Trump said the forthcoming operations to take over Iran's oil infrastructure, and its oil and gas markets, would be similar to U.S. actions in Venezuela.
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
Iran will be taken by complete surprise, since they didn’t expect it.
Just a couple of helicopters with some special forces guys who go in at night, and in the morning Iran’s leadership will surrender, apologize and build a Trump Hotel in Tehran.
For sure, it’s not like America has a long history of fucking up amphibious landings or helicopter based airborne operations. Grenada had like 1500 dudes armed with sks defending it and they only lost like 10 helicopters. Surely it won’t be worse than that…right?
I was really lucky finding mine, got it from a dude that bought a sealed barrel full of them in the early 90s. It took like a gallon of mineral spirits to clean all the cosmoline off and out of it.
I still have a couple ammo cans full of 7.62, but it’s getting harder to find for a decent price, so I’m kind of hesitant to fire them off willy nilly. It used to be my primary caliber, so I have a mini-30 that i usually save it for.
I’ve been putting 5.56 together for a while now, but the ar just isn’t my favorite platform so ive been lacking the motivation to finish it. Plus, I don’t really get to hit the range very often either. Most of the outdoor ones around me are full of right winged chuds, and they make you sign up with the nra to become a member.
Same. There’s one not overtly right winged indoor range near me, but I dislike indoor ranges in general. This one is particularly lax when it comes to gun safety, and you can tell by the plethora of bullet holes in the ceiling and lane dividers. Last time I went I got barrel swept like three times just walking by the store counter.
I unfortunately live in one of the most conservative states in the union, and people are just idiots when it comes to firearms down here.
Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn’t have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that’s significantly younger than the airframe… What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it’s not an osprey?
It’ll be a clean, fast special operation that definitely won’t lead to a protracted ground war.
Iran will be taken by complete surprise, since they didn’t expect it.
Just a couple of helicopters with some special forces guys who go in at night, and in the morning Iran’s leadership will surrender, apologize and build a Trump Hotel in Tehran.
I’m sure of it!
For sure, it’s not like America has a long history of fucking up amphibious landings or helicopter based airborne operations. Grenada had like 1500 dudes armed with sks defending it and they only lost like 10 helicopters. Surely it won’t be worse than that…right?
i love my sks. always fond of its history.
Same, my yugo is what I used to use to train friends who are new to rifles. Just wish 7.62 was cheap and easy to find as it used to be.
nice. mine is a chinese version. but yeah. cleaned up well. i still have a ton of 762 but dont hit the range often.
I was really lucky finding mine, got it from a dude that bought a sealed barrel full of them in the early 90s. It took like a gallon of mineral spirits to clean all the cosmoline off and out of it.
I still have a couple ammo cans full of 7.62, but it’s getting harder to find for a decent price, so I’m kind of hesitant to fire them off willy nilly. It used to be my primary caliber, so I have a mini-30 that i usually save it for.
I’ve been putting 5.56 together for a while now, but the ar just isn’t my favorite platform so ive been lacking the motivation to finish it. Plus, I don’t really get to hit the range very often either. Most of the outdoor ones around me are full of right winged chuds, and they make you sign up with the nra to become a member.
clubs here are the same too. it’s annoying. i won’t join the nra for obvious reasons and the indoor ranges are often right wing nuts too.
Same. There’s one not overtly right winged indoor range near me, but I dislike indoor ranges in general. This one is particularly lax when it comes to gun safety, and you can tell by the plethora of bullet holes in the ceiling and lane dividers. Last time I went I got barrel swept like three times just walking by the store counter.
I unfortunately live in one of the most conservative states in the union, and people are just idiots when it comes to firearms down here.
lemme guess: TN? I lived there a while. there was an indoor range in bellevue outside of Nashville that was … yeah. interesting.
To be fair, there are also examples where a daring helicopter raid lead to an end of the war -
Like Mogadishu.
Helicopters naturally understand that army personnel belong on the ground, and their natural instinct is to get them there in the fastest possible way.
The thing is, helicopters are different from planes. An airplane by it’s nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or by a deliberately incompetent pilot, it will fly. A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other, and if there is any disturbance in this delicate balance the helicopter stops flying; immediately and disastrously. There is no such thing as a gliding helicopter.
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are open, clear-eyed, buoyant extroverts and helicopter pilots are brooding introspective anticipators of trouble. They know if something bad has not happened it is about to.
– Harry Reasoner
Nowadays helicopter pilots seem to just be riding the copium that is autorotation.
Ain’t nobody getting me to fly in something that relies on a “Jesus nut”.
Thousands of moving parts on an air vehicle that doesn’t have any glide capacity, being flown by a pilot that’s significantly younger than the airframe… What could possibly go wrong? I guess at least it’s not an osprey?
Fuck it. Send in a squadron of BUFF. We’ve never lost any of those.
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