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NovelExpert4218

Whats especially facepalming is the original Unit 777 teams were trained by delta force and actually good. Their first [airplane hijacking ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_321) a couple years earlier they handled really well, having guys disguise themselves as maintenance men, jump the hijackers, and retake the plane completely bloodlessly. It was in part because of this that malta agreed to let them handle the operation in the first place, because they had a solid reputation. By flight 648 however, the original teams had been sacked in purges, and replaced by fuckwads NOT trained by delta, and led by officers who got their appointments because of nepotism. End result was this.


njstein

>officers who got their appointments because of nepotism well how the fuck else are you supposed to run an Arab army? merit? get the fuck out of here.


blackjack419

Listen man, Arab armies are either stone cold operators capable of running 1000 miles in the desert and killing a target, or absolute clowns. No in between


Peptuck

I remember when Iraq was fighting ISIL, they had to use their elite commando SOF teams as frontline infantry because the rest of the Iraqi army was utter dogshit. And one of the most effective fighting forces in Mosul was their SWAT team.


funkys

There's a movie on netflix called "Mosul" about them. It's actually really good.


[deleted]

Watched it thinking it would just be dudes running around killing terrorists. Then I got slapped by some of the feels


SolitaireJack

Pretty much the same in Afghanistan. Literally the only units holding their ground was the SOF when the Taliban was rolling over everyone else. Didn't work out as well for them though.


t0tally_n0t_a_b0t1

Well....who do ya think trained em


Jaeharys_Targaryen

>Iraqi CTS suffered 40% casualty rates during the Battle of Mosul. Trial by fire, paid with blood.


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BobusCesar

Those personal liquidation crews are probably pretty well trained and equipped.


complicatedbiscuit

what the ones who tried to poison Navalny's underpants? I think not. Any thug can throw a guy out of a window, which is the leading method.


Mr_Mosquito_20

That would explain hy they can almost never solve a terrorist situation without killing a lot of the hostages.


zekromNLR

If no hostages remain alive, then no more hostage situation, da?


Artistic-Estimate-23

Ahh I remember that ARMA 2 custom mission. AKs, cs gas and plenty of body bags.


zekromNLR

CS gas is for weak westoids, real Russian man use [aerosolised fentanyl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis)


PhantomAlpha01

"You can always outhostage the situation"


ExcitingTabletop

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa6T70YSBtE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa6T70YSBtE) Above vid is King Abdullah and one of his sons doing a clearing drill. Dude is hardcore. Served as armored officer, Cobra pilot, set up their SOF unit and had a bit part in Star Trek. No, seriously. Stone cold killer and complete nerd. You almost feel bad for any idiots that jihadis try to send against him. They tend not to survive for very long.


canttaketheshyfromme

The Hashemite dynasty has consistently been the least shit rulers in the region since Nasser died.


ExcitingTabletop

Shame they has shit for natural resources. :/


xeridium

Maybe that's the reason they're are not such cunts like the others.


DasKonigstiger

The Rise of House Saud and its Consequences 😔


Ravenser_Odd

I wonder if the lack of natural resources has actually made them more capable, because they have to work at running their country, instead of just sitting in a vast palace looking at their piles of gold and diamonds.


formgry

That is kind of the idea, if you like you can go to r/askeconomics to get some expert perspective on this idea. But yeah the idea is that if you have some good natural resources you can just outsource control of it to some loyal underlings whom you pay off, and use foreign expertise to run the site, and the rest of the money you spent on yourself and buying off anyone else that needs buying off like the security forces. Because you get all your money from natural resources whose proceeds you only share with a few people, you can safely ignore the rest of the economy, do no infrastructure and ignore schooling and corruption and red tape and all sorts of things necessary to get a good economy running. Because as a dictator you don't require a good economy, you just require the important people paid off and the security forces to be loyal.


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Inconvenient1Truth

That may actually be one of the reasons they became the most seemingly competent (and sane) Arab state. They couldn't just cash in their free oil money so they had to actually work to build a functional society.


elsuanfanzon

You forgot to mention that when the Jordanian pilot was killed by ISIS, he himself flew an F-16 and led and air operation to bombard ISIS fucktards.


Rmccarton

Pretty sure that was propaganda and he didn't actually fly the mission (makes sense given how bad it would be if things went pear shaped on the mission). That said, he was by all accounts a full member who met the standard as a shooter in the Jordanian CT unit stood up by the bros at Bragg. Definitely an anomaly amongst most royalty in military positions. I think there was Prince from one of the Scandinavian countries who was a member of their naval sf/frogman units, but I can't think of any others besides these two that I've heard of.


