The last time the US and the Russians scraped it was in 2018 Syria and the Russians got lit the fukk up with the only US wounded was from having thumb numbness from pressing the buttons too fast. The US has no peer.
The truth about the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria
Up to 300 Russian and Syrian fighters killed in the attack
Eric Schmitt,Ivan Nechepurenko,C. J. Chivers
Saturday 26 May 2018 22:43
Reaper drones and other aircraft were called in to support US fighters
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The artillery barrage was so intense that the US commandos dived into foxholes for protection, emerging covered in flying dirt and debris to fire back at a column of tanks advancing under the heavy shelling. It was the opening salvo in a nearly four-hour assault in February by around 500 pro-Syrian government forces – including Russian mercenaries – that threatened to inflame already simmering tensions between Washington and Moscow.
In the end, 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters were killed. The others retreated under merciless air strikes from the US, returning later to retrieve their battlefield dead. None of the Americans at the small outpost in eastern Syria – about 40 by the end of the firefight – were harmed.
The true story of the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria
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Half an hour later, the Russian mercenaries and Syrian forces struck.
The Conoco outpost was hit with a mixture of tank fire, large artillery and mortar rounds, the documents show. The air was filled with dust and shrapnel. The US commandos took cover, then ran behind dirt berms to fire anti-tank missiles and machine guns at the advancing column of armoured vehicles.
For the first 15 minutes, US military officials called their Russian counterparts and urged them to stop the attack. When that failed, US troops fired warning shots at a group of vehicles and a howitzer.
Still the troops advanced.
US warplanes arrived in waves, including Reaper drones, F-22 stealth fighter jets, F-15E Strike Fighters, B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and AH-64 Apache helicopters. For the next three hours, US officials said, scores of strikes pummelled enemy troops, tanks and other vehicles. Marine rocket artillery was fired from the ground.
Imagine US soldiers storming a trench without the entire front line being glassed for days on end while supported by round the clock air strikes and artillery fire. Imagine infantry advancing without tank support.
Compare the US military to a bunch of barely trained convicts in a country where the life expectancy for males is 60 and the leading cause of death is alcohol poisoning.
You gotta get three uninterrupted kills in a row for that UAV to go online breh. You think Russians got aim like that?
We learned the same tactics used in Vietnam until present-day since WW1 tactics weren't viable anymore.
War changed.
Try again.
Not America.
Them shyts got tossed in Vietnam which is the basis for modern infantry tactics.
Russians tried to advance recently and it turned into complete massacre
The last time the US and the Russians scraped it was in 2018 Syria and the Russians got lit the fukk up with the only US wounded was from having thumb numbness from pressing the buttons too fast. The US has no peer.
The truth about the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria
Up to 300 Russian and Syrian fighters killed in the attack
Eric Schmitt,Ivan Nechepurenko,C. J. Chivers
Saturday 26 May 2018 22:43
Reaper drones and other aircraft were called in to support US fighters
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The artillery barrage was so intense that the US commandos dived into foxholes for protection, emerging covered in flying dirt and debris to fire back at a column of tanks advancing under the heavy shelling. It was the opening salvo in a nearly four-hour assault in February by around 500 pro-Syrian government forces – including Russian mercenaries – that threatened to inflame already simmering tensions between Washington and Moscow.
In the end, 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters were killed. The others retreated under merciless air strikes from the US, returning later to retrieve their battlefield dead. None of the Americans at the small outpost in eastern Syria – about 40 by the end of the firefight – were harmed.
The true story of the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria
Up to 300 Russian and Syrian fighters killed in the attack
Half an hour later, the Russian mercenaries and Syrian forces struck.
The Conoco outpost was hit with a mixture of tank fire, large artillery and mortar rounds, the documents show. The air was filled with dust and shrapnel. The US commandos took cover, then ran behind dirt berms to fire anti-tank missiles and machine guns at the advancing column of armoured vehicles.
For the first 15 minutes, US military officials called their Russian counterparts and urged them to stop the attack. When that failed, US troops fired warning shots at a group of vehicles and a howitzer.
Still the troops advanced.
US warplanes arrived in waves, including Reaper drones, F-22 stealth fighter jets, F-15E Strike Fighters, B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and AH-64 Apache helicopters. For the next three hours, US officials said, scores of strikes pummelled enemy troops, tanks and other vehicles. Marine rocket artillery was fired from the ground.
Imagine US soldiers storming a trench without the entire front line being glassed for days on end while supported by round the clock air strikes and artillery fire. Imagine infantry advancing without tank support.
Compare the US military to a bunch of barely trained convicts in a country where the life expectancy for males is 60 and the leading cause of death is alcohol poisoning.
It’s disgraceful that you lot are still celebrating this utter failure.
Wagner is Putin’s personal army. They operate in 3 continents. They are currently leading the assault on Bakhmut and have sustained 9,000 KIA in the war by their own admission.
because they didn’t want that smoke. And let hundreds of their own soldiers and Allie’s get burnt to a crisp.
500 to 0 casualties is an utter failure?
Wagner is Putin’s personal army. They operate in 3 continents. They are currently leading the assault on Bakhmut and have sustained 9,000 KIA in the war by their own admission.
