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Too bad a missed opportunity. 3 or 4 helicopter gunships could have decimated that column. Does Iraq even have a air force any more? Hind gunships could have laid waste.
Why does the Iraqi army need to take out a parade when an unmanned drone could do it easily? Seriously, a freakin' parade we can't see from the sky?
A typical Predator drone carriers 0-2 hellfire missiles, so at best a drone could have taken out two of those pick-up trucks. A Reaper could take out four. You are dreaming if you think a drone could take out a whole convoy. The problem is that a hellfire missile costs about $70 000 while a beat up pick up costs about $1000.
They are winning the guerilla war of attrition. What ISIS has is unity, a common purpose, cohesiveness and soldiers whom are willing to die for their cause. The Iraqi army is a rag-tag group of folks, thrown together, whom don't really trust the Government (whether Sunni or Shi'a) and are in private really allied to their religious sect or tribe. "Iraq" to them is just a made up set of borders that they happen to be within, it's not a nation worth dying for.
This goes back to *forcing* the secular nation-state model on regions of the world where that doesn't necessarily work. These people have to forge their own system, their own way, in order to answer their problems, and their issues.
Touchy, touchy are we??? All I see is you posting what you think are facts.
Then feel free to point out which of the things "I think" are facts that are incorrect.
Was the parade planned ahead (Especially given that it was in response to a victory that was not guaranteed). If not...did we know the timing and planned route?
How much are hellfire missiles, I quoted $110K as thats what is listed on wikipedia. ts not a unreasonable number.
How much do you think those trucks are worth?
Do drones magically teleport?
Do we send drones into areas completely unplanned?
Is it impossible to shoot one down?
Are drones bulletproof?
Whats the flight time of a cruise missile to that target? And how would you set the targeting parameters to impact the parade?
Is the cruise missile cheaper then the targets?
Have the hypersonic missiles currently in development been deployed?
Are they cheaper then the trucks?
So...which of these are wrong? Or do you just come in here, throw snarky comments, and then wander off? Back up your assertions.
One wonders who has created ISIS and for what purpose? Why the anemic reponse of the US (at least for drone and airstrikes) when most of ISIS could have been vaporized without great effort at this time?
Is ISIS viewed by the US as a "foil" against Iran and therefore useful?
I keep wondering, if we know Americans are leaving home to attend ISIS training camp, why aren't we bombing the heck out of the ISIS training camps. The NSA can probably tell you what kind of pizza you ordered for dinner. If they know Americans are going to training camp then they should know where those camps are. Instead, they do their, what's it called, "pin prick (?) bombing" and take out some so called ISIS leader or accountant. Big deal!
A typical Predator drone carriers 0-2 hellfire missiles, so at best a drone could have taken out two of those pick-up trucks. A Reaper could take out four. You are dreaming if you think a drone could take out a whole convoy. The problem is that a hellfire missile costs about $70 000 while a beat up pick up costs about $1000.
Do we only have one drone? What did we do with the rest of them, sell them to the police? Do you think if you hit the head vehicles, the rats wouldn't scatter? Whatever happened to napalm?
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