Textron's Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW) in OIF B-52 attack

[williebruciestewie]

EPIC!!!

Good ol' US military, full o' surprises.

[Sovet666]

че за хуйня ковровыми же бомбили че не добомбили прошили штурмовики ну а пехоты танками пыталесь задавитбь да и то саснули хуйца видео бред

[vampov]

An amazing weapon. He who rules the air wins the war. Can you believe people had to fight so hard to convince the old blow hards in the military that airplanes were a necessary weapon in future campaigns

[Iraqendwar]

@vampov He who rules the air wins the war.

That's not always true.

[vikiandmarcin]

WoW I'm impressed, Well Done Boys! Now I know how You kill civilians, children, old people in the occupation of Iraq. You are heroes of Wall Street, arms manufacturers, banks and mass murderers. Enjoy cheap oil. Great to replace the blood of innocents on profits, really Well Done! When the U.S., Israel and the GB answer you for crimes against humanity? What are you different from Hitler, Stalin? You have a better PR and you are still in power, until..

[puffmyblunt]

More wasted taxpayer dollars! Last time I checked, there isn't an airforce on earth that would have air dominace over the U.S. With that in mind, what does this accomplish that GPS guided muntions and even a big fat dumb bomb can't. Not to mention, who the hell do we plan on fighting that has significant ground forces and the hardware to defeat say um..M1 Abrams tanks? Yea..there's alot of munitions out there that defeat DEPLETED URANIUM. surre..a million bux per bomb sounds fun too. F-35 anyone

[USAAIRPOWER]

CBU-97 / CBU-105 SFW Operator:

-India

-Saudi Arabia

-South Korea

-Turkey

-UAE

-USA (Origin)

[GnariusFestivus]

If we're really getting pleasure out of things like this, the future is seriously grim...

[KlubMarcus]

@GnariusFestivus We're getting pleasure when things like that get dropped on evildoers like Saddumb's military. So the future is very very bright. Can't wait until the South Koreans drop them on the "Great Leader" worshipping idiots up North!

[NeutralNegotiator]

@KlubMarcus So Saddam was evil because he desided to stop asking for dollars as payment for the oil he produced?

Poor Americans, although you believe in God, you have become the instrument of death and an empire of slavery and misery. Your future and the future of the rest of the world is bindend in once again in the seeking of wealth.

Empires and war never change, whether we use clubs or raptors.

Empires are always controlled by one or a dozen people, and always killed for gold, yellow or black

[williebruciestewie]

A M.O.A.B right in the middle would've done equally well, with no unexploded ordinance either, even though they say the CBU 97 has no unexploded ordinance anyway. At least if the moab doesn't go off, you can see it clearly. =D

[evensgrey]

@williebruciestewie A MOAB is ineffective against armor, armor is designed to withstand that kind of thing. If it wasn't then the B-52 alpha strikes used in 1991 would have worked better.

[jaymorpheus01]

Skydene technology activated. hehehe

[jethromayham]

If we have them why not use them in the Afghani war? At least we hit the villages and drive them toward bigger cities where we can be even more cost effective with our arsenal.

Those rat bastards need to be treated like rats and not like himans. Go USAF! Go USA!

[evensgrey]

@jethromayham The sensors are designed to track vehicles, and the weapon isn't worthwhile except on armored vehicles. The Taliban didn't exactly have a lot of TANKS.

[cherylz1]

US Tech "Top of the Line" The BEST baby. : )

[FuriousPumpkin]

Klub Marcus is an idiot, nations want cluster bombs banned because of the dangers unexploded ordinance poses to civilians.

Most modern weapons have failsafes to prevent those. But many nations do not use modern weapons.

[sgtmajorkris]

MastaShorty

[USAAIRPOWER]

CBU-105/97 will destroyed 1,000 of tanks, APC, IFV, AIFV, Trucks, Fight Vehicles, MRLS, & other war machine. CBU-105/97 reach up to 16 football field it could chose which target head it too. USA have offer CBU-105. India already by 510 CBU-105. The CBU-105 will totally defeat India's neighbor like China & Pakistan.

[alfa8]

Look like the Russian SPBE-D cluster bomb.

[Bullzeye95]

Amazing system. Think of how useful this would have been during the Cold War, when the Soviets held a 3:1 tank superiority over us and we were shitting bricks trying to figure out how we would have been able to kill all those tanks.

