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It's back! Some of you might remember it from the FileFront forums but now we got it here too, after receiving a PM from Rawhide I friendly asked Lightning and he gave us green light :)
Anyway, post those awesome WW1, Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Kosovo, etc, etc. pictures!
Post your interesting / amusing / remarkable war photographs in this thread.
The rules are:
- One picture per member per day.
- All wars are allowed to be posted except for World War Two related pictures.
- Only posts with pictures and discussing the pictures are allowed.
- Posts in violation of these rules will be deleted without warning.
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Canadians playing, uhm, sand hockey in Afghanistan, found it quite funny.
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5845/serverav5.jpg)
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(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5613/unpcfin.jpg)
Finnish peacekeeper eating rye bread, Suez 1956. Notice the kp/44 "Peltiheikki" sub machine gun.
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(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2158/01jpgs.jpg)
First series of helicopters arriving at Saigon. 33 with 400 crewman.
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It's back! Some of you might remember it from the FileFront forums but now we got it here too, after receiving a PM from Rawhide I friendly asked Lightning and he gave us green light :)
Anyway, post those awesome WW1, Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Kosovo, etc, etc. pictures!
Post your interesting / amusing / remarkable war photographs in this thread.
The rules are:
- One picture per member per day.
- All wars are allowed to be posted except for World War Two related pictures.
- Only posts with pictures and discussing the pictures are allowed.
- Posts in violation of these rules will be deleted without warning.
Is it coincidence that I just mentioned this in the other PoTD thread, eh, Fuchsy?'
Also, English soldiers going over the top at Gallipoli.
(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_02/gallipoliL1904_468x289.jpg)
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Christmas time in Afghanistan :P
(http://tietokannat.mil.fi/data/2849/3.jpg)
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(http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/hpbilleder/05.jpg)
Danish soldiers rush their mortally wounded comrade to an American medevac. Helmand Province, Afganistan.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3139/2916900661_f51a52c20a.jpg)
Swedish soldiers in Afghanistan faces some troubles they are used to from back home, except with sand instead of snow.
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First series of helicopters arriving at Saigon. 33 with 400 crewman.
^ Piasecki CH-21C Shawnee.
Danish soldiers rush their mortally wounded comrade to an American medevac. Helmand Province, Afganistan.
^ HH-60G Pave Hawk.
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First series of helicopters arriving at Saigon. 33 with 400 crewman.
^ Piasecki CH-21C Shawnee.
Vertol, not Piasecki.
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(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1815/dd2h4z1.jpg)
B Flight 63 Squadron (Queen's Colour Squadron) RAF Regiment on patrol around Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan
[Picture: SAC Neil Chapman, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
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Sorry about the stupid copyrighting text...but it really is a cool photo of a WW1 german MG bunker on the Western Front, circa 1916/7:
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7259/pcmg0821.jpg)
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Vertol, not Piasecki.
Piasecki became Vertol.
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(http://d.yimg.com/i/ng/ne/afp/20090720/20/167588481-somalia-s-hardline-islamists-raid-un-offices.jpg)
Somalian Civil War
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(http://www.aircav.com/dodphoto/dod00/mi24-006rs.jpg)
A MI-24 hind D in afghanistan. Impressive looking beasts. Saw 2 of these landing right in front of me, at Kleine Brogel AFB, after Sanicole Airshow
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(http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/images/cabinetpapers/he2a03-bf000365-main.jpg)
A 25-pounder field gun of New Zealand artillery detachment opens fire in support of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Korean War, 1950.
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Royal%20Marines/RM1.jpg)
Old school meats new school!
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(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk295/zingdan/50%20Best%20Pictures%20of%20Photography%20World/34.jpg)
- First Gulf War, the American soldier crying over the fact that it's his buddy in the body bag.
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Bare chested medics trying to save a wounded soldier, Korea 1950.
(http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/imgs/Korean_War_operation.jpg)
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(http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/hpbilleder/05.jpg)
Danish soldiers rush their mortally wounded comrade to an American medevac. Helmand Province, Afganistan.
Was this back in 2006? Musa Qaleh?
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(http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/hpbilleder/05.jpg)
Danish soldiers rush their mortally wounded comrade to an American medevac. Helmand Province, Afganistan.
Was this back in 2006? Musa Qaleh?
It was a week ago. He was killed by small arms fire while on patrol.
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French observer , Hirtzbach Woods, Haut-Rhin, France, 1917
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/WWI-French-trench-Hirtzbach-Woods-16-June-1917.jpg)
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Bare chested medics trying to save a wounded soldier, Korea 1950.
(http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/imgs/Korean_War_operation.jpg)
That picture was taken somewhere in the Pacific. Bougainville I believe, or maybe Cape Gloucester.
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Hmong rebel, Laos. Got himself an M16 funded by the CIA.
(http://i.timeinc.net/time/asia/photoessays/laos/images/thumb.jpg)
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Green Berets Captain Larry Thorne aka. Lauri Törni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_T%C3%B6rni) in 'Nam
(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9708/lauritrfr0.jpg)
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Some infantrymen examine a catch between overrun british lines somewhere between Bapaume and Arras.
(http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dev03/barchpic/2008/07-23/ea/a9/52/athene-5jfbi8it7hkinwwaojn_layout.jpg)
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(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8729/ljc.jpg)
Lumberjack Commandos of the Canadian special operations regiment.
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(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8729/ljc.jpg)
Lumberjack Commandos of the Canadian special operations regiment.
aahhhhwww,your mother was a beaver!!
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Collection of weapens confiscated in Afganistan by the russians in 1983
(http://englishrussia.com/images/afghanistan_1983/2.jpg)
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(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8729/ljc.jpg)
Lumberjack Commandos of the Canadian special operations regiment.
These fellows are from a long past tradition called "Pioneers", that picture is from Bosnia somewhere (probably Vuk)
They are not fucking lumberjacks, nor are they part of special forces, now was their mother a goddamn beaver.
If you kids insist on necroing bullcrap threads from FF at the very least provide accurate citations that properly represent these characters. Google isn't hard to use and if you won't put in that kind of effort to learn, why are you wasting our time by misrepresenting images?
Given the lack of knowledge imparted, this thread does not deserve to be stickied at all. I propose that the moderators remove this thread from permanent display as long as there are major issues with proper documentation and citation.
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Lumberjack commando, desert version
(http://www.crossfitbalboa.com/uploads/balboa/image/Erin(1).jpg)
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Finnish Leopard 2A4's launching a smoke screen:
(http://tietokannat.mil.fi/maavoimat_kuvapankki/include/thumbnail.php?id=106&width=640)
stop being a fanboy douchebag. if we are going to see this thread as a sticky, at the very least it could provide information and insight like the Original Picture of the day thread tries to.
Yeah way to go posting 7 stupid posts without pictures, and 4 of then in a row, twit.
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(http://mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_9832/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~9832~N%C3%A4r%20fordonet%20%C3%A4r%20under%20eldgivning%20och%20blir%20utslaget%20b%C3%B6r%20det%20evakueras%20s%C3%A5%20snabbt%20som%20m%C3%B6jligt.)
Swedish Officers training combat from light vehicles
And Sheik: I see why you didn't like rep feature
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I like that Landrover (?)...... rather a hummer in combat though.
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(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5548/lumberjacksfuckyeah.jpg)
I can't tell much about this except it's late ww1.
From what I've learned in this thread however, these are FUCKING CANADIAN LUMBERJACK COMMANDOS YEAH Canadian Pioneers. I don't know whether this is in Bosnia or somewhere else, but I sure do hope I do not compromise information concerning and operational context with this picture, I sure don't mean to blow up the operation in case it's still running. If so, the canadian government may send me a PM and I'll take the picture down.
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Holy fuck, Sheik... anyway, though I always (maybe) try to be humble, I can never resist posting the picture of my great-grand uncle, who won the VC posthumously at Cambrai in 1917.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/VCJamesSamuelEmerson.jpg)
His citation reads: For repeated acts of most conspicuous bravery. He led his company in an attack and cleared 400 yards of trench. Though wounded, when the enemy attacked in superior numbers, he sprang out of the trench with eight men and met the attack in the open, killing many and taking six prisoners. For three hours after this, all other Officers having become casualties, he remained with his company, refusing to go to the dressing station, and repeatedly repelled bombing attacks. Later, when the enemy again attacked in superior numbers, he led his men to repel the attack and was mortally wounded. His heroism, when worn out and exhausted from loss of blood, inspired his men to hold out, though almost surrounded, till reinforcements arrived and dislodged the enemy.
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(http://photos.upi.com/slideshow/lbox/96be548217231f13d13b025e449f336f/Medvedev-Putin-Victory-Day.jpg)
Sherman tanks during the Battle of the Bulge.
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Geez sheik chill out, your giving Canada a bad name all on your own overreacting. Hell the Canadian Forces are joked about at home way more then on the internet.
Example...
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b366/misterjj1/CanadianArmy.jpg)
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(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/546/An_Albanian_soldier.jpg)
An Albanian soldier and an Italian Marine from the San Marco Regiment fire their weapons together on an Albanian firing range during a live-fire exercise
Albanian- Wee we haz army ^^
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Italnato2.jpg)
Member of the 8th Bersaglieri Infantry, Garibaldi Bersaglieri Brigade. I love that they still wear the ostrich plumes xD
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A painting worth post it.
(http://i33.tinypic.com/2mrcmll.jpg)
Honour: A painting of Corporal Bryan Budd, 29, was commissioned by The 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment after he was killed in Afghanistan storming a Taliban position in 2006
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz0SOri0KMk
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(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4443/evstafievsarajevobuildi.jpg)
Scenes from the Siege of Sarajevo.
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(http://www.cslacker.com/images/file/mediums/stop_that.jpg)
And I mean it too :)
I want more pictures and less arguing, think you people can do that for me?
Cookies are involved :*
To keep this thread going, I don't have any stuff of Iceland in a war, but I do have a photo of two F4 Phantoms doing Patrol Over Iceland, and I suppose that will have to do :)
(http://www.verslo.is/baldur/1024/F4_flight_morsar_024.jpg)
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These guys don't like the smell of napalm in the morning, as they all look a bit afraid and confused.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OKIy-1Xczuc/SN_FIPoKJ8I/AAAAAAAAAVw/uJhJmqyIFUE/des-chemical+warfare.jpg)
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The world's first attempt at a guided missile:
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9989/missilej.gif)
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(http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/hpbilleder/090809_isaf_jgk_002_b.jpg)
Danish SF Jaegers in the Green Zone in Helmand Provine, Afghaistan - Maybe observing Canadian Lumberjack commandos in the thick brush...
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^
(http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/8986/01020126766300.jpg)
A priest talking to Georgian troops during the Georgian-Russian conflict. Note the US uniforms with MARPAT pattern.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/MACV_Compound_Duster_Post-Tet_Feb.,_1968.jpg/400px-MACV_Compound_Duster_Post-Tet_Feb.,_1968.jpg)
M 42 Duster, MACV compound at Quang Tri City, February 1968.
It was the only Self-propelled AA gun of the Americans. It provided decent protection from MiG-17 fighter bombers, but this AA vehicle found its purpose in firing at NVA troops. It HE shell(Twin bofors ftw) and high ROF made the NVA hate this vehicle
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(http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1025/vietnamtunnel.jpg)
An infantryman is lowered into a tunnel during "Operation Oregon", 1967
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Awesome picture Schneider! it's probably noisy and hot inside so most of the crew went outside, hehe.
Maybe! :) However it seems that back than already riding on a tank was a nice way of taxiing for infantry (though the would have probably been faster on foot ;) ).
As seen below - there are no further information provided where exactly it is, but it has been shot in July 1918.
(http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dev03/barchpic/2007/11-26/0c/b1/f8/athene-5hl05d0yuswyuynbbe_layout.jpg)
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It was indeed a nice way to lift but inside the A7V it was very noisy and very hot because of that engine and if your just the MG gunner or loader you use your brains and climb out. Remember it was a crew of 18 :P First picture you posted has 11 men on top, this one 12. So around 6 are needed to keep it running?
Great picture of a tunnel rat Sturm, have to continue on that.
Tunnel rats! Armed with a Colt and a flashlight these where send in to search for Charlie.
(http://actionflickchick.com/superaction/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tunnelratsvienam1vivv1.jpg)
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Leopard 2a6m is afghanistan
Anyone know what the grills on the side are for?
(http://www.armyrecognition.com/customer/thierry/canada/leopard2a6m_12.jpg)
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(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1204/richthofen.jpg)
The 'Ringmaster' of the 'Flying Circus' - Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen climbs into the cockpit of the Albatros D.III he flew in early 1917. The aircraft's fuselage and tail unit were overpainted with a somewhat translucent coat of red, which partially obscured the fuselage cross. The serial number of this machine remains mystery, the centrally-mounted radiator in the top wing indicating that it was an earlier number than D.2200/16, and thus not the D.III D.789/17 he flew in June. Richthofen's bulky fur flying boots necessitated the use of the stepladder
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Russian HIND flying over its' own units in Georgia, that's all the information that I could recuperate. But it's definitely one of the nicest HIND pictures I've been able to aquire.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/andersjg/1.jpg
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/MACV_Compound_Duster_Post-Tet_Feb.,_1968.jpg/400px-MACV_Compound_Duster_Post-Tet_Feb.,_1968.jpg)
M 42 Duster, MACV compound at Quang Tri City, February 1968.
It was the only Self-propelled AA gun of the Americans. It provided decent protection from MiG-17 fighter bombers, but this AA vehicle found its purpose in firing at NVA troops. It HE shell(Twin bofors ftw) and high ROF made the NVA hate this vehicle
The US Army had no threat from MiG-17 fighter bombers during the Vietnam War as the North Vietnamese air force was entirely dedicated to air defense and did not fly close air support missions. I don't know if air defense was the original rationale for deploying the M42 to Vietnam, but it saw excellent service as an infantry support weapon.
A few MiG-17's where briefly used as Fighter bombers. The M42 duster was send to Vietnam because the MIM Hawk SAM was terrible at low altitude. But as later the entire NVA airforce was used as Airdefense( you are correct) the M42 lost its air defense role, and was used as a Gun platform against ground targets, in wich it earned its fame and its nickname
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Coca-Cola please resize your pictures! I have 23" screen and it fills my whole screen, can't imagine how it is to look it with 17" or 18".
I'm fine, the forum hosts can be a bit more proactive and get some scripting that resizes pictures. If they take it down, I'll just post the link.
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Here is an awesome collection of China's 60th celebration of communism rule. Not exactly a war but still a very good bunch of photos.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/china_celebrates_60_years.html
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Why do they have ball sacks on their faces?
(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/china60_10_01/c34_20573551.jpg)
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US Snipers. No further info available.
(http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5787/015m.jpg)
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Intresting, assuming those are M21's.. I never saw a suppresor on onebefore..
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http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/china60_10_01/c26_20574387.jpg
I want one.
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http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/china60_10_01/c13_20571931.jpg
At least with a camo pattern like this they can only invade places in the tropics.
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Another Russian HIND in Georgia, love these helicopters.
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/andersjg/PotD/3.jpg)
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Gotta love those hinds 2. Very nice flying machines
Time for a little picture taken by myself.
The Breitling team(Flying L-39 Albatrosses) on the "Parralel" second runway at Kleine Brogel, during Sanicole airshow
(http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5884/sanicole2009100.jpg)
Made alot of pictures their. Including the B-17 "Sally B", the Red bull aviation P-38, B-25 and F4U Corsair.
I first was shocked to see those warbirds in................full chrome with the redbull logo on it. But when i found out that Red bull salvaged these planes, to make them back airworthy, i guess they got my support their
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(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9075/aloysheldmann.jpg)
Vfw Aloys Heldmann appears properly nonchalant after his "Damenladung" (Ladies' landing) in Albatros D.II D.490/16 in his early days of Jasta 10. Heldmann was one of the first members of this Staffel, and he gave sterling service in the unit throught to end of the war, twice filling the role of acting commander. He ended the war with 15 confirmed victories, and lived to be one of the last survivors of the Geschwader.
