These guys brought untold amount of misery on a lot of people.
All those rounds have to come down somewhere
The IRA shown here firing from amongst civilians like the coward they were
TLDW: The IRA reported that two active service units armed with 12.7mm heavy machine guns at separate positions opened fire on the aircraft
I love these threads because there’s always an Irishman simultaneously supporting terrorists while sanctimoniously claiming the moral high ground.
If you want some context on The Troubles, I highly recommend the book Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe.
I will never understand how people can think the British are in the right concerning Ireland.
Is ambush really the right word for this?
The OG car bombers
A good friend of mine was one of the pilots in the Lynx rest his soul.
Only Royal Artillery capbadged pilot to receive a DFC. Sold his medals for 100k in the end. Absolutely top bloke too.
And then we had to make a peace deal with these twats who only ever cared about controlling the drug trade in Ireland, only to watch them sell out their own people a few decades later – nobody ever expected Sinn Fein to turn out to be traitorous globalist fucks. Hoping NI can get their own country back one day
The IRA preferred to shoot and bomb civilians, so this is amazing footage.
I drove my Saracen through your garden last night..
Was that a dumpster? I can’t really tell. At first I thought it was a some makeshift AA
IRA are cowards
In case anyone is curious, the IRA used gun trucks early in the troubles, which were similar to the ones used in Vietnam. They’d add armour plating to trucks and stick DShKs and M2s on them, sometimes 2-4 of them, along with multiple members armed with AR18s/M16s.
They’d ride around the countryside watching for helicopters before opening fire or, if possible, coordinating with another truck to ambush the helicopter along it’s route.
This was very successful. They took down a couple helicopters, but more importantly, they harrased the helicopters into staying out of certain areas.
I’ll try and find it, but there’s one absolutely insane story involving one of these trucks.
They also shot down a helicopter with a mortar one time. The troubles were wild.
In the end the IRA activity against the occupying British forces brought about the peace we have now. In time the British will be out fully and hopefully the small unionist contingent can learn to live in peace with the Irish
Damn never knew they had AA guns. What did they have surface to air missles too? Lolol
*Northern Ireland
Crazy to think this happened, as a brit we don’t get taught much about the troubles, but as a human i understand we shouldn’t of been on their land anyways
So the British army was ambushed back in 1991 in Ireland in an area they’re probably not supposed to be in. I don’t see in the text at all saying Northern Ireland they’re designated location they’re supposed to be in. Unless that city is right next to the border that shouldn’t exist but whatever.
From my research 60,000 British soldiers fought in Korea which is weird because they’re allowing Ireland to be divided yet they’re willing to fight in Korea to unite Korea that makes no sense. Why fight in one area that has division but you’re refusing to give up that division in another that you control. Here in America we don’t have any territories that want to be part of another Nation they won’t be part of ours. Same with the 48 states they don’t want to be part of any other Nation except ours so we have no division geographically so what’s Britain’s problem.
They did nothing 🤣
IRA are nothing more then baby killers, the British army should have take a way more proactive stance against them
Let’s remember that the IRA knew they were gradually being eliminated and the net was closing in on them, so they sued for peace. No, they didn’t force the British government to have peace talks, the IRA were losing and were forced to the table.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_British_Army_Lynx_shootdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_British_Army_Lynx_shootdown)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_British_aircraft_during_The_Troubles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_British_aircraft_during_The_Troubles)
The chopper (ZE380) still flies today
These guys brought untold amount of misery on a lot of people.
All those rounds have to come down somewhere
The IRA shown here firing from amongst civilians like the coward they were
TLDW: The IRA reported that two active service units armed with 12.7mm heavy machine guns at separate positions opened fire on the aircraft
I love these threads because there’s always an Irishman simultaneously supporting terrorists while sanctimoniously claiming the moral high ground.
If you want some context on The Troubles, I highly recommend the book Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe.
I will never understand how people can think the British are in the right concerning Ireland.
Is ambush really the right word for this?
The OG car bombers
A good friend of mine was one of the pilots in the Lynx rest his soul.
Only Royal Artillery capbadged pilot to receive a DFC. Sold his medals for 100k in the end. Absolutely top bloke too.
And then we had to make a peace deal with these twats who only ever cared about controlling the drug trade in Ireland, only to watch them sell out their own people a few decades later – nobody ever expected Sinn Fein to turn out to be traitorous globalist fucks. Hoping NI can get their own country back one day
The IRA preferred to shoot and bomb civilians, so this is amazing footage.
I drove my Saracen through your garden last night..
Was that a dumpster? I can’t really tell. At first I thought it was a some makeshift AA
IRA are cowards
In case anyone is curious, the IRA used gun trucks early in the troubles, which were similar to the ones used in Vietnam. They’d add armour plating to trucks and stick DShKs and M2s on them, sometimes 2-4 of them, along with multiple members armed with AR18s/M16s.
They’d ride around the countryside watching for helicopters before opening fire or, if possible, coordinating with another truck to ambush the helicopter along it’s route.
This was very successful. They took down a couple helicopters, but more importantly, they harrased the helicopters into staying out of certain areas.
I’ll try and find it, but there’s one absolutely insane story involving one of these trucks.
They also shot down a helicopter with a mortar one time. The troubles were wild.
In the end the IRA activity against the occupying British forces brought about the peace we have now. In time the British will be out fully and hopefully the small unionist contingent can learn to live in peace with the Irish
Damn never knew they had AA guns. What did they have surface to air missles too? Lolol
*Northern Ireland
Crazy to think this happened, as a brit we don’t get taught much about the troubles, but as a human i understand we shouldn’t of been on their land anyways
So the British army was ambushed back in 1991 in Ireland in an area they’re probably not supposed to be in. I don’t see in the text at all saying Northern Ireland they’re designated location they’re supposed to be in. Unless that city is right next to the border that shouldn’t exist but whatever.
From my research 60,000 British soldiers fought in Korea which is weird because they’re allowing Ireland to be divided yet they’re willing to fight in Korea to unite Korea that makes no sense. Why fight in one area that has division but you’re refusing to give up that division in another that you control. Here in America we don’t have any territories that want to be part of another Nation they won’t be part of ours. Same with the 48 states they don’t want to be part of any other Nation except ours so we have no division geographically so what’s Britain’s problem.
They did nothing 🤣
IRA are nothing more then baby killers, the British army should have take a way more proactive stance against them
Let’s remember that the IRA knew they were gradually being eliminated and the net was closing in on them, so they sued for peace. No, they didn’t force the British government to have peace talks, the IRA were losing and were forced to the table.
This is why we hate gingers unconditionally