By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:10:59 +0000

In reply to Badtux.

I wouldn’t bet my butt on a US helicopter being flight worthy in Afghanistan. Flight a coin, altitude or dust eat them up.

You don’t need sophistication to pull a dust off, just something that will be ready to fly in and fly out without being stripped and sent to a depot.

Guys are bitching that they want bolt actions, pump shotguns, and revolvers because the dust is going to jam any auto-loader.

We have a problem keeping things running because most of the equipment is still designed for a war in Europe, except for the Rangers, who are down here training to fight in Southeast Asia.

Inertia, what would the military do without it?

By: Badtux

Badtux — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:16:44 +0000

Indeed. The only reason we’re issuing M-16’s to the Afghan Army is so that when NATO troops get shot in combat actions in “partnership” with the Afghan Army, we can tell whether it was the Taliban or the Afghan Army’s “death blossom” that got’em (5.56mm vs. 7.62mm bullets for M16 vs. AK47). American choppers are so bloody expensive and high-tech that no nation that doesn’t start with an “I” can afford the damned things anyhow — and that includes the United States Army, BTW which is now sending their choppers back to the factory to be “remanufactured” rather than buying new ones.

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