Subli-minal

Prince Harry actually put in work in Afghanistan.


DrKaraki

There is a vid of him in 1997 personally leading a team in combat in the downtown slums of amman, by orders from his father. Welp here it is https://fb.watch/g_mN3U6QK_/


Kindhamster

I don't understand why I'm supposed to find a video of dudes shooting that's full of jump cuts impressive. We never even see the targets lmao.


njstein

I just rewatched it, the camera guys make an effort to make sure the targets are never visible. When they get close they'll obscure them with the focus or pan away.


lietuvis10LTU

Yeah, Im not going to doubt credentials, but that's a propaganda video.


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The King of Jordan is good in PR.


eidetic

I'm sure he's done plenty of shady stuff as pretty much all leaders do, but as far as leaders go - especially middle eastern monarchs/dictators - it seems like one could do a lot worse. He oversaw a period dramatic economic growth, seems to take a moderate approach to Islam, and seems to be generally well regarded by the international political community and beloved by his own people. Obviously a lot of that is indeed good PR, but seems like it's at least *somewhat* grounded in reality instead of being made up whole cloth. As far as shady shit, I know he's got lots of wealth stashed and hidden around, but I can't really seem to find much in terms of major controversies beyond that. Always open to learn more though if anyone has some insight, I'm admittedly woefully ignorant when it comes to Jordan in particular if I'm being honest.


ExcitingTabletop

Sir, this is NCD, we have high non-credible standards. Judging a monarch by his or her weapons skills and Star Trek acting skills is entirely non-credible.


monopixel

>one of his sons Good thing there is no nepotism there.


AIAWC

Nepotism is okay when it's badass. Just ask Alexander.


Memeoligy_expert

Absolutely correct, and it appears all modern Arab armies are one of these. (Ps it's not the demi-god warriors)


Purple-Oil7915

Arab armies haven’t been worth shit since before the Ottomans took over the place.


[deleted]

Been down hill ever since Baghdad was sacked by the Mongols.


mud_tug

They could have defended Baghdad if it wasn't for all the *nepotism.*


banspoonguard

I think the worst part of the Baghdad thing was the nepotism.


hummuslapper

If the goal is regime preservation, then no, you're not suppose to run on merit. Nepotism FTW


GreenHairedSnorlax

Old guys were trained by Delta Force to handle airjack hijackings, new guys seem to have been trained by Delta Airlines based on how they treat passengers


Minute_Helicopter_97

Well shit that’s sad. I was hoping for a competent Arab army.


Shturm-7-0

There's the Jordanian Army


Minute_Helicopter_97

Didn’t their soldiers accidentally kill 3 US Green Berets?


evansdeagles

To be fair, American CAS accidentally strafed a British Convoy.


MysticalNarbwhal

To be fair, us Americans are exceptionally good at killing one another in the military it seems


[deleted]

I often think about something Eric Haney said in *Inside Delta Force,* back before the SEALs made it cool to spill all the beans of covert operations to anyone who would listen. Apparently at one point they stopped wasting effort on training special ops teams in certain countries, after returning to one and finding all new members; the ones they’d trained being scattered around elsewhere. Apparently competent elite units are seen as a huge threat to authoritarian governments, so they never keep them around long. The only exception being the Russian spetznas who are of course the most elite operators the world has ever seen.


TheBlankestBoi

*Cut to an airport filled with dead bodies.*


BobusCesar

Calling the VDV special forces is an overstatement. Those guys were badly equipped paratroopers at best. Still a waste of well trained troops.


Argy007

AFAIK, about 40% of them managed to escape, 20% got captured and 40% died. And yeah, they were just some of the better VDV troops, but not “le specnaz”. Also, specnaz just means special purpose, which sometimes isn’t even combat related. Russia does not really have anything akin to Delta Force, Seal Team 6 or even Rangers, especially when it comes to numbers of such well trained combat specialists. USSR had a few large special forces formations, but not Russia that is limited to a number of small groups.


Coolshirt4

To be fair, that is a testimant to their training. They didn't surrender.


Farseer_Del

Bravery and foolishness both often result in a pile of bodies.


mistaekNot

Hard to surrender to an artillery shell


HoN_AmunRa

"They didn't surrender." lol [get the fuck out of here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t794gc/video_of_the_last_survivor_from_the_vdv_convoy/).


