re: BREAKING Explosions heard in #Iraq Green Zone (Arabiya). Mayadeen (pro Iran) reporting Roc

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I assume it's the 107.


Who dat?

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Chinese-made 107mm rockets have been the rocket of choice of third-world insurgents for several decades now. They were ubiquitous in Iraq - it's not an exaggeration that there are (or were) tens or hundreds of thousands of those things floating around Iraq.

Almost every rocket attack that I experienced was with 107's. They usually aren't very destructive - among other reasons, our CRAM systems are good - and serve as much of a symbolic purpose as actually trying to hit and hurt Americans. I am pretty sure there have been at least a half a dozen if not more such attacks on Americans there just in the last month; it was a daily occurrence during certain periods of the war (and they shot all the damn time at the Embassy and GZ), as well.

In other words, kind of a big ol' yawn.