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(YouTube)   What the Entebbe raid done by Israel in 1976 to free over 100 hostages would look like in a budget X-COM video game. Missing is actual random chance event of old woman hostage getting food poisoning and later executed by dictator Idi Amin at hospital   (youtube.com) divider line
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Space Station Wagon
2023-02-02 3:23:21 PM  
So for the last couple weeks I've been battling insomnia and have been watching a lot of the operations room (and the intel report). Who knew my two insomnia staples (fark & operations room) would collide. The internet is a small world.

The episodes on the battle of the bulge are great.
 
gbv23
2023-02-02 3:26:09 PM  
Rae Dawn Chong?

More like Raid On Entebbe
 
SirDigbyChickenCaesar
2023-02-02 3:42:54 PM  

Space Station Wagon: So for the last couple weeks I've been battling insomnia and have been watching a lot of the operations room (and the intel report). Who knew my two insomnia staples (fark & operations room) would collide. The internet is a small world.

The episodes on the battle of the bulge are great.


Two of my favs.  Check out the Great War and World War 2.  They do week by week episodes on what happened during the war.  Also warographics is good.  Oh yeah and historymarche.
 
WoodyHayes [OhFark]
2023-02-02 3:43:28 PM  
Entebbe really is a remarkable deed, though to an extent it seems to be underappreciated just how risky it was because it worked and the ramifications of it not working didn't come to pass. In a sense it is a good problem to have but it also creates wholly unrealistic expectations for when events have a negative outcome as they have done in the past and undoubtedly will again in the future.

There are other works on it of a much higher quality, at least in works reporting on it, but it is somewhat of a shame that the Rosamund Pike movie on the matter just wasn't very good.
 
WoodyHayes [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:12:34 PM  
My eternal quibble over the misuse of "special forces" as a catch-all term aside, that was a pretty neat video. I checked their past stuff to see what they have and there look to be a fair bit of similarly neat ones I'll have to make time for in the near future. Thanks, Subby!
 
PvtStash
2023-02-02 4:42:49 PM  

WoodyHayes: Entebbe really is a remarkable deed, though to an extent it seems to be underappreciated just how risky it was because it worked and the ramifications of it not working didn't come to pass. In a sense it is a good problem to have but it also creates wholly unrealistic expectations for when events have a negative outcome as they have done in the past and undoubtedly will again in the future.

There are other works on it of a much higher quality, at least in works reporting on it, but it is somewhat of a shame that the Rosamund Pike movie on the matter just wasn't very good.



^ same old same old for all of human history there.

In pursuit of their goals, people will make irrational highly risky decisions(buy lotto tickets).
but as long as it works out, only praise and sunshine can be remembered as if this was of course the only possible outcome all along anyway.
And failure will see the larger whole wash their hands of the prosper they were willing to let make the calls, and denounce the poor choice as an obviously bad one that should never have been tried.
 
Dr Dreidel
2023-02-02 5:24:06 PM  
Charlie Bronson as Dan Shomron in Raid on Entebbe will never not be a funny casting choice to me. He constantly refers to Yonatan Netanyahu (whose nickname "Yoni" is pronounced like "pony") as "Yanni".

Like the singer.

// the mispronunciation, the Bronson accent, and the seriousness of the subject matter makes a pile of absurdity
// also, I think it's from that film, there's a scene of the guys on the ride over to Entebbe singing a children's song - which translates to "how good and pleasing it is to be among my brothers" - that gives me farking goosebumps
 
grimlock1972
2023-02-02 6:46:14 PM  
So an Israeli sniper would miss a shot that had a 99% chance to hit?
 
Practical_Draconian
2023-02-02 7:30:13 PM  

grimlock1972: So an Israeli sniper would miss a shot that had a 99% chance to hit?


Considering two hostages got pegged in missed shots at terrorist, yeah, but they were assault guys. Looks like they didn't bring snipers to the hostage party since it seems hiat and run with vehicles.

Guys who took over the other side of the airport may have had the snipers since they took the air traffic tower and kept watch for the main party.

Also, grenadier injuring party with bad bounce of grenade also happened too, so definitely this is X-COM mechanics come to life.
 
NathanAllen
2023-02-02 7:54:35 PM  

grimlock1972: So an Israeli sniper would miss a shot that had a 99% chance to hit?


At least in X-Com 2 snipers aren't offensive weapons.

Cone of execution with two snipers tends to work pretty well, especially with a pair of Rangers. One to charge and start the reactive kills and another to hang back and make a dash to kill one enemy, unlock the door to the objective and soak damage.

Specialist range hacks and you have plenty of time to pull back your dash Ranger. The last slot rotates between the other three classes depending on injury/repair level.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 9:54:34 PM  
British-like typing detected in headline.
 
Space Station Wagon
2023-02-02 10:33:23 PM  

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: Space Station Wagon: So for the last couple weeks I've been battling insomnia and have been watching a lot of the operations room (and the intel report). Who knew my two insomnia staples (fark & operations room) would collide. The internet is a small world.

The episodes on the battle of the bulge are great.

Two of my favs.  Check out the Great War and World War 2.  They do week by week episodes on what happened during the war.  Also warographics is good.  Oh yeah and historymarche.


Thanks. I also like drachinifel
 
Practical_Draconian
2023-02-02 11:52:48 PM  

WoodyHayes: My eternal quibble over the misuse of "special forces" as a catch-all term aside, that was a pretty neat video. I checked their past stuff to see what they have and there look to be a fair bit of similarly neat ones I'll have to make time for in the near future. Thanks, Subby!


You're welcome.

Fun fact: first time I caught this bloke's show.
I usually prefer the three minute history video shows (posted a few), but the subject and "animation" caught my attention. Done quite well.
 
houginator
2023-02-03 12:21:42 PM  
In the alternate timeline where Yonatan Netanyahu wasn't killed on this raid, his brother probably never rises to national prominence.  I imagine things are somewhat better there.
 
UNC_Samurai
2023-02-03 12:30:57 PM  
Xenonauts is light years ahead of any X-Com published in the last decade.
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-03 2:00:08 PM  

houginator: In the alternate timeline where Yonatan Netanyahu wasn't killed on this raid, his brother probably never rises to national prominence.  I imagine things are somewhat better there.


Did he visit the White House during the Gore Administration or the Clinton II Administration?
 
Birnone
2023-02-03 5:04:34 PM  
Watching the use of aircraft in this video I'm reminded of asking someone in my family why the rescue attempt in Iran required so many aircraft, in particular transport planes.  They told me it was because they were bringing a lot of people out. I said yeah but there are only so many hostages and so many soldiers and someone told me, in a mysterious way, "They were going to bring more than that out. Some Iranians there might be working with us". I've wondered since then, what was really going on. Is it possible that we were going to extract other agents with the hostages? If so, what happened to those people? All the accounts I've seen focus on how many aircraft were required to complete the mission. I've never seen a detailed account of how many people would be coming out if it had been successful.
 
ClavellBCMI [OhFark]
2023-02-03 5:06:44 PM  

houginator: In the alternate timeline where Yonatan Netanyahu wasn't killed on this raid, his brother probably never rises to national prominence.  I imagine things are somewhat better there.


Benny Nuttyyahoo's brother probably ends up running the Israeli army, before ending up Defense Minister and telling the nutjobs that they really need to figure out how to settle the whole issue with Palestine before it becomes an anchor around their necks.
 
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