Every video I've seen of a IED exploding next to a US military vehicle it was being driven on an Iraqi road. Aren't all US military vehicles made so that they can travel off road? Don't all Humvees have 4 wheel drive? If a US vehicle isn't on a Iraqi road how would the terrorists ever know where to put the IEDs? Don't Iraqi roads just make US troops sitting ducks? US truck convoys wouldn't work going off road but all the other military vehicles certainly could & the terrorist wouldn't have any idea of where to put their IEDs because they couldn't use the Iraqi roads to target US troop vehicles. Right???
2007-03-07 06:25:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
These might be the worst answers in history.
How would the insurgents/terrorists know where to put the IED in a desert that is the size of California? They would never know where to put the IEDs in the desert because there are not any roads that they can use as land marks to place their IEDs. As long as US troops didn't drive in the exact same places in the desert they would never get blown up by the IEDs because the insurgents wouldn't know where to put them!
When the US invaded Iraq did they or did they not drive in the Iraqi desert A LOT? All the way from Kuwait to Baghdad & futher. Humvees have little problems with the sand.
2007-03-07 14:30:29 · update #1
1st we don't have a theocracy nor do we want one here.
2nd: it's pathetic that our soldiers are not being protected, time to bring them home and stop this insane windfall for contractors/politicians. We could be there another 5 yrs or 10 yrs or more and not a darn thing is going to change. There are millions there that want us out and will continue this until we are. The Q. is how many more is this administration willing to lose? We've lost far too many.
2007-03-07 07:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Lake Lover 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well, just think . You are the first person to come up with that
idea. I'm certainly glad you did. I know the armed forces are going to revise there tactics after they hear about this. Just think, no more IEDs and all our vehicles are safe.
Only one thing. Did you ever try to drive on sand? If you didn't get stuck, you surely found out that you couldn't go very fast. You would probably get lost too because when you only see sand in every direction it's difficult to find your way.
2007-03-07 06:30:10 · answer #2 · answered by H.C.Will 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
um all the convoys i have been on started and ended in a city and unless we install hover things in Humvee like back to the future then the only way to get around buildings is the Iraqi roads and that's where the IEDs are
2007-03-13 17:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by sturges 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sand there are higher risks of land mines versus a hard top dirt sandy road.
If the Military vehicles had to travel by sand route...there would be more death.
A sandy road is less likely to have as much danger because it is traveled allot ..
2007-03-12 17:11:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or:
Why doesn't the Iraqi or American military hire Iraqis to stand posts all up and down all highways, one person within sight of the other? Day and night with night vision goggles.
They need jobs, we need the roads protected.
2007-03-07 06:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by Philip McCrevice 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-17 12:10:46 · answer #6 · answered by arleta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an excellent point and one that we have brought up many times. I agree 100%.
They would still be able to emplace them off-road, along with thousand of mines that are already scattered across the country...
Another problem would be a lot of people don't know how to drive a HMVWW properly and we would probably have a lot of roll-overs... they happen just driving on the paved roads, and kill lots of soldiers, so that would obviously increase.
Don't ask me, I can only make suggestions.... I don't make the rules.
2007-03-07 06:37:51 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just one problem with that theory...
There are, by some estimates, over 2 million unexploded mines and other munitions in Iraq.
Oh, and there is the small problem of people's homes and farms being in the line of travel. Imagine someone does donuts in your yard? You'd be mad, right? Now imagine they are doing it in your wheat field.
2007-03-07 06:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by Curtis B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
IED's can be placed ANYWHERE. They are not just used with vehicles. The I does stand for improvised. The insurgents put them EVERYWHERE.
2007-03-07 06:32:58 · answer #9 · answered by J S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you want to think by simple terms....
But by logic that wont work.
How would you like to travel 100 miles off road?
2007-03-07 06:30:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