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SAS crack team kill 30 Taliban in night-time desert firefight
Daily Mirror ^ | 29th July 2013 | Chris Hughes

Posted on 08/23/2013 11:41:06 AM PDT by the scotsman

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1 posted on 08/23/2013 11:41:06 AM PDT by the scotsman
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http://www.eliteukforces.info/uk-military-news/29072013-sas-taliban.php

http://www.eliteukforces.info/


2 posted on 08/23/2013 11:43:18 AM PDT by the scotsman (i)
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This is how you fight the Taliban. Go on the offensive, and fight them at night when they are at the disadvantage. Right now, we sit and wait to be attacked. This is stupid!


3 posted on 08/23/2013 11:45:10 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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Body armor stopped a 7.62 at close range?

That's got leave a dinner-plate bruise.

4 posted on 08/23/2013 11:46:02 AM PDT by corkoman
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Body armor can stop 7.62 AK rounds at short range ?
News to me. Thats either very heavy or very high tech.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 11:46:37 AM PDT by buwaya
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Doing what Obungo won't let the American military do!

6 posted on 08/23/2013 11:53:20 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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“Who Dares Wins”


7 posted on 08/23/2013 11:54:16 AM PDT by RedHeeler
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His body armour stopped it and saved his life.

Ouch. Prayers up for the warrior. That's gonna leave a bruise.

/johnny

8 posted on 08/23/2013 11:57:16 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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“Body armor stopped a 7.62 at close range?
That’s got leave a dinner-plate bruise.”

The article didn’t say at close range. It’s unknown how far away the shooter was. He might have been some distance away.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 12:03:09 PM PDT by flaglady47 (When the gov't fears the people, liberty; When the people fear the gov't, tyranny.)
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Must have had a ceramic plate.

Good for one stop as it shatters.


10 posted on 08/23/2013 12:03:39 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Jolly good lads!

Crack on!


11 posted on 08/23/2013 12:04:52 PM PDT by petro45acp (It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
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Body armor stopped a 7.62mm round?
Wow. Lucky boy. I hope he gets thoroughly checked out by the med guys for internal injuries.
Armor doesn’t usually stop a rifle round.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 12:06:42 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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Hmm...getting into a short-range shootout with the SAS is not a career-enhancing move. I don’t think my insurance even covers it.


13 posted on 08/23/2013 12:09:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I don’t think stopping an AK-47 round is all that difficult now.

A few years ago a local went crazy shooting at anyone he saw with an SKS. He shot the local police chief in the chest but his vest stopped the bullet.


14 posted on 08/23/2013 12:13:54 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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Thank you SAS, for sending these Tliban animals home to their moon-god.

WHO DARES WINS!

15 posted on 08/23/2013 12:18:10 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Body armor, night vision, air support, and taking the initiative put the Taliban on the run.


16 posted on 08/23/2013 12:20:59 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Body armor stopped a 7.62mm round?

Level III will do it.

17 posted on 08/23/2013 12:25:29 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Level III will do it.

If it was an AP rd or 30.06 or 7.62 x 51 (.308) he may not be here.

Need Level IV for better protection.

18 posted on 08/23/2013 12:36:18 PM PDT by Red Steel
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Mess with the best, die with the rest.


19 posted on 08/23/2013 12:38:36 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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I remember those ceramic plate vests..really heavy sob`s...

I`d say congrats to those bad @ss SAS troops for a great

job taking out those killers


20 posted on 08/23/2013 1:00:19 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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