This is a pretty cool video, has sound too so turn your speakers on. Caption for the vid I got in an email:
"These pictures were taken from an AC130 Specter gunship (plane) two and a half miles away. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up for the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by."
http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=1168
Night vision video from Iraq
Night vision video from Iraq
Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots.
i cant tell if this is the same video from mid 2003 or just one that appears to be almost identical in content.
the video i'm recalling got major airplay all over the world because of the 4th guy killed in it. he was on the ground wounded and since the engaged US forces were in a helicopter not visible to the target, he posed no danger to them. it was shown in the context of discussion of the Geneva conventions.
Apparently it is permissible to kill injured enemy combatants if there is a realistic chance they could pose a threat to you (ie obtain and operate a firearm).
so let me be the first to say, welcome to 2 years ago
i think there have even been 2-3 threads on this
the video i'm recalling got major airplay all over the world because of the 4th guy killed in it. he was on the ground wounded and since the engaged US forces were in a helicopter not visible to the target, he posed no danger to them. it was shown in the context of discussion of the Geneva conventions.
Apparently it is permissible to kill injured enemy combatants if there is a realistic chance they could pose a threat to you (ie obtain and operate a firearm).
so let me be the first to say, welcome to 2 years ago
i think there have even been 2-3 threads on this
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Re: Night vision video from Iraq
Yeah, this is a pretty old video...
Also, it's not been established exactly what those guys on the ground were doing, but they were near the Baghdad International Airport, and the Apache fired on them because they appeared to be carrying a shoulder-fired SAM launcher.
Naturally, we don't have all of the context, so we don't know what information the pilots had before this incident happened.
I have to agree that the wounded person posed no threat to the aircraft, and my personal opinion would have been to watch him while a ground detachment could be brought to the area to attempt to take the guy alive, since he probably could have (theoretically, anyway) provided some kind of information about what was going on. Of course, this is my opnion based on what little the video actually shows.
The caption you quote is quite wrong. The video was taken by an Apache helicopter in a hover (or very close to a hover). The range was between 400 and 500 meters.Brotha wrote:Caption for the vid I got in an email:
Also, it's not been established exactly what those guys on the ground were doing, but they were near the Baghdad International Airport, and the Apache fired on them because they appeared to be carrying a shoulder-fired SAM launcher.
Naturally, we don't have all of the context, so we don't know what information the pilots had before this incident happened.
I have to agree that the wounded person posed no threat to the aircraft, and my personal opinion would have been to watch him while a ground detachment could be brought to the area to attempt to take the guy alive, since he probably could have (theoretically, anyway) provided some kind of information about what was going on. Of course, this is my opnion based on what little the video actually shows.