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(http://vietnamphotography.com/images/0143.jpg)
USN F-8 Crusader taking off during the vietnam war
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(http://www.fototime.com/40057CCAF7E91A8/standard.jpg)
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Swedish troops in Congo, 61.
(http://pici.se/pictures/BtlhgSTAw.png)
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/USAF_F-16A_F-15C_F-15E_Desert_Storm_edit2.jpg/800px-USAF_F-16A_F-15C_F-15E_Desert_Storm_edit2.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/USAF_F-16A_F-15C_F-15E_Desert_Storm_edit2.jpg/800px-USAF_F-16A_F-15C_F-15E_Desert_Storm_edit2.jpg)
- USAF over Iraq, First Gulf-War
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(http://image2.sina.com.cn/jc/2005-02-28/U28P27T1D269174F26DT20050228080504.jpg)
The mean frontal view of an BMPT. The answer to the losses of MBT's in urban grounds. A deticated Anti-personell vehicle. In urban combat, the ratio of BMPT's is gonna be 2:1 with MBT's. On Rural operation it is 2 MBT per one BMPT
This beast has=
-two 30 mm 2A42 dual-feed cannon
-two AGS-17D 30 mm grenade launchers
-9M120 Ataka-V ATGM system (4 launchers)
-one 7.62mm machine gun
and additional weapons can be installed
The russian armed forces are highly praised of this new vehicle.
Russian AFV development has always been imo, one step ahead of the US ones
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For the Mi-24 lovers:
(http://i37.tinypic.com/25f3z8n.jpg)
Afghan national army air corp Airmen pilot two Mi-35 helicopters during a training sortie, with support from Czech Republic and U.S. coalition partners, over southern Afghanistan, Oct. 3.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Angelita Lawrence : U.S. Air Forces Central Public Affairs)
Hires (http://i35.tinypic.com/i26h6e.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/UN_Soldiers_in_Eritrea.jpeg)
Micronesian camel-corps UN Peacekeepers in Eritrea.
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Love the picture Invincible.
Russian MI-24s flying close to Abkazian freedom fighters in Georgia if my memory is correct:
(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/andersjg/PotD/2ef0fc774524.jpg)
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Günther Rall 1918 - 2009. (275 victories)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Thorondor123/rall001.jpg)
Top left:
Günther Rall testing a F-4E.
Bottom left:
Inspekteur der Luftwaffe, Generalleutnant Rall in the middle of front row. Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn is first on the left side.
Top right:
Five commanders on the West-German Luftwaffe. From left: Günther Rall, Gerhard Limberg, Josef Kammhuber, Werner Panitzki and Fritz Obleser. Only Johannes Steinhoff is missing from the picture.
Bottom right:
Adolf Galland, Walter Krupinski and Günther Rall visiting US of A in 1984.
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(http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/2/6/7/5/9/i/5/1/2/o/Female_british_soldier.jpg)
A British female soldier keeps watch while on foot patrol in a poppy field in Afghanistan
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"Pidgeon scout": This ww1 mail dove has been equipped with a camera, the timer has been set to a setting that will probably show a certain part of the enemy territory under the calculated flight route.
(http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/dev01/barchpic/2007/10-16/76/89/ca/athene-5h02b08xxq08259j7y1_layout.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/Thorondor123/faf.jpg)
Finnish airmen.
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(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=82824&d=1255172193)
(http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6025/szuoobuka7.jpg)
Crazy Croatian army.
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(http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/vietnam-war.jpg)
Grunts, M113 APC and a Huey somewhere in Vietnam. The middle guy just spotted Lumberjack Commandos working for the Green Berets.
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A Frenchman being thrown back by the force of a bullet. Verdun, 1916.
(http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/3642.jpg)
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Far as I know that's another posed shot...its again a question of "if these are french guys attacking through a storm of bullets...wtf is the camera man doing"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/German_trench_WW1_French_attack.gif)
Here's a photo I do believe to be real though, noting that the camera is sitting over the lip of dirt, meaning the camera man is actually poking just barely out of a trench.
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(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-117-nn6.jpg)
The only shot down F117, Kosovo 1999
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(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4202/operationnanook20090823.jpg)
Canadian Rangers just after eating spaghetti.
And yes Canadian rangers are still armed with the Lee Enfield no.4.
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(http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4507/403732.jpg)
Finnish soldiers in Afghanistan.
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(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5571/610xbj.jpg)
Soldiers of Spain's Legion Army march past at the military parade during celebrations marking Spain's National Day on October 12, 2009 in Madrid.
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(http://www.houyet-foto.be/requisituni/rhodesia_pix/000006.jpg)
- Lads on the LZ during the Rhodesian Bush War
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(http://military.discovery.com/technology/weapons/images/05-fnfal-625x450.jpg)
Troops of B Company of the Royal Australian Regiment wade across a river in Phuoc My province, southeast of Saigon, June 22, 1970.
Notice the FN FAL's. Troops loved their FAL's for their high reliability, Heavy stopping power and accuracy....
But dont ever fire this thing on full automatic, unless you wanna clean a room....
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German bunker in World War 1 on the Western Front. Unlike the allies, the germans lived in relative comfort, creating massive bunker cities underneath the lines, complete with armoures, kitchens, and even running water and electricity if they were near enough to villages. Soldiers were allowed to bring furniture from home, or from destroyed towns, and even wallpapered the wood and earthen walls. Excess rain and waste water was pumped out, and, as the german positions were almost always higher then the allied, was allowed to flow down into the allied trenches. It all stemmed from the differing tactical choices, the allied generals believing, to the end of the war, that trenches were temporary, and duly should not be made to live in, as the men are supposed to be charging forward, while the germans saw trenches are a permanent feature of the war, and duly should be made comfortable for the soldiers to live in.
(http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/8026/1wkgermansection.jpg)
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(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l265/Alezi/Muut/Realdeal%20kuvat/Suomalaiset/raja2fp6jx7.jpg)
Finnish special boarder jägers.
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(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/kuskit.jpg)
Finnish Artillery truck drivers doing what they do best: nothing.
(Meanwhile everyone else was setting up the command post with full combat gear on)
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_10197/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~10197~En%20svensk%20milit%C3%A4rpolis%20i%20NBG%202008%20under%20en%20%C3%B6vning%20i%20Finland.%20Om%20en%20vecka%20inleds%20rekryteringen%20till%20NBG%202011)
Swedish MP during a Nordic Battle Group drill
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An abandoned Argentine rocket launcher on an improvised mounting discovered on top of a slide in a children's playground at the Goose Green settlement.
Sgt Ronald Hudson was serving as United Kingdom Land Force Public Relations Photographer at British Army HQ North East District, Imphal Barracks, York when he was tasked to accompany 2 Parachute Regiment to the Falklands. He sailed from Portsmouth on MV NORLAND on 26 April 1982, pausing (but not going ashore) at Ascension Island. Although MV NORLAND was his main base, he also spent time on CANBERRA and HMS RESOURCE. Hudson accompanied the landing of 5 Brigade at San Carlos on 21 May 1982 and subsequently covered Goose Green, Darwin, Bluff Cove, Mount Harriet and the advance on Port Stanley, working closely with Paul Haley, official photographer for Soldier Magazine. Hudson returned to Britain shortly after the surrender, returning from Ascension Island by Hercules aircraft. On leaving the Army, Hudson continued to work as a professional photographer in Yorkshire.
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The better German army
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NVA parade, East Berlin, 1 May 1973
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german 08/15 crew in a trench, WW1, autochrome.
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I was there with at Ranger Coy. Really solid guy. He got complimented many times on his grooming even by the CDS.
Those rangers are very well versed with those Enfields. Its not 5.56 its 7.62. They have killed polar bears with those rifles, and I would trust no one else but a ranger out there.
They are also armed with shotguns.
@Hassel
Which exercise was this? It looks like Northern Ontario or the Yukon to me but what the hell do I know
Btw the Lee Enfield is a .303 rifle cartridge which is actually a little different from 7.62. If they (Rangers) needed a 7.62, then we should have never scrapped or sold our FN C1's to New Zealand .
@ Megaraptor,
One of the main reasons for issuing the .303 has to do with sourcing rounds for these rifles in a manner which is consistent with local procurement policies (out of rounds? pop into the gun shop).
Seeing that the Canadian Rangers are not members of the Regular Canadian Forces, it would not be appropriate to issue anything more than a weapon for personal protection against wildlife and for subsistence hunting. (as a note, not every Ranger patrol is issued firearms, on the West Coast a couple of the units are authorized to carry their own rifle (or shotgun) with reimbursement for a nominal amount of rounds purchased, instead of being issued CF surplus material)
The greatest benefit acquired from Ranger patrols is the structured application of subsistence and navigation skills that are slowly being lost to technology and from cultural apathy amongst most Canadian tribes.
Members of the Canadian Rangers take part in a exercise during Operation Nanook in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Sunday, August 23, 2009. Operation Nanook is a inter-governmental operation that takes place in Canada's Arctic to show sovereignty over its northern territory. (Jonathan Hayward, CP)
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2001 near Kabul.
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Quiz: Taliban or Northern Alliance?
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Onlookers wave flags as the USS New York sails through heavy fog on the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. The ship was built with about eight tons of steel from the World Trade Center site and is on its way to New York, its home port. (AP / Patrick Semansky)
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German troop encampment behind the lines, 1915.
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German attack at Arras, as far as I can tell, it is authentic.
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2001 Tora Bora, Afghanistan.
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Had the bomber waited another few seconds, the patrol would have been right on top of the explosive. Instead, nobody was seriously injured
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WOW Rawhide, you posted the exact photo I wanted to post today!
(you got it from militairyphotos .net ??)
Awsome photo indeed, they where lucky!
Then I will go for these, sorry for not posting one, but this pictures come more to there right when you see the full scale of the asault
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The 3 LCAC looks awsome in the background!
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Oct. 12, 2009) Two landing craft utility vehicles and a light-armored vehicle (LAV) come ashore as three landing craft, air cushion vehicles approach and an AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter flies by during Exercise Bright Star 2009. The LCAC, LAV and Cobra are assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) and is part of an 11-country coalition participating in the biannual event spearheaded by Egypt and the U.S. Central Command. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lindsey M. Frazier/Released)
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Oct. 12, 2009) Marines and Sailors assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU), the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and coalition forces conduct an amphibious landing demonstration at Egyptian beaches near Alexandria during Exercise Bright Star 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie/Released)
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Oct. 12, 2009) Marines and Sailors assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU), the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and coalition forces conduct an amphibious landing demonstration at Egyptian beaches near Alexandria during Exercise Bright Star 2009. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie/Released)
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A column of 45 Royal Marine Commandoes march towards Port Stanley. Royal Marine Peter Robinson, carrying the Union Jack flag on his backpack as identification, brings up the rear.
This photograph, taken in black and white and colour, became one of the iconographic images of the Falklands Conflict.
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"Gente" Magazine Cover.
Completly "Photoshopped". Shows a British Ship in Flames, and a Mirage III (?) flying over it.
Yellow title says "We are winning!" It was a lie, by that time, the British army had a strong army in the Falklands.
Also says : 6 Destroyed Ships, 16 Damaged, 21 Airplanes and 16 Helicopters shot down. We are destroying the British Navy.
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- Burial of an Italian Soldier. A picture says more then...
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"Gente" Magazine Cover.
Completly "Photoshopped". Shows a British Ship in Flames, and a Mirage III (?) flying over it.
Yellow title says "We are winning!" It was a lie, by that time, the British army had a strong army in the Falklands.
Also says : 6 Destroyed Ships, 16 Damaged, 21 Airplanes and 16 Helicopters shot down. We are destroying the British Navy.
(http://eblog.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/genteseguimos.jpg)
Remember this one:
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Trust The Sun to cross the line, then again, the Daily Mail really put their foot in it the other day.
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A Brigade Reconnaissance Force Jackal on the banks of the Shamalan Canal during Operation SHEJAH PALANG
[Picture: Corporal Mike O'Neill RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
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A Blowpipe Surface Air Missile detachment of 5 Infantry Brigade stand guard at Bluff Cove.
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"Gente" Magazine Cover.
Completly "Photoshopped". Shows a British Ship in Flames, and a Mirage III (?) flying over it.
Yellow title says "We are winning!" It was a lie, by that time, the British army had a strong army in the Falklands.
Also says : 6 Destroyed Ships, 16 Damaged, 21 Airplanes and 16 Helicopters shot down. We are destroying the British Navy.
(http://eblog.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/genteseguimos.jpg)
Remember this one:
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Trust The Sun to cross the line, then again, the Daily Mail really put their foot in it the other day.
Just in case you or anyone else is interested, here are a few more reasons why the Scum is the lowest of the low, gutter press that isn't fit to wipe your rear end with http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=23802.0
They always pretend to be popular among the forces and to be their voice, yet most self respecting people wouldn't look twice at it. Do other countries have to suffer this kind of sewer-journalism? :(
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Victorious prussian troops parade into Berlin after returning from Bohemia on the 21. September 1866.
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Bushmasters carrying the forward observers calling in the live fire practice are dug-in for the danger close fire missions in the impact area at Mount Bundey in the Northern Territory. (defence.gov.au)
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Staff Sgt. John Coddington restrains Gizmo, a 12-year-old Belgian Malinois, at an air base in Southwest Asia Oct. 10, 2009. Sergeant Coddington and Gizmo are assigned to the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, and deployed from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Stephen Linch)
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M2 Bradley moving throught remains of a wall somewhere in Iraq.
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Afghanistan
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Falkland Islanders carry on with their daily routine as Argentine armoured personnel carriers of the Battalon de Vehiculos Anfibios (Amphibious Commando Company) line a road in Port Stanley.
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Officers of a Polish cavalry regiment during the Polish Soviet war, in 1920. The polish cavalry would go on to win a smashing victory against the russian cossaks, in the last great cavalry battle in the world in the Battle of Komarów, in which the Polish lancers not only turned back, but destroyed the cossak army, despite being heavily outnumbered.
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Way to go Poles and your funny square hats.
Civil Guard (I believe) manning a baricade during the Spanish Civil War.
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Gansgt.. Spanish Republican soldiers, Spanish Civil War.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Oct. 11, 2009) MV-22B Ospreys assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 (Reinforced) from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, land at a bivouac site during Exercise Bright Star 2009 in Egypt. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Theodore W. Ritchie/Released)
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I always wanna go play Half-Life and Opposing Force when I see the Ospreys :D
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A Portraits of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is seen during a demonstration against the construction of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah near Bethlehem, 16 October 2009. Israel says the 'security barrier' that it began to construct in the wake of the violent Palestinian uprising in 2000 has dramatically reduced attacks on Israelis by preventing militants from infiltrating the country. Palestinians see the barrier as an 'apartheid wall' that hampers freedom of movement and carves off Jewish settlements and other lands from their future state, threatening its economic viability
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"Die Ästhetik des 20. Jahrhunderts": Pioniere vor einem Unterstand in der Champagne, Sommer 1915. Der Dichter und Dramatiker August Stramm am 5. Mai 1915 kommentierte: "Ich sitze in einem Erdloch, genannt Unterstand! Famos! Eine Kerze, Ofen, Sessel, Tisch. Alles konform der Neuzeit. Die Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und oben drauf klatscht es ununterbrochen! Klack! Klack! Scht. summ! Das ist die Ethik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Und neben mir aus der Wand ringeln sich einige Regenwürmer. Das ist die Ästhetik des 20. Jahrhunderts."
'The aesthetics of the 20th century': Pioneers in front of a dugout in Champagne, France, Summer 1915. The poet and dramatist August Stramm comments on May 5th 1915: 'I'm sitting in a burrow, called dugout! Splendit! A candle, oven, armchair, table. Everything conform to the modern era. The culture of the 20th century. And on top it is smacking nonstop. Click! click! sssst smmm! That are the ethics of the 20th century. And next to me some earthworms are curling out of the wall. That are the aesthetics of the 20th century.'