Also, ever notice how all the people who show up to make random anti-US comments on a video always look like their mothers sniffed glue when they were pregnant? Stay in school kids! For you people who are from third world countries, just kill yourselves! :-D

[scherrycatherine]

God Bess America! *mwah*

[HydeDaFreak]

S...w...ee...t......

I want one to play with and enjoy!!!!

Long live American technology you help to world so much!

[Ghosafizzle]

KILL

kill kill kill kill kill kill kill

[wharghoul]

I wonder how many Iraqi children have to die from unexploded cluster bombs before it's considered "high" collateral damage?

[jbateson101]

wharghoul, I agree that traditional cluster bombs caused many injuries to civilians. The sensor fused weapon should not. Each "skeeter" self destructs in the air if it does not acquire a target. This is safer to civilians than a jihadist with a rucksack bomb, IED's or scattered land mines

[wharghoul]

ahh so the iraqi children will be killed instantly by flying shrapenel instead of 20 years later when they're trying to plow a field.

this is comforting. thank god our military-industrial complex is so humane!

[jbateson101]

Yes I suppose your correct.....heavy military equipment moving in battle formation in the middle of a war generally has numerous children stood around them.........Military intervention has probably helped you still fuel your car, heat you house etc....this is all about oil.

[wharghoul]

if you honestly think it's acceptable to murder people over the price of goods, i don't know what to say to you, except to urge you to seek mental help now.

[Spartan043]

Are you pro-abortion? Well, then. Just think of it as abortion in the hundredth trimester.

[wharghoul]

no, i'll just think of it as murder.

saves me some mental gymnastics.

[newbe83]

I hate to be the one to tell you this but people have been murdered/exterminated for much less.

[Chyaku]

So you're implying that children would be around a batallion of tanks and iraqi soldiers? What are they doing, controlling the tanks and trains too? It's only been fired once, get your panties out of your ass crack.

[Iraqendwar]

@Chyaku So you're implying that children would be around a batallion of tanks and iraqi soldiers?

And if these battalian of tanks and iraqi soldiers decide to fight their wars next to their civilians? ....like for example..an city?

[NotEnoughProductions]

are these munitions actualying in service now cause i kno they had a system similar to this but in a land mind form. pretty kool bomb

[cherylz1]

Awesome Weapon!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!

[roadrodent1952]

Not bad for a munitions project that was cancelled a number od times. Now that it has proved itself they work on improving it.

[komine866]

don't be a bad guy

[tinjabz]

Well, sooner or later, anti-SFW weapons and vehicles would be created. What's so surprising? I would be more surprised if they could create a savepoint for dead soldiers.. lol

Anyway, I don't mind them creating these toys as long as they shoot it on the right asshole.

[roadrodent1952]

Not sure if reactive armor would work against this. Even if it did putting it in place on so many vehcles would jack the costs up quite a bit. Some kind of in close active defence system might be developed to counter but it would, likely, have to be one or more defence vihicle(s)similar to Goalkeeper ICWS

[ARCcommanderTalVerd]

some kinda EM countermeasure would work possibly. Baffling the laser and IR sensors but still it's just a guess. Anyway, don't tell them that

[Acer81996]

@ARCcommanderTalVerd anyway, it's useless because the SFW-weapon strikes too fast for a human to recognize and deploy proper counter-measures. A jammer might not possibly work, and an EMP might end up destroying the tank itself.

[derekw006]

It's weapons like this that preserve your freedom to spout disrespectful and ungrateful commentary. Imagine a world in which the Taliban or Al Quaeda reigned supreme

[MastaShortie]

yeap and now we see the world under ameriacs control, murdering people on the other side of the world to preserve freedom, americas in it for the money they are the terrorists.

[sgtmajorkris]

You need to brush up on your history because before the US even intervined Sadam Hussein was murdering towns of people for no reason, there was this one town where he cut off all entrances and exits of the town with tanks and and an assortment of other military of his, then launched deadly gas into this town and everyone was killed because they couldn't get away. There's also a material that was found called "Yellow Cake" and is used in making nuclear weapons(WMD).

[trooperdz]

hey, you kinda need to brush up on your history too, Stalin was killing MILLIONS of his people and america never intervened there...makes you wonder huh?

[SkullKing11841]

@trooperdz it was different times and the soviets was a super power. the u.s was 5th on the list of super powers. behind the the soviets, Germany, England and japan

[gosciu555]

"Companies: Rush Limbaugh Institute"

Explains everything. Wow, tax dollars well spent? You're a serious psycho.

[rusholmemike]

1) why was the US in IRAQ ??