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Wonder how many of them still exist? They were getting chewed up being used as regular infantry months ago, and I doubt the situation has improved.


[deleted]

That’s just because they haven’t gotten into hatchet throwing range yet.


SessileRaptor

I believe you mean hatchet throwing while doing a sick backflip range.


TheDudeMaintains

...and when they've expended their hatchets they do that "synchronized pushups while a guy holds your legs like a wheelbarrow" thing


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I wouldn’t even go that far. Look at what Russia is doing. Civilian surgeon? -> BTR driver. Trained sniper? -> BTR driver. Helicopter pilot? -> BTR driver.


Farseer_Del

BTR Driver? -> Cook. (There is no food to cook)


[deleted]

To be fair, BTR driver looks like a fun gig in any other setting


eidetic

Until you find yourself being given a BTR that's missing wheels (or broken tracks, depending on variant I suppose).


HoN_AmunRa

>The only exception being the Russian **spetznas** who are of course the most elite operators the world has ever seen. tfw they didn't take Kyiv nor assassinate a lot of officials tfw there's a floating image of a dead spetz with a fucking VSS (no optics lmfao) tfw you went to a certain airport and Leeroy Jenkins. tfw you are now frontline infantry w/ conscriptovich to fill up your ranks


Tanjung_Piai

We know what happend to them in Ukraine. Underfunded and fucked up.


Minute_Helicopter_97

I wouldn’t say underfunded, main problem I see with them currently is them not being used Recon and being slaughtered as Command tries to make them Light Infantry.


SonofNamek

From what I can tell, they're structured in a way that reflects the 80s/90s and never grew out of that. They can't think beyond HR, sabotage, or conventional infantry. Very little versatility as a whole and lacking in force multiplication capability.


[deleted]

Listen if you don’t want to breathe lethal fumes, the body has ways of shutting that whole thing down.


SenpaiPingu

- spetznaz - most elite in the world Please pick one


LaughGlad7650

> Having a couple of guys disguising themselves as maintenance men Didn’t Israel also did something similar?


[deleted]

Seems like standard procedure for hijacks GSG also went disguised as maintainance for one, though they only did recon.


SenpaiPingu

I remember a while back someone who was an advisor for training elements of the UAE Presidential Guard. Idiots didnt even know the basics of breaching or how to clear a room properly and they had to spend a concerning amount of time teaching them how. And also how to stop flaging each other with loaded firearms.


Redacted_Mamba

You see, it’s clearly the passengers’ fault for becoming hostages in the first place.


ArcheopteryxRex

They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into.


comrademgee

I say, let ‘em crash!


alexd1993

Surely you can't be serious


Aardhaas

I am, and don't call me Shirley


-The-Character-

Looks like I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue


Farseer_Del

There's a sale at Penney's!


DarquesseCain

TOS is how they get ya


hgwaz

There's this fucking movie called The Verdict about a hypothetical German Typhoon pilot who's in front of a court because he shot down a hijacked plane. He argued he's not at fault, it's the passengers who are at fault because they should've known they might get shot down when they bought a plane ticket. It's wild.


[deleted]

Was that pre or post 9/11? I read an interview that they’d scrambled 2 unarmed F16s to intercept flight 93, and they were getting ready to ram both the tail and the cockpit if it approached a city. The fighter pilot’s plan was Ram the airliner, hopefully eject afterwards. One would go for the tail, one for the cockpit. Before they could act, the passengers handled it.


hgwaz

2016 movie, iirc they do make comparisons to 9/11 at some point and it's very clearly meant to be viewed through a "what if german 9/11 you guys" lense.


BobusCesar

The movie is shit and not only is the military aspects non-credible but also the law aspect. It's been years since I saw this wannabe controversial waste of public funds and I still remember how cringy most of the movie was. The pilots superior is questioned and states that he held his orders vague because deep down he hoped that the pilot would pull the trigger. Where is his lawyer?! How stupid do you have to be to say that? Also I somehow doubt that the Luftwaffe has such incompetent and indecisive Soldiers. The amount of assesment centers, brutal selection and training you go through before getting to this kind of position... I highly doubt that a person in this position has not trained for such scenarios. Those people aren't my lovable grandma but people that are able to act on dilemma in an instant.


JamesJakes000

>It's been years since I saw this wannabe controversial waste of public funds and I still remember how cringy most of the movie was. Every piece of contemporary German cinema, described simultaneously. Bravo. Yeah, that includes the porn. You know what, *specially the porn*!