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A 0.5 inch Browning machine gun defends 5 Infantry Brigade's landing at San Carlos on 2 June 1982.
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- Finns in Chad
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1ST BATTALION DORSETSHIRE REGIMENT IN KOREA, 1954-1955
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Lieutenant Basil Hebden, assault platoon commander, preparing a charge of black plastic explosive for use in a spot of recreational fishing in the River Imjin.
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WW1: Soldiers posing in a trench.
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Wilhelm "Willi" Reinhard, commander of Jasta 6, stands by his crash-landed Dr I in his Fliegerkombination (flying suit), holding his Heinecke parachute harness, in mid-march 1918. Reinhard lost his upper wing fabric in flight, which in turn led to structural failure. He succeeded in keeping enough control to force-land, however, althought the Dr I flipped over when its wheels touched the ground, causing most of the damage visible in this photograph. Reinhard's star was on the rise at this period, and he was promoted to hauptmann on 22. March. His score had reached 12 by mid-April, and he subsequently took command of JG I following von Richthofen's death.
Original picture description, I swear. 8)
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At Bridge Four on the outskirts of Basra, a soldier of 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards looks for possible Iraqi enemy positions as Royal Engineer technicians prepare to cap one of the burning oil wells within the city of Basra, 3 April 2003.
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- 1st Battalion, Welsh Guard
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14 November 1899
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As a war correspondent for the Morning Post, Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while travelling in an armoured train which was wrecked. Picture shows: A group of prisoners, with Churchill on the right.
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Korean War, 1951: Taking cover behind their escort tank, a U.S. soldier returns fire on Communist Chinese positions with an M1918A2.
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A German soldier (2nd L) practises with a soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA) the blind assembly and disassembly of a machine-gun in Faizabad on October 20, 2009. More than 4000 German troops are serving in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
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Two men of the 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada) clean a Lewis Gun in a reserve trench during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), November 1917.
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A casualty of the terrible attrition of the Somme.
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Sunlit ruins: soldiers on a road in the destroyed landscape of Sommepy, France.
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1917 The Advance across the Desert: The men of the Desert Mounted Corps riding their camels in the Jordan valley.
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- No cap.
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Not from WW2, but from todays Bundeswehr: "Gebirgsjäger" with a MG3 on Lafette mount in the "mountain and winter combat school" in Mittenwald (which is a neighbouring town to the city I´m stationed in, btw).
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Siegfried Weiß visits the NVA troops to the Czechoslovakia borders , 1968
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British infantry being shelled during the retreat from Mons. The man clutching his head had just been severely, perhaps mortally wounded.
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Edit: Where the hell did my picture go?
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Australian Vickers machine gunners of 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, suspend firing and cool their gun as a United States Mustang drops a Napalm bomb on the Communist held ridge which the Australians had been spraying with fire a few seconds before.
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People carrying fire arms queue in front of a hall at a police station in the town of Winterthur north of Zurich October 24, 2009. Gun owners resident in Switzerland can hand in their unwanted arms or ammunitions, of military or civil origins, to the administration of the Canton of Zurich this Saturday.
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Its the Stgw. 57 / Sig 510 assault rifle
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British infantry being shelled during the retreat from Mons. The man clutching his head had just been severely, perhaps mortally wounded.
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Edit: Where the hell did my picture go?
Here:
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German soldiers in Uffholz/Alsace.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Courtney Lust, a U.S. Navy SARC, or Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman, with U.S. Marines Alpha Company-Task Force Raider, 2nd Recon Battalion, puts on his gloves as he prepares to go on a night mission from a temporary staging area at a combat outpost, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 12, 2009. Task Force Raider is a strike force who's purpose is to conduct raids targeting Taliban networks in the Helmand province.
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A Faugh-a-Ballagh (Royal Irish Fusilier) teasing a Turkish sniper by holding his helmet above the trench on his rifle.
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I love Pith helmets.
German stormtrooper, 1918.
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Russian infantry advances on top of a T-80 tank (I believe) towards a town during the First Chechen War.
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B-52 stratofortress in Korea I believe.
Whats not to love?
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OH SHIT
Canadian Lumberjack Commandos Training the new Afghan Army!!, we are done.
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A Special Forces soldier observes as an Afghan National Police officer aims his assault-rifle during training in the village of Nili, Afghanistan on Sept. 18, 2009. The team is among only a few U.S. troops to live among Afghans, but there will likely be more. The hope is to push Special Forces teams into villages throughout Afghanistan, giving them the mission of rebuilding and training Afghan police and soldiers rather than hunting insurgents.
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HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 25, 2009) Presidents George H.W. Bush, center-left, and George W. Bush, center-right, pose with a Joint Services Color Guard during Navy Week celebrations at Reliant Stadium, Houston, during a National Football League game against the Houston Texans, and San Francisco 49ers. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Winn/Released)
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No info available
Sorry its so big..
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From the same series:
A Russian soldier in a Chechen town during the 1st Chechen War:
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Posed photograph of a British soldier, wearing European camouflage battledress, manning a light machine gun in a bunker, probably in Saudi Arabia in 1990.
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Tupolev 95MS at engels AFB
JUST look at that thing. Brilliant
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Soldiers in a trench, Alsace, France.
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A Bearcat of the Aéronavale drops napalm on Viet Minh Division 320th's artillery during Operation Mouette, First Indochina War (11.1953).
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Coalition soldiers conduct a search in the village of De Ziarat Kalay in Afghanistan's Arghandab district, Oct. 22, 2009. The purpose of the search is to disrupt the insurgent safe haven in the country's Zabul province. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Gino Palu
I let you giving the coments
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HAZI MADAD, AFGHANISTAN - A soldier in the Afghanistan security forces crouches near the shadow of an American soldier October 26, 2009 in the village of Hazi Madad in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. (Chris Hondros / ***** Images)
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WW1: german position at the Vieil Armand/Hartmannsweilerkopf
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Men of the Royal Garrison Artillery in Englebelmer Wood moving a 15-inch Howitzer shell by rolling it along a pair of rails.
Engelbelmer Wood and village are south east of Mailly-Maillet and west of Thiepval. They were behind Allied lines for the whole war.
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¨An Afghan National Army soldier holds a weapon decorated with a picture of a woman during a pre-mission rehearsal with U.S. Special Operations forces before a joint operation targeting insurgents operating in Afghanistan's Farah province. (AP / Maya Alleruzzo)
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Indian military maneuvers.
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"If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gurkha"
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Chief Parachute Rigger Carroll taking in the view after a general quarters drill
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Belgian airforce F-16 performing a fly-by on Nellis AFB, at aviation Nation 2008
Trust me, they go lower then that
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WW1: German soldiers in a trench, Alsace, France.
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- Swedish unit in the Finn/Swedish controlled part in Northern Afghanistan
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- No caption, back in the days when Soviet Russia was in Afghanistan
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WW1: French civilians retreating from the frontline.
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An impact crater in the side of a protective wall, where a Taliban rocket struck during an enemy barrage, sits inside a base held by U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009.
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German billet at St. Marie à Py, France, summer 1915.
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WW1: German soldiers in front of a billet.
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Turkish sniper in North Iraq takes aim in the frigid mountains in October 2008
I actually know this man. His name is Tolga, we had a nice conversation today.
...and this is this great-grandfather!
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A Faugh-a-Ballagh (Royal Irish Fusilier) teasing a Turkish sniper by holding his helmet above the trench on his rifle.
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Luminous halos twirled above a Boeing CH-47 Chinook on a recent night around 11:30 p.m. local time at Forward Operating Base Jackson in Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, as helicopters ferried casualties and supplies in and out of the base. The photographer was independent journalist Michael Yon, a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier now traveling the world's war zones with a camera. Helicopter pilots don't have a name for the effect, but one explained to Yon, "Basically it is a result of static electricity created by friction as...dissimilar material strike against each other. In this case, titanium/nickel blades moving through the air and dust
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Verdun, summer 1916.
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An Afghan boy holds his toy weapon as Belgian army soldiers of the ISAF patrol during a joint mission with German Bundeswehr army soldiers in Taloqan, west of Kunduz, Afghanistan on September 30, 2008.
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here is my €0.02
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Pics are from A-Stan. Turkish and French forces cooperating to do god knows what aye lol. The picture is only a day or two old and comes as good news to me because we finally got our new camo to the guys out there (before we were stuck with woodland camo... in the desert :p)
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The Fuck?
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^^ One of my faves :D
Last one before i make a run for it..
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Our big ass thermal imaging scope hehe
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Last picture of the series: Fort Souville, Verdun, after the fights.
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Russian soldiers in uniforms of the Second World War take part in a military parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 07 November 2009. The parade marks the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square to the front lines of World War II
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Pretty recent...
ISTANBUL, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Turkish navy commandos detained five pirates trying to hijack a Greek boat in the Gulf of Aden, the Turkish military said on Thursday.
The Greek boat was travelling 70 miles from the coast in a security corridor when pirates in a motor boat fired on the vessel.
"The (Turkish naval ship) TCG Gediz prevented the ship hijacking with warning shots and helicopter backup ... The TCG Gediz reacted to the call for help issued by the M/V Theoforos and detained the five bandits on board the motor boat," the military said in a statement.
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Russian soldiers in uniforms of the Second World War take part in a military parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 07 November 2009. The parade marks the anniversary of a historical parade in 1941 when Soviet soldiers marched through Red Square to the front lines of World War II
My cavalry heart goes warm!
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A side view of an English Electric Lightning F.6 of No 74 Squadron RAF in flight over the english countryside. Note the aircraft's additional external fuel tanks on the upperside of the wings for extra-long flights.
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A dramatic image of an English Electric Lightning banking sharply to port. Note the Red Top missiles on the underside of the aircraft's wings and the tip of the starboard external fuel tank on the upperside of the wing.
The English Electric Lightning F.6 was issued to No 74 Squadron in 1966. This image is part of a series relating to an operation demonstrrating the the in-flight refuelling capability of this aircraft along with the application of external fuel tanks for extra-long flights.
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Iraqi trench, Iraq-Iran War.
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Yes i would like to see you holding a RPG in a battle, nub.
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Saddam Hussein practices launching a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) in this undated file photo taken during the Iraq-Iran war. U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on December 30, 2006.
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The Black Eagle prototype MBT
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(http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/images/BlackPoleFliers.jpg)
Polish Pilots in the Polish-Soviet war, including an african-american volunteer pilot.
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Time to bring back pics from conflicts in this biatch :D
Late 2008 when we invaded North Iraq.
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A video game nerd has nothing to do with military conflicts, please stay on topic ffs. :(
Obviously, he's not.
Dudes, it's just a model picture. Chill out, Jesus.
Very bad vibes coming in here. Being angry and hot tempered is Flippy's thing but don't assume that's the reason he became a moderator
Anyhow, just to set things straight:
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U.S. Army soldier Ryan Branklel of 3/509 infantry 4BDE25ID Task Force Geronimo fires his weapon during a training session at FOB Tillman, Afghanistan, November 11, 2009.
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A Benet-Mercier machine gun section of 2nd Rajput Light Infantry in action in Flanders, during the winter of 1914-15.
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"King George commands and we obey/ Over the hills and far away!"
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A Senior Aircraftsman of the RAF checking the arming circuit of a Firestreak air-to-air missile attached to an English Electric Lightning aircraft of No 5 Squadron RAF at RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire.
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Moar!
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US tanks facing Soviet Tanks in Berlin long ago :P
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^^ Belgian lads doing an exercise with us in Turkey i think during the 70's or 80's or something.
And last.
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Mine blow in East Turkey, the vehicle in the background tipped is an Otokar Cobra, nobody was hurt though. That car's like a tank on wheels :D
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Major Crandall's UH-1D helicopter climbs skyward after discharging a load of infantrymen on a search and destroy mission.
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French Foreign Legion in Vietnam supported by a M24 Chaffee tank.
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Karelian Brigade, Karelian Artillery Regiment, 2nd Battery, firing at Rovajärvi (Lapland) last spring.
I was also with the 2nd Battery, although I was in a test with the new weapons system (automatic dual mortar, could fire a volley of 12 shots which land at the same time in the same place) mounted on one of these:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Patria_AMV_1.jpg)
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AMOS
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Israeli soldiers patrol the Old City of the West Bank city of Hebron, 12 November 2009. According to local media sources, the streets of the old city are deserted as most of the youngsters allegedly avoid to be outside during the Israeli army patrol.
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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) at sea off the coast of Southern Virginia this past July preparing for flight deck cert following a 4 year overhaul. Note the large white mobile crane ("Tilly").
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No caption. Good ol' Warsaw Pact ground troops
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Korean War pics.
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Turkish forces with the free Uniforms and Jeep's that the US supplied them with muaha :D
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Turkish soldier with the Turkish Brigade's mascot. Her name in Turkish is Ayla, both her parents were dead so she lived in the Turkish base for years eventually learning Turkish and becoming a translator
My gramps has personal pics, but i'd have to get his permission to post em :P
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American GI in the Streets of Seoul, Korea War.
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Members of the Russian Legion, in France.
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A Comet tank, probably of "C" Squadron, 7th Royal Tank Regiment, moving toward the front line in Korea.
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Pakistani soldiers during the Battle of Chawinda. Brigadier A.A.K. Niazi, (3rd from left) observing a map. From the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
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A soldier refrains from pictures in the Sino-Indian War.
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Mk V Centurion Tank
1st Armoured Regiment
This 50-ton Centurion tank from a troop of B Squadron 1st Armoured Regiment was in support of 5RAR during the Battle of Binh Ba on 6-8 June 1969. The tanks and APCs (from B Squadron 3 Cavalry Regiment) were crucial to the success of 5RAR’s decisive victory over a battalion of 33 North Vietnamese Army Regiment that had attacked and occupied the villages of Binh Ba and Duc Trung on Route 2 to the north of the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat in Phuoc Tuy Province.
This tank is pictured here on the morning of 7 June 1969 in the rubber plantation to the south west of Binh Ba after having just assisted B and D Companies 5RAR to repulse an early-morning attempt by a company of NVA troops from entering the village.
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General Rosario Castellano (R) and General Federico D'Apuzzo watch a display during a ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary of The Battle of El Alamein at Stadio Armando Picchi on November 14, 2009 in Livorno, Italy.
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USS Carl Vinson conducting high speed turns this past July.
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and here you see my view of the helo as it took a photo of me
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Afghan soldiers after an operation with the Swedish-Finn Forces just outside Mazar-e-Sharif. The operation was a result after the attack last week on Swedish forces where four soldiers were injured and one Afghan interpreter was killed
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Soldier Artist (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8321463.stm)
A interesting slide show about artist Matthew Cook who is serving as a soldier in the Territorial Army.
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German tankcrew on eastern front building a KV1 paper model. (probably a little mnemonic-toy to memorize the sillouette of enemy tanks)
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And the big red arrows and text mean what exactly? I'm assuming somethings up since its printed on kodak photo paper dated Jun 04.
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A Westland Whirlwind helicopter taking off from HMS ALBION to stand by for emergency rescue operations as the ship turns into the wind to fly off her aircraft on a strike.
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A de Haviland Sea Venom taking off
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Christie M1928 medium tank on trials
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A People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier stands guard at the gate of a new training centre for the army's peacekeeping troops in the town of Huairou, located on the outskirts of Beijing November 19, 2009. A lack of proficiency in English has been one of the main factors hindering Chinese peacekeeping forces in their missions overseas, officials said on Thursday. The sign on the wall reads: "Chinese Ministry Training Centre for Peace Keeping". (Reuters)
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Graffiti in the security wall area of Bethlehem. December 2007.
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By Banksy. Britons in the forum might recognize him.
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Turkish soldier covering US** and Turkish forces loading up in a US Chinook
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Finnish Coastal jaegers (idk about spelling, but they are like marines) during battle training
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US Forces, Korengal Valley, Date, Unkown.
