The important thing is, they are clueless and incapable of using the 198's effectively.

Lobbing H.E. in a general direction to hit random shit, is a long way from being able to target a defensive position with an effective sheaf, or provide their fighters with pre-planned fire in support.

Yeah, as a weapon of terror/harassment they can fuck up some poor bastard randomly, and it's gonna suck, but as an offensive or defensive capability, they have very little effect.

We did train the Iraqis on our GPS enhanced M198 systems. They obviously had some defectors, but it's also obvious that they did not bother to get their ISIS buddys up to speed.

The M198's are Maint. whores. Those fucktards are NOT going to keep them up for too long.

If they do, boots on the ground means they are in for a bad day.
Our CBR and Gun bunnies LIVE for counterbattery missions. Haji is clueless on the concept of Target, shoot and scoot.

At what point does the risk to the US Embassy become such that it prompts evacuation?

Is there a procedure of this in place with pre-establish criteria or are we going to have another Benghazi?

If you didn't have to worry about counter-battery fire, you could just lay the gun on a compass PDF, swag the elevation and number of increments, and just put in guestimate adjustments with the elevation wheel and by moving the trails after each round until you were on target.

You're thinking like a western soldier. They don't think or fight like western soldiers and they're not fighting western soldiers.



They're not dependent upon combined arms and in many ways fighting conventionally would work against them. They know any artillery near Baghdad is going to get popped,it's why they took the M198s captured in Mosul to Syria,  and likewise have torched the majority of the tanks and APCs they've captured.


However,if the opportunity presents itself to use captured tubes to lob shots north of the river and anywhere close to the Green Zone,it would serve their aims well. The IA is demoralized and doesn't want to fight and the bulk of Baghdad is very likely going to flee towards Basra in an enormous humanitarian disaster if the army doesn't firm up in a way they haven't since December.

They can do better than that. With a simple GPS they can get the location of the gun and the target, match azimuth, and roughly have an idea of elevation. Granted I'm not ISIS but if the gun was positioned right I could be close enough to scare you in 3 or 4 rounds.



 

Just getting the rounds to fall on airport anywhere is enough I think to close said airport and cause alarm.
All you guys saying send in the A10's or the AF. What are you thinking? The FSA in Syria had somewhat
luck in shooting down Assad's AF jets and killing or capturing the pilots. An A10 going down outside Bagdad,
who the hell is going to rescue the pilot? The Iraq Army? I say we stay the hell out of it.

The Obama administration is feverously searching the internet for another video to blame it on.

The US Army?  US Air Force?  Hell, if you don't catch them during chest waxing time you could send some Navy guys.

Might sound funny to you but when or if ISIS gets a captured US pilot and does the beheading thing it won't be funny.

I cracked the F up!! Hahaha

An Iranian brigade.

I wish he was handicapped from a stroke.