And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Everything is drones now if you are to fight and win. Just about everything is no longer effective from the battle line out to 25 miles behind the front line of contact. Still an evolving 5th Gen of war, but its pushed war back behind the relative peace and order of the Peace of Westphalia, no sanctuary, even that light attack rotary wing is vulnerable to drones.
A good buddy of mine was a Special Forces (Green Barrett) officer in Nam in 1970 - 1971. He said that at night they'd fly two choppers around, one chopper with its running lights on and the other one without. The lit up one would fly close to the ground looking for incoming enemy fire and the unlit one would fly above and it. If the lit up one would get any harassing fire, then the unlit one would swoop down and blast the $hit out of the incoming fire.
Rhodesian Air Force Alouette, there was an arms embargo so the Rhodesians had to convert civilian aircraft. They bought Cessna 337s (licence built in France) and converted them into the Lynx CAS aircraft, dropping Rhodesian made cluster and napalm bombs and strafing with machine guns in twin pods mounted on the roof. Al_in_Ottawa
Aussies? Got to be! Only those critters go looking for a fight in shorts anymore. Brits used to do that thing but they seem to have evolved past such silliness. Aussies? Hell, they will go out fighting in nothing at all. Saw it happen oncst. Cat rolled out of his bunk, grapped his rifle in one hand and load bearing in the other. Hit the position buck naked. His buddies? Laughed.
1960s Rhodesian Bush War.
ReplyDeleteAlouette, I think.
ReplyDelete"Any person that runs is a VC, anyone that stands still is a well disciplined VC" git some, git some hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteCrazy Door Gunner - Full Metal Jacket, 1987
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Sometimes!
DeleteEverything is drones now if you are to fight and win. Just about everything is no longer effective from the battle line out to 25 miles behind the front line of contact. Still an evolving 5th Gen of war, but its pushed war back behind the relative peace and order of the Peace of Westphalia, no sanctuary, even that light attack rotary wing is vulnerable to drones.
ReplyDeleteA good buddy of mine was a Special Forces (Green Barrett) officer in Nam in 1970 - 1971. He said that at night they'd fly two choppers around, one chopper with its running lights on and the other one without. The lit up one would fly close to the ground looking for incoming enemy fire and the unlit one would fly above and it. If the lit up one would get any harassing fire, then the unlit one would swoop down and blast the $hit out of the incoming fire.
ReplyDeleteRhodesian Air Force Alouette, there was an arms embargo so the Rhodesians had to convert civilian aircraft. They bought Cessna 337s (licence built in France) and converted them into the Lynx CAS aircraft, dropping Rhodesian made cluster and napalm bombs and strafing with machine guns in twin pods mounted on the roof.
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Aussies?
ReplyDeleteGot to be!
Only those critters go looking for a fight in shorts anymore.
Brits used to do that thing but they seem to have evolved past such silliness.
Aussies?
Hell, they will go out fighting in nothing at all.
Saw it happen oncst.
Cat rolled out of his bunk, grapped his rifle in one hand and load bearing in the other.
Hit the position buck naked.
His buddies? Laughed.