Taliban shoots down Chinook helicopter, killing 31 US soldiers

Started by Kleves, August 06, 2011, 08:36:58 AM

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Slargos

#30
August 07, 2011, 12:33:52 PM
Tsk. It's just another gambit to increase the power of his Aura of Confusion spell.

CountDeMoney

#31
August 07, 2011, 01:02:36 PM
Well, not to pick sides or anything, but the concept of proximity fuses on a rocket-propelled grenade is pretty fucking stupid.

But I'm not calling out anybody for being fucking stupid or anything.

grumbler

#32
August 07, 2011, 02:31:18 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 07, 2011, 01:02:36 PM
Well, not to pick sides or anything, but the concept of proximity fuses on a rocket-propelled grenade is pretty fucking stupid.

But I'm not calling out anybody for being fucking stupid or anything.
Well, aren't you special?   :P

I don't know why anyone is hung up about RPGs, or about idiotic statements being called idiotic statements.  But, then, those who profess that they don't understand why I would call an idiotic statement idiotic all have a vested interest in pretending not to know what an idiotic statement is!  :lol:
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Slargos

#33
August 07, 2011, 02:37:37 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 02:31:18 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on August 07, 2011, 01:02:36 PM
Well, not to pick sides or anything, but the concept of proximity fuses on a rocket-propelled grenade is pretty fucking stupid.

But I'm not calling out anybody for being fucking stupid or anything.
Well, aren't you special?   :P

I don't know why anyone is hung up about RPGs, or about idiotic statements being called idiotic statements.  But, then, those who profess that they don't understand why I would call an idiotic statement idiotic all have a vested interest in pretending not to know what an idiotic statement is!  :lol:

:lol:

Razgovory

#34
August 07, 2011, 04:18:06 PM
Quote from: DGuller on August 07, 2011, 12:32:02 PM
WTF?  Who could've imagined that proximity fuses or RPGs would be grumbler's sore spot?

Presumably Grumbler knows exactly how hard it is to put a proximity fuse on an RPG-7 warhead.  Perhaps he'll tell us, and then inform us how he found that out.
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mongers

#35
August 07, 2011, 05:46:14 PM
Hey, if I post a link to a page I found which proposes modifying RPG7s and other AT rockets to carry all sorts of warheads, do you think grumbler's logic circuit will exploded or might he just rage-quit ?  :cool:



edit:
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/rpg.html :whistle:
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grumbler

#36
August 07, 2011, 07:22:50 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2011, 05:46:14 PM
Hey, if I post a link to a page I found which proposes modifying RPG7s and other AT rockets to carry all sorts of warheads, do you think grumbler's logic circuit will exploded or might he just rage-quit ?  :cool:



edit:
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/rpg.html :whistle:
Hey, if I point out that your anonymous angelfire user doesn't mention AA proximity fuses at all (nor any kind of AA round whatsoever), will your illogic circuit explode, or will you just ragequit?  :cool:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

mongers

#37
August 07, 2011, 07:29:56 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 07:22:50 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2011, 05:46:14 PM
Hey, if I post a link to a page I found which proposes modifying RPG7s and other AT rockets to carry all sorts of warheads, do you think grumbler's logic circuit will exploded or might he just rage-quit ?  :cool:



edit:
http://www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/rpg.html :whistle:
Hey, if I point out that your anonymous angelfire user doesn't mention AA proximity fuses at all (nor any kind of AA round whatsoever), will your illogic circuit explode, or will you just ragequit?  :cool:

And were did I mention AA rounds in my post ?  :hmm:
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Ideologue

#38
August 07, 2011, 07:41:20 PM
It's not like I posed some theoretically impossible thing, dude.  Radar proximity fuzes have been used in applications roughly the size of an RPG round, if not a bit smaller (specifically 40mm Bofors shells).  You could have just said RPG rounds have never been manufactured with them, or that cave-Afghans aren't capable of manufacturing it, or even that it would not necessarily be useful on any standard RPG round--which I believe are probably your objections, but there's no real reason I should know--but note how instead you just called someone stupid (and spent more time defending that) than it would have taken to explain.
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Admiral Yi

#39
August 07, 2011, 08:00:48 PM
 :lol:  Dude, let it go.  Every time you let grumbler push your buttons its a victory for al Qaeda.

grumbler

#40
August 07, 2011, 08:14:20 PM Last Edit: August 07, 2011, 08:17:03 PM by grumbler
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2011, 07:29:56 PM
And were did I mention AA rounds in my post ?  :hmm:
Now why on earth did I assume that your post had anything to do with the subject under discussion (the apparent downing of a helicopter by an RPG, and the claim that it wouldn't be hard to modify an RPG to take a proximity fuse fopr use against helicopters)?  Sorry, old chap.  Mistook you for somebody who had a clue.  Forget I said anything.   I'm certainly going to pretend you didn't say anything, what with you stooping to quote some anonymous angelfire user, wot wot?  :bowler:
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

grumbler

#41
August 07, 2011, 08:17:36 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 07, 2011, 08:00:48 PM
:lol:  Dude, let it go.  Every time you let grumbler push your buttons its a victory for al Qaeda.
Listen to Tojo, Ide.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

mongers

#42
August 07, 2011, 08:20:27 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 07, 2011, 08:14:20 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 07, 2011, 07:29:56 PM
And were did I mention AA rounds in my post ?  :hmm:
Now why on earth did I assume that your post had anything to do with the subject under discussion (the apparent downing of a helicopter by an RPG, and the claim that it wouldn't be hard to modify an RPG to take a proximity fuse fopr use against helicopters)?  Sorry, old chap.  Mistook you for somebody who had a clue.  Forget I said anything.   I'm certainly going to pretend you didn't say anything, what with you stooping to quote some anonymous angelfire user, wot wot?  :bowler:

Baited.  ;)
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Neil

#43
August 07, 2011, 08:28:27 PM
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

AnchorClanker

#44
August 07, 2011, 08:38:08 PM
Terrible news - my heart is with the families of my brothers in arms.

Whacking transportation is the norm in the Afghan conflict - as it always has been.  That's the most dangerous time - on the move.
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