Vid. Humvee with turret

[Dragon67]

Ran across this a couple days ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPDPccuQ53w

BTW- sorry someone got hurt in the video.

[John Kettler]

Dragon67,

Immersive, scary, and remarkable in all sorts of ways, to include not just absence of colorful language, but wholly unexpected politeness and calm in the midst of combat. When the Hellfires are launched, it sounds as though the sky is ripping apart, and the Bushmaster is way more basso than I imagined.

Nam vets would be familiar with a helicopter's working a target the way this one does--smack in small arm and MANPADS envelopes.

Regards,

John Kettler

[Clavicula_Nox]

Immersive, scary, and remarkable in all sorts of ways, to include not just absence of colorful language, but wholly unexpected politeness and calm in the midst of combat. Honestly, that's how it is for most of us, particularly those of us who have been a few times. There just isn't anything to get excited about anymore. The enemy is unmotivated, if they fight, they don't fight for long.

Some soldiers get overly excited, particularly when it's a bit higher of an intensity, but as the war goes on, and more and more soldiers do multiple deployments, the excitement just goes away.

[Dragon67]

//The enemy is unmotivated, if they fight, they don't fight for long.//

I felt that whoever it was that fired that volley of auto-fire was extremely unlucky to do it just as a gunship arrived on scene.

[tiny_tanker]

I think those where 2.75in rockets not Hellfires, off of an AH-6. They fired in very fast succession and where way to close to the target for Hellfires. There might have been some minigun rounds from it too, hard to tell with all the other shooting going on. It is very cool to see it all from an eye level view though.