Posted October 27, 2015 1:49 pm by Comments

By Tactical-Life


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<div data-cycle-hash="ac-130-gunship" data-cycle-desc="AC-130 gunships like the one above provided critical air support for Operation Viking Hammer, allowing CIA commandos and Kurdish Peshmerga forces (guarding the short stretch of the border with Iran where skirmishes continued for months) to drive Ansar al-Islam out of northern Iraq." data-cycle-overlay-template="{{desc}}“>

<div data-cycle-hash="operation-viking-hammer" data-cycle-desc="Operation Viking Hammer teamed Green Berets and CIA commandos with some 7,000 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters to rout the forces of the militant Ansar al-Islam group." data-cycle-overlay-template="{{desc}}“>

<div data-cycle-hash="special-forces-sniper-rifle" data-cycle-desc="Sniper rifles, like the MK 12 above and the Barrett M82 used during Operation Viking Hammer, were vitally important to many special operations, allowing soldiers to sight and destroy enemy positions from great distance and with astonishing accuracy. " data-cycle-overlay-template="{{desc}}“>

<div data-cycle-hash="soldier-artillery" data-cycle-desc="The elimination of the machine gun emplacements on the route to Sargat enabled the Peshmerga forces like the soldier at right to bring their artillery into effective use." data-cycle-overlay-template="{{desc}}“>

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AC-130 gunships like the one above …Read the Rest

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