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Ford Rocket Launcher
GenPatton
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 - 07:15 PM UTC
Spotted this on The Atlantic...

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2016/06/the-battle-for-fallujah-iraq/f08_534714140/main_1200.jpg?1466443623

Wish there were more pics! And a kit...
Frenchy
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 - 08:02 PM UTC
Looks to be the same trucks :








These improvised rocket launchers based on Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup trucks are used by the Iraqi Federal Police (FP), sometimes called the National Police.

Maybe you could use Meng's kit as a starting point for a scratchbuilding project ?



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joepanzer
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 - 10:14 PM UTC
Seems to me they lost the memo on camo.
Colors are supposed to blend into your environment, not make you stick out like a sore thumb
Bonaparte84
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 - 10:33 PM UTC

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Seems to me they lost the memo on camo.
Colors are supposed to blend into your environment, not make you stick out like a sore thumb

lol, i was thinking the same. They probably think it looks cool or something...
covkid
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Posted: Monday, June 20, 2016 - 11:16 PM UTC

Their camo is perfect as long as they don't move away from their trucks.the trucks were very well camouflaged in the base but looks like no-one thought whether it would work outside.

BTW are they F450's?

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35th-scale
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 01:04 PM UTC
Hardly the type of weapon one would associate with a police force....
Homer0331
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 01:11 PM UTC

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Hardly the type of weapon one would associate with a police force....


There were nights I wished I would have had something like that......
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 01:57 PM UTC
They used standard F-350 stake bed trucks as well :



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Bonaparte84
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 02:35 PM UTC

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Their camo is perfect as long as they don't move away from their trucks.the trucks were very well camouflaged in the base but looks like no-one thought whether it would work outside.

Regards Jason


You mean the camo allows the crew to blend in with their vehicles? That's hardly the purpose of camo... Then again, from what I can gather from youtube-videos, fighting in that conflict does not have much to do with stealth.
HeavyArty
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Posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 05:59 PM UTC
In Iraq, and most of the Middle East, camo is more of a cool factor and how good it looks than actually to hide or blend in with anything. Each service tries to out-do the other in whose uniform or vehicles look more cool.

slug955
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Posted: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 04:04 AM UTC

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Hardly the type of weapon one would associate with a police force....


Well Korea was a Police Action.......
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