Rooters Pic: A convoy of Lebanese army armoured vehicles drives through the village of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, September 5, 2006, on its way to be deployed near the border with Israel. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) | Submit your comments on this article |
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| Why would the Lebanese Army in South Leb Need AA Guns? |
| 2006-09-06 |
| Rooters Pic: A convoy of Lebanese army armoured vehicles drives through the village of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, September 5, 2006, on its way to be deployed near the border with Israel. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #25 Because they look scary. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-09-06 12:29 |
| #24 why do they need AA guns? Why to the French need an aircraft carrier? Why do we send USN ships on port visits? For prestige. To show the locals that the Leb army can defend them from the big bad jews, better than Hezbo can. Even IF the Leb Army is quite aware that the IDF isnt interested in attacking the Leb Army. Cause the abundantly Hezbo propagandzed locals dont know that, and the ONLY way for the Leb State to get a leg up on Hezbo is to impress said locals. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-09-06 11:22 |
| #23 Because they wants their virgins! |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-06 11:09 |
| #22 *ding*ding*ding!* mcsegeek1 gets it! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-09-06 10:43 |
| #21 Ummmm, to fight the Joooos? Just a guess. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 10:39 |
| #20 It wass sincere, Fordesque - made my morning, in fact, LOL. Then you retracted (*sniff*) and left me out there, twisting in the wind - what else could I do? I still laughed out loud, which is always a good thing. :) |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-06 09:06 |
| #19 Rats - I was going to guess these were for mosquitoes... |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-09-06 08:57 |
| #18 "My apologies for the compliment." Oh, I enjoyed the compliment, flyover. Maybe it is an automatic reaction. I held a reputation for being a smart aleck; something my superiors often did not appreciate. Given that they are so far south and the supply lines rather tenuous, I wonder of the Lebanese have developed fire discipline. Then again, considering whose dog I am rooting for in this fight, I hope not. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-09-06 08:54 |
| #17 I stick by the assessment I made on ocnfederateyankee: Arabs like AAA because the shells and shrapnel fall EVERYWHERE, ensuring lots of civilian casualties. Since the press treats everything that falls from the sky as if it came from an aircraft, and won't ever bother to consider "defensive" AAA to be capable of killing anyone on the ground, it's a guaranteed photo-op generator. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-09-06 07:42 |
| #16 doh! to control low level airspace. That means denying all subsonic aerial vehicles. |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-09-06 07:30 |
| #15 Entice such batteries into setting up an ambush and then use cluster bombs. Whoa! |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-06 06:18 |
| #14 The Germans used single and double barrel twenty MM cannon to good effect, especially in the defense. 20mm cannon will, of course, also perforate walls. And they're far cheaper - although more vulnerable - than tanks, in the direct fire assault gun role. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-09-06 02:32 |
| #13 HA! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-09-06 02:24 |
| #12 My apologies for the compliment. |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-06 02:17 |
| #11 Also knowns as the... War of Hezbo aggression. "Recent unpleasentness" both funny! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-09-06 02:02 |
| #10 Simple: hezbos = leb army = hezbos |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-09-06 01:56 |
| #9 My apologies for being flippant. The side-effect of too much wine at dinner. M. Aubrey is, of course, correct. The primary target would be helicopters. Properly inter-laced around a given "objective" , they would be rather effective in preventing unannounced landings. especially if they were manually-sighted. The secondary targets would be ground-based, such as light-armoured vehicles and advancing troops. Low-technology, perhaps, But somewhat effective and if emplaced correctly, somewhat involved in taking out. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-09-06 01:33 |
| #8 More military materiel for Israel to "deactivate." Just keep on throwing millions of petro-dollars into that bottomless |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-06 01:10 |
| #7 ROFL, Fordesque! |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-06 00:59 |
| #6 Why the Ack Acks? Because the Leb entity is an appendage of the HizbAyatollahs. So much for the "Cedar Revolution." |
| Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550 2006-09-06 00:49 |
| #5 Also knowns as the... War of Hezbo aggression. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-06 00:39 |
| #4 "Recent unpleasentness": you must also be a southern gentleman, I presume. :)) |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-09-06 00:38 |
| #3 Light and medium anti-aircraft guns are useful in ground fighting. They have direct-fire sights, high rates of fire, high muzzle velocity, and, since they are either towed or mounted on a vehicle, large amounts of ammo. The Germans used single and double barrel twenty MM cannon to good effect, especially in the defense. They are also good against helicopters. Theoretically, the Apache's important components are armored against hits by Sov 23MM fire, which was presumed to be lavishly supplied to forward units. Unfortunately--for their crews--they lack the range and fire control of Apaches. They'd need to ambush the choppers, which, given IDF intel in the recent unpleasantness, might not be impossible. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2006-09-06 00:34 |
| #2 Dove season? |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-09-06 00:28 |
| #1 For precisely the same reason Iran needs nuclear weapons. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-06 00:27 |