>Desert Storm equipment is literally light years ahead of Vietnam era equipment. >M16s and M60s still standard infantry gear with 'nam era LBEs still being worn, literally in the pic above yours >F-4s, M60 Sheridans, AH-1 and UH-1s still in service, all only slightly more improved over the units used in 'nam
Yeah there were new and new-er equipment and vehicles, but the previous poster is still correct. New designs emerge, but old stuff doesn't simply get thrown out. Hell, most equipment used in today's US Military is almost 40 years old, at least in design.
>watching saturday morning cartoons >frick yeah ninja turtles is on next! >WE ARE COMING TO YOU WITH BREAKING NEWS THIS HOUR >what the shit I want to watch ninja turtles go away dan rather >NEW VIDEO FROM IRAQ BEING RELEASED SHOWING US A10 AIRCRAFT STRAFING RETREATING IRAQI MILITARY COLUMNS >yeah forget ninja turtles this is my new thing
>This is what Russia desperately wanted to achieve.
Without putting any of the actual fricking effort into it. Compare the mere preliminary preparations for Desert Storm and the preparations for the Invasion of Ukraine in their totality and the differences couldn't be more stark.
Back when the US could roll up to any country in the world and bomb the shit out of them because we pretty much controlled the Earth. Times were based.
Desert Storm is the hot blockbuster movie everyone loved and still re-watches.
Iraqi Freedom is the TV show that starts out really strong for a couple of seasons but the network refuses to cancel it so it drags on and on running the same plotlines over and over until everyone forgets about it. Oh, another suicide bombing, how original.
Inherent Resolve is their final attempt at a revival but by this time everyone is so done that it doesn't matter if it's good. If you bring it up at the watercooler no one knows what it is and when you explain it they are just confused and disinterested. Somehow still gets a few seasons.
How's everyone enjoying the big spin off to 2014's Crimea mini series? They've been leaning on HIMARS a little hard but the North Korea twist is exciting. Seriously though, stop teasing ballistic missiles and F-15/16's unless your going to deliver.
>Iraqi Freedom is the TV show that starts out really strong for a couple of seasons but the network refuses to cancel it so it drags on and on running the same plotlines over and over until everyone forgets about it. Oh, another suicide bombing, how original.
when kdramas started breaking into OIF, that's when you know the genre has been so played out like grey's anatomy that people are comfortable with OIF as a background setting.
>How's everyone enjoying the big spin off to 2014's Crimea mini series?
bretty gud, it's surprisingly good with a strong af pilot episode. it kinda borrows too much from HBO chernobyl, might have same writers and producers i think. got some nice plot twists (for me at least, i'm not very smart i just sit back and let the plot play out instead of predicting it), however i can tell it's losing steam. might pull a squid game, mass media sensation for a couple of months then forgotten when NYE rolls around. might get completely overshadowed by a chinese series in SCS, it's in production but could end up vaporware. i have my hopes up, there's some consistent /k/ino coming from asia and i find myself watching morr asian than western stuff now, especially since i dont want pride diversiry stuff forced down my throat when i'm just relaxing on couch with a cold one after a day of work.
messed up, i meant series in taiwan strait. i think my mind is still stuck in 2016 with that artificial island set they've been building. i think it's great they made an attempt to avoid CGI green screen but nothing really came out of that.
anyway i've been hearing >muh taiwan/SCS series for the last 30 years and my coworkers have been hearing it for close on 50. it's too big of an undertaking. china has some choice /k/ino but it's mostly on land, they don't have a good history of ocean series. i dont even know if they have a deadliest catch equivalent. if you ask me, they make some pretty good spy thrillers, and the HK police/triad series are also worth a mention.
Iraqi freedom 2003-2004, basically up to Fallujah. In terms of aesthetics aside of uniform you can up it to 2007-2008ish when you had more mraps rolling in. However that's the 'war' period and post 2004 is more of the peak insurgency/policing action period.
I personally like that late 90s early 2000s look with stuff being a bit ersatz, personalized, still a divide between spec-ops and regulars, no UCP.
Inherent resolve before activation/when ISIS was poised to take Baghdad was real fricking thriller.
It's kinda nuts how much Afghanistan falls by the wayside, since I recall shows invoking the iraq war but nobody really using or remembering Afghanistan existed. Maybe it's the bite of ISIS in fallujah and shit already but I even felt like for Veterans Iraq-ISIS was "oh god the pain" while Taliban-Afghanistan was "yep lmao".
Which is odd given Afghanistan nominally had more of an emotional pull to us than Iraq.