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OH YAH!! that reminds me, the army is phasing out that terrible grey camo scheme that doesnt blend in anywhere with this sexy new pattern demonstrated here during a training exercise. They are currently replacing the ACUs.
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Note: XBOX controller adapted to operate a robot.
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Airforce soldier of the ceremonial Wachbataillon (guards bataillon) on a "Zapfenstreich" in Berlin:
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at the risk of angering the POTD gods and overshadowing those dashing Frenchies, I present to you.....
MSgt. Thomas D. Kohl
34th Drum Major of "The President's Own" United States Marine Band.
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Three soldiers of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
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- French paratroopers, Afghanistan. Date unknown.
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Knocked out Maxxpro vehicle, Iraq, 2008
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One of my faves
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I can only identify 2 of the ships, TCG Barbaros up front and HMS Illustrious. The one next to the Aircraft carrier is also Royal Navy, and the back one is US Navy, but i cant identify the specific ships.
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08.08.08
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USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) conducting high speed turns off the coast of Virginia.
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the less glamorous side of Navy life: cleaning
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- West Germany
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Ninth Lancers return from the front. October 13, 1918
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ULUDAG GAZOZ!
FOR THE WIN!!
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Swedish troops in Kosovo.
Notice the FN FNC's (AK5's in swedish service). The most important modification to the FNC was to adapt it to the swedish climate
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Mitrovica riots
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US Soldier falling into Iraqi Trap. Notice the Fine camoflage and COUGHCOUGHexcellentbeerCOUGHHUGHCUGH
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Well, this will be not full crew :D
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Kosovo
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Sailors assigned to Riverine Squadron 1 patrol the Euphrates River in Iraq.
(http://www.navytimes.com/xml/news/2009/10/navy_riverine_101709w/101709_navy_riverine_800.JPG)
Note: pirate flags
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American forces occupation of Veracruz, during the Mexican Revolution.
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FMA IA 58 Pucará, Argentine Air Force.
In Service, since the Falklands War (One FMA IA 58 Pucará was Shot Down by small Arms fire from the 2 PARA). I dont know if theres any plan to replace it with a newer model. Since we dont have money to buy A10s, Tornados or things like that, we make our own cheap airplanes. And i guess thats a good way to arm your army..
(http://www.rc-network.de/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=297381&d=1245191240)
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German propaganda photo showing the "results of the English starving policy" with a number of "starving men".
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Pictures from a parade, independence day I guess (since it's winter in those pics).
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A Group of Argentine A4 Skyhawks (AFAIK, they are still in service) attacking a Royal Navy sip in the Falklands War. Fake or not? you tell.
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Tinian island 1946:
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F-14 Tomcat preparing for takeoff
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(http://ladyofo.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/military_humor_9.jpg)
Troops discuss their location on a map. Somewhere in afghanistan
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SHARAN, AFGHANISTAN - NOVEMBER 27: A soldier from the Afghan National Army (ANA) celebrate Eid al-Adha with dinner at the ANA dinning facility at Forward Operating Base Rushmore on November 27, 2009 near Sharan, Afghanistan. Eid al-Adha, the feast of sacrifice, is a holiday celebrated by Muslims to commemorate Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God.
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A British Ship (Logistics), probably the L-3004 "Sir Galahad", under attack from Argentine Airplanes. This image was released after the war by the FAA (Argentine Airforce). The action took place in the Battle of San Carlos. On May 24th, 3 British Ships were damaged, but they still were in service after a short-tme repairing.
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Our Gendarmarie is serious!
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Russian soldiers, WWI
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Ye. Our men where gratefull. This is something our army always missed= Decent utility helicopters like the Blackhawk, Huey,Mi-8
We are getting 10 NH90's (at last) for this role. And probaly more in the future
(http://www.aircav.com/huey/uhgal05/uh1-009.jpg)
A Huey Gunship of the aircavalry. These "Huey hogs" where interm solutions until the cobra was ready. But the Huey was very good in this role, so they where kept into service even when Cobra's arrived. They where very effective in their role's, but where slower then the Regular Huey's carrieng troops.
Some solutions where to send the Hogs ahead and to time the landing zone and point where both Huey models meet.
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South Vietnamese soldier politely asking this Vietcong for information.
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^^ Thats the way to do it :D
Hmm, looking at active Belgian helo's there really arent any for transporting troops lol. 4 Sea King's and some A109's is a pretty small fleet. But then again when you think about it Belgium has a strictly defensive force and no real outer threat. The only reason why we have so many active helo's is cause in East Turkey you cant drive to combat :)
Speaking of Blackhawks
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Ka-pwned
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Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) transit the Salt River in northern Kentucky during pre-deployment, live-fire training. SWCCs attached to Special Boat Team (SBT) 22 based in Stennis, Miss.
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Finnish Jurmo-class landing craft.
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Thanks for the answer, Tolga! Yeah, I guess your Black Hawks are very popular there as many nations seem to lack decent numbers of transport helos. Heck, even Germany doesn´t have enough, just a few Ch-53s which also have limited capacities ebcause they need additional equipment to operate in the Afghan environment (I think they wanted to ship some old Uh-1D aka Huey to Afghanistan to assist the Ch-53s, but fortunately they abandoned that idea). Good luck to your cousin, I hope he stays safe and also good luck to you, too, incase you´ve got to go (fortunately my chacnes to be sent to Afghanistan are relatively low...).
Anyway, todays contribution to this thread:
A German paratrooper standing guard on a watchtower during the UN mission in Somalia 1991, the first foreign deployment of German soldiers. Note that he is wearing a British Bristol balistic vest which still has the DPM camo scheme.
(http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/930/germanparasomalia1993.jpg)
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First all-female footpatrol in Chora, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.
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@Homer_Jay i dont think Huey's would do too well in Afghanistan, they would need to be heavily upgraded with proper (advanced) Navigation systems, stronger engines.. etc. But more CH-53's or they could probably Lease a few Blackhawks from some countries... I mean hell the Brits borrow Russian Mi-17's and Canadians borrow German Leopard 2's why shouldnt Germany get some Blackhawks off the hands of the Americans for a few years :D
One Turkish Commando (Blue Beret) standing guard with 2 US Troops in the back in Northern Iraq.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/UT0135381.jpg)
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Swedish 155mm howitzer firing a round in the north of Sweden. You can actually see the grenade in this picture.
(http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l322/miklas84/sgr77.jpg)
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imagine a male soldier in the shower. suddently 6 beautifull female soldiers enters.
He says= Well "Hello" their ladies
Then one of the girls locks the door
and the camera zooms out of the locked door, when you hear the male soldier saying= Ooh thats nice.... WAIT WHAT NO NOOOOOOOO AAAARRGH!!
How does this conclude?
COMING to you soon in a theatre!!
(http://www.military-today.com/apc/bmd_4_l4.jpg)
A russian BMD-4 after firing its main gun. Lately russian IFV and AFV have been taking lots of weapon combinations, like this BMD-4 or the earlier BMD-3= One 100MM maingun, a 30MM autocannon, a 7.62MM PKM coaxial gun, and a bow mounted AGS-17 30MM grenade launcher and a RPK 5.56MM machine gun
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A cool picture of Neuve Chappele.
(http://www.grimshaworigin.org/images/England/BattleScene2.jpg)
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Tolga, that´s exactly the problem with the Hueys. They would be too overloaded with upgrades to make them usable in Afghanistan. Leasing equipment from other countries could work, but I´m not sure if it´s possible in a short time. The Bundeswehr is just like every other German federal organization extremely bureaucratic and unflexible and I´m not sure if our politicians would like to lease foreign equipment. Some people could think they´re unable to control the whole situation. ::)
Todays contribution, a scene from the Iran-Iraq-war:
An Iranian soldier sits in his trench, a machine gun next to him with a ABC-mask on his head:
(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4488/chemicalweapon1iranirak.jpg)
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/agreed mate.
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Özel Harekat 'Special Forces' posing before an Operation..
Whats interesting is this is 13 different weapon systems in ONE Squad, Turkish Special forces are able to use ANY weapons they please. The state pays for it anyway :)
I think most western country's SF units have that capability.
But 13 different weapons is a bit much variation, ( I count less btw.)
I don't hope your SF goes on operation without vest's and with there sleeves up.
And 13 man in a squad isn't that a bit much? we operate with a max of 9.
Anyways nice pictures.
(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc37/EggyNL/20091112-sobsoms-ek1134_tcm46-14077.jpg)
The new Dutch CV9035NL.
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In Soviet France, bicycle rides you!
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NEW YORK - DECEMBER 04: US Army soldier Kenisha Rodney, originally from Jamaica, says the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony December 4, 2009 at Ellis Island in New York.
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Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Johanna Shaffer shares a cookie and a smile with an Afghan child while under the watchful security of Marines assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, during her all-female team's first mission in Farah province, Feb. 9, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Monty Burton
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Its a FN Minimi
Shamefull, I'm a minimi gunner for profession and I couldn't see it. ::) haha,
The hand guard looks very small to me.. But it probably looks different since we use the Short barreled version.
And to still contribute to this threat:
Here is My 5.56 Minimi during training:
(http://94.100.115.147/287650001-287700000/287685801-287685900/287685853_5_wnij.jpeg)
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(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o296/Panzergranadier/TropaEP_Scan0002.jpg)
Peruvian arm Forces in 1936 ready to fight in the Great War.
From Left to Right: Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, and Engineer.
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(http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/aviationbug/scan0015_004.jpg)
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(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/543/A_Canadian_Forces2.jpg)
mmm carbine
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Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton, France 1918.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/George_S._Patton_-_France_-_1918.jpg/757px-George_S._Patton_-_France_-_1918.jpg)
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I think he means the Peru.Ecuador war.. or not?
I was being sarcastic.
That photo is in 1936.
This during the Peruvian-Ecuadorian 1941
The Peruvian First Guard handing the captured Ecuadorian 25th battalion "MONTECRISTI" standard to their officer Enrique Pontolillo for safe keeping.
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o296/Panzergranadier/7.jpg)
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Military Parade in Peru, July 28, 1938. Almost 3 years later those T-38's will be put to use.
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o296/Panzergranadier/Parada_Militar_1938_Tanques_LTP_cor.jpg)
Due to the H1N1 flu the annual parade was held on December 8 (instead of July 28), marking the 188th anniversary of independence.
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A dead Confederate soldier at Spotsylvania.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/EwellsDeadSpotsylvania1864crop02.jpg)
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ah, of course! the Civil war!
Here we find young Sgt. (yes, he was a 12 year old NCO) John Lincoln Clem, the little drummer boy who is reported to have killed a confederate colonel at chickamauga. He was the youngest NCO in US Army history. He retired in 1916 as a Major General.
(http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/pictures/Soldier-Boy.jpg)
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A American soldier shows his weapen to a local Afgan boy during a patrol in Khan Neshin in the province of Helmand.
(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6553/nb1211guns.jpg)
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so how do you know its a soldier and how it is a marine?
Dead enemy body count?
From uniform nowadays. Marines have digital desert/woodland/snow and army has that grey one.
Yep, that they're finally phasing out cuz they finally realized that grey is not camo.
Also, the marines wear the distinctive traditional dress blues uniform:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3152872791_74f3036169.jpg)
While army wears the crappy business suit uniform, made slightly better recently by the decision to change back to blue and to change back to shoulder boards for the officers:
(http://www.lincolnsarmy.com/DressBluesM.jpg)
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Dead Union and Confederate soldiers at Little Round Top.
(http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/gettysburg/dead-little-round-top.jpg)
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Color Sergeant Gardiner of the 42nd Highlanders, the Black Watch round about the Crimean War.
(http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/sevastopol/colour-sargeant-gardiner.jpg)
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(http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,140666,00.jpg)
Talking about Special Forces, this is a soldier from the "Kommando Spezialkräfte" of the Bundeswehr, modeled after the British SAS. They were the center of some controvery a few years ago, because they were implicated in the torture of PoWs and parliament had lost control over the unit for a while.
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(http://www.freewebs.com/arrestatieteams/sniper2.jpg)
A Dutch sniping bush...commando.
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Aaah, the KSK...a former drill-sergeeant of mine tried to join them but he quit their basic training because it was too tough...and that guy was a real sports-machine...
Anyway, Georgian soldiers meeting a priest during the Georgian-Russian War:
(http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8986/01020126766300.jpg)
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Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 "Barling Bomber"
(http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/r/u/ru_voenmed/Bomber.jpg)
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BTR-80 versus UAZ-452...
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(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j75/meerpaal/Afganistan%20november%202009/a21_20962933.jpg)
U.S. soldier PV2 John MacIntosh takes cover in farm field and scans the ridge line as Taliban fighters ambush U.S soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during a patrol in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) #
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Yay! Special forces!
(http://tietokannat.mil.fi/kymi06/static_images/66_640.jpg)
Finnish Paratroopers during training, 2006. Notice M/62 suits. Jacket and trousers are never same colour.
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The church and the military....a never-ending paradox...
Another "holy man", this time from the Lebanese Civil War:
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2579/421548433111e3e80qx2.jpg)
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Colour Sergeant "Willie" McGregor of the Scots Fusilier Guards, photographed in 1856 after the Crimean War with his beard he took home from the war.
(http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/sevastopol/sergeant-mcgregor.jpg)
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it's christmas guys!
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^^ Heh
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lmao, Conditions in the mountains :D
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There's one type of company pictures and there's this
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You guys can have all the smoke and explosions you want. But NOTHING will save you from the Eagle behind us
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/CakePose.jpg)
AND
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/LOL.jpg)
Greek Mirage in the sights of a TuAF F-16
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Estonian troopers ;D
(http://s58.radikal.ru/i161/0903/e1/3b11a9302065.jpg)
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lol ok i understand now.
(http://www.coltcanada.com/photogallery/cc-tex.jpg)
Lone Ranger i guess...........
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New digital camouflage the Estonian army uses:
(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Estonia/19749.jpg)
But not as cool as the Latvian army! those ex-soviet country's are really well on there way being a modern western armed forces!
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5139/gata7880yi8.jpg)
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Yeah, the Latvian and Estonian armies are damn awesome.
(http://jamescharlesobrien.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/100_1565.jpg)
Latvian guard in front of national monument, the other chap is to maintain order and make sure their clothing is tidy and stuff. Usually its filled with flowers there and these guys march super awesome style.
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/2009_1_12_14/904_21443965.jpg)
Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province, in this May 11, 2009 file photo. Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, far left was wearing "I love NY" boxer shorts after rushing from his sleeping quarters to join his fellow platoon members. From far right is Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, LA and Jordan Custer of Spokane, WA, center.
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Its not like the iraqi army has had a lack of combat experience in the last 50 years, with good training by the us im sure the whole army can be turned into a competent force.
(http://media.thestar.topscms.com/images/e0/1b/04625fb9436188b5e66ab584e52b.jpeg)
A group of Canadian Forces take part in winter warfare training in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, March 21, 2009. Canada is one several nations that are building up their military capabilities in the north.
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They've been competent for a while. What they need is an air force.
(http://www.aviation-history.com/north-american/f86-13.gif)
MiG-15 pilot ejecting after being hit.
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M60T Sabra for the turkish army revealed in Isreal
The Isreali's/Turkish showed how an old Battletank can be upgraded to the point that it can rival todays tanks.
The Sabra has a IMI 120MM gun firing LAHAT AT missiles aswel, FN MAG Machine guns, and an internal Mortar
(http://www.junshiz.cn/UpFiles/BeyondPic/200907/20090712213003354.jpg)
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I know this is a stupid question but who is in your signature (and avatar), tolga? You can't be that old o.O :D
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0f/Nils_Olav_inspection.jpg)
Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav inspects the Royal Norwegian Guard. Rank insignia is attached to his right flipper.
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Western civilization... The only civilization to Knight a PENGUIN. You guys really need to lay off the alcohol lmao.
And Ciupita, the guy in my sig. The guy is my idol xD
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/NefesKomutan.jpg)
Crazy Turkish Officer screaming 'YOU SLEEP YOU DIEEE!'
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American Marines resting at a makeshift patrol base in southern Afghanistan.
