In Afghanistan With The ISAF

Biohazard · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:12

Shame they won't actually engage in anything meaningful other than photographing themselves.

roddypoddy · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:16

Great pics,thanks for posting them,very poignant.

HAz · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:19

Great pics very interesting. No surprise seeing the crap replies from the first few nobs.

Russinating · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:30

Great set of pictures. Love the 155mm Canon.

And not very good or funny I know (it's late), but no-one's done anything yet...

SiD the Turtle · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:44

Quality pictures.

A question for the gun nuts out there. Why do the bullets in this picture have different coloured tips?

Fibre_Optic said:

Atrox Moris · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:46

SiD the Turtle said:
Quality pictures.

A question for the gun nuts out there. Why do the bullets in this picture have different coloured tips?

Tracers.

Eddie182 · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:46

SiD the Turtle said:
Quality pictures.

A question for the gun nuts out there. Why do the bullets in this picture have different coloured tips?

They are traser rounds, normally 1 in 5 rounds will be traser. Althogh some people prefer to put all the tracer at the top of each magazine rather than spread evenly.

HAz · 22 Oct 2008 at 22:49

http://www.sharelookvideo.tv/watch_video/24841

Johno please? · 22 Oct 2008 at 23:06

Excellent pics, im very interested in anything to do with Afganistan/Iraq (on my 3rd book of the conflict now)

Although too many germans

seriously though good stuff.

The last picture =

The Funktopus · 22 Oct 2008 at 23:42

Thanks to the OP for the photo's. A mate of mine's in Morrocco with the RAF at the moment in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. Should beat Basra though,random smatterings of artillery rockets and mortar bombs do not a barrel of laughs make!

Kristoph · 22 Oct 2008 at 23:47

rghjones said:
Great set of pictures. Love the 155mm Canon.

And not very good or funny I know (it's late), but no-one's done anything yet...
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What? Just what? :eek:

GSDog · 23 Oct 2008 at 00:25

HAz said:
http://www.sharelookvideo.tv/watch_video/24841

I think I saw that on the programme "Future Weapons".

I sure wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of that gun!

RoboCod · 23 Oct 2008 at 00:48

Great pictures thanks

The PzH 2000 (howitzer) is especially awesome. IIRC a company or battery of these can all fire their rounds at different times from different locations and their onboard computers and datalink can calculate the projection so that all the rounds land in the same place at exactly the same time... bad ass!

That German APC is also a Fuchs to be exact

RoboCod · 23 Oct 2008 at 00:59

inferno said:
Great pictures, but I thought the Germans did pretty much nothing out there, just like many of our other European 'comrades'

I find that quite offensive and I am not even German. What do you think they are doing out there, just sunbathing?

snowdog · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:06

Awesome pictures, like in all of your threads fiber optic

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inferno · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:12

GERMANY has admitted its Special Forces have spent three years in Afghanistan without doing a single mission, and are now going to be withdrawn.

More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation.

But Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister, admitted they had not been deployed "a single time" in the last three years, despite a desperate shortage of Special Forces units in the country.

Troops from Britain's Special Boat Service and the SAS work round the clock, across Afghanistan, alongside US navy Seals and Delta Force, to target terrorists, arrest drug lords and rescue hostages.

http://news.scotsman.com/world/They-came-they-saw-.4573584.jp

So compared to what our lads are doing, yeah they are sunbathing..

megakid · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:15

I guess you'd have to pay for full resolution images?! I'd love one of these photos as my background...

RoboCod · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:16

See you first made a broad generalisation about Germans and most Europeans in Afghanistan, then you gave me a quote from the "Scotsman" (?) about one regiment, a special forces unit.

I see your point.

inferno · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:20

Well I'm sure if you do some more research you will see most of their troops are very reluctant to do any fighting, hence why they stick to the north, whilst a select few countries do the fighting in the south.

Azagoth · 23 Oct 2008 at 01:27

SiD the Turtle said:
Quality pictures.

A question for the gun nuts out there. Why do the bullets in this picture have different coloured tips?

I believe that the red is tracer and the green and grey are ball rounds of differing grains. The green is 62-grain but I forget what the grey round is, most probably 58-grain but I may be wrong.