>Which is odd given Afghanistan nominally had more of an emotional pull to us than Iraq.
The public associated the iraq war with 9/11, afghanistan was just killing goat herders in caves for no reason
>Flexing your Military muscle half a planet away while your main adversary is busy collapsing economically and politically after 10 years of being bogged down just outside their border
The day John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, and thus I *KNEW* that the Cheney administration was kill and we were moving on to the next phase with actual adults in charge.
The sandBlack person wars era was easily the worst. I'm glad that this show is over. Shit jumped the shark in 2004.
the only cool sand war was the North Africa campaign
agreed
True but Desert Storm still was kino
That Blackwater era of sandbox shit also has a esoteric aesthetic to it
nothing like dumb hick trash burned alive and hung from bridges, honestly just too bad they didn't get more of those fricking morons
And you wonder why we hate you disgusting u*ban parasites.
Iraqi freedom because I was in school and had chinooks fly overhead. Shit was cash.
Desert Storm gear is basically desert flavored Nam gear
Desert Storm, everything since then has been shit.
>Desert Storm gear is basically desert flavored Nam gear
Black person, Desert Storm equipment is literally light years ahead of Vietnam era equipment.
Hi Anne sweetheart
>Desert Storm equipment is literally light years ahead of Vietnam era equipment.
>M16s and M60s still standard infantry gear with 'nam era LBEs still being worn, literally in the pic above yours
>F-4s, M60 Sheridans, AH-1 and UH-1s still in service, all only slightly more improved over the units used in 'nam
Yeah there were new and new-er equipment and vehicles, but the previous poster is still correct. New designs emerge, but old stuff doesn't simply get thrown out. Hell, most equipment used in today's US Military is almost 40 years old, at least in design.
First one without a doubt. Mass armored warfare is always the best.
This. '91 was also the biggest flex since Germany 1939 and it has yet to be surpassed. We literally got to watch it live like it was the superbowl.
>We literally got to watch it live like it was the superbowl
God it really was kino
>watching saturday morning cartoons
>frick yeah ninja turtles is on next!
>WE ARE COMING TO YOU WITH BREAKING NEWS THIS HOUR
>what the shit I want to watch ninja turtles go away dan rather
>NEW VIDEO FROM IRAQ BEING RELEASED SHOWING US A10 AIRCRAFT STRAFING RETREATING IRAQI MILITARY COLUMNS
>yeah forget ninja turtles this is my new thing
and that was how I became a war nerd
Desert bdus with the black will always look good
So goddamn kino. Those were halcyon days.
desert storm because it made the russians and chinese shit themselves
Those GWOT contractor bucks.
Desert Storm was kino of the highest order and i regret not serving during it
I could have some sweet DNC gear
Now thats a lot of damage!
This is what Russia desperately wanted to achieve.
Factually untrue. They tried to recreate the operation Danube.
>This is what Russia desperately wanted to achieve.
Without putting any of the actual fricking effort into it. Compare the mere preliminary preparations for Desert Storm and the preparations for the Invasion of Ukraine in their totality and the differences couldn't be more stark.
frick this is beyond kino
was there a press conference like this in 2003?
>was there a press conference like this in 2003?
>2003
>Tommy Franks
No.
>"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him"
There was, but not as kino.
Schwarzkopf was based
Eh
soundtrack to this video
no
this is
you're both wrong
All you morons are fricking wrong. Its Panama. Modern music sounds like hell
>Black person noises
Zoomer Black person noises
>gotye
>Black person
???
There is distinct urban jungle noise laid over, and you know it.
Born too late to invade Iraq, born just in time to die in some Ukrainian field probably.
Back when the US could roll up to any country in the world and bomb the shit out of them because we pretty much controlled the Earth. Times were based.
It’s so fast and there’s so much I can’t even tell what’s happening
Desert Storm is the hot blockbuster movie everyone loved and still re-watches.
Iraqi Freedom is the TV show that starts out really strong for a couple of seasons but the network refuses to cancel it so it drags on and on running the same plotlines over and over until everyone forgets about it. Oh, another suicide bombing, how original.
Inherent Resolve is their final attempt at a revival but by this time everyone is so done that it doesn't matter if it's good. If you bring it up at the watercooler no one knows what it is and when you explain it they are just confused and disinterested. Somehow still gets a few seasons.
How's everyone enjoying the big spin off to 2014's Crimea mini series? They've been leaning on HIMARS a little hard but the North Korea twist is exciting. Seriously though, stop teasing ballistic missiles and F-15/16's unless your going to deliver.
