Reply #44: would any of you ballistics experts care to respond to this?... [View All]

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Now, admittedly, I'm out of touch with modern armament but back in Nam there were these cute little gizmos attached to many M-16s that fired rocket-powered grenades. Are RPG's out of style? It seems if they wanted to take down any kind of wall, that would be a logical choice. What's up with all the debate over how to take out a sniper through a stone-encased window, using only small arms fire, anyway? Radios work okay in that scenario. I hear the Air Force has really refined target acquisition these days with everything from windows to city blocks. For that matter, with draft-dodging idiots in control of the most incredible military machine the world has ever seen, we can talk in planetary terms when it comes to destruction from above.

Even soldiers with no reasonable training in marksmanship, will certainly gain shooting skills after deployment in combat for the FOUR TOURS OF DUTY many of our finest are currently conscripted to in IRAQ. I strongly suspect what dulls their shooting skills is the massive doses of prescribed benziods they take, which fends off combat-fatigue that such lengthy stints in country induce. With reduced responses and perceptions, our troops are literally dying for political reasons because this highly profitable war for a few, will end after the draft begins.