| Tango01 | 03 Oct 2015 10:21 p.m. PST |
…Battle For Kunduz. "* Commandos from the Special Boat Squadron are operating in Kunduz
* It is the largest action by British troops in Afghanistan for twelve months
* The battle to remove the Taliban from Kunduz was still ongoing last night
* During the fighting, US aircraft are believed to have bombed a hospital British Special Forces have been involved in a series of close-quarter battles against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, killing up to 200 insurgents. The Mail on Sunday has received eyewitness accounts of commandos from the Special Boat Service (SBS) directing the assault on Taliban positions in the city of Kunduz and at a nearby air base. The fighting was continuing last night…"
Full article here
link If they are calling in air strikes …. I can then understand this number. But if this is only a "close quarters battle"…. 200 enemy killed, and no British casualties …. even I know they are really good… pardon me but I am a little sceptical. Amicalement
Armand |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 Oct 2015 10:25 p.m. PST |
Even if it's a slight exaggeration, will people here get all bent out of shape if I were to give them an "attaboy"? Dan |
| Mako11 | 03 Oct 2015 10:44 p.m. PST |
Those SBS guys are tough, and efficient. Wish I could buy them all a round of beers. Hopefully, some of you on the other side of the pond will be able to do that personally. |
| cwlinsj | 03 Oct 2015 10:57 p.m. PST |
Rather than "a little" skeptical, I am greatly skeptical at a 200:0 CQB kill ratio. …oh wait, it's a Daily Mail report… …oh wait, it says that the SBS was "directing the assault on Taliban positions…" So in all likelihood, actual KIA numbers would be more like:
200 -Taliban;
200 -Afghan regulars; and
0 -SBS |
| Mako11 | 03 Oct 2015 11:01 p.m. PST |
Well, it did say there were aircraft, and others involved too, so I'm sure they're not the only ones involved. Despite official denials to the contrary, I've read US forces are involved in combat there too. |
| Bangorstu | 04 Oct 2015 2:03 a.m. PST |
Dodgy source, and the 200 figure tallies with what the Afghan government were stating as the Taliban deaths from the initial counter-attack. Still, 200 dead Talibs is a good result, no matter who did the killing – so long as the poor sods in the ANA didn't get too battered. |
Col Durnford  | 04 Oct 2015 4:59 a.m. PST |
It did say a series of actions. Kill a few here and a few there and the numbers will add up over time. In any event, good job. |
| Col Durnford | 04 Oct 2015 5:01 a.m. PST |
You do have to love the throw away line that US forces bombed a hospital. We couldn't get away with that a few years ago. |
| Red3584 | 04 Oct 2015 6:13 a.m. PST |
…and hopefully won't 'get away with that' today either. |
| cwlinsj | 04 Oct 2015 8:59 a.m. PST |
US never "got away" with it when it bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade back in 1999. China hasn't forgotten it. |
| Mako11 | 04 Oct 2015 10:29 a.m. PST |
Nor have we about the spy plane flying in international airspace that they knocked out of the sky, by having their pilot conduct a "Soviet-style", Taran attack on it. My guess is they were very lucky none of the Americans were injured, or killed in that incident. |
| Bangorstu | 04 Oct 2015 2:16 p.m. PST |
And had they been you'd have done what exactly? Gone to war with China? Sky planes are a grey area… Remember KAL007? Everyone occasionally gets annoyed about being spied on. |
| cwlinsj | 04 Oct 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
Spy planes are quite different than embassies. When you join the military and volunteer to fly missions stealing data from foriegn countries, you expect there may be risk, so if some yahoo pilot crashes his jet into you because he wasn't as good as he thought he was, thems the breaks. When you work in an embassy which every country knows the coordinates to, yet the USA errantly manages to drop not one, but four JDAMs on… |
| Tango01 | 04 Oct 2015 11:16 p.m. PST |
Taliban claims to recapture Afghan city of Kunduz "Armed group says it is in control of strategic city after it was briefly taken by government forces backed by US. The Taliban has reportedly regained control of the northern city of Kunduz, after days of intense fighting against Afghan troops backed by US air strikes, Al Jazeera has learnt. Earlier on Sunday, government forces, which have been trying to take control of the city, said they had made gains, but those appear to have been shortlived. Al Jazeera's Qais Azimy, reporting from Puli Khumri just south of Kunduz, said that at around 1200 GMT, Taliban fighters launched counter-attacks, driving back government forces from the areas, where they had earlier made gains…"
Full article here
link Amicalement
Armand |
wants to know if you can tell the difference between weaker and stronger magnets with 3mm aircraft.
