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This show wins the internet. Anyone else seen this?

Good show though 75% of the time they get the winner wrong but oh well 

I like the fact that their high tech battle simulator looks exactly like Excel.

I love how the Russian Spetznaz beat the Green Berets with completely outdated technology. That's because we Russians are just that awesome.

Wasn't that the show where the winner basically only won by 16 kills?

The Mafia one was one of my top favorites.

I love how the Russian Spetznaz beat the Green Berets with completely outdated technology. That's because we Russians are just that awesome.

John Wayne just rolled over in his grave.


Has Ghengis Khan fought yet?

i'v only seen some of gladiator VS Apache

The funny part of that episode was that the gladiator team talked about the armor that they use but in the end acting, the gladiator basically didn't have armor .

That show is awesome

taliban should have won. even my irish roommate agreed. rpg ftw.

taliban should have won. even my irish roommate agreed. rpg ftw.

Psh! I may not agree with IRA politics, but my people are a hardy bunch of fighting, drinking, brawling manly-men!

Quote from: Colin Michael on June 10, 2009, 11:08:16 PM

Quote from: Master KChief on June 10, 2009, 11:05:02 PM

taliban should have won. even my irish roommate agreed. rpg ftw.

The Irish had so many better weapons and tactics though (even though the CIA did arm the Taliban pretty well). I mean, the Taliban's getting owned right now; the IRA hasn't barely been touched.

taliban getting 'owned'? are you being serious? and the war against terror has been going on for HOW LONG now? haha yes, clearly we're 'owning' the taliban.

the ira does have better experience in explosives, but seriously, only an idiot would run blindly into a bus and get blown up. the taliban would have just rocketed the entire bus.

The re-enactment doesn't actually represent what would have happened. The IRA are far more mechanical in their timing.

haha yes, planting nail bombs in pubs sure is 'mechanical'.

the comparison between assault rifles was also misjudged; many experts would agree an ak47 owns an ar15...reliability wins ANYDAY (i find it comical they arrived at the reverse decision despite the ar15 jamming up). most of the stuff they cover is accurate, but they make some glaring mistakes as well (gb vs spet: a shooting knife beats the entrenching tool? WHAT? for one, who wants to lose their close range weapon, and two, the entrenching tool can cut  a mans skull IN HALF. and sure, the spets can roll around and shoot from unorthodox positions, but like the gb said while the russian was doing all that jazzy rolling around, he'd just put a round in him).

The Russians were better fighters completely. Did you see the handgun thing?

Yeah but for the handgun thing the russian dude was walking really slow the GB guy was like 10 seconds faster.

He was like five seconds faster and missed two targets.

Quote from: Master KChief on June 11, 2009, 12:07:14 AM

haha yes, planting nail bombs in pubs sure is 'mechanical'.

the comparison between assault rifles was also misjudged; many experts would agree an ak47 owns an ar15...reliability wins ANYDAY (i find it comical they arrived at the reverse decision despite the ar15 jamming up). most of the stuff they cover is accurate, but they make some glaring mistakes as well (gb vs spet: a shooting knife beats the entrenching tool? WHAT? for one, who wants to lose their close range weapon, and two, the entrenching tool can cut  a mans skull IN HALF. and sure, the spets can roll around and shoot from unorthodox positions, but like the gb said while the russian was doing all that jazzy rolling around, he'd just put a round in him).

The Russians were better fighters completely. Did you see the handgun thing?

so hold on, you're guaging the effectiveness of an entire military division based on handgun marksmanship alone? so? the show failed to mention the m9 beretta carries TWICE as many rounds as the makarov. also, according to the show we have better snipers (which we do...the dragonov is a joke compared alongside the m24, although they misrepresented the fire rate on the show...the m24 is bolt action). the only edge i can honestly give the spets was with their saiga shotgun...its a very, very, very sick shotgun...however i have no idea why the gb used the mossberg in favor of the semi-automatic benelli...

even so, both the spets and gb's have completely different battle tactics...the spets rely more on the individual alone rather than the entire squad, while the gb's general philosophy is to rely on squad tactics and combined firepower. and to put it simply, if you're outmanned and outgunned, you're pretty much screwed. russians 'completely better fighters'? not even close. tell you what, you take your makarov and i'll take the m24 at 300 yards, and we'll see what happens...