More than 160500 American female soldiers have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East since the war began in 2003
(http://kloris.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55026407188330120a5cd19fb970b-500pi)
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Artillerymen fire a 155mm Howitzer at a Taliban position October 22, 2008 from Camp Blessing in the Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan.
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Mmmmm m777......
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1377/639230135_22968fe731.jpg)
Soldiers from D Battery, 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (2 RCHA) fire their M777 155 mm howitzer at the Canadian Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Sperwan Ghar, Afghanistan.
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Zhinvali, South Ossetia, 10.8.2008
(http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/east_europe/russia/reporter/Georgia_Ossetia_War/Georgia_Ossetia_War_Russian_Army_006.jpg)
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In the far left I mean, looks a bit like
(http://hosting.westernbid.info/images/uploads/magnety222/zil_131.jpg)
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A pic from recent events:
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German Bundeswehr army soldiers from the 263rd paratrooper unit of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) take cover as they return fire during a firefight with insurgents during a mine sweeping operation in Chahar Dara on the outskirts of Kunduz, December 16, 2009. A combat outpost of the German Bundeswehr was attacked by insurgents, leaving one German soldier seriously injured.
Interesting to see those pics, looks like the MoD is going for a new PR policy...
A good thread about this topic:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170712 (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170712)
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(http://www.armyrecognition.com/components/ebygallery/Georgia_Russia_South_Ossetia_war/up/georgia_ossetia_war_russian_army_026.jpg)
I know the pics is from the South Ossetia War, but, Russians or Georgians?
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New day, new pic.
Again, from the on-going mission in the Chahar Darah area:
(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8804/610xr.jpg)
A German Bundeswehr army soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) sits atop of a 'Fuchs' armoured personnel carrier as they conduct a mission in the area in Chahar Dara in the outskirts of Kunduz, December 17, 2009. German Bundeswehr army soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) units started an operation against insurgents in the area on Wednesday.
It´s interesting to see that sort of pictures in the open media. Looks like the MoD under the leadership of Karl T.z.Guttenberg try to be more open about what´s really going on in Afghanistan...
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An Afghan national army soldier carrying a bag of rocket propelled grenades shakes hands with U.S. army soldier LT Swisher from Task Force Denali Platoon 1-40 CAV as they arrive for patrol at Manzai village in Khowst province, Afghanistan, December 19, 2009. (Reuters)
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(http://www.military-today.com/artillery/2s7_pion_l4.jpg)
Russian 2S7 "Pion" Self proppeled artillery. These 203MM self-propelled field guns where the heavy hitters of the Soviet army for many years. Designed in 1975, this vehicle was the main counterpart of the American M107 175MM Self-propelled field gun.
While the M107 is withdraw from service, 800 "Pions" still remain in russian arsenals, according to rumors, recently upgraded. They are kept in service for their excellent range, firepower and Accuracy
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(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_473nrD5vEv8/SEvnwrblx1I/AAAAAAAAAj4/cIcz-mP8KkQ/s1600/crimean-war.jpg)
French Officers in the Crimean war.
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This haunting photograph, which graced every Caribou briefing room, was a grim reminder that the Viet Cong and the NVA were not the only problem for pilots in Vietnam. This incident occurred in August of 1967 when the Caribou (tail number 62-4161) flew into the line of fire of a 155mm howitzer. This was early in the transition of the Caribou from the Army to the Air Force and highlighted the need for far better coordination amongst the services.
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Georgian troops, just few days after start of agression ;D
(http://s57.radikal.ru/i155/0912/f6/8b4a1a714409.jpg)
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In the wake of all this South Ossetia pics ill post this.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/CakeGeorgia.jpg)
Cobra, the land vehicle ive come to love as if it were my own child :D
Credits to Cabatli_53 at trmilitary.com for finding it.
Just few days later ;D
(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2337/img9619jj7.jpg)
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Afghan National Police and U.S. Soldiers Visit Shah Wali Dokan
(http://www.sgtstryker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/190192.jpg)
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Our Tank. TAM (Tanque Argentino Mediano) or Argentine Medium Tank on its Transport, Fiat 619Ti.
(http://www.dintel-gid.com.ar/Image/TAMhistoria/tam17.jpg)
The TAM was designed to replace the M4A4 Sherman and Sherman V Firefly. We wanted to get a new tank for the Unique Conditions in our Country.
The US dindt agreed to send Modern Equipment for tanks so the goverment looked in Europe. We bought tanks from France, AMX-13/105, APCs, AMX-13VTT and Mobile Artillery AMX Mk. F-3 de 155 mm. We had a base now, in Cooperation with Germany, we designed the TAM.
From all of sudden, the EA (Not EA Games fools, Ejercito Argentino :) ) recieved a single M-60A1 from the US Army. Why? the US Goverment tried to prevent the development of the TAM and insert their M60s here to earn money, and make some friends.
But the desicion was made...
The Tests for the TAM lasted for 2 Years, proving grounds, the entire country.
She has been in service since 1983 untill now. Theres no replacement available yet and there will be no replacement for a loong time.
Primary
armament 105-mm FM K.4 Modelo 1L
Secondary
armament 2×7.62 mm machine gun
Engine MTU-MB 833 Ka-500 6-cylinder 22.4 l diesel
720 hp (537 kW)
Power/weight 24 hp/tonne
Suspension Torsion-bar
Operational
range 590 km, 800 km with auxiliary fuel tanks
Speed 75 km/h (47 mph)
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Sorry for the size, but a great photo.
Cornet Henry John Wilkin of the 11th Hussars in 1855.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Cornet_Wilkin_11th_Hussars.jpg)
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My my, big picture... My laptop wrote a suicide note.
Meh, here is today's contribution from me
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/7-1.jpg)
If not satisfied, here:
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/F-16.jpg)
Now im off, another day another nightmare (goin out to town with girlfriend, may God/Allah help me)
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From this weeks Operation Septrention:
(http://vetiairbe.free.fr/notahotlink/19122009/c.jpg)
Around 800 French Foreign Legionairs started together with US and ANA troops an offensive in Eastern Afghanistan.
Some more info about it:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170860 (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=170860)
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;D
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Thats a soldier or a Porno...
Anyways lets kill that, ugly thing with something, cute.
(http://juanpaulobritos.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/tam0qq0.jpg)
Tams Tams Tams :P
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(http://www.military-today.com/tanks/m551_sheridan.jpg)
An M551 Sheridan. The M551 Sheridan is an Armored Reconnaissance Airborne Assault Vehicle. Used in recon or with airborne units.
The sheridan is something the Airborne troops always liked. It gave them a counter against other tanks and a firesuppport vehicle.
The Airborne troops where always jealous because of the Soviets equipping their VVS with BMD vehicle's. When the Airborne forces finnaly got their Sheridans, wich was a decent vehicle, they thought they could keep it.
Saddly not, in 1996 all sheridans where withdrawn, and they recieved no replacement for it.
Despite what people said about the Sheridan, it was a good vehicle wich could furfill it roles
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No matter what I accomplish in this life, I will never be as cool as this kid.
(http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/pictures/Powder-Monkey.jpg)
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(http://www.slideshine.de/browser/uploads/162/Landmine/M728%20Combat%20Engineer%20Vehicles%20with%20mine%20rakes.jpg)
M728 Combat engineer vehicles
Members of the 72nd Engineering Company, 24th Infantry Division, test a mine-clearing rake attached to an M-728 COMBAT ENGINEER VEHICLE during Operation Desert Storm. Camera Operator: SPC. HENRY Date Shot: 18 Feb 1991"
These CEV modified tanks could do a whole range of jobs. From mine clearing, Bulldozing, to demolition(Firing HE and HESH rounds) to using a crane or for using in a Cult incident in Waco
Once again, a very effective vehicle that recieved no replacement once it was retired
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More pinnacles of badassery.
Crew
USS Monitor
James River, Virginia
(http://bluejacket.com/usn/images/oth/cw_uss_monitor_crew_james-rvr-va.jpg)
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(http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/pictures/Civil-War-Navy-Uniforms.jpg)
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Water Fishing Commandos
More from the TAM Series..
TAM VCA 155, armed with a 150mm Howitzer.
(http://www.saorbats.com.ar/GaleriaSaorbats/EA/images/VCA%20155mm%20(1)%20JMB_jpg.jpg)
In a military exposition a couple of years ago, i was able to enter in this tank and talk with the crew. I looked trough the cannon and it was amazing!, i asked if it had defense against infantry, i dunno what he replied but he said if the friendly forces were retreating and the front line was getting closer to them, they will retreat at full speed.
This tank has a few variants, from the MBT, to the 20mm Armed Troop Carrier, to the Heavy Howitzer, Mortar Carrier, Ammo Carrier and one similar to the Calliope. This one launchs rockets of 160mm and 320mm
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Zeppelin L-15 sinking near the English coast , March 31st 1916.
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Chadian soldiers ride a technical in the "Toyota War" against Libya.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Chadian_soldiers_in_Toyota_pickup_truck.jpg)
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mmmm scoped M2
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JTF2 on patrol
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/M107-175-mm-gun-vietnam-2.jpg)
M107 Self-proppelled artillery in action in vietnam. These things where Hated to the bone by the vietnamese. It took some time to deploy, but with 37KM of range with standard ammo, this bad-ass thing outranged any Vietnamese or Soviet artillery. The HE shell was so powerfull, it could flip a Main battletank over if it landed in a 1.5-2Meter radius, something wich was easly achievable because of its imense accuracy
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M107 Self-proppelled artillery in action in vietnam. These things where Hated to the bone by the vietnamese. It took some time to deploy, but with 37KM of range with standard ammo, this bad-ass thing outranged any Vietnamese or Soviet artillery. The HE shell was so powerfull, it could flip a Main battletank over if it landed in a 1.5-2Meter radius, something wich was easly achievable because of its imense accuracy
At 37 km you are VERY glad if you hit within 100 meters of your target. Having the shell land 1,5-2 meters from a MBT is pure luck even for modern artillery (unless it's guided) at close range (say two km). Artillery is not pin point accuracy, it's about area denial/destruction/surpression.
However, the tank flipping is true since even a 155mm can do that (atleast I've been told so).
The M107 was very accurate. What you say is true, but the crews/spotters where well trained in doing their task.
Beside, the Soviet Doctorine during the cold war was to attack en masse with Tanks. So the accuracy drop issent a problem.
with that said, the M107 was still a very good unit. It could achieve speeds of 50MPH(80KM/H). Because of not having an enclosed turret, once supplied with shells from exterior units the M107 could infact achieve a higher Rate of fire then a M109 Paladin.
It was always therefor, accompied by M548 Ammunition carriers. Wich also provided local area defense with its .50CAL
(http://www.haaland.info/norway/army/m548-cutout.jpg)
This beast remains my favorite Artillery unit :) i hope one day we see a Battlefield Cold war with this beast in it
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On that note, the main deck of the sloop-of-war USS Hartford. Launched in late 1858 at the Boston Navy Yard, it became the site of a very famous, but misquoted incident in US Naval history.
(http://www.dvrbs.com/cw/JohnLawson-Hartford-001.jpg)
The guns in view (looking forward) are 9" (230mm) smoothbores.
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improved barricade in barcelona (1939?)
(http://fact-fiction.net/archive/pictures/history/barca1936.jpg)
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OMG!! JUST FOUND THIS!!
“Bones,” an Army Special Forces
Green Beret, rides his horse on patrol
in Northern Afghanistan in 2002.
(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/green-beret-1.jpg)
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(https://www.titanic-magazin.de/shop/images/default_shop/9408bonjourPK.jpg)
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The CSS Stonewall of the Confederate Navy. She was an armored, steam-powered ram.
(http://www.japanusencounters.net/images/css_stonewall.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/AE6.jpg)
UH-60 with external fuel tanks hovers while Turkish and US Special Forces go down.
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(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3617/610xhg.jpg)
German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) wear Santa Claus hats as they attend a Christmas tombola at Camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif, north of Kabul, December 22, 2009.
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^^ Santa's lucky.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/French_Army_Cougar_helicopter-_A-1.jpg)
French soldier under ISAF pointing most likely an Area where the Cougar can land.
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(http://www.dn.se/polopoly_fs/1.1019245.1261733984!images/4072265825.jpg)
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In the spirit of the season, the Christmas Truce.
(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/christmas-truce-2.jpg)
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(http://www.pastforward.ca/perspectives/images/xmas_truce.jpg)
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/USMC/4209409684_16f60e7036.jpg)
Marine Corps body bearers run through a practice funeral Nov. 25, 2009 before preparing for the days funerals. Body bearers carry the remains of fallen Marines to their final resting place in Arlington and surrounding cemeteries in the National Capital Region.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/Cannon_fire.jpg)
Self Propelled howitzer from IDF firing...
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(http://i48.tinypic.com/9a8n09.jpg)
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M46 knocked out by chinese volunteers, Korea War
(http://www.fyjs.cn/bbs/attachments/Mon_0908/25_102274_e9c9b28b1154805.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/kljl.jpg)
Air Policing somewhere... I would think it is in the Baltics.
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(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/235/ausiesas.jpg)
Australian SAS, Vietnam War
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An Assualt Guard takes aim against Nationalists, Barcelona, 1937.
(http://perso.wanadoo.es/m_arce/01%20Barna19Julio.jpg)
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(http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje13/pic16.jpg)
American Volunteer pilots in their new Polish Uniforms, 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War
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(http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4373/pm200817mo7.jpg)
Peruvian soldier showing off her FN F2000
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/00s_12_18/011_21443637.jpg)
Bombardment of bagdad
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Peruvian soldier showing off her FN F2000
I wonder how many specs of dust it takes to shut that weapon down? 3?
It has been actually been designed that it wont shut down when dusted ;)
High tech on the outside, fairly simple and easy maintained on the inside
Belgian soldiers operating it in afghanistan dint had much problems with the rifle so far. Just like any other Rifle
Still looks too sci-fi :P
Is it a successor of the P90?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/FN-P90.JPG/800px-FN-P90.JPG)
Futuristic enough for the Stargåte crew :)
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Problem most SMG's is they have small rounds.. 9mm mostly...
If you wanna talk SMG go for MP7 :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/SATCommando.jpg)
Turkish Marine on a joint exercise with US
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/USMC/2-73.jpg)
U.S. Marines LCpl (front to back) Julien Chabin, Nicholas Wilson and William Higgins, attached to the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, take their positions while on operation in the Garmsir district of Helmand Province December 23, 2009.
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Hoşgeldin 2010 :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/OperationCake.jpg)
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We are not affiliated with Lumberjack Commando's :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/BlueBeret.jpg)
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(http://i031.radikal.ru/0912/f6/16537653c3bf.jpg)
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Now lets keep posting real badass units!
(http://s1.fotolog.com.ar/photo/l/000/403/403285_3699570520.jpg)
Argentine Naval Commandos, or "Busos Tacticos"
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JTF2
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Titan62/Canadian%20Military/JTF2_Haiti_01.jpg)
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(http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac324/Oddball_8/navy-seal-4.jpg)
Navy SEALs, I win! ;D
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;D
(http://uberkarabas.users.photofile.ru/photo/uberkarabas/96304440/114213518.jpg)
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^^ Epic.
Elite Units? I'll take bait.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/aralik0049.jpg)
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(http://hd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00362/afgha3_362675d.jpg)
Swedish FN-MAG 58 guarding the Swedish-Finn Camp at Mazar-e-Sharif
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Yupp the Belgians like Germans know their shit when it comes to making different rifles. I only fired the Minimi though :P from FN at least.
And wasntmenl snow uniform is there only when its asked for.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/EastTurkey-1.jpg)
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(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/6025/8092299646lbfw.jpg)
Thats what I call blending in. ;D
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^^ How many Jägers active? I would imagine a Brigade or so.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/0sat.jpg)
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A Bundeswehr convoy consisting of a Wolf and two Wiesel weapon carriers is shown on a Somalian air field in 1993 during the UN mission in which German soldiers took part:
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8052/germanconvoyonairfields.jpg)
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I have a magazine with 3 or 4 pages dedicated to the "Amfibi Deniz Piyade" or whatever that means.
