Making Afganistan a Better Place

"E battery, making Afganistan a better place... One bomb, one projectile at a time."
If you are curious FOO stands for Forward Observation Officer and FSCC stands for Fire Support Coordination Center.

Set to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and runs 5:29

U.S. Army: E Battery (CF) -Must See-

Footage of E Battery (CF) operations in Afghanistan. Video focuses on artillery, but also includes numerous aircraft engagements.

leaked by: Kbdroll

The Other Bridge to Nowhere

Here is another quick little video from the 10th Mountain Division. Runs :57.

Foot Bridge Destroyed

Soldiers from the 2nd "Commando" brigade, 10th Mountain Division destroy a foot bridge used by insurgents

Traget Destroyed, now with added video

UPDATE: DOH! video now inserted...

Make sure to stay for the BDA at the end. Big smoking hole left. Runs 2:19.

Destruction of an insurgent safe house with MLRS

Soldiers from the 2nd "Commando" brigade from the 10th Mountain Division (LI) call in a MLRS strike on an insurgent safe house.

leaked by: natej740

Fire!

Wish we could see the impacts too. Runs 1:43

US Soldiers Shelling Insurgent Postion With 8 Mortars In Iraq

counter mortar fire on insurgents.

Casualties: 12 dead Muji

leaked by: avrage poet

Royal Artillery

Nice slide show and live video compilation with raw audio! Set to "Breathe" by Prodigy.

Some Not Safe For Work British ground troop language. Fuggin'ell! Runs 5:39.

29 Commando RA Op Herrick V

compilation vid

leaked by: NewEngland

Three... Two... One....Boom!

First we get a Bradly firing, then an Abrams, then a GPS Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) strike. Nice war porn triple play!

Not Safe For Work ground troop language warning. Runs 1:10

Taking out Insurgent sniper

GMLRS takes out insurgent rooftop sniper. After the screen opens, there is a Bradley to lower left of screen and near the building will be a US Tank. The Insurgent can be seen laying on the rooftop near middle of building exchanging fire... then boom!

leaked by: nobrn

Roger Dead Center Over

Suppose these rockets are GPS guided? Sounds like it to me..

Mild ground troop warning. Runs 33 seconds.

MLRS Rockets Hit Insurgent Sniper Position In Iraq

MLRS Rockets Hit Insurgent Sniper In Ramadi, Iraq.

leaked by: IRAQI_TRANSLATOR_USMC

Running out of Virgins

So, my high placed source tells me they are considering rationing virgins in paradise. It seems that US forces are far too efficient at sending jihadis to their virgins, and they can't keep up. They just used another 2,016 virgins today, when the mahadi army thought they would ambush our troops in sadar city. That makes a whopping 9,216 used up in the last nine days by the mahdi army alone.

From the Long War Journal

US troops kill 28 Mahdi fighters during Sadr City ambush
By Bill Roggio April 29, 2008 11:14 AM

Heavy fighting broke out between Coalition and Mahdi Army forces in Sadr City as US troops killed 28 Mahdi Army fighters after being ambushed during a patrol. Seven more Mahdi Army fighters were killed during strikes yesterday...

...US and Iraqi troops have killed 186 Mahdi Army fighters since Sadr threatened to conduct a third uprising nine days ago...

Here is some video of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System in action that is mentioned in the article. Runs 2:02.


GMLRS Rocket Attack

The Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System in action (GMLRS). The UK's ground forces in Afghanistan are getting a state-of-the-art precision land attack rocket with twice the range of existing artillery systems.

leaked by: Pinero

Nice View

Here's a little artillery action from a great vantage point. Runs a quick 24 seconds.

Artillery Fire Mission On Taliban - Afghanistan
leaked by: IRAQI_TRANSLATOR_USMC

I Bet Their Sh*tin' Their Pants Dude!

Short little barrage of mortar rounds on some bad guys. Mild language warning for surprisingly clean language by ground troops. Runs 49 seconds.

US Army mortar team launches a barrage of mortars

US Army mortar team launches a barrage of mortars on to an insurgent team attempting to get inside the US base in Baghdad, Iraq.

leaked by: Dronetek

Indirect Fire

I'm not a big fan of jihadi videos. In fact, I participate in the YouTube Smack Down (I know, kind of hypocritical, but all's fair in love and war). I like this video though. You can hear our artillery batteries fire, then moments later we are treated with the impact. THUMP...Swwwwwwssss BOOM! Music to my ears. Runs 1:28.

Indirect fire on insurgents rocket nest.. you shoot at us, we fire back!

"This video was shot by an insurgent in Iraq. After they shot a couple of rockets, we counter fire with a bunch of 155mm artillery shells. I tell you we are really accurate."

leaked by: Human_Racist

Excalibur High Value Target

So, how are the Excalibur rounds doing? Pretty darn well it seems:

"High Value Target Footage
15 July 07
Task Force Marine
Public Affairs
Excalibur Precisions aiming artillery system engages a building containing a high value target 14 July 07."

Excalibur Strike iraq Insurgents
leaked by: gulogulo

XM982 Excalibur

So what are our Paladins wielding? What any self respecting medieval holy knight of the cross would carry: Excalibur of course, a 155mm extended range artillery shell. The most important aspect of the Excalibur is that GPS guidance places the round within 10m of the aim point. Conventional rounds land within 200-300m. This incredible accuracy allows the shells to be used much closer to ground troops. The only problem is that we are only making 100 a month. Here is some pork barrel spending I can get behind. Come on Nancy Pelosi, let's buy some more XM982 Excalibur rounds to rain down on our foes.


Precision-guided 155mm Artillery
leaked by: gulogulo