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Angolian war. Portugal was fighting an insurgency in their colony of what is now Angolia
The description on the video with the "AA guns" is wrong. Those are Phalanx CRAM (Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar) guns. Basically, they are smaller versions of the 30mm GAU-8 gatling gun mounted on the A-10 that is controlled by a targeting computer (the big dome on top) to shoot down, you guessed it, rockets, artillery, and mortars.
These ******* fling thousands of bullets downrange to incoming mortars in the hopes that it hits them.
And most of the time, the mortar doesn't even explode, its sorta just... pushed out of the way. The bright white flashes seen are the bullets hitting the mortars.
Also, they are A LOT more terrifying when you get the audio as well.
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funnyhatoo (12/16/2015) [-]
are you sure the bright flashes are the bullets hitting the mortars? It just seems like a terribly lot of flashes, so that must mean there are hundreds of thousands of mortars and don't artillery fire, like... less than that?
All of those flashes result from the bullets hitting one mortar. A lot of the time, the mortar wont blow up, and will sorta just get pushed out of its initial trajectory, as i said before.
So in one set of white flashes, that is all one mortar. In this video, i think 5 or so mortars are fired and deflected.
So in one set of white flashes, that is all one mortar. In this video, i think 5 or so mortars are fired and deflected.
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trolocaust (12/16/2015) [-]
**trolocaust used "*roll picture*"**
**trolocaust rolled image**Rumor has it I am deploying next year..
All those IEDs are going to be a blast
**trolocaust rolled image**Rumor has it I am deploying next year..
All those IEDs are going to be a blast
Like I said, only rumors, but i heard Stan.
and it'd be with 101st.
and it'd be with 101st.
I feel you man, I have spent the last year doing ******** with the Honnor Guard.
In the U.S there are little laws to owning a tank. You all can go out and buy one
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anotherhaloguy (12/16/2015) [-]
I can almost hear the Abrams saying "I see you" after being hit by the RPG
how did the M1 survive? why didn't the RPG penetrate? did it hit one of the protective plates?
Every tank and vehicle that gets blown up just reminds me more and more why I do not want to be mechanized.