It says its bsaed on the USMC and uses BTR70 and BTR90s
(http://www.gacetamarinera.com.ar/archivos/notas_imgs/346_buzos_m.jpg)
Busos Tacticos in a Military Exercise. They had to swim with full equipment, dive for 2 Hours, swim alot untill they reach a Boat "ARA Punta Mogotes", then walk for hours in full night, with full equipment, and thats all :P
the Operation took an entire day.
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(http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/pictures/British-enter.jpg)
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I have a magazine with 3 or 4 pages dedicated to the "Amfibi Deniz Piyade" or whatever that means.
It says its bsaed on the USMC and uses BTR70 and BTR90s
(http://www.gacetamarinera.com.ar/archivos/notas_imgs/346_buzos_m.jpg)
Busos Tacticos in a Military Exercise. They had to swim with full equipment, dive for 2 Hours, swim alot untill they reach a Boat "ARA Punta Mogotes", then walk for hours in full night, with full equipment, and thats all :P
the Operation took an entire day.
Nice to see them still using L34A1 Sterlings.
(http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/1985/copiaderendidos20ua.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Mumbai_attacks_vinu_image01-crop.jpg)
;)
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yes the canadian rangers still use the no4, but they are not part of the regular army. They are inuit who scout our arctic to protect our claim on the north, and are used as guides for the regular forces when needed.
(http://www.skyhawks.forces.gc.ca/lf/Images/7_0/Rangers/Photos/ISD01-6247.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeWalk-1.jpg)
A pic from the 'Amfibi Deniz Piyade' while on some NATO exercise :)
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(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9330/ac20092.jpg)
A Danish armoured personal carrier burst into flames after being hit by an RPG in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
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(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af343/Ciupita/victoria.jpg)
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, testing CV9040 in Camp Northern Lights, Afghanistan, January 3 2010.
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Sweden's crown princess Victoria:
(http://www.girlswithguns.org/news/news0004.jpg)
Danish crown princess mary:
(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/01/20/princess_narrowweb__300x415,0.jpg)
So for wich one would you go, Victoria from Sweden or Mary from Denmark?
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I would have to say Victoria. She's very pretty, and I saw her in Stockholm some years ago ;)
And to stay on topic:
(http://www.harmala-seura.net/artikkelit/images/kadunnimet_viimankatu5.jpg)
VL Viima trainer of the Finnish Airforce in 1938. This plane had just received her name, "Kokko", after a giant eagle in the Finnish mythology. VL Viimas were used as trainers till the fifties.
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(http://www.elortiba.org/ayer/1989tablada.jpg)
Many Fighters were taken Prisoners during the Battle of La Tablada. Later, they were executed by the Army. In this Picture, José A. Díaz, who's Surrendering to a Argentine Army soldier. His body was never found.
Wiki will do a good job, its late and i really dont want to type the story :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_attack_on_La_Tablada_Regiment
There are 9 Videos about this fight. I really dont know if i can show them or now, becuase it contains scene of Carbonized people and, well, war.
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^^ Someone *wink wink* doesnt respect UN Laws :p
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/TuAFLuftwaffe3.jpg)
:)
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True.
Breaking the rules but what the hell, the Tornado is just too good looking not to post :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/TuAFLuftwaffe2.jpg)
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Austrian Airforce
(http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/913/eurofighter055.jpg) (http://img258.imageshack.us/i/eurofighter055.jpg/)
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(http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/europe/netherlands/ranks_uniforms/uniforms/pictures/Dutch_army_Netherlands_special_forces_soldier_001.jpg)
Mountain Jägers Soldiers of the Royal Netherlands Army.
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(http://pici.se/pictures/QtiZRHDhp.jpg)
^^
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*Tolga has joined the air war :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/YaarKadoluTuAF4-1.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/ownage-2.jpg)
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(http://i48.tinypic.com/futkw9.jpg)
A sniper team provides cover to soldiers of Number 1 Company, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, during a patrol in Babaji district
[Picture: Sergeant Keith Cotton RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2009]
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(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f34/rhcp04/A-4ARsFAAcabecera.jpg)
Yeah thats the most modern thing we have here! But we are better than Bolivia, they still used F86 Sabres till the 90's!!!!!
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Continuing on the nationalist & air theme:
Some pics I took during the Helsinki Int Air Show last summer:
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/hias/nh90.jpg)
NH-90 doing a fly-by
The Finnish Air Force Midnight Hawks doing a bit of formation flying:
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/hias/hawks1.jpg)
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/hias/hawks2.jpg)
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/hias/hawks3.jpg)
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/hias/f18.jpg)
F-18 with afterburner POWERRRR!!!! AND NOISEEEE!!!
The flew very close as you can see, my camera is just a small and cheap 100€ one with barely any zoom.
EDIT: Now with video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVSTPkoung
Skip to 2:50 for the NH-90 being completely bonkers.
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Im sorry I have to say this Warrior... But screw the historic crap, just for once try to post pics of MODERN Armies haha.. You're always caught up on WWII or WWI, now its nice to remember those times but you're forgetting all about Modern times. To set the mood I will break thread rules once again to show you a nice photo from my crap yank archives :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/hires_080605-F-6911G-126.jpg)
OH LOOK, FVCKING COLORS, NOT BLACK AND WHITE!
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You cannot deny the sexyness of the Lightning!
(http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1950_1959/lightningf11024.jpg)
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Tolga, have you played World in Conflict? Especially, Soviet Assault?
Because for some reason you remind me of Captain Malashenko :P
More from La Tablada. Argentine solder stands in front of, a destroyed civilian car, god knows whats that. Maybe, if it used to be a car, then it was runned over by a TAM, or just a victim of the heavy fire. The Argentine Army deployed, Tanks, APC, Trucks and even Anti Aircraft Guns. To prevent a new Coup d Etat, on the recently created Democratic Republic. After years of Military Goverment, a new Democratic goverment led by Alfonsin (Died 2009) came to save Argentina. This group of Rebels was planning a new Coup to restore the Military Goverment, again. God Bless the Army, they saved our asses, maybe you have no idea about the Situation here, when the Army was in Charge of the entire country...
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2EgnN8eHd8Y/SQNg5E3-SoI/AAAAAAAACJk/WITJryQyFyY/s320/tablada.jpg)
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CF18 in artistic unit marking
(http://sites.google.com/site/aircraftpaintings/CF-18A.jpg)
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(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/5525/7940116896alov.jpg)
Dutch Soldier firing rounds on the target range, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. ;)
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/s1464j.jpg)
UH-60Ps of ROKA air operations command are flying over mountains which is covered with snow during air assault training.
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(http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/7082/ddsd01042866sb.jpg)
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Don't wanna annoy anyone, I just like to study people sometimes.
(http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2954/image42984galleryv9ujjg.jpg)
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Interesting, the Germans let their soldiers grow out beards? :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/NATOTigerTuAF.jpg)
Meh... I'll throw in an Inf pic to not go so off topic
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/6qy2aa.jpg)
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Well, yeah, it is stupid, but come on...Afghanistan has a completely different culture than 1st World countries...
Anyway:
German "Feldjäger" MP with his dog. There are dog-handlers in my company, too, pretty cool guys. They´re reall dedicated to their dogs and basically live with them from craddle to grave.
(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/968/610xhj.jpg)
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Of course they didnt use White phosphorus on civilian targets.
(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/2627/1262798678674.jpg)
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(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/716/Uh-1_Huey_02.jpg)
A pretty famous photo of these US troops embarking from a UH-1 Huey
Lately, a Huey flies over once a week. Its sound is so breathtaking
wop-wop-wop-wop-wop-wop-WOPWOPWOPWOPWOP
Such beautifull
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Run DMC "It's like that" on the background ;D
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/12/03/nytfrontpage/26036342.JPG)
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_11_25/a12_20936649.jpg)
Tatatatalibans
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An Indian Border Security Force soldier mans a machine gun at the site of an alleged encounter on the India-Pakistan border at Rajatal, Atari some 50 kilometers (27 miles) west of Amritsar, India, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010. (AP)
Reason for edit: Sorry, took the IMG tags instead of quote tags, my bad.
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^^ Indian border.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/1223500893.jpg)
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I never implied I was a sniper :). All im saying is they dont run around with 'ghillie' suits like you would expect them to...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/aralik0065.jpg)
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It looks like Hoth.
I very much agree with you, I told a few people already about how I thought we looked like we were on Hoth.
I mean look xD
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/2nk54aw-1.jpg)
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Personally I love the boot covers.... :P It reminds me of what a 5 year old would be wearing in his pajamas holding his teddy bear getting ready to go to bed.... ::) I also like how the officers are in woodland camo.
Thats no Officer, its the Prime Minister :p
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/EastTurkey-1.jpg)
First guy got G3A4 Second guy G3A7 with T-40 GL Third guy ofc PKM Fourth I cant tell but probs G3A4 like 5th and so on so on.
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Dont know details, just looked cool, also, dous his rifle looks blue-ish or is it just me.
(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/9039/1262955592742.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148%2C_Westfront%2C_deutscher_Soldat.jpg)
A young German soldier in Somme 1916
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148%2C_Westfront%2C_deutscher_Soldat.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148%2C_Westfront%2C_deutscher_Soldat.jpg)
A young German soldier in Somme 1916
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Tolkien_1916.jpg)
Signals officer, second lieutenant John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Somme 1916 ;)
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My great-grand-uncle, James Emerson, VC posthumously at Cambrai.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/VCJamesSamuelEmerson.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/FinnVlntrsTllnnDc1918.jpg/757px-FinnVlntrsTllnnDc1918.jpg)
Finnish volunteers arrive in Tallinn in December 1918. Circa 2 000 Finns fought in the Estonian war of independence.
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(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af343/Ciupita/Battle_of_Broodseinde_-_silhouetted.jpg)
British soldiers moving forward during the Battle of Broodseinde, 4 October 1916
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Hai all... My first sit down in a few days :D
Im in Çanakkale, which is better known as Gallipoli for the next 3 months :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/IMG_0876.jpg)
^^ NATO Tiger Meet in Turkey... This guy with AA heard the Greeks would show up :D
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(http://www.freewebs.com/philippineamericanwar/1899%20Oct%2015%20Battle%20of%20San%20Isidro.jpg)
American soldiers pushing through the mud, during the Filipino-American war. This was, along with the Spanish American War, the only major conflict in which the Krag Jorgenson Rifle saw standard issue as the US Army's service rifle.
One more:
(http://www.freewebs.com/philippineamericanwar/Copy%20of%20Imus%20On%20the%20firing%20line%20cr%201900.jpg)
American soldiers in a firing line in the bamboo thickets, you can clearly see the unique magazine plate of the Krag.
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Moooooorning.
*Tolga comes into the historic rifle chit chat and fvcks it up. :)
My broken arm has NOT made me useless, ive even become M4 qualified :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/M4.jpg)
EDIT: I figure M4 picture isnt a good contribution, in place i'll put one of my more 'favorite' pics :)
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeT.jpg
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M4, and the M16A4?, same round and all?
Well, a TAM runs over a Car ussed by the Guerrillas during the Battle of la Tablada.
(http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/01/23/fotos/1763003-1.jpg)
Actually, theres a second battle, "Los Carapintadas" or a Commando of the army, "Painted Faces", took the Navy Building, and other goverment buildings. Even the TAMSE, or where we produced the TAM.
Ill tell you the story later, even Bush was involved.
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(http://photoarts.com/haviv/bosnia/image/welcomehome.jpeg)
The only survivor of his Muslim village returns home after recapturing it from Serbs. Bihac Region 1995
I truly recommend this thread where I found this picture, over at MilitaryPhotos.net
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?59816-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina-Photo-Essay! (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?59816-Bosnia-and-Herzegovina-Photo-Essay!)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/FairchildB52Crash.jpg)
B-52H 61-0026 Czar 52 before crash; note the escape hatch detaching during the co-pilot's ejection sequence is visible near the tip of the leading edge of the tail.Bud Holland, who was the command pilot of the aircraft based at Fairchild Air Force Base, flew the aircraft beyond its operational limits and lost control. As a result, the aircraft stalled, hit the ground, and was destroyed.
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^^ Lawsuits here are almost non existent unless its Political or some shit lol.
As for the B-52 pilot, this guy was an ass, not just an ass, the ass of all asses, the ass that made the ass the ass! The USAF let him fly after pulling that shit off at his own daughters softball game...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Caaaaake.jpg)
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still, the M4 is gonna be replaced by the SCAR with the SOCOM. The M4 is a good rifle. And any weapon jams. Training solves this problem.
(http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/90/scar0018yu.jpg)
Soldier testing out their new spec ops rifles=the SCAR. This one is a SCAR-L. Firing 5.56MM NATO rounds. The thing what gave the SCAR an advantage over their competitors(XM8,HK416) is that it is also avaible in 7.62MM NATO rounds, giving a powerfull battlerifle when needed.
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^^ Yar I got Invincible's ass on this one :D
Fact is every gun jams... If you so much as sneeze next to a Steyr AUG used by the Irish etc it'll screw you over.. Turkey canceled HK416 btw xD they were gonna go for HK417 but they decided to make their own 7.62 rifle.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/kamo.jpg)
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To be honest ive never really heard complaints about the m4 jamming either.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Diemaco_C8_carabine_with_Elcan_C79_sight_and_grenade_launcher.jpg)
C8 carbine with unidentified grenade launcher. Anyone know what it is?
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Lewis_gun_world_war_I.jpg)
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An officer checks the honor guard during a ceremony prior to a meeting between Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and high-ranked officers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces at Defense Ministry in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. (AP)
- I get the chills just watching this picture, something I always hated in the military was the drills when you froze in the middle of a drill just so the CO could walk around and check that everybody was doing it right town to the last millimeter
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Canadian Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard (left), commander of coalition forces in Kandahar province, walks with U.S. Capt. Tom Lamb, commander of 1-12's D Company at a strongpoint outside the town of Senjaray, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009
It surprises me that a general is carrying an AR. I know that even generals can be shot at but still, i wouldn't think he would spend any time outside the wire. Also the US cammo seems to be a funny colour for the desert.
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Yeah, its the army ACUs, mean to be used for all conditions. They are complete shit, basically not camoing or even breaking up the soldier's silhouette at all, and the army is already looking into replacing them xD. I believe Kading posted a photo awhile back of the desert camo that's in testing now.
ACU's is just very random and very grey.. I dont even know why US brought them into service in the first place :/
Frankly the 'Chocolate chip' camo works alot better puahaha :D
(http://i50.tinypic.com/1zx74sn.jpg)
I just wish sometimes this war between us and the Kurds would end, so I can go to these beautiful mountains as a fvcking tourist and not in unifrom :(
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360 overwatch.
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Soldier of the future (LIFE, 1959)
"Complete with built-in personal radio, foldable NVG (IR binos), protective facemask, welded nylon underwear (to ward off bullets & shrapnel), rocket belt and explosive foxhole digger. To be fielded around 1965..."
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Oh we are going to do marksman pictures right now ;)
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A Faugh-a-Ballagh (Royal Irish Fusilier) teasing a Turkish sniper by holding his helmet above the trench on his rifle.
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(http://military.discovery.com/technology/weapons/snipers/images/9-long-shot-625x450.jpg)
Canadian Cpl. Rob Furlong is responsible for the farthest sniper kill ever recorded. He took out a man in an al-Qaeda mortar nest from 2,430 meters away. That's just over 1.5 miles.
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I just wish sometimes this war between us and the Kurds would end, so I can go to these beautiful mountains as a fvcking tourist and not in unifrom :(
Whats that sniper rifle? Cant tell much because the weapon its too dark, its a L96/AWM, and Hecate or a Sako TRG?