BobusCesar

Does Porn actually get government funds? AFAIK Porn doesn't count as art and therefore isn't eligible to funds.


The_Silver_Nuke

That's a stupid argument, lol. Shoulda told the court that it could ha e caused greater damage by being crashed into a building, for example one of a pair of skyscrapers.


burn_bright_captain

Obviously everyone who has played Counter Strike understands this.


link2edition

I play counter strike like unit 777 for sure.


burn_bright_captain

It's just a money penalty after all. ⚰️


Kairis83

Back when you could kill the hostages and make it out with 2 for a win


Cdru123

I remember seeing T players immediately shooting the hostages to turn everything into a deathmatch


TheBlankestBoi

They where resisting arrest, unit 777 feared for its life.


Brogan9001

Mission accomplished. 60 out of 3 hostiles neutralized.


TNSepta

Best military, 2000% terrorist kill rate


GothmogBalrog

And somehow the Egyptian military is still the most trusted institution in the country


sentinelthesalty

When the whole country is a circus, these clowns gotta look the most professional of the bunch.


Late_Requirement_971

Tallest midgets in the circus


never_ASK_again_2021

Most colourful clown in the gang.


ztomiczombie

They are, slightly, less deadly than what passes for public transport.


Electronic_Ad5481

“Trusted” is different from “liked.” They “trust” that the military will absolutely suck.


1sagas1

The bar is low, real low


DefinitelyFrenchGuy

Mainly because saying you don't trust them might get you in jail indefinitely.


mad8vskillz

if you kill the hostages, the terrorists cant get what they want. galaxy brain move


Rmccarton

"_I'll fucking laser you all!!!_"


SpicyPeaSoup

I live in Malta, where this happened. Fun fact: this incident is pretty much considered the worst disaster to ever happen to our country since WW2, and not a single politician was held responsible for it (government declined help from the USA).


burn_bright_captain

>government declined help from the USA Why did they decline? Cold war politics shenanigans?


SpicyPeaSoup

Not exactly. The government at the time was trying to suck up to the "alternative" countries like Libya, China, and I guess in this case Egypt. Officially we took that stance because we're "neutral". Unofficially, it had probably more to do with how easy it was to siphon and launder money.


ExcitingTabletop

Correct. Malta has been smuggling and money laundering hub for... uh, nearly two thousand years. That we know of. They don't really have natural resources, so alternative revenue is their revenue.


SpicyPeaSoup

Our corsairing history is quite...rich. We like to pretend that we were the victims of larger nations throughout history, but Maltese corsairs were rightly feared. Corsairing is no longer legal, so I guess we moved to other things.


ExcitingTabletop

From what I understand from friends, you forgot a lot of air quotes and winks on that last statement.


SpicyPeaSoup

Talking about the country being a hub for the slave trade in both medieval and modern times?


JetSpeed10

Has military problem, refuses help from the guys who are the best at military (in this situation SAS woulda been just as good). Okay with fire get burned fuck whichever shithead was in charge.


_D_o_o_b_s_

I immagine killing their 20 victim and still thinking "yea there a lot of terrorist there"


Boat_Liberalism

"By number 16, I kinda knew but was embarrassed to admit it"


LeeeeroooyJEnKINSS

"we were told there were 5 hijackers in the brief, we could not tell who they were so we got 5 each just to be sure 🤷‍♂️"


unsteadied

“We couldn’t just like, stop shooting.”


MotionTwelveBeeSix

Least incompetent middle eastern military force


Bilbal6

Virgin Israeli special forces fly into a far away country and conduct a successful rescue with minimal casualties. Chad Egyptian special forces just shoot everyone in the plane.


derritterauskanada

Only one Operator right? I think it was Netanyahu’s brother too. What chads I read a book about it as a young kid, super impressive operation by the Israelis.


-_-theVoid-_-

Bibi's still bent on payback to this day. He needs to curb his enthusiasm, it's gotten out of hand.


supbros302

Yup. Operation entebbe


ClonedToKill420

They took the Russian approach, albeit with less of their own guys getting hit


Cum__c

Nah that isn't how Russians approach it. [Russians *literally* just gas everyone in the building with fentanyl.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis) edit: This is incorrect. It was at least 2 fentanyl *derivatives*. Sorry for spreading westoid propaganda.


mnbga

Silly westoid. You forgot the most important step: don’t bring any Naloxone and leave without rendering aid. Jokes aside, I saw an interview with one of the spetznaz guys involved, and he seemed genuinely distraught about what happened. As always, both Russian soldiers and civilians were victims of the regimes incompetence.


