colleagues in carrying out ground attacks, it was claimed. Until now, Col Kohntopp’s identity has been kept secret by the US authorities".

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...08/npilot08.xml

Saw that on the front of some tabloid yesterday. He does have invalubale combat experience though tbf. "Ok dudes, here's not what to do."

 

Corrected....

Missed a spelling mistake though

[Li3nZ 1]

The two pilots had NEVER been on an active mission before.

 

So the US air force decides to send out two complete novices on a mission to take out ground units in a real war... Suppose they have to start somewhere but sounds wrong to me. I know the RAF pilots that helped bomb Baghdad (probably the only pilots who hit the target) had years of experience behind them comparatively.

[Park Life 71]

The two pilots had NEVER been on an active mission before.

 

So the US air force decides to send out two complete novices on a mission to take out ground units in a real war... Suppose they have to start somewhere but sounds wrong to me. I know the RAF pilots that helped bomb Baghdad (probably the only pilots who hit the target) had years of experience behind them comparatively.

 

It is well know our pilots are much better than theirs on the whole. FFS! We have to fly some of their stealth missions cause they're too difficult for the rednecks.