All,

There's an email floating around that seems to be the most authentic thing to ever come out of the war so far...but.

It'll be a series of PowerPoint slides, or several jpeg's captured in the same frame, showing/saying "This is a set of photos directly from James Bond, who was the guy on the ground with a GLID when the F-16's came in and blew these guys to hell," or something similar.

Folks, it's real combat footage, but it didn't come from this war.  I first received this file over two years ago (as a PowerPoint slide show - sorry, I didn't keep it).  At the time, the file was labeled something like "Command-detonated mines on roads in the Kashmir."  I think a reporter with some troops took the photos, and just happened to catch the action.

To answer questions - yes, the footage is real, that really is a body flying through the air, and people died while those photos were taken.  It just wasn't the Taliban, or Al-Qaeda.

So, if you believed that you were getting a secret news scoop out of Afghanistan, sorry.

There have been a few discussions about it here before.  Do a search and you should find it.  I believe it was from the war between the Russians and Chechnians (sp?).  

send it to me!!!!!!!  

The slides come from actual video.  You can see how all the guys in the APC go flying a lot better on the video.  Doesn't look very fun!

[img]www.ar15.com/members/albums/Steelviper%2FTalibanGoBoom%2Ejpg[/img]

This may be what you're talking about (if not, it's similar).

I've got a larger version, but I had to shrink it to fit the ar15 hosting requirement.

Viper Out

Yeah, SV! That's the one!

Did you read the caption?  I got it at work today, and it came from a guy in Kandahar!

This is a photo of a Russian BMP, and the photo was out about a year before the Taliban deal.

cool!  

Yep, rehash of pics from 1 year ago.

Chaingun,

It's a BTR-80; BMP's (whatever the variant) are all tracked vehicles.

All,

Does anyone have the video as an .avi file or whatever?  I'd like to show this to some of my guys.

Thanks