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Not to detract from the point that's being made, but most of those photos weren't close to equivalent.

A guy sitting on top of an armored car with a 5.56 carbine isn't the same as someone manning a pintle-mounted 7.62 NATO medium machinegun. Likewise, a guy with a scoped AR-10 (looks like 7.62 NATO) isn't the same as a guy with an M-82 (.50 BMG).

The vehicle in the last photo looks like a bread truck with some steel plates on it, painted black -- and the one in Iraq isn't an MRAP as the caption says, but has a Mk 19 grenade launcher on top of it.




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