WMD? - 0 found yet

Al Qaeda? - NO evidence at all that 9/11 was Iraqi supported

Democractic ideals? - look at the last BUSH victory and start at home first..

OIL? - probably

2) US pumps out nothing but films & music that suggest the only solution to a problem is through violence? Just look at the deaths caused every year by guns in the US. You have a violent society with a violent foreign policy.

3) Did all this "fabulous" technology prevent 9/11?

this is so sad

[gosciu555]

No, its not oil. Its geopolitcs, the dollar, general mayhem and destruction in the middle east. Iraq was the leading Arab state in the 80's these people from New York and London who rule large parts of the world had to target it and destroy it.

[venturafor2012]

OIL -- OIL -- OIL!!!!

9/11 was a false flag operation so we can invade Afghanistan so we can build an oil pipeline, Iraq for the oil fields, and now Iran is next for more Oil...

since 2003 when we invaded Iraq Bush and Cheney have been making about $4.2 million a year, $1.2 million since we invaded Afghanistan.

[EyeOnTheTV]

right...no unexploded munitions. What about the depleted uranium projectiles shot by Abrams tanks and A-10 Warthogs that that will inevitably cause cancer in a lot of people involved in these pointless conflicts? Oh sorry don' mean to infringe on your right to kill innocent people or hunt those that never existed.

[densityduckk]

Dude, granite countertops are more radioactive than depleted uranium.

[patrick1992123]

word

[GearsOfWarSlayer]

LOL 1:40 skeet searches for target. LOL

[asgoreth]

AKA The Hand of GOD

[Raptor1182]

NIIIICE! Forget about mass tank counterattacks, North Korea! 'Cause we have this baby to shred you up!

[roadrodent1952]

That was the reason for making it. If you massed armor and such it would blow you to shreads. If you spread out far enough to avoid that you can't cover your other vehicles (Or you cover fewer of them) and get picked off in bits and pieces.

[chomskii]

All together now....lets kill more, lets kill more, lets kill more

[cherylz1]

NICE!!!!!!!

[UXOdude]

In the words of Clint Eastwood, "There is nothing wrong with killing, as long as the right people get killed!"

[arasaka2020tm]

word....

[gosciu555]

Right people get killed? I assume the right people is never you right?

[roadrodent1952]

Oh so very true. Sounds like a Dirty Harry statement.

[fl00ders]

Yay! killing people for fun and profit... -.-

[RAVENSTAR1973]

fucking amazing!

[ArashironCorporation]

USA! USA!

[Wilmot1846]

Absolutely awsome. Enemy tankers are going to be having nightmares from now on.

[NJHCRevEdge]

A Marine Recon unit in front of the main attack spotted an Irqui armored division on the move south, towards them, and the main attack. A B 1B dropped 2 SFWs, destroyed 2/3 of the armored division. The surviving Iraqis surrendered. Any weapons system that can save the lives of US forces is good in my book.

[vikiandmarcin]

@NJHCRevEdge Any weapons system that can save the lives of US occupiers is good in your book and kill Iraqi children and families in the name of profitability and cheap oil. Well Done!

[erikbeman]

@vikiandmarcin Dumb Fuck

[vikiandmarcin]

@NJHCRevEdge U have no idea what is OCCUPATION?? USrael Terror is very similar to Nazi blood batch. Bandits!

[EsromFF]

Another super weapon wOw how very useful. Strange that there always seems to be more money to build these huge weapons and yet childring are still starving to death from a simple thing like hunger. Perverse film in that context.

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

Did you see this Iran? hahahaha put down your nukes you idiots!

[Kjfeasc]

American Fucking Kickass. Suck My balls Muslim Jihadists. If this video is fake, that sucks, but I'm 100% positive this type of weapon is doable with current technology.

How is it the orginization created to protect and defend the world just protects and defends the terrorists? All the UN can do is sanction. God damn I hate democrats. :D

[Blanke94]

It's real. Now.

This kind of weapon has already been tested in field conditions. That's what I call thinking BIG.

[saisumimen]

That isn't even fair!

BTW, what's up with the weird choppy voice?

[LoudS1l3nc3]

thanks to a verrry verrry smart choice from the UN, these weapons are now illegal >:(

[lewisbell]

because cluster bombs are too dangerous, most cluster bombs give a high civilian death toll

[dud3man6969]

As long as civilians stay out of tanks they don't have to worry about this one.

[ZzdeathangelzZ]

Yeah, Now they can shut up about unexploded cluster munitions.