>Iraqi Freedom is the TV show that starts out really strong for a couple of seasons but the network refuses to cancel it so it drags on and on running the same plotlines over and over until everyone forgets about it. Oh, another suicide bombing, how original.
when kdramas started breaking into OIF, that's when you know the genre has been so played out like grey's anatomy that people are comfortable with OIF as a background setting.
>How's everyone enjoying the big spin off to 2014's Crimea mini series?
bretty gud, it's surprisingly good with a strong af pilot episode. it kinda borrows too much from HBO chernobyl, might have same writers and producers i think. got some nice plot twists (for me at least, i'm not very smart i just sit back and let the plot play out instead of predicting it), however i can tell it's losing steam. might pull a squid game, mass media sensation for a couple of months then forgotten when NYE rolls around. might get completely overshadowed by a chinese series in SCS, it's in production but could end up vaporware. i have my hopes up, there's some consistent /k/ino coming from asia and i find myself watching morr asian than western stuff now, especially since i dont want pride diversiry stuff forced down my throat when i'm just relaxing on couch with a cold one after a day of work.
SCS will happen but I think they are using ukraine as a prequel. So early in production advertising hasn't even started yet.
>SCS will happen
messed up, i meant series in taiwan strait. i think my mind is still stuck in 2016 with that artificial island set they've been building. i think it's great they made an attempt to avoid CGI green screen but nothing really came out of that.
anyway i've been hearing >muh taiwan/SCS series for the last 30 years and my coworkers have been hearing it for close on 50. it's too big of an undertaking. china has some choice /k/ino but it's mostly on land, they don't have a good history of ocean series. i dont even know if they have a deadliest catch equivalent. if you ask me, they make some pretty good spy thrillers, and the HK police/triad series are also worth a mention.
Iraqi freedom 2003-2004, basically up to Fallujah. In terms of aesthetics aside of uniform you can up it to 2007-2008ish when you had more mraps rolling in. However that's the 'war' period and post 2004 is more of the peak insurgency/policing action period.
I personally like that late 90s early 2000s look with stuff being a bit ersatz, personalized, still a divide between spec-ops and regulars, no UCP.
Inherent resolve before activation/when ISIS was poised to take Baghdad was real fricking thriller.
It's kinda nuts how much Afghanistan falls by the wayside, since I recall shows invoking the iraq war but nobody really using or remembering Afghanistan existed. Maybe it's the bite of ISIS in fallujah and shit already but I even felt like for Veterans Iraq-ISIS was "oh god the pain" while Taliban-Afghanistan was "yep lmao".
Which is odd given Afghanistan nominally had more of an emotional pull to us than Iraq.
>Which is odd given Afghanistan nominally had more of an emotional pull to us than Iraq.
The public associated the iraq war with 9/11, afghanistan was just killing goat herders in caves for no reason
>nobody really using or remembering Afghanistan existed
never forget
>g4
now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time..
i honestly liked that single day of kuwait by itself vs iraq. desperation kino
>desperation kino
Desperation kino is a real deal.
Inherent Resolve had the best title but the writing was pretty boring by that point. None of the characters’ motivations were believable
The WWI Mesopotamian campaign was pretty fun
the third one
>Flexing your Military muscle half a planet away while your main adversary is busy collapsing economically and politically after 10 years of being bogged down just outside their border
>there will never be kino like this ever again
what do you mean ukraine is using similar shit right now
>ukraine
Lmao
Minus the mass coordinated assault
I used this shit on my last deployment in 2020 in Mali. There is plenty of kino, you just don't get to see it or know where to look.
I loved the part where my friends died so israelites could get rich. I wish I was on here before 2004.
Too bad you didn’t died with them, would have increased the board quality
Kek. Harsh, bro.
I was pretty fun at the time, though.
It always is
I was in Desert Storm and was 10/10 would repeat
Don’t care about muh joos it was a great time
You simply cannot beat the 80'sre-enactment of WWI with sarin, electric swamp and shit.
Yuo guys are all newbies. I've been posting here since Desert Storm. I remember Schwarzkopf General, god we had fun.
The ISIS era was easily the most kino. Such LARPing on a massive scale had not been seen since Nazi Germany.
For me it was the iran-iraq war.
Iran-Iraq War.
Is America forever trapped in middle east wars because of oil?
the Prequel is more Kino, so who are the tinnies and who are the brothers?
The day John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate, and thus I *KNEW* that the Cheney administration was kill and we were moving on to the next phase with actual adults in charge.