I am no missile expert but I thought I read somewhere that SCUD missiles travel faster than the speed of sound, how can a video pick up that sound?
Traveling faster than the speed of sound does not mean it makes no sound; The sound will just be super delayed and coming from a direction the object is no longer at.
I am no missile expert but I thought I read somewhere that SCUD missiles travel faster than the speed of sound, how can a video pick up that sound?
Traveling faster than the speed of sound does not mean it makes no sound; The sound will just be super delayed and coming from a direction the object is no longer at.
Fair enough, but would you be able to film a SCUD like that? I thought the whole point of SCUDS unlike Katyusha rockets was to be super fast and super scary because you have no idea that it was there until everyone is dead? again, as non expert genuinely curious.
Fighters from the extremist Islamic State group today overran part of an army base in northern Syria, which has been under the militants' siege for months, in ferocious battles that killed or wounded dozens on both sides, activists said.
The battle over the base is the latest in the Islamic State's push to capture as much of Syrian territory as it can. Since June, the group has seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, where they have declared a self-styled caliphate.
The base lies in Raqqa province, where much of the territory fell to the Syrian opposition last year. Earlier this year, the Islamic State, which sided with the rebels at the start of the Syrian conflict three years ago, captured much of Raqqa and has tried to capture the base several times.
According to the UN, the Islamic State issued a Fatwa today saying that genital circumcision is mandatory for all woman between 11 and 46 years of age that would be around 4 Million women in the territory they currently hold.
Hard tp post a source as the original statement was made via video conference by Jaqueline Badcock (yeah really), UN-official working in Iraq
There is very high doubts that that is untrue and is just a hoax. FGM isn't even an Islamic Tradition for one, and then the pamphlet sourced is photo shopped, third it shows the wrong group name and is from July 2013.
On July 25 2014 01:42 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: There is very high doubts that that is untrue and is just a hoax. FGM isn't even an Islamic Tradition for one, and then the pamphlet sourced is photo shopped, third it shows the wrong group name and is from July 2013.
Well I guess we'll find out in the next days whether this is true or not..
A bit offtopic, but the IS knuckleheads had bigger clashes with the Syrian army around Homs in the last days and they managed to hold their own. Leads me to the question whether there is a regional power strong enough to stuff them or are they gonna be able to stabilize themselves in their caliphate? Perhaps people with more inside than myself can answer this question..
I just don't want these neanderthals to get away with all their crimes, I hope somebody fucks them up
I am no missile expert but I thought I read somewhere that SCUD missiles travel faster than the speed of sound, how can a video pick up that sound?
Traveling faster than the speed of sound does not mean it makes no sound; The sound will just be super delayed and coming from a direction the object is no longer at.
Fair enough, but would you be able to film a SCUD like that? I thought the whole point of SCUDS unlike Katyusha rockets was to be super fast and super scary because you have no idea that it was there until everyone is dead? again, as non expert genuinely curious.
You can't hear it coming because it's faster than sound, and you would probably have a hard time seeing it either, since the flames from the engine will be obscured by the missile itself if it's coming towards you.
It's still a huge rocket, though, and is as visible to bystanders as any flaming hunk of metal blazing through the sky.
Islamic State militants launched assaults on Syrian forces across three provinces on Thursday that killed key government figures, including two brigadier generals, said activists and residents, in a rare confrontation between the two sides during the war.
In one assault, the jihadists besieged two military bases outside Hasakah city in Syria's east, killing a commanding brigadier general, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group in London with a network of contacts across Syria.
The militants, wearing military uniforms, also stormed the headquarters of the ruling Baath Party, where they killed Hanna Atalla, a party leader in the city, according to the Observatory and residents in interviews. The Islamic State militants flew their black flag over the building, which had served as a government military operations center.
Also in Hasakah, the militants killed Abdul Samad al-Nazzal, a senior officer with the National Defense Forces, a pro-regime paramilitary group, these people said.
The Syrian government acknowledged that its Baath Party headquarters were attacked but didn't comment on any battles or deaths.
Al Hasaka Province: A leading member in the Arab Baath Socialist Party was killed in clashes with IS fighters in the building of Al Baath Party branch in the center of Al Hasaka city, where the flags of the Islamic State were seen above the rooftop of the building.
SOHR was informed that the IS fighters, who stormed the building, were wearing the clothes of NDF, where they identified themselves to the guards as NDF fighters. Information reported death of some guards as well as death of the IS fighters who stormed the building.
Reliable resources informed SOHR that the Islamic State has recruited some fighters in the NDF in Al Hasaka, where a state of panic has prevailed among the regime forces, the military, political and security leaderships of the regime due to fear of sudden operations carried out by the recruited fighters.
At Hospital 601, not far from the presidential palace in Damascus, Syrian guards ran out of space to store the dead and had to use an adjoining warehouse where military vehicles were repaired.
A forensic photographer working for Syria's military police walked the rows and took pictures of the emaciated and disfigured corpses, most believed to be anti-Assad activists. Numbers written on the bodies and on white cards, the photographer said, told regime bureaucrats the identities of the deceased, when they died and which branch of the Syrian security services had held them. (Graphic image follows.)
