Siege of Jadotville (Film)

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I wrote a bit on it earlier Sentry just a couple of farcical bits 1. Sniping the man in the suit at @ 300yds with a single load of the Bren by the section Sniper from the roof using the normal sights 2. The single post only No.32 scope on the sniper rifle in an earlier scene you glimpse part of the horizontal line remnants through the scope later in the film it is completely gone.

You know, I had thought I had seen discussion of it somewhere here, I did a few keyword searches for the discussion and came up empty handed, I concluded I must have read it on the other gun forum, and started a new topic.

There a lot of little things that weren't quite right, like Full Auto fire from the FAL/SLR, did the Irish have the full auto FAL or did they issue the Semi-auto version like UK/Canada?

But really I found it told a story rather well.

Shows how bad a shot the congo's and leigonair's are. They said No Irish were killed. Amazing.
Shows what following orders and a good leader can do.

Historically doesn't this always seem to be the case in most conflicts in Africa, a well trained professional contingent is attacked by vastly superior numbers of irregulars and locals, to fight then to either stalemate or a very costly loss. A good defensive plan, with proper tactics and discipline have been shown to cost attackers dearly for a piece of ground.