+++ Breaking :::: Afghanistan ::: Six Harrier Jets distroyed by Taliban. | |
ming User ID: 4143247 Norway 09/16/2012 07:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yep, one and the same. They were always my favourite at airshows. Very cool planes. Out of this ugliness may come, Some day, so beautiful a flower, That men will wonder at that hour, Remembering smoke and flowerless slum, And ask-glimpsing the agony Of the slaves who wrestle to be free- 'But why were all the poets dumb?' -William Montgomerie So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
ming User ID: 4143247 Norway 09/16/2012 07:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Apologies for the daily fail link lol. It would seem the Harriers would be expendable since the US got them at such a ridiculously low price. Out of this ugliness may come, Some day, so beautiful a flower, That men will wonder at that hour, Remembering smoke and flowerless slum, And ask-glimpsing the agony Of the slaves who wrestle to be free- 'But why were all the poets dumb?' -William Montgomerie So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1273864 United States 09/16/2012 08:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Apologies for the daily fail link lol. It would seem the Harriers would be expendable since the US got them at such a ridiculously low price. The US harriers are of a different type and US built. [link to en.wikipedia.org] The UK harriers were just bought for scrap parts. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 18381151 United States 09/16/2012 08:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The US harriers are of a different type and US built. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1273864 [link to en.wikipedia.org] The UK harriers were just bought for scrap parts. How much does the government collect in insurance? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23673522 Mexico 09/16/2012 08:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Apologies for the daily fail link lol. It would seem the Harriers would be expendable since the US got them at such a ridiculously low price. The US harriers are of a different type and US built. [link to en.wikipedia.org] The UK harriers were just bought for scrap parts. Not spare parts, they will be in use until 2025 by the US and it is a bad ass jet that doesnt even need a runway during operations |
Fireengineer User ID: 23189182 United Kingdom 09/16/2012 08:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] Apologies for the daily fail link lol. It would seem the Harriers would be expendable since the US got them at such a ridiculously low price. The US Marines have always had Harriers, since the 1970'S. They did buy some ex-British ones but they generally make their own in the states. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 23882226 Poland 09/16/2012 10:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With Heroin at an all time low price, going to have to shift some more product boys!! Quoting: BuggedOut Heroin @ $200 per gram 1 Harrier @ $35 million that's 175,000 grammes of stuff for a jet. (0.175 tonnes) so 6 of them would be just over a tonne of product. CIA aircraft have repeatedly crashed with multi-ton loads of cocaine so I'd bet a ton of heroin would prove to be no challenge at all. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1193674 United States 09/16/2012 10:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | With Heroin at an all time low price, going to have to shift some more product boys!! Quoting: BuggedOut Heroin @ $200 per gram 1 Harrier @ $35 million that's 175,000 grammes of stuff for a jet. (0.175 tonnes) so 6 of them would be just over a tonne of product. CIA aircraft have repeatedly crashed with multi-ton loads of cocaine so I'd bet a ton of heroin would prove to be no challenge at all. I have seen 3 tours in Afghan and you are so full of shit. Quit making stuff up you fucking retard... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 22367858 United Kingdom 09/16/2012 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Are we sure they were Taliban? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13076957 Wearing US uniforms, no lost lives? Just aircraft and hanger damage. Hmmm, I was wondering about that too. What with all the other nonsense that is going on around the world, somebody somewhere with a vested interest in taking out certain Moslem nations is clearly trying to get us all wound up to do something really silly...and probably terminal. Time for reasoned thinking and some unaccustomed, altruistic leadership skills from our politicians, perhaps. Yeah, right! Still, nothing is going to happen...the GLP effect will sort it! |
BetweenTheFrames User ID: 724728 Canada 09/16/2012 10:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you have Google Earth installed, you can copy and paste the co-ordinates for Camp Bastion from this site (first line): [link to toolserver.org] It looks like the satellite image shows the base while it was still under construction. There are also pictures you can click on. I found this picture showing a fence around the the base. I don't see walls or sandbags. It would take like five seconds to get through this fence with the right equipment/explosives. Maybe they should beef up the perimeter defenses? [link to www.panoramio.com] Here's another image with what I guess you could call a wall: [link to www.panoramio.com] If your going to put all your eggs in one basket you should protect that basket yeah? Last Edited by BetweenTheFrames on 09/16/2012 10:56 AM |
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TechRaider User ID: 8668963 United States 09/16/2012 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Notice this: Quoting: Démodé Taliban attackers in Afghanistan wore US army uniforms WTF? Where did they get those? can be bought in every military shop... Can be gift for donation to "Obama 2012" or $5k investment in Soros hedge fund. Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian |
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