[Rhenoism]

Video results in great stimulation of both optic nerves. Device was delivered by aircraft control engineers on correct trajectory, which thus obfiscated the threat the antagonists posed.

[sbilfer]

This is a sales video produced by Textron in an effort to sell their product, so I do think there is a certain level of B.S. in the story.

[KlubMarcus]

If that's what you want to believe, go ahead. "The events in this video never happened. It was all a simulation". Ha Ha Ha! But those in the know, know better. After all, there is a video floating around of the actual pilots flying the missions speaking to the Textron workers.

[jeffms]

I think he's trying to say that true events are probably not all as positive as a commercial company is willing to admit. This is an advertisement.... many companies use sneaky ways to bend the truth to their advantage and that's why you should never trust a company which is only out to get your money.

That said... the idea behind this weapon is marvelous. Very cost effective and cuts down the civilian casualties (as Rayvyn007 points out).

[ghostofrazgriz1]

on the show Future Weapons they showed the bomb and talked about the engagement on the video, but didn't show the CGI clip

[Lomax9]

Its perfect anailation to the confronters

[Rhenoism]

You have to say it like the guy says it in the video:

The antagonists were rendered totally inoperable by the device.

[fr3ds4t]

Sweet...

[akitrah]

I am not a pacifist.... But that kind of war is not fair, it is like godzilla in a kindergarden. I do not call any of you bastards wrong Flag soldiers proud and honest, cuz you are not fighting like men does .

[bryce65]

wow akitrah, you really are a cock head. All our boys out there fighting for our future(AUSSIES, THE US AND the british) that's a real advantage to us, it all helps with ending the war and getting our boys(and girls) home safe.

[akitrah]

i am not a pacifist. i am out of a family of soldiers, my grandfather earned knights cross- for shooting tanks in russia with 150mm artillerie gun- at close combat!!! And he said even 70 years ago, vs the americans in 1944 they had no chance they come with mass , russian, australian , british etc..troops, and air support. vs guns and horses. what can you do vs. this kind of warfare. and that war is not going to an end,it is same like vietnam. And i am proud of my Grandpa. But an irakikid cannot.

[akitrah]

And i do not want to get anyone of you guys killed, plz believe me. It was just that thing of total ownage vs an enemy, and with dying soldiers i am upset when somebody-like in that video talks with words like no collateral dmg, or clinical precision. They are dead in a few seconds all of them. And they haven´t had the chance to pull their shoes off. It has nothing to do with honoring your enemy on the battlefield. It is like a fuckin roadsidebomb vs.unarmored infanterie on bikecycles.

Goodluck

[KlubMarcus]

We want total ownage against the enemy akitrah! Do you think we want to waste our taxes and our troops on the battlefield? Of course not. We want to waste the enemies' money and troops. This weapon fits the bill!

[privateknez]

Lol, what the fuck is your future doing in iraq and afganistan? And your enemies dont have tanks... Most of them see you as invaders who want to destroy their way of life, and didn give a shit about you till you got over there.

[NJHCRevEdge]

Excuse me, but both the Iraqis and the Taliban, did have tanks, past tense. Until we showed up.

[ghostofrazgriz1]

and its all thanks to weapons like these that keep the troops more safe in a hostile country

[Rayvyn007]

This kind of weapon saves lives. Not only friendly US lives but the lives of the enemy as well. When they get hit with this kind of weapon, word gets out and many surrender of abandon their vehicles. This happened in 1991 in Desert Storm. The US found some Iraqi bunkers, told them to give up. They didn't, they bulldozed it and buried them alive. Word got out, the next bunker they got to, they said give up, the bastards couldn't wait to waive the white flag.

[rorcon]

"This is awesome! Your tax dollars well spent."

I'd rather my tax dollars spent on something like health care or education, you fucking warmongers.

[valmont2044]

Freedom has a price in dollars and in blood. Slavery is down the way of blind pacifism and hedonism. History is not in your favor. 1938 means something?

[KlubMarcus]

Slavery was eliminated by British and American military might. They ENFORCED the ban on slavery once Western populations believed that owning another human was an affront to God. You think all the countries, cultures, groups, and individuals would stop if they weren't threatened by guns? C'mon now valmont2044, quit being a moron. 1938 is meaningless to me because I wasn't alive back then. But if I was, I wouldn't sue for a phony peace like Neville.

[BricktopTheGovner]

HELL YEAH!!! B-52s ROCK!!!

