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Old 1st Nov 2012, 13:08
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Melchett01
 
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Reminds me of a rather unfortunate Taliban chappy who was removed from his bicycle by a Hellfire missile when I was at RC(S) in 2008.
I was working in Baghdad in 03 with the US Army and remember watching a Pred feed of an airstrike on a BM-21. The crew heard the jet circling, abandoned their vehicle and started to run across the road. The rocket pack on the back had already been rotated and was pointing across the road ... can you see what's coming next?

Bomb impacts, rockets fire and one poor chap running across the road took the full impact of a 122mm HE rocket hitting him in the back. Ouch. If he had been facing the other way, that would have brought a whole new meaning to the concept of being chest poked!
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