Comments on: Night Vision Blowback?

By: Saigon Kid

Saigon Kid — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:06:05 +0000

Everyone Knows that the M-4 can’t even compare with the AK-47 assault rifle ‚so why is the u.s going to equip the Afghan’s with it.That’s stupid.

By: Major Dave

Major Dave — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:07:16 +0000

Give the Afghani’s the NODs. If Al Qaeda wants NODs, they can either order them from a variety of places themselves, over the counter, or get them from Syria, North Korea, Iran, or a host of other sympathizers. When 3ID over ran Iraq, they found a warehouse full of 2nd and 3rd generation German NODs, all sold post embargo. That genie left teh bottle a while ago.

By: Maynard

Maynard — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:05:51 +0000

As many Gulf veterans, or first-timers, already know, the AK-47, is far more reliable that an M-16A2, or an M-4. The amount of sand, dust, and debris, that can collect on the bolt; dust cover or not, can be detrimental to the effective operation of the weapon. If I had to choose between the two, I’d use an AK-47, hands down.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 22:10:12 +0000

People should stop with this crap about stingers. 25 year-old unmaintained stingers are not exactly a major problem. For one, the BCUs that run them have a fairly short shelf life. As they are a combination of an Argon cooling system and a thermal battery it’s not at all trivial to make a new one. The internal batteries in the missile have similar, issues, except that this requires taking the sealed missile out of the tube, disassembling it, replacing the battery, reassembling the missile and reinstalling it in the tube. Not at all easy to do without blowing yourself up, or screwing up the missile outside of the depot clean room. And old solid-rocket motors tend to get cracks in them, which makes the missile blow up on launch.

By: gcaguy

gcaguy — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:57 +0000

Giving any generation type night vision equipment would certainly be a nightmare for friendly forces assisting the Afghan’s or Iraqi’s soldiers. Keep the “Genie” in the bottle if we don’t want more body bags coming home.

By: Ding

Ding — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:41:40 +0000

I’m no experienced soldier and I never claimed to be, the stinger missiles is a good point, Soviet made SA-7 missiles were very inaccurate. Look through a gen 2 pair of nods and you will not be able to see very well.
Take a simple game of Airsoft, night game, one side has Nods, other side doesn’t, no nods loses everytime. Throw in nods on both sides and it becomes a knock down drag out. The muslims have turned on the US and they will do it again.
Don’t ever give the enemy the power to destroy you because he will use it!
P.S. Look how fast the F-14s we sent to Iran lasted now they are broken down hulks!!!

By: Sven Ortmann

Sven Ortmann — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:35:42 +0000

“I BELEIVE THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THESE TWO COUNTRIES.“
Capslock
Well, accountability…as far as I know the chance that the stuff gets lost before it arrives in Iraq isn’t bad. The US forces lost quite a lot of weapons that it should have cared for. Accountability isn’t exactly a strength of the US Army either.
What did the GAO write one or two years ago? Huge parts of the DoD budget cannot be surveilled by the GAO because DoD lacks accountability.
Commentators went on to explain that DoD was actually worse than Enron in keeping its books.

By: ShatteredShield

ShatteredShield — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:04:32 +0000

Seems like everytime certin three letter agencies get involved teaching trade craft IED maufacturing and we provide updated weapons systems to another country, they always in the end are put to use agianst our military siliders,. I relize this is great for DoD defence suppliers who are/have gotten richer since this conflit was created. But in the end it’s the ground pounders that get sent home in body bag “also supplied by defence supplier” buy issuing up to date tecnology to theses two fased alleged allies.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:33:55 +0000

Saddam Hussein’s army already had russian-made night vision equipment. Pentagon order of second gen equipment is for sure related of what you already find on the market.

By: IRAQI VET

IRAQI VET — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:02:15 +0000

I BELEIVE THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH SAFETY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THESE TWO COUNTRIES. WE DON’T EVEN SUPPLY COUNTRIES THAT HAVE BEEN OUR ALLIES FOR DECADES. MAYBE GIVE THEM OUR M-4S AND M-16S, ITS NOT THAT HARD FOR TERRORISTS AND INSURGENTS TO GET THEIR HANDS ON THEM.