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| Exercise Junipre Cobra: IDF paratroopers teach US marines ‘lost art’ of tunnel combat | |
| 2018-03-14 | |
Israeli paratroopers and US marines completed a series of exercises over the past week and a half aimed at sharing techniques and knowledge on beach-landings and aspects of urban warfare, as part of the joint Juniper Cobra exercise, officers said. For the Americans ‐ specifically the US Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment ‐ it meant learning how to fight in tunnels, something marines haven’t had to do since the Vietnam War, said battalion commander Lt. Col. Marcuz Mainz. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #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 |
| #7 CO2 Sequestration |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-03-14 20:07 |
| #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 |
| #5 Why fight in tunnels, flood them with H2S and call it a day. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-03-14 16:47 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #1 So how's Tel Aviv when you're on pass? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-03-14 05:56 |