First off– UJ at B5 beat me to it, but I was planning a period of instruction on artillery munitions. It seems that every other photo from Operation Cast Lead is of long tendrils of white smoke and fire emanating from airbursts. Those, dear readers, are the the M825 155mm felt-wedge projectiles. (Photo lifted from B5, source unknown.)
Second– Meet the Harriet Miers of the incoming administration. UJ and MMM weigh in. What, there was no one more qualified for this critical post?? In the middle of an intel-intensive long war??
Third– Gun owners, gird your loins. Get ready to write all of your elected representatives, stand by to raise hell. In the mean time, repeat after me…ammo, ammo, ammo, magazines, magazines, magazines, guns, guns, guns…
Fourth– Condolences to the Bush family on the death of their cat, India. :-( I am a confirmed cat person, so this strikes me hard. Poor kitty.
“GRAVITAS” AND “PROTECTING EQUITIES”????? Are you serious…. Since when does “gravitas” take the place of “experience with intel operations in times of national conflict” (my words). MajW(ret) WashDC
granted I’m just a dumb zoomie, but isn’t that willy pete?
We had to put our cat of nearly 14 years down back in November (I use the term executed, but that is just me)…
I don’t know if it’s the original source but I think I saw that same photo at foxnews.com – it’s probably from the AP or Reuters or something.
John, I think it was some sort of cluster munition. I watched the vid a few times on TV. Those glowing balls hit the ground then you saw mutliple detonations.
Pretty impressive.
LtCol P has it right – it’s the new (1990s-new) version of willie pete. What I’m not getting is the depth of the pic – the bursts seem too high. If so, the Israelis are pissing away their smoke. If they’re combining it with scatterable mines, improved conventional munitions, and/or high explosives, I’d say break out the popcorn…
If the source of the pic is AP, best have it checked for fauxtography.
Yeah, I came across something that declared it was WP… but it was used for smokescreening (which was the originally-intended combat use for it) and not for AP purposes.
Of course, if it fries bad guys at the same time… oh well.
Problem is using WP in an area with a high concentration of COB’s. Not smart, in my opinion.
But, the Israelis have never been much concerned with colateral damage.