ORIGINAL: gladiatt
Well, if i can highjack this thread on a not serious way...
Just for fun, the french MEDIA ( here, the important and funny word is MEDIA [;)] )
usually know nothing about it.
Look at a video in irak/afghanistan/africa/elsewhere with fightings.
The mortar are called "heavy artillery" [8|]
The light machines-guns are called "light-cannon" [8|]
The rocket-launcher are called bazooka or missiles" [8|]
i even heard some howitzer called "heavy-anti-tank-cannon" [8|][8|][8|]
i think the reporters should have done their time of Military service, this would avoid those stupid comments [;)]
It's not just French "journalist". Do you recall a couple of years ago the AP reporter who held a handfull of unfired rounds and said that they had been fired at a woman's house? [X(][8|][:(]