Footage of SA-8 Gecko SAM vehicles, & other AFV's destroyed by the Armée de l’Air
BBC footage of the wreckage left after a French air strike on regime vehicles on the Adjabiya to Benghazi road.
Amphibious SA-8 Gecko SAM systems were destroyed together with MBT's, and 152mm self propelled guns.
Quite why the tyrant needs amphibious SAM vehicles in a desert is anyone's guess.
The SA-8 can guide two missiles on different frequencies to complicate ECM. There is also a tubular device fitted to and above the tracking radar, this is thought to be an EO/LLLTV optical tracker. This would be used to track the target when the main tracking radar is jammed by ECM.
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Added: Mar-21-2011
By: Mr-Creosote
In: Middle East
Tags: Libya, Tyranny, Repression, Freedom,
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By: Mr-Creosote
In: Middle East
Tags: Libya, Tyranny, Repression, Freedom,
Marked as: approved
Views: 11546 | Comments: 17 | Votes: 1 | Favorites: 0 | Shared: 0 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 1
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On the modern battlefield tanks are little more than iron coffins.
Posted Mar-22-2011 Byfr33thinker (901.10) fr33thinker View Channel Send Message
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If they don't have Anti-Air support or if they can't use it then your correct. On the other hand Serbs survived very well despite the hype.
Posted Mar-22-2011 BySjumppanen (241.14) Sjumppanen View Channel Send Message
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Russia Anti-Air Fail
Posted Mar-21-2011 ByNetIdiot (1479.86) 
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40 years old system fail
Posted Mar-22-2011 ByRobusto (191.62) 
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I heard on the BBC tonight the self-propelled guns and the vehicles on this road were destroyed by US Jets.
Posted Mar-21-2011 Byanglosaxonwarlord (13765.64) 
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We are damn sure good at breaking peoples shit that's for sure... but I heard it was the french planes that killed the tanks on the evening news, tonight.
Posted Mar-21-2011 Byezrider1967 (379.70) ezrider1967 View Channel Send Message
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Nope, same BBC, no US jets
Posted Mar-22-2011 ByWoopy (36.76) Woopy View Channel Send Message
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I don't know what kind of an idiot sent this unit on an open road (advance or withdrawal, regardless). This Gadaffi's fighters should have known they are dead meat in the open against modern air power.
Or this was some kind of a bait, but I sincerely doubt that...
Posted Mar-22-2011 Bywrano (2577.08) 
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They wont get caught in the open again this has played in to gadaffies hands as his men know there dead outside of any town ,they will fight even harder not to be dislodged from any built up area ,lets see how the rebels fight in built up areas.
Posted Mar-22-2011 Byanglosaxonwarlord (13765.64) 
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Another question is if they need to fight there? They might just as well go directly to Tripoli and leave military behind.
Posted Mar-22-2011 BySjumppanen (241.14) Sjumppanen View Channel Send Message
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Eh ... I kinda agree with that, i.e. makes much sense.
The rationale of painful lesson - people always tend to learn the hard way ...
Posted Mar-22-2011 Bywrano (2577.08) 
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good point!
Posted Mar-22-2011 Byasylumta2 (813.38) 
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I'm surprised, i was waiting for some bash against French air force!?
Posted Mar-22-2011 Bymtkobal (13.10) mtkobal View Channel Send Message
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@mtkobal
Yeah, where are all the French-bashing clowns?
Posted Jun-9-2013 ByDeckard68 (52.78) 
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People around those wrecks will get cancer and kidney damage from depleted uranium. Radioactivity is not your friend.
Posted Mar-22-2011 Byglobetrotter79 (1136.42) globetrotter79 View Channel Send Message
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I wish I could drive through the desert in a topless LandCruiser with a heavy MG mounted on the back. Fuckin' Goverment ruining my pig hunting. ;(
Posted Mar-23-2011 BysemtexAU (142.26) 
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Great,,,here we go again.....
Posted Mar-22-2011 Byrbvr1 (378.04) 
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