Hi 84, your wrong, Patriots while not being the raving success they claimed during the 1991 Gulf War did shoot down Scuds and I recall watching CNN live and seeing the Patriot going up to connect with incoming Scud on more then one occasion. While the .50 rifle has a place on the battle field to "sell" it as its "reason for being" as a AMR is, and I stand by this, nonsense. The statement of lighting a drum of oil and driving off a few miles also does not hold water and the Iraqis went to great lengths to hide the launch vehicles and generally lived in fear of being bombed. Poster 94, I am not even going to entertain a response to your..........whatever you want to call that. To recap folks the .50 does have a role and place on the battle field, yes it can shoot holes in "things" (read trucks, helicopters, AC and according to 94 blow up tanks with a single shot to the tracks BTW 94 did you watch to much "Rat Patrol" as kid?) its the flogging the .50 as a "AMR" that is just salesmanship that I refuse to buy into.
Lastly I think one hell of a lot more JDAMs have been delivered to Libya Vs .50 cal sniper fire
Lastly I think one hell of a lot more JDAMs have been delivered to Libya Vs .50 cal sniper fire