ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

solarz

solarz

Brigadier
Franklin said:
ISIS news

Item 1: Its seems that the savagery in the current war in Iraq isn't coming from ISIS alone. We are now seeing Shia militia's committing atrocities on a large scale as they take revenge on the "liberated towns" by summarily executing innocent Sunni's. The incident in this article is part of a larger trend. For the Sunni's of Iraq this means that ISIS is the only thing standing in the way of being massacred on mass.



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Item 2: The Islamic State seem to have spread to North Africa or at least their ideology. As more and more jihadi groups fighting in the Libyan civil war has pledge their allegiance to Caliph Ibrahim and his Caliphate. And they are performing the signature activity of the Islamic State. Doing public beheadings in the area's they control.



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Yeah, unfortunately ISIS isn't the most barbaric faction in the mess that is now Iraq-Syria, they're just the most successful. Even if they get removed like the Islamic Courts in Somalia, we will not be seeing an end to the violence.
 
thunderchief

thunderchief

Senior Member
Looks like Syrian army acquired Soviet/Russian mine clearing vehicle UR-77 (also useful for urban combat) . You could see it in action from 1:23 . This is a bit of old news, but we missed in on this forum .

[video=youtube;Fq8uUMjkteQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq8uUMjkteQ[/video]
 
thunderchief

thunderchief

Senior Member
Iraqi Mi-28 are flying but I don't know did they participate in any action

[video=youtube;q3SjUEYYmkY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3SjUEYYmkY[/video]

Meanwhile, looks like ISIS managed to capture another Abrams tank

[video=youtube;V13KAVC1wao]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V13KAVC1wao[/video]
 
SteelBird

SteelBird

Colonel
A group of photos showing a laser guide bomb striking the ISIS's artillery base.

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近日，网络曝光一段疑似IS士兵在叙利亚伊拉克边境近距离拍摄美军定点清除IS火炮阵地的视频。视频很罕见地捕捉到了美军宝石路III激光制导炸弹集中武装分子的M46型130毫米加农炮的最后一刻。
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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Registered Member
SteelBird said:
A group of photos showing a laser guide bomb striking the ISIS's artillery base.

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Outstanding pics.

That's a GBU-10 or GBU-12 Paveway III Laser Guided bomb. Either he aircraft launching it, another aircraft, or a team on the ground was lasing that artillery piece which guided it in on it that precisely.

The resulting concussion probably killed everyone near the weapon...but boy, were they running away. They saw it coming..
 
SteelBird

SteelBird

Colonel
Jeff Head said:
Outstanding pics.

That's a GBU-10 or GBU-12 Paveway III Laser Guided bomb. Either he aircraft launching it, another aircraft, or a team on the ground was lasing that artillery piece which guided it in on it that precisely.

The resulting concussion probably killed everyone near the weapon...but boy, were they running away. They saw it coming..
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The Chinese caption said it was a Paveway III. I'm not sure. You need to identify it with your trained eyes. In the first picture, many people were surrounding that artillery but in the second picture, seem everyone has run away. However, seems like somebody was still within the radius of 50 to 100 meters while the bomb exploded. I wonder if they were within the kill zone of the bomb.
 
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PanAsian

Major
SteelBird said:
The Chinese caption said it was a Paveway III. I'm not sure. You need to identify it with your trained eyes. In the first picture, many people were surrounding that artillery but in the second picture, seem everyone has run away. However, seems like somebody was still within the radius of 50 to 100 meters while the bomb exploded. I wonder if they were within the kill zone of the bomb.
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These look like video stills, probably retrieved from the memory card of the camera that took it, doubt the camera, camera operator, or anyone still in the picture when the bomb hit survived. In the last picture judging by the dust on the ground the bomb had just hit and the pressure wave hasn't even reached the cart that is closer to the camera. The important thing is that the IS artillery piece was taken out.
 
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Scratch

Captain
That's an outstanding coincidence to have a video camera running on that location while a LGB strikes it and then have someone retrieve an publish the content!!

Jeff, as a GBU-10, -12, -16 it would be a Paveway II series weapon, right? And judging be the rather narrow pop-out tail fins, I'm inclined to say it really is. The only PW III still in use is the GBU-24, and I somehow doubt they'd use that much more comlpex / expensive weapon in a scenario where stand-off is not really required.
I'm also inclined to say it looks larger than a Mk82 type, but that's just a guess, really.

I guess they heard it coming before they saw it. Such an object traveling through air at several hundred miles per hour does make some noise. If someone made it beyond one of those berms, he might have lived, having been shielded from the blast.
But anyhow, looks like we achieved some good effects on the target.
 
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Pointblank

Senior Member
Canada joins the attack with CF-18's dropping LGB's against ISIL targets around Fallujah:

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Canadian CF-18 fighters jets have dropped laser-guided bombs over Iraq for the first time as part of the ongoing combat mission against ISIS, the Department of National Defence confirmed Sunday.

Two CF-18s targeted ISIS positions with laser-guided GBU-12, 500-pound bombs "in the vicinity of Fallujah," a large city in central Iraq about 70 kilometres west of the capital Baghdad, according to a statement released by Minister of National Defence Rob Nicholson

Fallujah is infamous among U.S. soldiers as the scene of the heaviest fighting during the decade-long American war in Iraq.

The Iraqi government lost control city in January when Islamic State fighters clashed with police following the withdrawal of the Iraqi army from all of Anbar province. Fallujah has since been an ISIS stronghold.

The mission lasted approximately four hours, the statement said, and included an air-to-air refuelling of the fighter jets by a CF-150 Polaris aircraft. All aircraft made it safely back to base.

The statement did not say what kind of Islamic State targets were hit. American and other coalition warplanes have destroyed military vehicles and positions, but also economic targets, such as oil refineries, which provide the extremist organization millions of dollars per day.
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