#Ukraine: An interesting buggy with a mounted Browning M2 .50 heavy machine gun, belonging to the Ukrainian forces, was destroyed near Marinka, Donetsk Oblast. The buggy was also transporting an AGS-17 automatic grenade launcher and a Barrett M107A1 .50 sniper rifle. pic.twitter.com/txaCNIVyaw
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 20, 2022
Um.
Also: Hmmm.
Yesterday.
Name that Irish Army jammer, anyone?
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Barrett .50 cal is some piece of kit…preferred weapon of choice for most SOFs snipers.
I got to fire it in Somalia while serving with the Defence Forces as part of UNOSOM….target was 1km away…pinpoint accuracy.
Snipers are the spawn of the devil.
If you heard the shot he wasn’t aiming for ya…. ; )
…if you heard it in South Armagh she wasn’t aiming at you…
Any sign of the driver?
That is very odd. A buggy of some sort with roll bars, one of which has an Ireland sticker on it. Then, kitted out with the kind of weapons you’d invariably find in the hands of a SOF unit, rather than any regular troops. I hope they haven’t been sending members of the Wing over there on any illicit missions. I know some former members are over there as private contractors extracting people but this much more like an offensive op. Very odd to have that Ireland sticker there.
Not a chance current ARW operators are over there…they wouldn’t be advertising the fact for a start unlike the ERU with Coveney last week.
A simple explanation would be Ukranians settled in Ireland who went back to fight or ex Defence Forces with similar intentions.
The sticker could be bought anywhere.
I bloody hope so. It’d be a bad move. Highly unlikely as well they’d be putting the Ireland stickers on their kit too. The weapons and vehicle seem a bit too high spec to be regular forces. As you point out, its snipers and ordinary riflemen who get their hands on a Barrett. The set up as a sort of technical has the hallmarks of a Special Ops unit, rather than regular forces. Its just pretty odd. Funnily enough, the ERU have a few former Wing members now. Better pay and more regular action seems to draw them over. Still should have been the Wing accompanying Coveney.
Correction “The weapons and vehicle seem a bit too high spec to be regular forces though. As you point out, its snipers and not ordinary riflemen who get their hands on a Barrett.”
This is as close ireland has to a WMD
We are neutral now supplying weapons of war
I suppose it now gives the Russians the green light to target the dail in retaliation
It’s a Coveney clown car!!!
Yond sticker must be made out of the kryptonite given almost everything else in the veh is torched to bits.
Perfect nick M107 (light .50) pulled from the wreckage?
Something fishy about the whole thing.
different materials respond differently to heat and open flame which might go some way to answer that but we’d need a metallurgist or someone with a background in forensics here to give us something resembling the whole truth. The vehicle might have exploded too which would account for the little amount of burn damage outside of the middle of the vehicle but you’d expect a bit more debris. Who knows.
If the gun operated as normal after all that abuse though, I’d be shifty about that, certainly.
The paintwork is unaffected around it it’s still smooth black but I would say maybe a few heads from darndale might of been operating it
Hence the car sticker
Nothing you don’t see in Ballybough.