[DeTomaso] Confucius say "three strikes you out"

Julian Kift julian_kift at hotmail.com
Sat Feb 20 00:22:21 EST 2010


When I first watched it I jumped to the conclusion a round went off in the mortar. Now with this discussion I watched ita again and I'm still not sure that wasn't the case, what say y'all?

 

Julian
 
> From: wkooiman at earthlink.net
> To: boyd411 at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:48:31 -0600
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Confucius say "three strikes you out"
> 
> I was in a mortar platoon years ago - and later field artillery.
> 
> Brings back memories.
> 
> The thing that got me was...
> 
> In the old John Wayne movies, the mortar goes off with a "foop".
> 
> In real life, it goes off with a "BAAAANGGG!!"
> 
> Pretty much like the video.
> 
> And yes, it's pretty easy to track the trajectory to the source - although
> this raghead was holding the tube with his hands. Each round would have
> gone a different direction and distance. I think that's how you did the old
> 60mm mortars, though. If that's the case, the Americans probably had
> line-of-site on him.
> 
> The good mortarmen can get occasional 1st round hits w/out any electronic
> aids. It's called charts-and-darts. You plot your position on a map (grid
> coordinate), figure out where you want it to land (based on a forward
> observer), do the math, and drop a round in his lap.
> 
> Pretty cool video - if it's real.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
> Behalf Of boyd casey
> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 9:48 PM
> To: De Tomaso List
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Confucius say "three strikes you out"
> 
> I am trying this again. first attempt video attachment was to big. Now I
> have it posted on my Photo Bucket site.
> Here is the link.
> If you are former military, or a patriot, or you hate terrorists , or if you
> love to see technology beat morons with weapons that they haven't been able
> to develop in 2000 years but now buy them with oil money and turn them on us
> with impunity. Pay back is a bitch.
> You can hear them chanting "Allah Akbar " between rounds. Watch and count
> the rounds. The third Allah Akbarr is a real Mother FXXXker!
> Your going to love this ( unless your a pacifist or an Islamic terrorist!)
> 
> Boyd
> 
> *
> http://s652.photobucket.com/albums/uu243/boyd411/?action=view&current=terror
> istsurprise.flv
> *
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> 
> *This video was ACTUALLY made by the bad guys.*
> 
> *The cameraman is filming his friend as he praises Allah and launches mortar
> shots at American troops.** **Little does he know that new mortar shell
> tracking technology can track the trajectory of a hostile round and fire a
> retaliatory shot to precisely the spot from which the hostile shell was
> fired. This only requires the hostile mortar to fire 2 to 3 rounds. *
> 
> 
> *Count the number of mortar rounds the masked insurgent fires in the video.
> ** **See how well it works.*
> 
> *No more Allah Akhbars!*
> 
> *Isn't technology wonderful?*
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