The Russian Air Force threw up the
You’re the one talking about a peer to peer conflict would make the Us storm trenches like drug addicts getting mowed down by Ukrainian school teachers and firemen. IM TELLING YOU that the US would flatten every inch of Russian trench lines, knock out every artillery piece, every drone, every armored mass before a single soldier would be moved forward. The US would flood the AO with millions of artillery shells, fighter planes, drones, and missiles. The Iraqis tried to set up trenches during the Gulf War and this happened :
The Saddam Line consisted of defensive fortifications constructed by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Army on Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia after Iraq had invaded and occupied Kuwait in August 1990.
The Western media presented fears that it would present a formidable obstacle to the liberation of Kuwait, consisting of "flame trenches" (ditches filled with oil to be ignited in case of attack)[1][2] and "sand berms, trench works, tank ditches, barbed wire and minefields",[3] backed by the threat of chemical and biological weapons. The objective of Hussein was to force the coalition to engage in costly Trench warfare.[4] However, those fears turned out to be unwarranted. The coalition assault, beginning at 4 a.m. on February 24, 1991, met "only sporadic resistance", and by 6:45 a.m., troops had broken through the Saddam Line.[5] The US forces charged the Iraqi lines with M1 Abrams tanks modified with minesweeping plows and M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles which buried the trenchlines, and in many cases, buried Iraqi troops alive, the number of which has been estimated to be "in the thousands".[4]
Saddam Line - Wikipedia
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You’re over here talking about gotdamn low level anti-insurgency warfare. The US had 2,420 dead in 20 years. Afghanistan was safer than Chicago.
I’m talking about maneuver warfare on the open plains of Ukraine. No mountains to hide in. No cities to suicide bomb dressed as a civilian. Army vs army and Russia is getting its ass kicked by basically the Alabama of Europe (no offense to Alabama brehs).
The US would fukking curb stomp Russia. Without nukes Moscow WOULD be taken in 72 hours unlike Kyiv.
Educate yourself how a real army does an invasion and realize that was 30 years ago and it’s the same weapons we donating to Ukraine today.
You notice how Iraq had SAM missiles at the beginning and the US just flooded the airspace with hundreds of dummy drones?
Do you know the US has built 890 of these alone? Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II - Wikipedia
That’s a 5th generation combat fighter. The Russians have their own, they built 11.
The US military already got ChatGPT uploaded into its drone program, it might dime him out to its boss.Man's gonna come back with some ChatGPT generated babble to try and refute this
500 to 0 casualties is an utter failure?
Wagner is Putin’s personal army. They operate in 3 continents. They are currently leading the assault on Bakhmut and have sustained 9,000 KIA in the war by their own admission.
The Russian Air Force threw up the
You’re the one talking about a peer to peer conflict would make the Us storm trenches like drug addicts getting mowed down by Ukrainian school teachers and firemen. IM TELLING YOU that the US would flatten every inch of Russian trench lines, knock out every artillery piece, every drone, every armored mass before a single soldier would be moved forward. The US would flood the AO with millions of artillery shells, fighter planes, drones, and missiles. The Iraqis tried to set up trenches during the Gulf War and this happened :
The Saddam Line consisted of defensive fortifications constructed by Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Army on Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia after Iraq had invaded and occupied Kuwait in August 1990.
The Western media presented fears that it would present a formidable obstacle to the liberation of Kuwait, consisting of "flame trenches" (ditches filled with oil to be ignited in case of attack)[1][2] and "sand berms, trench works, tank ditches, barbed wire and minefields",[3] backed by the threat of chemical and biological weapons. The objective of Hussein was to force the coalition to engage in costly Trench warfare.[4] However, those fears turned out to be unwarranted. The coalition assault, beginning at 4 a.m. on February 24, 1991, met "only sporadic resistance", and by 6:45 a.m., troops had broken through the Saddam Line.[5] The US forces charged the Iraqi lines with M1 Abrams tanks modified with minesweeping plows and M728 Combat Engineer Vehicles which buried the trenchlines, and in many cases, buried Iraqi troops alive, the number of which has been estimated to be "in the thousands".[4]
Saddam Line - Wikipedia
You’re over here talking about gotdamn low level anti-insurgency warfare. The US had 2,420 dead in 20 years. Afghanistan was safer than Chicago.
I’m talking about maneuver warfare on the open plains of Ukraine. No mountains to hide in. No cities to suicide bomb dressed as a civilian. Army vs army and Russia is getting its ass kicked by basically the Alabama of Europe (no offense to Alabama brehs).
The US would fukking curb stomp Russia. Without nukes Moscow WOULD be taken in 72 hours unlike Kyiv.
Educate yourself how a real army does an invasion and realize that was 30 years ago and it’s the same weapons we donating to Ukraine today.
You notice how Iraq had SAM missiles at the beginning and the US just flooded the airspace with hundreds of dummy drones?
Do you know the US has built 890 of these alone? Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II - Wikipedia
That’s a 5th generation combat fighter. The Russians have their own, they built 11.
Let me engage you & poke holes in your exaggeration.
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