Jon
Technical Lead, Customer Support
Reged: 04/08/04
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Ramadi-Fallujah Highway, Iraq
Improvised explosive devices are claiming more coalition lives than any other weapon being used in Iraq today, and insurgents are seizing what may be their only chance at leveling the battlefield. The rudimentary IED has a long, bloody history of effectiveness. Makeshift explosive devices helped drive the Israelis out of Lebanon and the Soviets out of Afghanistan. They were also used against US soldiers in Vietnam. But the sheer number of successful IED attacks in Iraq is unparalleled.
In soda cans, on telephone poles, attached to curbsides, inside dead animals, and even on human corpses, improvised explosive devices litter the Iraqi landscape, maiming and killing soldiers and civilians in every city. The epidemic surge in IEDs has cost the US government hundreds of millions of dollars and countless, precious man-hours in learning to combat the brutal and relentless threat.
The lifelines of the US-led coalition, its supply convoys, are particularly at risk for IED attacks. Military vehicle routes are easy to predict, and convoys are ambushed often. They are now witnessing daisy-chains -- strings of IEDs connected together to defeat US convoy tactics and create massive kill zones. Where IEDs were once a precursor to small-arms fire, they are increasingly being used as a stand-in for insurgents’ direct attacks.
In this week’s Kuma News report, Jacki Schechner talks to Major General Thomas L. Wilkerson, CEO of the United States Naval Institute, who explains how insurgents have succeeded against the world’s most powerful armed force with simple “asymmetric” tactics like IEDs. And Dante Anderson, Kuma’s Head of Product Development, discusses the weapons, tactics, and vehicles you’ll use in a single-player patrol and the stunningly accurate re-creation of convoy operations you will experience in multiplayer.
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ToeKnee
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Reged: 07/23/04
Posts: 7
Loc: SC USA
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Any guess on when this may becoming available?
I'm ready for the challange 
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pistolone
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Reged: 10/26/04
Posts: 16
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same here! when are u guys gonna upload it?
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himself1
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Reged: 11/07/04
Posts: 1339
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I see the mission is available for trial for new Kuma subscribers on the www.kumawar.com page, where i first signed up. So maybe it will be soon. The movie builds even more anticipation for those of us that love coop.
Cant Wait!!!!
Hook us up KUMA!!!!!!!!
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jax
Reged: 03/11/04
Posts: 203
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should be up now
btw, when it's up on the website, it's just the content. you have to be a subscriber to actually get the game. so no one gets it b4 you guys! 
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Jax
Kuma Reality Games
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himself1
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Reged: 11/07/04
Posts: 1339
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Cool thanx Jax!!!
Map is cool but itz gonna be hard to top Mission 27.
Coop is definately fun!!
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Hawker
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Reged: 11/29/04
Posts: 20
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Nice mission enjoy it defintley good for multiplayer.Only thing is, it would be nice if vehicles had an interior out view so driver can see road.Ever seen the game operation Flashpoint Jon? kewl older but kewl game, they have some nice trucks and humvee packs and you get an inside view like from driver seat with ur steering wheel and the windhield or outside view . If you move the mouse, you can look right or left.Just a thought not putting down your hard work,this is a very enjoyable mission.I think the interior view would just add more immersion to it also in vehicle missions.
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