British SBS special forces kill ISIS fighters with bare hands, rocks, knives

That article reads like a Hollywood movie

Insane though. Good for them.

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Hope it's true, but sounds fake.

So 3 essentially unarmed guys charged 30 guys who had guns and they killed 12 of them and none of the 3 were killed?

I don't see how it's possible.

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Perhaps it was as Allah wills it?

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So 3 essentially unarmed guys charged 30 guys who had guns and they killed 12 of them and none of the 3 were killed?

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No, the story is believable, although amazing. You misread the numbers of the force, it wasn't a 3 man team.

From wikipedia, to establish team size

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In 1987, when renamed the Special Boat Service, the SBS was also reformed along SAS lines, with 16 man troops instead of the traditional sections

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From the article

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Miraculously, everyone of the Brits survived despite all of the proud men sustaining injuries

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so assuming a full team, that's a 16 man group still intact.

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All but two of them returned to combat within a matter of days following the incredible incident.

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This also definitely indicates a number larger than 3, as it would be easier and more normal to just say "one man"

So a 16 man special forces group is attacked by 50 fighters, kills 20 with guns, then rushes the survivors while shooting their remaining ammo

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They ran towards the depraved militants while firing off their remaining bullets

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possibly hitting some more, and creating chaos.

That gives you a 1 vs 2 ratio, 2 ISIS dudes vs a Brit elite special forces guy who doesn't intend to be taken alive at any cost.

Speaking from the perspective of NOT being special forces, I'd want NO PART of being on the opposing side. You could give me 30 MMA fighters and hand them AKs, and I would not like their chances against, say, 16 SBS, SEAL, Spetsnaz etc guys whose goal is to kill or be killed, no surrender. And I'm pretty comfortable that the ISIS guys don't all match up to be MMA fighters, probably just a lot of regular dudes.

edited to add: the fact that the SBS team shot about 40% of the ISIS fighters (20 of 50), indicates this was not a very organized group, to begin with. So they weren't highly trained or prepared.

Propaganda.

Isis cowards run in the face of brave fighting men instead of unarmed, untrained men and women and children shows their true colors. I wish Obama would have given the order for our guys to wipe them out when they were in the desert convey headed to take over Mosul years ago. Just consider what the "JV" team has caused for people all over the world. Disgusting!

The rescue of the little girl and others by former Special Forces officer Dave Ubank was amazing! Thank God for people like him and the others with him. I am in awe of these people.

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The rescue of the little girl and others by former Special Forces officer Dave Ubank was amazing! Thank God for people like him and the others with him. I am in awe of these people.

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Yes the day to day of special services is pretty insane, its like Hollywood shite all the time.

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Yes the day to day of special services is pretty insane, its like Hollywood shite all the time.

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Met some in Oman. They taught me how to play Ninja, Hunter, Bear.

I just reread the article, and there is never a mention of just 3 Brits. In the entire course of the story, the only use of "three" in any way:

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another Brit soldier killed three militant thugs using his rifle as a club

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Also, keep the numbers in mind as you read this:

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being outnumbered and encircled after being ambushed by around 50 ISIS fighters

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After killing at least 20 of the terrorists, the elite group realised they had around 10 bullets left between them

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while charging the remaining 30 ISIS thugs

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Again- SBS team is generally 16 men. No casualties that took one out of the fight, so that number remained (assuming it was a full team, and we don't have any reason to think it wasn't).
If they were encircled, that spreads the ISIS guys completely around them. You take 20 out, that leave 30 men spread around 16.

A group rush is actually going to give the numbers advantage to the SBS team... there's no sense in rushing a massed area when you could kill 3 guys and break out. You're not surrounded if you have open avenues to escape, so the ISIS guys were spread thin.
So the SBS guys rushed an area enmasse, and killed those there and any ISIS guys who converged to close the gap. The other ISIS guys saw the odds dwindling, and wanted no part of an even fight.

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Miraculously, everyone of the Brits survived despite all of the proud men sustaining injuries. At least two of the brave fighters received gun shot wounds.

They eventually walked five miles before hitching a ride back to an SAS base with a Kurdish soldier.

All but two of them returned to combat within a matter of days following the incredible incident.

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1)get surrounded and run out of ammo.
2)Kill a lot of people with your bare hands, rocks, and your rifle butt.
3)get shot while doing 2).
4)go on a five mile hike after 2) and 3).
5)return to work in a few days
6)profit??