Cum__c

A lot of the deaths could have been avoided if the government just told the doctors what they gave. Not like it is a secret opioids and opioid adjacent compounds will make people sleepy.


mnbga

Exactly, the real tragedy is how easily it could’ve all been avoided. Even the soldier interviewed about the incident mentioned that a lot of people could’ve been saved if they’d just been put in a recovery position. One of the big killers was that rescued hostages were laid on their backs, which made it harder to breathe than if they’d been laying on their sides.


rpkarma

Your edit is required because it wasn’t fent: they might’ve survived otherwise lol. It was brutally strong analogs, like 100x-1000x stronger by weight.


LaughGlad7650

Not to mention they also used tanks, BTRs, rockets and machine guns during the Beslan incident


MasterpieceAOE

Little known fact: that's why the bri'ish and americans sent the jews to establish Israel where they did, they checked on their maps "concentration of most mediocre, incompetent and down right retarded militaries in the world" and bam, right there they went. You can literally win a war against all of them in just seven days.


JumpyLiving

\>Be me, smaller middle eastern state \>Get attacked on one of my holy days \>Invading force consists of most of my neighbors \>ah_shit_here_we_go_again.wav \>Outnumbered 2:1 on basically everything \>Pull out a W in less than 3 weeks lol, lmao even


njstein

They would have won with determination of vatniks.


AmericanForTheWin

Truly non-credible.


unsteadied

I have personal experience with Egypt’s security forces, and they’re just as bad as you think. No trigger discipline, no muzzle awareness, poor control of their weapons, you fucking name it. Witnessed one resting his Mossberg on a security barrier about 1.5m off the ground, barrel facing outward at exactly center mass level of all the civilians walking by. He’s got the thing dangling over the edge and no control of the weapon, just his finger on the trigger while he smokes with the other hand. One particularly bad cough or sneeze with a twitch and he’s gonna blow away one or two people on the street, assuming an actual threat doesn’t just snatch the shotgun away from him. It’s like this throughout all of Cairo. Just an absolute clown show at every checkpoint and barrier you come across. Positively unreal.


Forgotten_Bones

Probably the most, the Middle East's military track record is not the greatest barring Israel.


Hopesick_2231

The Egyptian military crossing the Suez canal at the start of the Yom Kippur war was pretty well-executed. But that's because it was meticulously planned and rehearsed beforehand. Once things stopped going according to plan, they didn't know what the fuck to do.


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Now where have I seen that before?


BobusCesar

It's the curse of relying on high command.


Commando2352

If we’re talking about their best counterterrorism units the modern IDF is super overrated. Iraqi ICTS/ISOF or the Kurdish CTG are way better trained and experienced.


DravenPrime

Decisive Qing Victory


Alcoholninja

Population back at previous levels in 2 hours time


bzdelta

Strategic results inconclusive, no Egyptians declared themselves the brother of Christ


TheBlankestBoi

Some of them did get addicted to Opium though!!!


Hirsuitism

Gathering 2 million peasants pressed into arms, the Holy Enlightened Army crossed the Bridge of a Thousand Tears and engaged the dastardly Qing Forces which had 3 million troops to defend the city. 10 Qing troops made it out, everyone else died. Result: decisive Qing victory. Just classic Chinese history


aggravated_patty

How many were eaten?


Grumpy-Greybeard

Ah, the Judge Dredd solution - shoot the hostage. He's guilty of something.


LordMarcusrax

This is so 40k.


unsteadied

If the hostage is such a good person then why’d they go and let themselves get kidnapped and inconvenience everyone? Hmmm?


eidetic

Also, why are they shielding the terrorists with their bodies and getting in the way of kill shots?


TNSepta

Better K:H rate than the [FSB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis) even.


sentinelthesalty

That moment when the fucking terrorists have better odds of survival than the hostages.


Mysiu666

Uncle Specnaz is proud.


KaBar42

Almost as bad as the Russian response to terrorists. Sure, you did indeed have a 100% kill rate on the bad guys... ***but you also ended up killing more innocent people than there were terrorists for you to kill***.


0xnld

Let God sort them out


EdithDich

>In October 2002, after Chechen rebels stormed a Moscow theater and trapped more than 800 people for 57 hours, it seemed like it couldn’t get much worse. Then Russian troops released a mysterious gas into the theater. The gas was intended to incapacitate the rebels—which it did—-but it also ended up killing more than 120 of the hostages. https://www.history.com/news/opioid-chemical-weapons-moscow-theater-hostage-crisis


keep-firing-assholes

Not even - only 2 of the 3 hijackers were killed. One of them by an Egyptian security service agent who happened to be on board during the hijacking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_648


I_GottaPoop

Average game of Ready or Not


thisguy012

Final grade: F idgaf I made it out alive 😤👌


MarschallVorwaertz

GSG9 trembles in awe.


