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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: bigkahuna07 on February 21, 2009, 06:07:59 PM
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What gun would you fear the most on a battlefield is a question that many people possibly ask themselves when using, looking at, or buying guns along with "is this weapon fearsome?" don't deny it we've all asked ourselves this question at some point or another even those people who have no military experience, so I ask everyone here which gun would you fear? Personally I would fear a sniper on the battlefield for the simple fact that if you know there is a sniper then he has probably by that time injured you or an ally and you probably don't know where he is shooting from, now that can be fearsome.
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not to be a 'smart-ass' or anything....but my biggest fear would be ANY gun that was pointed in my general direction for the purposes of ill will.
Now, on to what you are asking, I would agree that the sniper would generally be biggest morale killer and fear monger in my opinion.
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not to be a 'smart-ass' or anything....but my biggest fear would be ANY gun that was pointed in my general direction for the purposes of ill will.
Now, on to what you are asking, I would agree that the sniper would generally be biggest morale killer and fear monger in my opinion.
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I agree, that's why I train to be one. 1 on 1 sucks, I'm too old and tired, cheating is acceptable in combat, but I can be effective from afar.
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M2 Not many places you can hide from it.
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Mortars and artillery. you are helpless. Unable to strike back.
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I would not fear the gun as much as the bullets wizzing by my head.
"Where does he get those wonderful toys":
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Artillery is a bitch, as well as fragmentation devices and mines, indescriminate attack, is the worst, but hopefully you dug a foxhole, a sniper is gonna wait for YOU to poke your head up. I reconsider my remark. I think in combat the Improvised explosive devices, would get my greatest attention, although it's hard to be good at finding them and exposing them. So attention be damned, it might get you anyway.
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I agree, that's why I train to be one. 1 on 1 sucks, I'm too old and tired, cheating is acceptable in combat, but I can be effective from afar.
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…or from the couch!
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The greatest equalizer of men on the battlefield, is fear itself.
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I think machineguns have killed more people on battlefields than any other guns, so they're scary. Friendly fire from a bunch of n00bs would be scary too. Any gun pointed at me is scary.
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I think machineguns have killed more people on battlefields than any other guns, so they're scary. Friendly fire from a bunch of n00bs would be scary too. Any gun pointed at me is scary.
Statisticly, even in WWI the largest killer on the battle field has been artillery and mines/boobytraps/IED's
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Thanks Tom. I should have remembered high-angle hell was the big killer, and I was even thinking I bet Tom knows. But I couldn't remember if it was artillery or machine guns so I flipped a coin. It came up wrong.
Snipers are a lot less deadly as far as number of people killed and they wouldn't likely shoot someone as unimportant as me. A REMF (Rear Echelon MoFo) with like me wouldn't be on the front lines anyway. ;D
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Air Support...you make contact with the enemy on the ground, and if they have the ability, they'll call it in rather than even risk further engagement. And depending on who it is there is no escape. In specific Spookys and Specters.
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I never even thought about gunships. During the Cold War we were facing helicopter gunships like the Hind-D too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_D There was a cartoon in SoF magazine that showed a Russian Hind-D crew in Afghanistan.
The pilot asked the gunner "How can you shoot wonen and children like that?" His answer was, "You don't lead them as much."
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There was a cartoon in SoF magazine that showed a Russian Hind-D crew in Afghanistan.
The pilot asked the gunner "How can you shoot wonen and children like that?" His answer was, "You don't lead them as much."
Came from Full Metal Jacket. Also "Anyone who runs is V.C. Any one who don't run is a smart V.C."
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from the stories that I've heard the hind is one of the most fearsome vehicles to face on the field especially if you don't have the means to deal with it.
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Came from Full Metal Jacket. Also "Anyone who runs is V.C. Any one who don't run is a smart V.C."
Your chronology is backwards.
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You're right again Tom. So was I this time. :) I saw that cartoon while I was still in the army but that movie didn't come out until a couple years after I got out.