[Video] Attack on Ammo Dump in Iraq

Squeeky · 2004-07-14, 08:16 AM

http://www.vilkata.com/Squeeky/ammo_...ck_in_iraq.wmv

Description:

English speaking civilians, or military personnel are watching an attack on an Ammo Dump in Iraq. Attack is at night, lots of fire, the thump thump of mortars. Then bam, the ammo dump blows up, huge explosion, people in video are in awe, 2-3 seconds after explosion shockwave hits. 5 seconds after that, you hear radio chatter in the background.

"BE ADVISED....BE ADVISED......WE HAVE IMPACT IN OUR AREA"
..
"SHOTGUN THIS IS WOLVERINE THAT WAS AT THE AMMO DUMP, OVER"

People taking video make some silly comments. More explosions, more radio chatter, random chaos.

This video would be eleventy times better if we had a story to go with it, but the video itself kicks ass

Video is work safe, no blood or gore.

edit: FOUND A STORY!

When we�re here on the airbase, we take indirect fire pretty frequently. Mortar barrages and free-fired 110 and 122mm Katyusha rockets come in at least a couple of times a week, usually during hours of darkness. Kinda disrupts the old sleep cycle, jumping out of bed and hustling for the bunkers. Our quarters are pretty fortified; there�s a 12-foot high Jersey barrier wall, kinda like a medieval curtain wall, all around the perimeter of the CHU area. In between the CHU blocks, we�ve got Hesco barrier walls (Hescos are big, prefabricated, interlocking cloth and wire mesh baskets, about 4 ft wide by 4 ft deep by 8 ft high and filled with dirt), and wood and sandbag overhead cover on the CHUs themselves. Great for blast damping and shrapnel absorption, but nothing beats a nice bunker when the shit�s falling close by. Included on the disk I�m sending is a clip from the 6th, when a lucky incoming rocket started a big grass fire that cooked off the Air Force AHA (ammo holding area). Some Airman got up on a bunker and shot some footage of some of the 2,000 pound bombs going off. Fortunately for them, they live pretty far from their AHA. Our CHUs are a LOT closer; there was no filming for us. Just cowering in the bunker and listening to the shrapnel whap the sandbags while the concussions sucked all the air out of our lungs. I now have a lot of compassion for anyone who has ever had a 2,000-pound bomb dropped near them.

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Biohazzard56 · 2004-07-14, 08:43 AM

Wow, thats crazy. Those explosions were neat though.

Manitou · 2004-07-14, 08:48 AM

One of our Airmen who is deployed there sent us an email about that. He said it was a wild time. The fire dept. guys were out putting out the fire and stuff. I had some pics he sent... if I find them, I will post them.

Jennyboo · 2004-07-14, 08:54 AM

Thats really crazy

I Hate Pants · 2004-07-14, 09:18 AM

Im still a little confused. So Iraqi insurgents were firing mortars at this base and they hit one of the ammo dumps?

Were all those explosions coming from the ammo dump or were they mortars and shit?

Smaug · 2004-07-14, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by I Hate Pants

Im still a little confused. So Iraqi insurgents were firing mortars at this base and they hit one of the ammo dumps?

Were all those explosions coming from the ammo dump or were they mortars and shit?

Apparently a brush fire, started from a mortar or rocket, engulfed the magazine and set all the bombs off. Those huge explosions are 2,000 lbs bombs.

Included on the disk I�m sending is a clip from the 6th, when a lucky incoming rocket started a big grass fire that cooked off the Air Force AHA (ammo holding area).