U.S. investigators who have reviewed many of the photos say they believe at least 10,000 corpses were cataloged this way between 2011 and mid-2013. Investigators believe they weren't victims of regular warfare but of torture, and that the bodies were brought to the hospital from the Assad regime's sprawling network of prisons. They were told some appeared to have died on site.
Last year, the Syrian military-police photographer defected to the West. Investigators later gave him the code name Caesar to disguise his identity. He turned over to U.S. law-enforcement agencies earlier this year a vast trove of postmortem photographs from Hospital 601 that he and other military photographers took over the two-year period, which he helped smuggle out of the country on digital thumb drives.
BEIRUT: ISIS militants have entered a key military base in eastern Syria, killing at least 50 soldiers in an ambush while launching their first coordinated, multifront attack on government forces, an anti-regime monitoring group said Friday.
The offensive has killed at least 74 people in the past 24 hours, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Buoyed by their capture of swaths of western and northcentral Iraq last month, the militants launched multiple attacks on army positions across northern and northeastern Syria Thursday.
I am no missile expert but I thought I read somewhere that SCUD missiles travel faster than the speed of sound, how can a video pick up that sound?
Traveling faster than the speed of sound does not mean it makes no sound; The sound will just be super delayed and coming from a direction the object is no longer at.
Fair enough, but would you be able to film a SCUD like that? I thought the whole point of SCUDS unlike Katyusha rockets was to be super fast and super scary because you have no idea that it was there until everyone is dead? again, as non expert genuinely curious.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now in control of 35 percent of the Syrian territory following a string of victories, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.
ISIS holdings include nearly all of Syria’s oil and gas fields, the monitoring group said in a statement.
One of the latest gains of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” was the seizure of the country’s biggest oil fields, in Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria, earlier in the week.
BEIRUT: Syrian government troops Saturday recaptured the Shaar gas field in Homs province from the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, a week after the jihadists seized it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"Since this morning, there has been fighting around the Al-Shaar field between regime forces and the IS. The army has succeeded in ejecting the jihadists, and it now controls the site and surrounding hills," Observatory chief Rami Abdel-Rahman told AFP.
The powerful jihadist group, which operates in Syria and Iraq and nows recently announced the formation of a "caliphate" named the Islamic State, killed around 300 members of the Syrian security forces in the battle for the key facility. Some of them were executed after being captured.
BEIRUT: A series of recent setbacks for the Syrian regime on the battlefield – most spectacularly at the hands of ISIS – have sparked outrage in the ranks of loyalists.
Some of the most ardent supporters of the regime have been aghast at the news that hundreds of regime soldiers and paramilitaries were killed in battles with ISIS in three different provinces over the last 10 days: the Shaar gas field in rural Homs, the Division 17 military base outside the city of Raqqa, and the Regiment 121 post in rural Hassakeh.
The regime had been stepping up its aerial attacks on ISIS positions in Raqqa before the recent confrontations on the ground, but anti-regime activists who strongly object to the presence of ISIS in the Syrian uprising complained that the strikes did more damage to civilians than to the hard-line Al-Qaeda splinter group.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime monitoring group based in Britain, estimates that 1,100 regime troops and paramilitaries have been killed since President Bashar Assad’s inauguration speech on July 17, when he confidently declared “victory” against the terrorists he said were bent on toppling his regime.
In the wake of the speech, half a dozen battlefronts heated up around the country, with mainstream and Islamist rebels achieving small but significant victories in provinces such as Deraa and Hama, and with ISIS more noticeably in the central and northern areas.
BEIRU: Syrian rebels pressed on with a fresh advance in the central province of Hama, as they bid to take out its military airport, a rebel commander and an activist group said Tuesday.
"The rebels are now nine kilometers away from Hama military airport, which they want to put out of action," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel-Rahman.
A rebel leader in the area, who gave his name as Hassan, said Hama military airport was important because "that is where the regime makes its barrel bombs, and warplanes take off from there to carry out airstrikes on (opposition-held) areas across Syria."
Barrel bombs have killed hundreds of civilians, especially in rebel areas of the divided northern city of Aleppo, in recent months.
According to the Observatory, rebels and their Al-Qaeda ally, the Nusra Front, took over a major checkpoint north of Hama city, which is firmly under regime control, Monday night.
The takeover of the checkpoint at Tarabih comes on the back of Sunday's capture of a weapons depot in the area.
Insurgents fighting in Syria to oust President Bashar al-Assad detonated bomb-packed tunnels under buildings in the contested northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 13 pro-government troops, opposition activists said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels detonated explosives in two tunnels, dug under the ancient quarter of Aleppo that has been the site of some of the fiercest fighting in the Syrian conflict, now in its fourth year. The pro-opposition monitoring group said the blasts killed at least 13 soldiers and pro-government militiamen late Tuesday. It said one bomb went off under a police station that probably housed troops.
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