Nice Shot
Anyone who’s been following events in the Middle East during the past few years knows Daesh has some sadistic and evil bastards in its ranks. But some really stand out.
Like the Daesh executioner who liked to execute people with fire. Using a flamethrower.
Well, it appears that particular evil bastard is no longer stealing oxygen. He and three of his “friends” are now receiving the “tender personal attention” that comes with an afterlife in the company of Shaitan.
It seems that earlier this month, the Daesh executioner was preparing to burn to death a group of twelve prisoners using his favorite flamethrower. But before doing so, the evil bastard first harangued his prospective victims-to-be with a rambling speech.
Bad move.
You see, there was an SAS sniper team in the area – located approximately 1,500 meters away. When the Daesh tool finished his speech, the sniper took his shot.
The shot nailed the fuel tank on the evil bastard’s back. The resulting explosion and fire took out the executioner – and his three accomplices. I’d like to think it also gave them a preview of what they’d experience for the rest of eternity.
US and British Special Forces in the area soon afterwards rescued the prisoners.
The NY Post and UK Daily Mail each have decent articles on the incident. IMO, they’re truly “feel good” stories.
(Hat tip to TAH commenter Greybeard for bringing this incident to my attention via comments elsewhere,)
Category: Terror War
I was there!
Just kidding. But can’t you just see the posers in the near and far future claiming to be the sniper. Lol.
I bet the SAS team were snorting and giggling like a bunch of 14 year old adolescent boys. So freaking awesome!
Justice. Real, beautiful, and poetic. Starting my day with a smile.
I am in awe of that sniper.
“C’mon baby, Light my Fire”
…And he did.
And it burns, burns, burns. A ring of fire, a ring of fire.
Well, you know the old saying: “Live by the flamethrower, die by the flamethrower…”
That gave me an all over warm fuzzy feeling….
Guess you could call them crispy critters
Now you’ve gone and done it….
Yes, I AM this old…
HEE-HAW, I MISS that show!!
Good ole days I remember watching this every Sunday when I was just a little spud
Now we got us a convoy
Hot damn. Shit like that warms my soul first thing in the morning. Well done “mate”!
Heh…..I see what ya did there…”well done”.
As opposed to medium rare?
Well, for anyone to survive that would be very RARE.
Karma. She is one vengeful bitch.
And she has GPS. She WILL find you.
I’m sure I’m exposing my age here:
“I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE! AND I BRING YOU…FIRE!!!”
Love that song!
https://youtu.be/en1uwIzI3SE
Wow, I had no idea there was a video. Made my morning.
Not a music video per se, I don’t think, but a recording of a live performance.
That appears to be a clip from the TV program “Top of the Pops”. If I recall correctly, that show featured live acts and popular music weekly on BBC-TV.
BBC, class act. That figures 🙂
Channeling my inner Cliff Claven:
Little known fact there, that the original drummer was a guy by the name of Drachen Theaker, but left the group fairly abruptly, and was replaced by some guy named Carl Palmer.
Yeah, THAT Carl Palmer.
Beeyooteeful!
“I’d like my 72 raisins flambeaued please…”
Splash. Out.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned this one:
“Hunka hunka burning junk” – literally, 4x.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of evil bastards.
Adios, motherfuckers!
I hope they lived a long time feeling the pain.
Bravo Zulu, SAS!
Feelin’ hot hot hot
as in “The Natural Gas Will Burn Your Ass and Blow You All to Hell”? (Wolfe Tones)
https://youtu.be/EhZba-P7R18
Knowing what I know of bullets, flammable substances, and pressurized containers, an FMJ round shouldn’t have made a fireball. Not sure if a tracer would do it, either. I’m thinking Raufoss or other incendiary load, perhaps. That would get the job done nicely!
Well, TOW, I’m not sure what type of flamethrower Ol’ Crispy was using, but if he had a pilot light on the nozzle and the pressurized container put enough vapor into the air suddenly, I suspect the guy ended up torching himself unexpectedly.
I do wish we had a video of the event…
Don’t get me wrong, I believe that it happened (I love a happy ending! ). I’m just pondering the technical details, is all.
Wikipedia says a typical design for the backpack part of a flamethrower is one or two cylinders of flammable liquid and a tank of pressurized gas (used to propel the fuel out of the nozzle). If the bullet pierced all tanks, the escaping pressurized gas could well have blown the fuel all over the place, causing the pilot near the nozzle to ignite it (or maybe the perp dropped the nozzle when the round hit and escaping fuel got lit that way). The escaping gas might also have produced enough fuel vapor for quick ignition by the pilot if he didn’t drop the nozzle, though I’d guess not enough of a flash to make a true “bang”.
Alternatively, if the fuel was gasoline I suppose it’s possible that a spark from the round penetrating the tanks could have touched off the fuel directly.
