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2018-03-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Exercise Junipre Cobra: IDF paratroopers teach US marines ‘lost art’ of tunnel combat

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 So how's Tel Aviv when you're on pass?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2018-03-14 05:56|| 2018-03-14 05:56|| Front Page Top

#2 So how's Tel Aviv when you're on pass?

Freakin' awesome. I really hope to spend more than 36 hours there next time.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-14 09:05|| 2018-03-14 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "The Marines brought their armored vehicles and artillery. We brought our knowledge of how to fight in underground tunnels," Semel said.
The past years there has been a parade of robots coming out of Israel for urban warfare that could be used for this sort of mission. Why send a *squishy* human when you can send a robot (with its own hand grenade)?

Posted by magpie 2018-03-14 12:42|| 2018-03-14 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Being just a bit disingenuous, magpie - you know perfectly well robots don't win wars?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-14 13:03|| 2018-03-14 13:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Why fight in tunnels, flood them with H2S and call it a day.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-03-14 16:47|| 2018-03-14 16:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I like how you think, Siletbrick. Of course, almost any heavier than air gas might work.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-03-14 18:41|| 2018-03-14 18:41|| Front Page Top

#7 CO2 Sequestration

Posted by Frank G 2018-03-14 20:07|| 2018-03-14 20:07|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Being just a bit disingenuous, magpie - you know perfectly well robots don't win wars?
?What? The French demonstrated in WW1 that the Attaque à outrance doesn't trump the machine gun... If you feel a need to poke around in an underground meatgrinder, instead of flooding it with gas, send in the robots first.

Posted by magpie 2018-03-14 21:20|| 2018-03-14 21:20|| Front Page Top

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