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I believe this is the "find out" phase
It's just a series of "find out" phases in response to the previous ones and has been since like the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire never controlled the Persian Empire.
Their presence in the Middle East did keep the British out though, at least as far as I know.
True, but its not like it was free of fucking arounds and finding outs during their reign either.
The Mid East. is the place you can always point back to someone else as to blame all the way back to the Ubaidians.
Yeah, that's true. I should have said "at least" but I thought that things were relatively stable under the Ottomans. Though I suppose "relatively stable" is a pretty low bar with how it's been since they fell.
Got him with a R9X Hellfire.
Hit him in traffic while moving and only took him and his merry band of assholes out. Thing is fucking wild.
The R9X doesn't have a warhead. It uses kinetic energy. So there really is a small destruction radius. The hellfire is laser guided, so it will lock onto a moving target.
I know. Dude below you posted what it is.
I also remember the Al-Qaeda dude they slap-chopped.
Ah, the good 'ol slap chop!
(no, this isn't a meme, this is how the R9X Hellfire works)
the ninja missile. It slices. it dices. it doesn't go boom.
Remotely manned
AKA... Unmanned.
fitted with lasers
Laser seeker. Laser is on the aircraft.
Hey, hey, don't ruin my dreams of a missile that kills with swords and lasers. What are we spending our money on if we don't even have a missile that shoots lasers?
That's why we need to petition congress to spend more on defense. They want you to think we already have sword laser missiles, but the poor military industrial complex barely has enough money for swords and lasers and missiles by themselves, let alone all 3 in one sexy package.
Every time I see this thing all I can think is how much it must suck to be targeted by that. Like it's such a remote and precise way of assassination that it delivers a message nothing other than "we will find you, and we will kill you."
Oh that must be the knife missile Robert Evans was advertising for a while on behind the bastards. I was picturing something more like an explosive missile with knives around the explosive.
That would be great at chopping vegetables
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The US has conducted a drone strike against a senior commander of an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad, according to a US official.
Iraqi security sources say the drone attack on a vehicle killed at least three people, including the leader of Kataib Hezbollah.
The attack occurred in the city's eastern Mashtal neighbourhood, sparking several loud explosions.
A senior US defence official said it was carried out by a drone, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
Other groups supported by Iran were also hit in the Wednesday night attack, according to Reuters and AFP.
The Kataib Hezbollah commander killed was responsible for operations in Syria, a member of the group told AFP.
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