[simmo19801]

the whole war is a croc of shit

[KlubMarcus]

Yeah, but you aren't in charge so it's going on despite your whining.

[Guiltyx23]

Agreed. Agreed agreed.

[Jackosaki]

LOL

[sartte]

Wow Friendly fire are always accidents You think one day they were gonna start shooting the british soldiers?

[norsef]

Yep the Americans have a real nice army, just ask the British and other willing nations. You kill more British than the Iraq army managed.

[sartte]

... so far :)

[KlubMarcus]

That just shows you how incompetent the iraqis are since accidents inflicted more damage to the British than their own men and weapons could.

[sartte]

lol they said that one iraqi soldier sais he thoug hthey were being attackd by U.F.O'S THE WAY the sfw came down on them and hovered.

[djallfiredup]

Yep that's a very deadly weapon. I just wish they would have modeled the B-52 better, the wings are still drooping as if it were sitting on the ramp. In flight the wings are flexed upward. Oh that tail too, that's all wrong.

[djallfiredup]

What is up with the "D" model tail on the "H" model B-52?? Some modeler/animator doesn't know his B-52's!

Sorry that irks me some. :P

[boneyfreak]

They left out some info, that attack occured during a dust storm the Iraqis were trying to use as cover. 29 vehicles were destroyed, nearly 60 intact armor was abandoned by the crews once they saw the lead of the column get annialated.

[sartte]

more then 29

[GreenSword15]

holy shit what an awsome weapon... i say we toss one to china heh

[rbaechle1111]

that was insane brigade of tanks gone in seconds

[KlubMarcus]

Yep. Those piece-of-crap non-American tanks have to face Abrams on the ground and SFW's from the air. They should just quit and go home like the Saddumb's military.

[conotoxin]

Tell the military to take the gloves off for 6 months, kill everyone who even THINKS about resisting, make an example of Falujah (bomb it to dust), and then walk away. Tell them you have had your warning. Next time an IED goes off, destroy the entire neighborhood until the populace learns they had better stop cooperating with the terrorists, or die.

[maniokie]

Lidice, the sequel?

Great way to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi population... :P

[conotoxin]

WWII, the sequel. And we weren't winning hearts or minds in Germany or Japan. We were convincing the remaining population that the choices were total surrender or death, and we were equally willing to give either.

The "winning hearts and minds" is part of the bullshit theories that you can have a "kinder gentler war."

Either fight, or don't. But if you fight, then FIGHT. Big insurgency in Fallujah? Very nice. Give them a month to leave, then raze the city to the dust.

[maniokie]

The USA were actually very hesitant when it came to area bombarding during WW2, most of it was done by or under the command of the British Royal Air Force because back then, the people were still more capable of recognizing the BS you are propagating as 'collective punishment'. The last time a foreign nation tried to pull that kind of stuff on the American people, they responded with a certain revolution, and that was only in response to closing off a harbor.

...

[maniokie]

(And by 'collective punishment', I mean the war crime condemned by the Geneva convention.)

[maniokie]

...

Lidice was a Czech village razed by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of a German military commander. So I guess you're kinda right about "WW2, the sequel"... but you surely wouldn't play in the team of the "Good Guys".

When caps lock artists like you use the word 'fight', it's a synonym for 'slaughtering civilians'.

[Octopi1]

Hmmm....dunno. These guys weren't civilians were they? They were trying to ambush a recon force with a battalion sized armored force. And we don't use SFWs on Civilians do we? War isn't exactly "Slaughtering civilians" but there is no such thing as a mythical "clean war" aside from, erm, a nuclear war which just kills everyone regardless but that's not exactly "clean" either. War isn't pretty.

[detrius88]

@Octopi1: "Manioki wasn't talking about this video but one of conotoxin's statements.

"Next time an IED goes off, destroy the entire neighborhood until the populace learns they had better stop cooperating with the terrorists, or die."

...it helps to display all comments. ;P

[Octopi1]

Hmmm....dunno, doesn't sound like a great idea. I'd say surging in with lots more forces'd help. And come in, and take down the terrorists, tell the populace that working with us will be safer and they'll be safer from the militants if they do also works. So.....what ever. SFW were developed to destroy entire enemy armored battalions as shown here. (Cold War design) And it looks like they worked.

[detrius88]

"Hmmm....dunno, doesn't sound like a great idea."

Lol, understatement of the (still young) year. XD

Let's say one of your neighbors who is a stranger to you gets arrested for dealing with drugs. If you applied conotoxin's logic to that situation, the cops would get to round you up as well because you weren't watchful enough.

