[QUOTE=2012;33984093]You're forgetting the enemy has weapons, you a nationalist america wins it all kinda guy?[/QUOTE]
Generally I think American chest thumping can be dumb but if they are allowed to chest thump about 1 thing it sure is their military
[QUOTE=Aman VII;33984370]Generally I think American chest thumping can be dumb but if they are allowed to chest thump about 1 thing it sure is their military[/QUOTE]
We spend our way into 15Tn of national debt so we can police the world with our cold war era military spending and recruiting habits!
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Jesus, we have systems to shoot down mortars? The accuracy of something like that, to be able to shoot down a projectile that small and fast must be incredible.[/QUOTE]
CRAM (Counter Rocket, Artillery and Mortar) systems we used in Iraq were basically truck based CWIS gun. The base was next to a mountain ridge where insurgents would set up mortars filled with ice and a round. It was sort of a crude fire and forget method. By the time the ice melted and the round hit the trigger, the guys were gone. So they basically lobed these blind shots into the base all week long. Occasionally they would get lucky. So they wired the base up with a sensitive radar system that could detect pretty much anything bigger than a bird being lobed at the base. Everything was linked to that radar system and the whole thing would light up automatically. The warning sirens and the CRAMs would just take care of it.
When my brother was stationed there he said it was almost a non-issue and you sort of got use to it. The base was divided into sectors and they could calculate the trajectory of the Mortar so they only set off the CRAM and warning siren in that area. The base could be under attack and you might not even know because the base was so large.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvt_cGdsbzo&feature=related[/media]
LSAA Anaconda was refereed to as Mortaritaville.
Well, according to this website, iran's military is ranked 12th overall.
[URL]http://www.globalfirepower.com/[/URL]
Iraq's was 4th if I'm not mistaken.
Regardless of wether they stand a chance or not, any war in the region would drive oil prices through the roof. You think any oil company is going to risk their ships passing through the strait? Oil would be expected in such a conflict to reach $250 if not more. I think the clear victor would be Iran in the long run.
Aka wreck the US economy.
[editline]31st December 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Apache249;33986751]Iraq's was 4th if I'm not mistaken.[/QUOTE]
That does not take into account Iran's superior technology to Iraq, Iraq had and has a absolute shit Army and has no technological or scientific capability.
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