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Troops Hit Insurgent Sniper with AT-4 Rocket
Published 3 years ago
An insurgent sniper in Iraq finds out the hard way that an 84mm rocket does not feel good when it impacts directly with your position. You gotta love a happy ending.
When troops in contact with a sniper in Iraq figure out the position of the guy harassing them with semi-accurate small arms fire, they respond by busting out an 84mm AT-4 rocket and blasting the guy's position into oblivion.
Unfortunately, we don't have too much context for this video. It appears to be a video that was recorded pretty early on in the conflict. Judging by the camera quality alone, I would date this video between 2004 and 2006. To be honest, it's even difficult to tell if the guys shooting the AT-4 are Marines or Soldiers, because the camera they are filming on is distorting the color a lot. If anyone has any contextual information they can add to this, please leave it down in the comments so I can pin it up to the top.
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