Looks like AWM to me
AWM... Gendarmarie Commando housing.. The guys are basically alone on a big ass mountain in a building with 3 rooms, eating area, sleeping rooms and where the Commander sleeps.... Around 15 guys total lol. Real fvcking isolated xD
Back to Star Wars.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/21.jpg)
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^^ Meh red headband or not its not gonna matter.. From the distances we fight a red headband isnt gonna make a difference for either side, for the reason that these battles are fought 800 yards apart, hence why we use Battle rifles :P
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Here be a PKK guy, M4 with Eotech.. Blackwater basically supplied these guys and maybe still do who knows, but we've covered alot of US made weapons with serial numbers matched to Iraqi Police/Military units :)
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The immortelle...
(http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/images/Taria.jpg)
A tall soldier striking an elegant pose and wearing the grenadier bearskin is Sergeant Taria in the uniform of the Grenadiere de la Garde of 1809-1815.
Times of London in May 1855(7?) : ‘The base and railings of the column of the Place Vendôme appear this day decked out with the annual offerings to the memory of the man whose statue adorns the summit. The display of garlands of immortelles, and other tributes of the kind, is greater than usual…the old soldiers of the Empire performed their usual homage yesterday at the same place.’ On the same day, a funeral service was held in the chapel of the Invalides attended by Prince Jerome and other dignitaries. The entire personnel of the Invalides as well as soldiers of the First Empire were present.
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Mooring accident involving ZR-3, Los Angeles 1926
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^^ Nice pic.. ID the helmet anyone? Doesnt look like PASGT.
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Overflight of Gallipoli :)
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^^ Nice pic.. ID the helmet anyone? Doesnt look like PASGT.
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Overflight of Gallipoli :)
May them all rest in peace
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There are like 40 something Memorials/Cemeteries around the Area, we gotta walk around all of them, takes quite a long time, not to mention the fact that we have to cross over to the French side too.. But Gallipoli is very nice, very well taken care of ^^
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:)
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Magnificent Bastards of Battalion Landing Team 2/4, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s ground-combat element, fire a machine gun during a live-fire shoot here Dec. 15. The MEU participated in a combined-arms live-fire demonstration, part of a weeklong bilateral exercise.
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Norwegian troops fire at Afghan insurgents
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Amfibi Deniz Piyade...
You can see one guy scream 'AH me arse!' and the other guy laughing hehe
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Dutch navy firefly's on patrolling the sky's of Java during the Anti-politionele actions 1948.
(we extended world war two a bit for ourself ;))
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Christie M1924 Amphibious Tank
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The Hawthorn Ridge mine was the northern-most of the ten mines detonated on 1 July and one of the three large mines, the other two being the Lochnagar mine and the Y Sap mine at La Boisselle. The mine contained about 40,000 lb (18 long tons) of explosives. The plan was to detonate all other mines at 7:28 am, two minutes before Zero hour when the infantry advance would begin, but Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, whose VIII Corps was holding the Hawthorn Ridge sector, favoured blowing the mine hours before the main attack, believing this would give his 29th Division time to capture and consolidate the crater. However, the Fourth Army commander, Lieutenant-General Henry Rawlinson rejected this proposal on the grounds that the Germans would probably take possession of the crater. In this stance he was supported by General Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force. As a compromise, Hunter-Weston was allowed to blow the mine ten minutes before Zero, rather than two minutes.
One witness to the detonation of the Hawthorn Ridge mine was British cinematographer Geoffrey Malins who was filming the 29th Division's attack. He had his camera set up about half a mile away, trained on the ridge and waiting for the explosion.
The ground where I stood gave a mighty convulsion. It rocked and swayed. I gripped hold of my tripod to steady myself. Then for all the world like a gigantic sponge, the earth rose high in the air to the height of hundreds of feet. Higher and higher it rose, and with a horrible grinding roar the earth settles back upon itself, leaving in its place a mountain of smoke.
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A pararescue pilot standing by the door-minigun of his PaveHawk in Afghanistan.
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Swedish female tanker smiles for the camera :P
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Swedish female tanker smiles for the camera :P
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Weapons/1thjenter81971688aew6.jpg)
I'd hit that.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/img0180cz4.jpg)
Basically what a standard base in the East looks like. Few small buildings for about 25 guys (Platoon) and a huge cement area for helicopters :)
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And she aint that hot, which is why I said 'I'd hit that' and not 'I want her to have my babies' :)
Oh I have more of those:
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/221926972_99f09e33f2.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/bild0102_400h.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/6_3_cd_6_frauen.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/1502396.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/3285482286_36e414b443.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/3546268129_c34abbb0c6.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/britsoldier.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/3026.jpg)(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Big_female_soldier.jpg)
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Naice :)
Although I would edit this post and post these fine young ladies in the Babes thread.
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Navy Exercise called EFES.
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French railroad gun
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Rawraaaaaah! Like a animal in distress.
British Viking flipped over.
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The Dutch are distracted easily (quote from a yanks webalbum) haha love it
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Holy shitballs!
Wtf happened to that Armored Vehicle LKJLŞAFJŞKLF...
WAIT
HOOOOOOLD IT
...I know
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/2mm9ukn.jpg)
:) Yes its a joke <3
EDIT: Ciupita.. You are a girl correct? And how old if I may ask? Im asking because in my thread (Patrol one) you were talking about you wanted to join the Armed Forces or something :)
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Belgian UN troops performing an..........................euuhmm..........................
Our army is quiet okay, but 2 items always haunt us. The somalie roastering and 2 Paratroopers who discriminated fellow new para's. I guess we are quiet good folks, since i saw Abrams tanks driving trough Iraqi Gardens and cars for nothing, or Dutch Soldiers taking Weed instead of doing proper de-mining ;D ;)
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Jan. 14, 2010) The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits past the mountains of Morocco on her way through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Mediterranean Sea. Dwight D. Eisenhower is deployed to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jon Dasbach/Released)
Hi-res version: http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/100114-N-6854D-005.jpg (http://www.navy.mil/management/photodb/photos/100114-N-6854D-005.jpg)
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Michael Yon with pararescue in Afghanistan again. Those are the shoes of a guy sitting in the door of a helicopter.
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@Ciupita.. Kay yeah I was just wondering :)
We recently started training Serbian Special Forces (PUAHHAAHHAHA).
Our's are in the standard wooden, the Serbians are in digital camo
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few more (I'll only link these)
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/image00059.jpg
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/image00048.jpg
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/image00000.jpg
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Kill all humans!
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Those robots sure have poor choice in apc's lol.
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/LAND_LAV_Coyotes_FOB_Robinson_Afghanistan_lg.jpg)
LAV III coyote in afghanistan
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LAV25 <3
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A U.S. Navy helicopter takes off in front of the National Palace after members of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne, front, landed in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. U.S. Navy helicopters touched down on the grounds of Haiti's damaged presidential palace bringing reinforcements in the struggle for security and earthquake disaster relief.
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11516/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11516~Fredag%20morgon%20och%20p%C3%A5%20v%C3%A4g%20mot%20m%C3%B6tesplatsen%20d%C3%A4r%20inskjutning%20av%20vapen%20ska%20ske.)
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11517/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11517~P%C3%A5%20v%C3%A4g%20in%20i%20en%20tillf%C3%A4llig%20bas%20st%C3%A5r%20en%20soldat%20och%20v%C3%A4ntar%20p%C3%A5%20sin%20plats.)
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American troops during the assualt on the Macajambus Gorge, Dec 19th 1900, during the Filipino-American War.
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Edited.. This a better pic of the brig itself :P
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new weapon setup dutch marines:
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - Prince William prepares to shoot on the range at Holsworthy Army Barracks on the second day of his visit to Australia on January 20, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. HRH flew to Sydney today after spending three days in New Zealand earlier this week. This is the first official overseas visit for the second-in-line to the throne.
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A flyover performed with JAS 39 Gripens and F18 Hornets over Olkkajärvi, Finland flying in the Missing man formation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_man_formation), to honor the dead on the 70th anniversary of the (small)Swedish voluntary airforce that aided Finland in WW2.
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SAPS, South African Police Service
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Nothin special :)
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A German infantryman on sentry duty in a trench. He wears a set of body armour and has his gas mask container easily to hand.
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An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab.
what ya gonna do?
Why use one if you can use 2?
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I don't think hes just infantry. Body armour seems typical for those who have to clean up mines etc.
I doubt it was for mine clearing. I suspect it was to give further protection against shrapnel and bomb splinters.
Edit:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Small_box_respirator.jpg)
An Australian chaplain wearing the "Large Box Respirator" also known as the "Respiratory Tower" during the First World War. The man is probably Major Walter Dexter, DSO, DCM, in the Bois Grenier Sector on 5th June 1916.
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The remains of an Iraqi mechanized unit along a stretch of the road to Basrah, 1991. (Kudos to anyone who can ID four or more different AFV's - there are at least five.)
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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (R) awards German army Bundeswehr first sergeant Daniel Seibert (C) the Honorary Cross for Bravery as staff sergeant Steffen Knoska (L) watches in Berlin January 22, 2010. Seibert was awarded the cross after helping rescuing comrades during a life threatening situation while on a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
And the whole story:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?172929-German-troops-awarded-for-bravery-in-Afghanistan (http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?172929-German-troops-awarded-for-bravery-in-Afghanistan)
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^^ Good one! lol.. ;D
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Yes, they started issuing that armour to machine gunners, and stormtroopers and the like, though I believe it was often discarded.
Yeah, the only thing that was kept was the helmet and the brow plate for sentries and snipers (as that actually COULD stop a bullet, but was incredibly heavy, so not useful at all for the attack).
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US Air Force dropping Supplies on Haiti.
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German lancer. All three participants wearing gasmasks.
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Bang.
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International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers and Afghan police block an area to a bomb blast site in Kabul September 28, 2005. A suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform rammed his motorcycle into a fleet of buses carrying Afghan army officers in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 28, officials said. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Now THAT`S an international assistance force!
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There's your International Force!
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Members of the Indian Border Security Force mounted on camels rehearse for "Beating the Retreat", during preparations for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. India will celebrate Republic Day on Jan. 26. (AP)
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From left to right: Lieutenant Colonel C.G.E. Mannerheim, Captain von Steven, Colonel Meissner and Admiral Greve of Imperial Russian army during Russo-Japanese war, date unknown.
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Is is it real? Yes i't is, the most cool looking ship that isn't dutch.
Swedish Visby class corvettes!
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/SHIP_Corvette_Visby_K32_Helsingborg_Extreme_Littoral_lg.jpg)
As I recal from a other forum: "Is there any aspect in which Sweden is not perfect ?"
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Mechanized Indian Infantry.
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Special 'Flying Squirrel' Commando"s on training
These men have a 4 year training ahead, teaching various things like Gliding and landing, HALO glide drop, Sniping while gliding, Storing nuts in their mouth, Gliding 'Grenade" carpet bombing and much more
(http://www.boredstop.com/imgp/soldier-having-fun-iraq.jpg)
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U.S. trained ATLACATL 1981 El Salvador
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German camel mounted Schutztruppen in German South West Africa, prior to WW1.
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A man skis by a decommissioned navy ship on the ice of the Khimki reservoir in the northwest Moscow, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Weather experts said this month was the coldest in Moscow in sixty years. (AP)
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yougoslavian paratrooper 1966
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Yugoslavia used old WW-2-German equipment for a longer time after WW2. Mind that it was occupied by Germany during the 2nd World War and the newly formed Yugoslavian army used captured German equipment. Only later they would get Soviet weapons. Related pic:
Yugoslavian soldiers posing withMP40s and localy produced K98k rifles:
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Post WW2 Operation Highjump.
An Operation to train soldiers with extreme conditions? or they were looking for the Nazi "Colony" in the Area?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Sennet1946.jpg)
USS Sennet during Operation Highjump, 1946.
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German KSK troops with a Humvee type of vehicle.
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11592/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11592~Eldledningspluton%20befinner%20sig%20h%C3%B6gt%20upp.%20H%C3%A4rifr%C3%A5n%20har%20de%20bra%20koll%20p%C3%A5%20l%C3%A4get.)
Swedish artillery unit up in the far, dark north parts of Sweden.
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As I said, at the first glance it was weird, because the Humvee is never mentoined to be used by the KSK...on the other hand they´re a "secret" special force, so not everything they do is going public..
Anyway:
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A group of German paratroopers in Afghanistan. They must´ve been part of one of the evry first contingents, when the North was quiet and calm and our politicians could still sell it as a rebuilding and security mission. Note the British Bristol vest, one of those guys is wearing, which still has its DPM pattern. The rest is equipped with Mehler SK body armour. All of them wear their berrets, the European Flecktarn uniform and the guy maning the MG wears his yellow "Spieß" ribbon. Also their "Wolf" car is unarmoured and doesn´t have a roof.
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Our Wolf on deployment.
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Excuse me? You say my camo is blue? :D
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Excuse me? You say my camo is blue? :D
Its ok, so is mine. I have an excuse though: I was at sea.
(http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss100/SMIDSY_87/IMG_0293.jpg)
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(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=70477&d=1237233391)
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(http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/390087-2/kulkosvaidzio+komanda)
Post WW1 Lithuanian Army.
Picture was taken no earlier as 1924, because enfield rifles were bought in that year. They seem to be posing with their Maxim MG. Well during that time, it seems that the Lithuanian Army was made of Volunteers, nothing professional till late or mid 30s i guess.
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^^ Hence my warning Invincble heheh :D
And Natty, dont think its that important is it? :)
My goal was more on the conversation we had before :P, watch out for the internetzzz mate.
No worries. OPSEC is always a priority which is why I wont say anything about the pic hehe :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/JOAK47-1.jpg)
Special Forces
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I only posted a link. I didnt put a gun to anyones head saying open the picture. And to me they're trash, to me they're less than trash, you can recycle some trash you cant do shit with the corpses. Of course you can say its a bad thing but I thats how I feel and im sure alot of other people would too if their buddies arm flew in their face or their cousin died in an ambush because of the same guys, im just sayin. So im showing as much respect to them as they would show for my dead body
At least Taliban is trying to take as much bodys with them as they can ;D, very sympathetic of them.
(http://94.100.116.167/703200001-703250000/703243001-703243100/703243071_6_rQQV.jpeg)
Chinook flyby near Kala Kala.
the hill came famous during the battle of Chora, Troops fought off hundreds of taliban.
Dutch commanders gave the order to defend Chora at all cost. For weeks a huge battle raged on.
It was the biggest Dutch battle since the Korean war.
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Do not disrespect the dead. They are guilty of no crimes and you too will eventually join their ranks. What a person does wrong by you ends at their death.
Differences of opinion...
My beef isnt with the Kurds, its like Homer Jay said the PKK. I dont care what the Kurds want to do in Turkey, i'd say give them whatever they want in Turkey and let them be miserable citizens like us lol. In the 80's they began mass migration here eventually wanted a country named Kurdistan, dunno might of said this before on this thread too. Anyway they started making sure SE Turkey didnt develop, killed some teachers, engineers etc started picking on the Army, Army started attacking back, went into Iraq around 5 times since 90's cause thats where they attack from. They pull off an ambush run across the border and we give chase till we get tired :P
Anyway bit off topic peoples? :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Askeri_harekat_bilgileri_iin_Uyd-1.jpg)
Geeky side of the Army lol
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At least Taliban is trying to take as much bodys with them as they can ;D, very sympathetic of them.
You have absolutely no idea who these people are do you? Before the most recent invasion they were famous for going around Afghanistan and destroying any religious items not having to do with their particular brand of Islam.
These people (I stretch the definition of the word) are thugs, nothing more. They want to be the big boys on the block in Afghanistan. Pile em up and use them as sandbags I say. Beating women to death for not covering their faces? Yah, you go ahead and be sympathetic
GO GET EM, BOYS!!
(http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/2007/12/09/afghanistan_war.jpg)
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(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/images/a-10-0SC002.JPG)
FUCK YEAH!!
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To add to the sexy planes:
(http://aviationfans.com/images/a-10-19990422-f-7910d-518.jpg)
(http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/135945.jpg)
I love A-10's <3
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F18 is much easier on the eye, such beautiful proportions. Up there with the spitfire IMO.
