Posted on 07/27/2007 9:33:08 PM PDT by Flavius
Taliban militants have used a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile to attack a Western aircraft over Afghanistan for the first time.
Click to enlarge Click to enlarge: how the attack was launched
The attack with a weapon believed to have been smuggled across the border with Iran represents a worrying increase in the capability of the militants which Western commanders had long feared.
The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the Taliban attempted to bring down an American C-130 Hercules aircraft flying over the south-western province of Nimroz on July 22. The crew reported that a missile system locked on to their aircraft and that a missile was fired
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The western msm immediately splooged in their pants and will raise prices, effective Monday, to pay for new trousers.
That would be radar guided if they knew they were locked on to
That’s what I thought, unless they are guessing or could tell
if the missle chased a decoy flare.
I would like to know who's responsible for this as well as the 'catch and release' - catch 'em, fingerprint and eye scan, take down a few stats and the have to LET THEM GO! - and they come back shooting at you tomorrow. Insanity.
They're even propped up by the old media,yet they continue to die.
What a bunch of losers.
I agree with you 100%
we Have to lose the Rules of Engagement !
Most of these damn ‘rules’ are thought up by
military lawyers officers in the Judge Advocate Generals’ corps.
All of these JAG weenies should be pulled out of both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Let’s win these damn wars , using the sharp end of the stick
without any hands tied behind the back....
Hm. Is it me or didn’t a civilian plane get hit over Iraq by a shoulder fired heat seeking missle a while back. It survived, as I recall, but was damaged pretty well.
Welcome to “Vietnam!”
SA-7 is a Russian version of the Stinger.
SA-7 is closer to the old Redeye.
This is not the first time such an engagement has occurred.
Last year Brit Harrier pilots reported being shot at by SA-7s while flying CAS over Helmand province.
Flight 800
(oh, but that was on Clinton’s watch, thus it couldn’t have been a terrorist attack)
The AN/AAQ-24 can detect an IR missile launch.
The trail will lead back to the lawyers. I don’t know if it is lawyers on the Area Commander’s staff or if it goes clear back to the Pentagon but the legal eagles are behind the rules of engagement mess that our service personnel are controlled by when they fight.
Guerilla tactics are fungible.
The US provided large numbers of Stingers to help the Muslim guerilla forces bring down Soviet Red Army aircraft after the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1980. Now “somebody” is providing similar weaponry to allow the Taliban and like-minded groups to take out US and allied aircraft.
Welcome to asymmetric 21st century warfare, where huge, expensive military dinosaurs designed for 20th century state-to-state wars, are trumped by inexpensive 21st technology available to ‘irregular’ forces.
Ron Paul’s suggestion that we revive the ‘letters of marque and reprisal’
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm
from our 18th century constitution sound better and better every day.
http://www.d-n-i.net/creveld/the_fate_of_the_state.htm
http://www.d-n-i.net/dni_reviews/fabius_changing_face_war.htm
http://www.d-n-i.net/
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Gotcha. I didn’t know that. I just wouldn’t think a launch detection is the same as being locked onto. I’m sure they can track inbounds all of all sorts. Then again the article was written by a reporter. We all know how much they think they know
I remember that there was a threat and they made approach and takeoff changes. Don’t recall why.
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