What kind of gun is this...??/
01-16-2004, 07:01 PM
#11
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RE: What kind of gun is this...??/
it is amazing what the technologly we have today. 1.5 miles away and did not hear it? but then again i never had the chance of hearing a ah-64 apache helicopter in flight.
i thought there was something in the geneva convention about using a a limit of a certain caliber /mm size on infantry? i used to work with a guy that was in vietnam and he said when the vietnamese attacked his station. they came over the hill and that was all he had was the 50 cal. so there got to be loop holes.
i thought there was something in the geneva convention about using a a limit of a certain caliber /mm size on infantry? i used to work with a guy that was in vietnam and he said when the vietnamese attacked his station. they came over the hill and that was all he had was the 50 cal. so there got to be loop holes.
01-16-2004, 09:05 PM
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RE: What kind of gun is this...??/
That is the "strange thing" about the Geneva Convention. Even though you are not allowed "under the convention" to use "expanding point" ammuntion from small arms against enemy combatants. You can drop a 2000 pound bomb on their heads. Or use land mines.....command detonated or "triggered". And even though weapons systems are "labeled as" anti-personnel, anti-aircraft, anti-armor, etc......you use what is available and at hand.
Then there is always the question of law in this regard about another issue. If in fact these "targets" were terrorist.....as opposed to "enemy combatants"....you can use any "d**n bullet you want! May not make a lot of sense.....but since when has war ever "made sense". War happens to be necessary because of the "nature of humankind"....but no one ever said, "it made sense".
Truly strange when you think of it!
What does make sense is this. If these people (targets) where in the process of commiting acts that would endanger and/or kill American servicemembers....I wouldn't care if they dropped a "Daisey Cutter" on their heads!
Then there is always the question of law in this regard about another issue. If in fact these "targets" were terrorist.....as opposed to "enemy combatants"....you can use any "d**n bullet you want! May not make a lot of sense.....but since when has war ever "made sense". War happens to be necessary because of the "nature of humankind"....but no one ever said, "it made sense".
Truly strange when you think of it!
What does make sense is this. If these people (targets) where in the process of commiting acts that would endanger and/or kill American servicemembers....I wouldn't care if they dropped a "Daisey Cutter" on their heads!
01-17-2004, 01:42 PM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Texas - BUT NOW in Madison County, NY
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RE: What kind of gun is this...??/
i thought there was something in the geneva convention about using a a limit of a certain caliber /mm size on infantry?
01-17-2004, 10:07 PM
#15
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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RE: What kind of gun is this...??/
One word WOW. Amazing firepower and thanks for the explantion offered a few posts up. Wonder what the Iraqi death toll was for the war. With that kind of weaponry they had to lose tens of thousands.
