Цитата: sergant от 01.03.2010 12:11:55
Банда убийц , прославившаяся главным образом кровавыми терактами - это армия? Убийства из-за угла - это типа "реально повоевали"?
В 70-е годы ИРА получало то оружие , которое могли закупить его агенты на деньги , собраные в ирландских общинах США - любое оружие , которое было доступно. И использовалось это оружие для убийств , а не для войны.
Тов. Сержант, отставить пропаганду про "банду убийц" (мне, как и всем присутствующим, глубоко пох-й проблемы британской короны в Ольстере, и то, что, кого и как убивали парни из ИРА - у нас они террористами НЕ СЧИТАЮТСЯ, как и Хизболлах, по поводу последних - пусть жиды плачут, а для нас они милые парни, частная армия). Надеюсь, Вам тоже пох-й, т.к. нас, русских шерифов, проблемы британских индейцев не должны волновать. Точнее, наоборот - чем у них больше их будет, тем и лучше. Скоро у них чурбаны, которых они напустили к себе из всяких Пакистанов, которым помогали бабло на Чечню собирать и наемников вербовать, устроят газават за право превратить БигБен в минарет. Вот тогда отольются англам слезки матерей из Беслана (я про нормальных матерей, а не про антиправительственную крышу западных разведок). Бог не фраер, он карты видит и прикуп знает(с)один из преподов в бурсе.
Теперь за оружие.
ИРАшники сначала и вправду воевали с оружием "типа номер 8 - которое с3.14**или, то и носим". Но с середины 70х к вопросу подошли конкретнее. И уже ВЫБИРАЛИ ТО, что ПОДХОДИЛО ПОД НУЖДЫ.
Итак, читаем Вику (не источник, но можно и источник найти)
To continue and escalate their armed campaign, the IRA needed to be better equipped, which meant securing modern small arms. In previous campaigns weapons had been secured before hostilities commenced via raids on British Army and even Irish Army weapons depots. In the 1969–1971 period this was no longer feasible.[6] By 1972, the IRA had large quantities of modern small arms, particularly Armalite rifles, manufactured and purchased in the United States. The AR-18 rifle in particular was found to be very well suited to the Provisionals' purposes as its small size and folding stock meant that it was easy to conceal. Moreover, it was capable of rapid fire and fired a high velocity round which provided great "stopping power".[7]
The IRA's main gun runner in the USA was George Harrison, an IRA veteran, resident in New York since 1938. Harrison bought guns for the IRA from a Corsican arms dealer named George de Meo, who had connections in organised crime. All sources agree that Harrison was funded by the "Irish Northern Aid Committee" or NORAID,[citation needed] a fundraising and support group for the IRA. Joe Cahill acted as the contact between NORAID and Harrison. In 1971, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had already seized 700 modern weapons from the IRA, including 2 tonnes of high explosive and 157,000 rounds of ammunition, most of which were US made.[8]
Harrison spent an estimated US$1 million in the 1970s purchasing over 2,500 guns for the IRA.[9] According to Brendan Hughes, an IRA member who later became Officer Commanding of the IRA inside Long Kesh prison, the IRA smuggled small arms from America by sea on the QE2 from New York via Southampton.[7] These QE2 shipments included AR-18 and AR-15 Armalite assault rifles, accompanied by Browning and Smith & Wesson pistols and were driven from Southampton to Belfast in small consignments.
In the late 1970s, another IRA member, Gabriel Megahey, was sent to America to acquire more arms and he was able to procure more AR-15 Armalites, plus a number of Heckler and Koch rifles and other weapons. Again, the purchase of these weapons was funded by Irish American republicans.[10] A batch of M60 machine guns was imported in 1977.[11]
Т.е. они сознательно выбирали то, что им было НУЖНО. Ну, конечно, в рамках доступного.
А потом они уже получать стали ливийское оружие, понятно, АК, ПК, РПГ.
Лечим от приступа общечеловеческих ценностей (ну не можем же мы оставить такого уважаемого камрада в беде?) далее
In the 1980s, the IRA secured larger quantities of weapons and explosives from Gaddafi's Libya — enough to supply at least two infantry battalions.[16] These shipments were as a direct result of Gaddafi's desire to strike at the British Government for their support and assistance during the US Air Force's bombing attacks on Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986. The USAF planes involved in the bombings had taken off from British bases on 14 April 1986. 60 Libyans died in the attack, including Gaddafi's adopted baby daughter Hanna. This second major Libyan contribution to the IRA came in 1986–1987. The arms shipments included:
An AK-47 Assault Rifle (over 1000 of which were donated by Gaddafi to the IRA in the 1980s)
RPG-7
9mm Browning, Taurus, Glock and Beretta handguns
AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles
MP5 SMGs
RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launcher
Soviet made DShK heavy machine guns (HMGs)
FN MAG machine guns
U.S. military flamethrowers
Semtex plastic explosive
Strela 2 shoulderheld SAMs
However, on 1 November 1987, during transit to Ireland, one third of the total Libyan arms consignment was intercepted by Irish and French authorities aboard the mV Eksund (sometimes referred to simply as Eksund), along with five crew members, among them Gabriel Cleary. The vessel was found to contain 120 tonnes of weapons, including HMGs, 36 RPGs, 1000 detonators, 20 SAMs, Semtex and 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition.[17] There were shipments before the Eksund which were not intercepted however and it was these shipments over the preceding year that drew the attention of various intelligence agencies:
The Casamara took on ten tonnes of weapons in September 1985 off the Maltese island of Gozo. These weapons were landed off the Clogga Strand near Arklow later that month. The shipment contained five hundred crates of AK-47s, pistols, hand grenades, ammunition and seven RPG-7s.
The vessel Dushkas left Maltese waters on 6 October 1985 carrying HMGs. These weapons were also landed in Clogga Strand.
In July 1986, there was a shipment of fourteen tonnes, including, according to the authorities, two SAM-7s.
In October 1986, another shipment of eighty tonnes which included one tonne of Semtex, reportedly ten SAM-7 missiles, more RPG-7s, AK-47s and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition arrived aboard the vessel Villa.[18]
Subsequent Garda Síochána (Irish police) arms finds in 1988 included several hundred AK-47s, Russian DSHK HMGs, FN MAG machine guns and Semtex.[19] The author Ed Moloney claims that the Eksund shipment also contained military mortars and 106 millimetre cannon, an assertion never confirmed by the Irish authorities.[20] It is also estimated that Gaddafi gave the IRA the equivalent of £2 million along with the 1980s shipmentsШо то я не понял, если это такие прям не бойцы, только взрывали все СВУ из семтекса (справедливости ради, С4 тоже юзали), нафига им "сварка", РПГ, ПК, МАГи, МП5?
Так что выбирали оружие они
себе под нужды (как минимум, когда сами закупали, когда колонель спонсировал - брали, что давали, но, видимо, заявки составляли, иначе с чего бы колонель им МП5 закупил, не имея их сам?).
Вся эта латынь не отменяет того факта, что АР-18 - говно. Кстати, почему это она не служила? А в Японии не она на вооружении? Пусть и измененная. Она. И у сингапурцев SAR-80 - тоже она.
Отредактировано: BlackShark - 02 мар 2010 13:10:45
"Русы суть враги целому миру" (с)Ат-Табари, Х век
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