[detrius88]

...well, back to the topic.

I'm glad the US military has higher standards than that, as shown by this video.

[Octopi1]

Hmmm, true. Everyone keeps saying that TFWs leave stuff behind, is this true? (Well, I wouldn't be suprised, 1 in 10 artillery rounds doesn't go off apparently, and they've been around for......nearly a century)

[crzyideassanezwrld]

If only..US is a major prod and exp of CM, and according to the DOD the ground forces have 728 mill submunitions, whereas only 30,990 have self-destr devices. Both ground and air forces stockpile lots of outdated CM that have caused sign.harm to civilians in recent conflicts. In Iraq, the US/UK reduced the civilian threath from CM by using improved techn, like the SFW CBU-105. However, despite having the techn they also used old, outdated munitions,like unguided CBU-87s and CBU-99 Rockeyes.(HRW)

[Octopi1]

Well, luckily they don't do that. But there's one problem, guns, IEDs, and terrorists are a lot worse then simple drugs.

And no, US forces don't do that, it's a problem and a good thing. Since it can be used against'em and shows a bit of weakness, but humanity too.

[KlubMarcus]

The best part about IED's is that they hurt muslim naighborhoods. IED's ruin the local economy be ruining local infastructure and killing / injuring local residents. Most US troops survive IED attacks and they go home. The local muslims stay there every day under constant threat that another muslim will blow up another chunk of their neighborhood.

[valmont2044]

War is not pretty, but if you do not face it as a fact, be prepared to relive WW2 and its deadly pre war "pacifism". " Si vis pacem para bellum"

[conotoxin]

More US citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens last year than have been killed in the 4 years of the Iraq war... And the ONLY reason the terrorists have been having as much success as they have, is the military has been politically hamstringed.

[KlubMarcus]

Yep, the US Military has been overrun by lawyers who work for the enemy instead of our troops.

[hheemmpp]

Great Video.

[KlubMarcus]

Yeah, it's one of the best I've seen and it's a real weapon system.

[KlubMarcus]

You know what's funny. The islamic world hasn't done much lately with the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. I don't think they've won a Nobel Prize or patented anything in uhhh... forever?

[KlubMarcus]

Yes, I forgot. You have to wear kid gloves when you deal with muslim sensitivities. After all, they do declare jee-hadz for all kinds of stupid reasons: cartoons, novels, fashion, tourism, etc.

[KlubMarcus]

C'mon cameldrive, I know you're just jealous that we've got SFW's and all you can take credit for are IED's built off modern technology that muslims did not invent. It's OK man, it's alright to play catch-up with the American-led West. Just accept it, you'll feel better.

[KlubMarcus]

Nah, the cheap IED hasn't even slowed down the US Military. Look at the numbers, the IED's are ineffective. IED's have not stopped the stream of supplies, troops, and civilians. It's nothing more than a propaganda prop. Think about it, civilians still go to Iraq from around the world. So that tells you how ineffective IED's are that even those who don't have body armor still come to work.

[MasterChief22530]

but IEDs did cause around 3000 U.S troop deaths and dat's not good

[KlubMarcus]

3000? Where did you hear that fiction? I estimate the total troop deaths by IED's to be 1/3 of that. We're talking about muslim/arab terrorists here. They aren't any good at war.

[MasterChief22530]

really? i mean,it is the terrorist that control the IEDs not the IED exploding it self,and don't forget our humvees or APC going on the highways...they touched the IEDs and explode killing our crews and soldiers in it,IEDs caused the most casualties on the war,really it is,we can suppress any terrorist that goes in our line of sight, but IEDs no really cause you can't see em,you gotta see em first then u take it out,we don't have time for that,we got places to go and things to do

[KlubMarcus]

Yeah, but that doesn't mean that IED's have caused 3000 US troop deaths. That's much too high. If you have any proof to the contrary, I'd like to see it. Accidents at home are a greater threat to our servicemen than IED's in the warzone.

[MasterChief22530]

ooops my bad the ieds didn't cause 3000 total deaths ....but it did cause the most death out of 3000......i think gunfire cause the second most deaths.....the reason ieds cause the most deaths is they are hard 2 find and when detonated they destroy tanks troops and anything that are in the blast radius

[sartte]

lol 3000? WRONG

[MasterChief22530]

my mistake..the ieds cause the most deaths but didn't cause 3000 total deaths.....

[CamelDrive]

cheap IED is doing wonders