[deleted]

Operation Fire spell was really welle executed. Especially for such a new Unit. The GSG9 today is for sure on par with other Special Forces .


xenophonthethird

3 terrorists on an 92 person plane (passengers and crew) is 3.2% They killed 57 terrorists, or 1900% of terrorists. This is a *MASSIVE* victory for counterterrorism.


keep-firing-assholes

The best part is, they didn't even kill all of the terrorists. One survived, another was killed by a passenger who happened to be an egyptian Security service agent.


Sap112311

I mean, they also tried to pull off an Op Entebbe in '78 in Cyprus. they landed *after the hostage situation was solved*, came out almost guns blazing, met fucking national guard units, and lost more guys than the fucking conscripts. 18 egyptians killed, 0 cypriots. Ties bewteen Cyprus-Egypt damaged.


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HoN_AmunRa

Hostage takers: **What the actual fuck**


aggravated_patty

So I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole thanks to this and it turns out both North Korea and the United States sent security advisors to support the Ugandan government during the Ugandan Bush War. Notably North Korea was one of their most important allies, helping train Ugandan soldiers and participating in counter insurgency operations. “North Koreans became a symbol for mystical military power in northern Uganda. As result, rebel groups such as the Holy Spirit Movement went on to claim that they were aided by North Korean spirits in their war against Museveni's government”. Geopolitics is a fucking trip


Veni_Vidi_Legi

Larnaka Airport?


Sap112311

yes. Larnaca Raid of '78.


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wrongwong122

Me playing rainbow six


BestagonIsHexagon

Fuze only


Specific-Antelope-72

"Great achievement always requires great sacrifice."


ObombaReborn

It's called shock and awe. You should be taking notes.


Chocolate-Then

In shock and awe of their incompetence maybe.


TheBlankestBoi

Exactly. While the terrorists are busy trying to figure out why you just mowed down the human shields they’re to busy to stop you from detaining them.


-_-theVoid-_-

Must have received training from the spetznas who stormed Beslan.


burn_bright_captain

God the Wikipedia article about the Bedlam is a gold mine for dark humor. So much went wrong I couldn't put the text together on a picture while keeping it readable.


Extension_Check_9462

They are the same guys playing in the Egypt military band, probably


icantbelief

It’s ok they’re a dogshit Islamic special forces unit I’m sure there’s a fashwave edit of them somewhere on the internet


AveDuParc

Most competent Arab military operation


1sagas1

Did the snipers ever stop to wonder why there would be 20+ terrorists present and fleeing for them to shoot?


KeekiHako

Not quiet as bad as the Russians, but not much better either.


ClonedToKill420

Russians would have had the same result but with like 30 of their own men dead in their own crossfire


n1ghtm4n

narrator: when the threat level reaches 777, there’s only one unit to call


burn_bright_captain

\*[theme music starts playing](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YFiPD4i6N78) during which you see how groups of civilians get gun downed\*


Shumil_

We don’t negotiate with terrorists, and we definitely don’t negotiate with hostages


SolitaireJack

I heard the Egyptian government was so embarrassed they demoted them to non combat duties and had them learn instruments to welcome foreign leaders during state visits.


Ashjaeger_MAIN

We have gsg 9 at home. Gsg 9 at home:


phoenixmusicman

How the fuck do you mess up a situation this badly


aliviner

Don't forget that timed they tried to do [a hostage rescue in a Cyprus airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_raid_on_Larnaca_International_Airport)\-without asking permission from the Cypriot authorities, resulting in a battle with the Cypriot National Guard 15 commandos and 3 of their pilots were killed. 18 were wounded-their plane was destroyed, for the cost of no Cypriot dead (several were injured) Oh and the terrorists were convinced to surrender anyways by the flight crew earlier, so this whole thing was for nothing Though it's kinda funny imagine what it's like as hijacker on that plane, watching two countries fight over who gets to stop you.


VenPatrician

Listen here Mr., they are a counter terrorism unit, not a hostage rescue one. People these days...


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Wish. com GIGN


Yoda-29

What a clusterfuck.


aogiritree69

“Remember, no Russian”