Regardless: nice shot. (smile)
Unlikely to get a spark unless it was a steel-core bullet. Even so, the spark is not guaranteed to hit the right stoichiometric balance with the escaping fuel and surrounding air to produce a crowd-pleasing fireball, assuming it’s even hot enough to ignite. Remember that a lit cigarette won’t even ignite gasoline vapor unless it’s a VERY hot day, and it’s probably a safe bet that his fuel was either gasoline or gasoline-based.
That’s why I’m leaning towards a Raufoss or other incendiary munition. It’s hot enough to get ‘er going, and will deposit burning residue at the point of impact where fuel meets air, thus removing the element of chance from the mujj barbecue equation.
As you said, nice shot!
So, your theory is that our buddies in SAS planned the mujj-B-Que in advance?
“I say, Mate – Sir Ibn Smokinem will be our guest of honor today. What say we bring a Raufoss to greet him?”
I’d guess they were using M1022 Long Range Sniper cartridges (or the British equivalent). The shot was a damn long one (1500m), so my guess is that they’d pull out all the stops in favor of accuracy. My money’s on fuel being splattered all around by escaping propellant gas (from the gas cylinder) and being ignited by the nozzle’s pilot flame.
Having said that – it could easily have been a 100+F day, too. Much of the ME can get hellish hot in August and September. I’ve seen 120+F in late August, and I believe 110+F in early September as well.
Besides, a crowd-pleasing fireball isn’t really a necessity. All that’s necessary is ignition. The draining fuel being splattered/blown around by the escaping propellant gas cylinder will take care of the rest – and a reasonable “bang” isn’t out of the question a bit later if one of the partially-full but perforated tanks gets hot enough with some fuel left inside to let loose. (smile)
Anyway: as the Bard said, “All’s well that ends well.” Hope the four dead terrorist bastards were conscious long enough to feel their junk begin to fry.
I have no first-hand knowledge, but I understand that the kinetic energy from a Barrett .50 on liquid-containing objects causes some impressive hydraulic reactions.
I know first-hand what a .50 ball from a Kentucky percussion can do to a gallon of water, as well as what happens when gasoline is splashed on a campfire. Extrapolating to the greater energy behind the Barrett’s round and the fuel-filled flamethrower cylinders, I get a vision of the ISIS creeps that just lights up the place.
And I expect that the creeps did have time to realize that BOHICA would be a best-case scenario.
Hell, I’m good with it just knowing that the SAS made the shot and got some kind of secondary from that flamethrower that left four Daesh shitheads smoldering in the desert.
Is it a sign that I need to see a doctor that this made me giggle?
Nope.
You’d need to see a shrink if your reaction was “Oh, that poor unemployed boy – how sad.”
You are quite normal and sane.
More retribution is on the way big time after Trump wins the election.
Gotta love the SAS. Well done, indeed.
“Who Dares, Wins”.
HAPPY BRTHDAY TO YOU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUU,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CRISPY HADJIS,…
Three more hadjis in hell, extra-crispy, I LOVE a happy ending!!
Brilliant!
Re: Ammo
Armor-Piercing Incendiary – Tracer (API-T) is a common .50 round. I would expect a sniper to have some for use in the anti-material and anti-vehicle role.
spin up “Burning for You” by Blue Oyster Cult, followed by “(c’mon baby) Light my fire” by the Doors.
Another villian dies while monologing! Will they never learn?
Again to the sniper and his colleagues: Brilliant! Simply Brilliant! Good show!
I thought about the possibility he’d used API. But I’d think for a 1500m shot the sniper would use the most accurate rounds he had. I’d guess that would be M1022 Long Range Sniper rounds.
I’m decidedly not an expert here, so I could easily be wrong about that last. Maybe there’s not much difference between the two in terms of accuracy.
Maybe someone with more experience/knowledge can chime in here?
Given the opportunity for getting all of them in a truly spectacular propaganda-worthy way,
given that the tank was probably at least equivalent to a man sized target,
given that API-T is used to engage targets out that far in other less-accurate platforms,
and given the sniper’s opportunity to try different incendiary / tracer loads ahead of time
and given the target was probably at least as big as a human torso, if not larger,
that was well inside probability for I or T rounds in a competent sniper’s hands.
Just found some that appears to be intended for “long range target” use:
https://www.xproducts.com/product/50-cal-api-ammunition-50-bmg/
The above is made from pulled projectiles, reloaded into what is probably low-end match-grade ammo.
Now, if the team spotted an active pilot light on the flamethrower wand, then no need for fancy ammo, just burst the tank with ball and watch someone enter the Gates of Hell.
The SAS garnered a lot of experience sniping and destroying SCUDs during DS/DS. I’m sure they have a lot of info on ballistic characteristics of many “non-standard” rounds.
Without busting OPSEC, let me offer that it’s safe to say that are chemically filled (not agent filled) .50 rounds out there accurate to 1000-2000 meters that can do some interesting things. Rough on barrels though…
I hope they choke on cock for eternity.
One shot, four kills. Nice
“Cost effective.”
“More bang for the buck.”
I’m hoping their goats were unharmed.