Documentary Mistakes ArmA 2 Clip For Real Combat Video

[maturin]

Lol the IRA with AA weaponry. Use I'm sure they were able to hide that in the back of someone's house in one of the shitty ghetto in the North of Ireland. Seriously thought the only thing like this that the IRA ever had to my knowledge was AA missiles that were homemade from Boston and they were caught with those eventually. I am fairly sure they never imported AA of this type from Libya(It was thought but never confirmed). They did get ground to air Stinger type stuff from Lybia but not a proper mounted AA gun to my knowledge.

They used mounted 12.7mm guns that were technically anti-aircraft weapons, but never actual autocannons like in the video.

 

[thirion1850]

They're now on a crusade to get all the videos off Youtube. Silly tards.

 

[Pyrian]

If they're telling the truth and it's just the wrong video, it's probably something a peon put in as a placeholder, and then people forgot or didn't notice that the placeholder was still in, in the final. ...Happens.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

You know that, somewhere out there, Jack Thompson or one of his many mentally-deficient followers are going to be using this story as an argument for why video games are evil and are corrupting our nation's youth.

 

[Rotating Bread]

Thought I'd point out that this event did actually happen, although the real event was somewhat less dramatic than the Arma 2 footage suggests.

In 1988 A British Army Lynx helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing after being hit by the IRA using a heavy machine gun thought to be supplied by Gaddafi's Libya.

 

[Callate]

Guardian Headline: Video Games Cause Journalists To Make Inaccurate Reports

 

[sleeky01]

And now the clip has been removed.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Lol the IRA with AA weaponry. Use I'm sure they were able to hide that in the back of someone's house in one of the shitty ghetto in the North of Ireland. Seriously thought the only thing like this that the IRA ever had to my knowledge was AA missiles that were homemade from Boston and they were caught with those eventually. I am fairly sure they never imported AA of this type from Libya(It was thought but never confirmed). They did get ground to air Stinger type stuff from Lybia but not a proper mounted AA gun to my knowledge.

They used mounted 12.7mm guns that were technically anti-aircraft weapons, but never actual autocannons like in the video.

Well that's what I mean. They had stuff like that and a couple of Strella 7s I think it was and maybe a Stinger but they never actually got one of those into the country.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

It's no secret that the Provisional Irish Republican Army was supported by many foreign individuals and governments over the years, including Moammar Gaddafi's Libya in the 1970s and 80s.

Know who else funded and armed the IRA? The good old United States of America. Cheers for that one guys.

On topic: I do find that this puts a hilarious new spin on the current military shooter craze we're going through. Call Of Duty and Battlefield are duking it out over which is the better military experience, but it's Arma 2 that gets mistaken for real life war footage.

Got to love the underdog.

The IRA wasn't always a terrorist group although the Provisional IRA only lasted for about 28ish years I think with a formal disbandment at about 33ish years. So you really need to specify which IRA group you are talking about like the article does. I am just saying you really need to specify as THE IRA was the original one with many splits after that.

 

[Exocet]

I...What...you can see the truck jumping up due to physics fail,and the gunner never moving,even when the gun is firing...
How can anyone mistake this for a real video clip?

 

[Ryuzaki]

You can easily tell that the clip is fake by the fact that everyone in the helicopter seemed to parachute out as soon as it was hit.
As the video clip on the story seems to have been removed here it is again. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDeipvpjGQ&feature=player_embedded]
This clip may be fake, but the event is not.
Here is a video of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNj43S9sE&feature=player_detailpage], probably similar to the one ITV meant to broadcast.

 

[rapidoud]

ArmA: Shitting over BF series since OFP.

Seriously, BF3 is just filler until ArmA 3, it's like real men using VIM instead of visual basic (I know basic is 1 language).