S'More War Pictures (Updated)

[AMDfreak]

Awesome pics man!! Keep your head down and the pics coming!

 

[GTaudiophile]

Keep 'em coming!

For those who haven't seen this, MSNBC.com has a good daily photo journal.

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: blade
Awesome pics! Thank you for sharing.

 

[charrison]

enjoy

 

[Robor]

Thanks so much for sharing those awesome pics! Best I've seen period!

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: charrison
enjoy

BWUAHAHHAHAHA

 

[Alistar7]

Yahoo has a slidehow of images, almost 300 strong and some good ones.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Judgement
That picture of the sniper is fooking awesome.

YEAH!! What a camper!

 

[adlep]

Me/likes
the f-16 one is nice!

 

[Acanthus]

nice pix

 

[styrafoam]

Best post ever, thanks a ton!

 

[azncoffeeboi]

dude you got some nice pics here man. Thanks~!

=)

 

[Judgement]

The pictures are from msnbc.com, I was at the site and came accross them.

Link

 

[ianbergman]

these ain't msnbc.com pics... these are the full-res originals. they've got to be coming from a newsroom with full access to the wire feeds from Iraq. They're awesome, but reuters/AP/media companies would flip.

 

[azncoffeeboi]

bump for some awesome pics

 

[etech]

gone fishing

There's just something about that picture that I like.

 

[tboo]

I see the snipers in the pictures use bolt action rifles. Is there some benefit for snipers to use bolt action sniper rifles vs using semi auto sniper rifles?

 

[razor2025]

Originally posted by: tboo
I see the snipers in the pictures use bolt action rifles. Is there some benefit for snipers to use bolt action sniper rifles vs using semi auto sniper rifles?

The advantage of bolt-action rifles are that they're much more accurate in firing the rounds over very long distance. I'm not a gun nut, but I suspect that the firing/loading mechanism in semi/auto rifles doesn't permit pinpoint accuracy in range 400+ yards. Also, Sniper's motto is "One shot, one kill", they don't really need the power of semi/auto rifles. They rely on stealth and acurracy over sheer firepower. (Not to mention the recoil in firing semi/auto rifle would ruin any long-range aim)

P.S. From what I've read and seen in History Channel, Sniping is UBER harder than what's portrayed in games. Snipers need to calculate windspeed / direction, ballistic of the bullet, and the range of the target. They also have to wait for DAYS! for their target to come into their scope.... I would probably give up in 10 min.