The difference is that when a suicide bomber goes off, usually he has some success in taking others with him.
If the Taliban had many options re taking out AH do you not think they would have tried them in the past?
Heavy machine guns - yes they have some, and yes they might be successful, but they are almost certainly lost in the engagement. We have more AH than they have HMG.
Old SAMs - probably ineffective.
Double digit SAMs - they may have some. They may even have someone capable of using them effectively. Managing to combine the two at the right moment? Unlikely.
Realistically, they are playing into our hands if they try anything other than asymetric.
Last edited by Tourist; 16th Sep 2012 at 17:09.