(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2140/serverya8.jpg)
If it looks good it flies good.
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(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6738/8308641586y8bv.jpg)
Boat patrol/crossing on the Helmand River.
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Invincible Special Operations use the Steyr
Did I post this before? lol
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Haha-2.jpg)
BTW... For aircraft NOTHING beats the F-16 <3
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/F-16win-1.jpg)
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I personally think that the F16 is the best looking American fighter there's been. But even that is outclassed by the Lightning:
(http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/photos/spitfire/images/20606/thunder-citys-lightning-f6-zu-bey-performs-a.jpg)
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NVA Mig 21-MF with SPRD-99(Startinghelp rockets)
(http://www.mig-21-online.de/images/start_sprd_1.jpg)
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These 3 are on me.
I swear to god, That day...It was more awesome then winning a car i dunno
We where standing on the parralel(Folklore naming for lane for parking planes in Kleine brogel AFB), and my dad got a call="Check end of the Paralell"
Of the 20 people around us, 12 started running, 2 fell over of sie awesomeness. And the Girl next to me said she had to change pants.
(http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/458/img5926.jpg)
(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/746/img5927z.jpg)
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7161/img5928.jpg)
Seeing that F-16 coming at you from 3KM away.....HHHOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY SHIT
Its VERY hard for a Belgian to impress a Dutchman, but even the Dutch pilots couldnt believe what they just saw
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Just to make it everything square. Dutch boys rollin on dubs in the sandbox.
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/LAND_G-Wagen_and_XA-188_Dutch_Afghanistan_lg.jpg)
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Canada learned the hard way those BMW's are poorly suited for afghanistan. IED = boom.
(http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x234/z0rr0101/RG-31_Canada_Afgan2.jpg)
We use these instead now (rg-31 nalya)
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Pshh, RG-31s. Nothing next to the beauty of design that is the Oshkosh M-ATV.
(http://www.defenseonline.com.cn/news/gy/gy12260_0.jpg)
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(http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/Osorio-Pics/Osorio-MBT.jpg)
The Osório tank, best tank in the world. ;D
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Just to make it everything square. Dutch boys rollin on dubs in the sandbox.
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/LAND_G-Wagen_and_XA-188_Dutch_Afghanistan_lg.jpg)
That's a Finnish "Pasi" XA-203 isn't it? I drove one of those in the army for 3 months.
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/pasikuski.jpg)
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/pasikuva1.jpg)
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/pasikuva2.jpg)
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The Osório tank, best tank in the world. ;D
psh, German bias FTW!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Holland_Leopard_2A6_02.jpg)
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Royal Irish Rifles, Somme 1916
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af343/Ciupita/Royal_Irish_Rifles_ration_party_Som.jpg)
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Low fly piss race? :(
We get fly by's every hour, 191 Filo flying to Greece for a dogfight hehe. Aegean is like an airshow about a dozen mock dogfights a day, often at like 1000 feet so you can see pretty clearly :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/f41xt9.jpg)
BTW TA0 is that a NATO Tigers patch I see?
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BTW TA0 is that a NATO Tigers patch I see?
yes yes :v
I was present at the NATO tigermeet during sanicole this year. So many squadrons all over europe
Ah yeah I know its pretty amazing :)
I was over at Balıkesir during the 2005 meet, it can only be put into one word, 'Epic' hehe plus I know a guy from 192 Filo (TuAF Tiger Squadron)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/NATO%20Tigers/192filo_jets46.jpg)
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(http://i49.tinypic.com/nqpov4.jpg)
105mm howitzers of artillery regiment ROKA 15th div are firing rounds darning winter exercise. Mt. Juckgeun, Hwachon, Gangneung South Korea. Feb.2
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The Osório tank, best tank in the world. ;D
psh, German bias FTW!
psh, British bias FTW!
(http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/Challenger2_Pics/Challenger2-Iraq.jpg)
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YPR 765 PRI with ERA package
(http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/975/file111854803.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/C4K3_IV.jpg)
:P
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/kddsc00247.jpg)
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Still failing with the camouflage I see.
Not that we are any better:
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/rekka_lumessa2.jpg)
(Caption: Camouflage - You're doing it wrong.)
At least we're not in a war zone :P
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Our rangers are no better ;) (not really front line troops but still...)
(http://www.army.gc.ca/land-terre/units-unites/images/rangers3.jpg)
Ps. they are arctic troops
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On the subject of inappropriate camouflage...
Mali Air Force MiG-21UM 'Mongol-B' with groundcrew...
(http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=181635&d=1265468427)
Apologies for the size, couldn't be arsed.
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(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/608/1-1-TOS-1_Buratino_220mm_Multiple_Rocket_Launcher.jpg)
TOS-1 Buratino's battery firing.
The TOS-1 is an unique vehicle. Its an heavy Short range MLRS. Designed to take out Personell in fortifications, vehicle's, transports and so on. It actually wipes out everything that issent an MBT. It follows right behind Russia's Armored colums, firing 175KG 220MM rockets, of wich 30 are carried. Often 1-2 are fired, but it can deplete all of its missiles in 15Seconds. At a minimum range of 400 meters, and a maximum of 5000.
This is what i admire and respect Russia over America. They have much more usefull vehicle's. And admit it, this thing looks epic
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(http://img201.imageshack.us/ifs/193/img177/1/bren20gun20girlsej1.jpg)
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(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/118sqnpic205.jpg)
De Havilland test pilot George Aird ejects from English Electric Lightning P 1B XG332 on the 13th of September 1962. The photographer was simply in the right place at the right time as the photo was only to show a farmer on his Fordson Major for a farming magazine. The pilot landed in a greenhouse and broke both legs, fortunately he was able to resume his flying career after recovering from his injuries.
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This is what i admire and respect Russia over America. They have much more usefull vehicle's. And admit it, this thing looks epic
More useful? For what? Blowing up a city block? Besides, it's just a pod of rockets that would usually be on a truck put on a now otherwise useless T-80 (T-72?).
American MLRS systems have a range of like 300 miles! Is that not useful? I think you are confusing the word with "looks cooler".
Note he said vehicles, he's not just talking about the TOS-1 in particular. I can cite a couple examples at how the Russians/Soviet Union created very useful vehicle that the U.S. didn't, or didn't until after the USSR did.
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Von Bredow's Death ride, one of the few successful cavalry charges in modern history.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Battle-Mars-Le-Tour-large.jpg)
Also that Russian thing does look cooler, which makes all the difference.
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This is what i admire and respect Russia over America. They have much more usefull vehicle's. And admit it, this thing looks epic
More useful? For what? Blowing up a city block? Besides, it's just a pod of rockets that would usually be on a truck put on a now otherwise useless T-80 (T-72?).
American MLRS systems have a range of like 300 miles! Is that not useful? I think you are confusing the word with "looks cooler".
You are looking the wrong way.
What did MBT's proven the last few decades? Perfect for ripping anything in the fields. Useless in a city. Many T-72's and T-80's where taken out in afghanistan. THeir turrets couldnt elevate to fire well. The top armor was vurnable. The Anti-Personell performance was lacking.
What happend with the Americans in Bagdad? Same story. They where smarter, as they dint allowed their tanks to move ahead without proper intelligence first.
Now to counter this, Russia developed several systems wich can support MAIN BATTLE tanks up close. 2 Examples= The BMPT and the TOS-1 Buratino.
The TOS-1 Buratino is a Short range MLRS designed to support MBT colums in the fields, and attack targets in urban area.Here you come with ur "OMG AWESOME US STUFF 300 MILES". This thing fires 175KG of Thermobaric rockets wich simply destroys/burns anything what issent a Main battle tank. Its a close support vehicle. Designed to attack targets of 5000M. At that range, the T-72/ T-80 is a perfect chassis, as it provided still valuable protection. ATGM's will be rarely fired at them, because you have to focus on those dozens of Russians T-80UD/T-90's coming your way. And at those ranges, the T-80 chassis is strong enough to survive tank shells.
And do the americans have something like this to protect them? No
The BMPT can be used in a city with no problems. It is heavily armoured on places where it can be attacked. And it has= 2 30MM Autocannons, 2 30MM Grenade launchers 2PKM Machine guns and anti tank missiles. This thing easily rips trough infantery. Back in Afghanistan, the Soviets used ZSU-23 Shilka's as tank support vehicles. Result=MBT losses where down with 70%. But the Shilka has paper thin armor, so they could be easily attacked. The BMPT has the armor of a MBT with added roof armor. And a firepower wich will seriously regret people from sticking their heads out of a window.
And do the american troops have such an effective Anti-personell unit to protect them in cities? Euuuuhhmm Nah
And this is why the Russians simply owned the frak out of US tank equipment. They have much more diffrent kinds of vehicle's. The current threath of Urban combat is increasing daily. And what did the US replied with? A Stryker armed with a .50CAL. What do the Russians come up with? See above. Those things are actually usefull. And dont come with "YE but look at the GULF war YEAH we owned those tanks! 70% of the Iraqi army was equipped with Type 59 and 61 tanks. These where chinese copies( Wich are less armoured/equipped) then their Soviet counterparts= 1950 T-55/62 Main battle tanks. These old buckets have to face Modern MBT's like the M1 Abrams, Challenger 2 and a gaint airforce with no to very little airsupport to themself. With an very old, outdated AAA to protect them
The US always had better planes. The Soviets/Russians always had better vehicle's.
Russian Airborne troops are protected by a wide series of vehicles wich are dropped with them. The US Airborne troops where begging for a Replacement for the Sheridan, or even keeping it in service.
And yes they all look much cooler
Try to find one US vehicle wich looks as intimidating as this (BMPT)
(http://www.military-today.com/tanks/bmpt.jpg)
Or this
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jalopnik/2009/05/Buratino_2_01.jpg)
When i see that coming my way, i will be shitting bricks.
Yes thats 2 pictures, but i wont post one tomorow to compensate ;) ;)
And sorry for the long text. I just had to screw back some of that "USA RULES ALL" behaviour ;) (No offense to the US though.)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/US_forces_Operation_Enduring_Freedom.jpg)
US Special Forces with North Alliance Cavalry during Op Enduring Freedom. ;D
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Pretty badass indeed.
Re: The guy up there who is offended by people liking US vehicles;
Afghanistan is what we would call "Not good tank country." No matter how badass and indestructible your tank may seem, in afghanistan it will be severely limited. Yes, casualties dropped when the ZSUs were used, but the primary purpose of tanks is not to protect themselves. That is what bunkers are for. In Afghanistan tanks lacked the mobility to do much, which is why the ISAF has not deployed many or any tanks but has deployed huge numbers of light infantry and helicopters.
Yes, the BMPT is a better support vehicle, and the TOS-1 is a better kill'em'all vehicle, but there are differences. The US has never needed vehicles like that, quite frankly, and it is very unfair to compare the Stryker to the BMPT.
The US doesn't use urban warfare tactics or strategy that would permit use of a system such as a TOS-1, and never really needed it; US strategy has usually depended on heavy armor and speed along with close air support to launch a fast moving Uber-Blitzkrieg, and so the fortifications would be attacked with long range artillery and close air support, and all the ground vehicles would be for direct engagement, not support. The Abrams is accurate out to 3500m and capable of killing T-series tank chassis at that range, but can close the distance extremely rapidly, making TOS-1 type systems not terribly useful; with good communications air support can be more effective, and we DONT use blanket bombardments against civilian structures.
The BMPT is not a fait comparison to the stryker; one is an APC and one is an...well, whatever it is, its not an APC. in the current wars, I would say that the Stryker is much more useful than the BMPT, considering that most casualties come from IEDs and not from small arms fire. MRAPs are even more relevant, and are something the russians are not known for. If we needed the BMPT, we would probably make one, but it has apparently been unnecessary till now. Also note, the lack of those vehicles did nothing to keep us out of baghdad; it certainly didn't turn into a us-Grozny type thing.
American tactics are different than russian ones, and our vehicles are different as well. The russians used a conscript army, whereas the US uses a volunteer force. The russians use human wave style mass assaults, while the US uses fast moving highly skilled spearheads with CAS. (also note that the stryker which everyone derides has proven to be extremely durable.)
In the conflicts we are in, helicopters and infantry are far more useful than tanks. Yes, I'd like to have a BMPT in a city, but it would still be very restricted and no less vulnerable than a tank against ieds. I'd sooner have a blackhawk or apache or platoon of infantry, to be quite honest.
Also, you'll be hard pressed to find a vehicle more badass than the vigilante:
(http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/T249_Vigilante.jpg)
Yes, thats a 37mm 6 barreled gatling gun firing at 3000 rpm.
I would also debate the point that all russian ground vehicles are always better than american ones. Yes, the M1 absolutely raped T-72s and chinese vehicles during Gulf War, but do you really think the T-90 could have fared any better, especially considering that the T-90 has the same gun as the T-72, which could not penetrate abrams armor from frontal arc at 50m?
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Ahhh the Northern Alliance.. What a bunch of crazy old afghan's those are..
A pretty useful group to be friends with when you fight in Afghanistan thought.
(http://94.100.120.10/807350001-807400000/807356401-807356500/807356458_6_uSkv.jpeg)
YPR. 765 PRI
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Still failing with the camouflage I see.
Dont hate the camo, yo :)
Still rocking the iron sights nice. What variant of M16?
Yar, Iron sights own and its M4, few with M16 stock and receivers.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/kdp1250041.jpg)
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I still think the Leopard 2A6M is the best overall tank. It is much cheaper than an M1, has similar armour, the long barreled 120mm gun with an option to rebarel a 140mm and has a diesel engine. Where i think the t72 comes short is fire control and digital battlefield managment. The Russians just cant seem to build good fire control systems and thats my only real complaint. Western tanks hit with the first shot with a high precentage and it only takes one shot these days.
(http://render64.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/leopard_2a6m_can_canadian_army_kraus_maffei_wegmann_002_site.jpg)
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I agree. Ive always been a fan of our neighbors Leopard 2 (Greek Leopard 2A6HEL)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/pytheusatinvisionfree23vg.jpg)
Rawr :)
Anyway contribution
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3-1.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/b/bb/20090920124431!Japanese_Type_90_Tank_-_2.jpg)
No love for the type 90? :D
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I like Merkava IV
(http://www.armyrecognition.com/forum_pic/Merkava_4_Israel_001.jpg)
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I still think the Leopard 2A6M is the best overall tank. It is much cheaper than an M1, has similar armour, the long barreled 120mm gun with an option to rebarel a 140mm and has a diesel engine. Where i think the t72 comes short is fire control and digital battlefield managment. The Russians just cant seem to build good fire control systems and thats my only real complaint. Western tanks hit with the first shot with a high precentage and it only takes one shot these days.
(http://render64.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/leopard_2a6m_can_canadian_army_kraus_maffei_wegmann_002_site.jpg)
But leopards Are the best tanks in the world. A good main battle tank combines Firepower, Armor, mobility, numbers and maintance/support and such
The leopard 2 scores the best on all those level's. M1 Abram's are simply to costly to operate, and are to fuel hungry. And while the T-90 is an excellent tank in firepower, armor, mobility and maintance/support, it is still a new tank, with only a mere thousand built.
The T-90 has one of the best fire support systems in the world though. I think the Leopard's one is still better
(http://www.cetin.net.cn/storage/cetin2/sp/sptest/bqjj/bmp-3_1(zjc-bmp3).jpg)
A BMP-3 of the Russian ground forces. The BMP-3 is todays best armed IFV. Combining a 100MM Main gun, a 30MM Autocannon and a coaxial MG. Together with ATGM's for the 'just in case"
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TAM – VCLC
(http://fuerzasarmadasargentinas.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/tamvclc.jpg?w=450)
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Agreed, the Leopard is the best tank in world, closely followed by Challenger 2 and M1 Abrams. I don't really have faith in the Leclerc, nor do I think that the T-90 is anything special, really. I don't believe that anything fantastic can come of a T-72 modification, no matter how drastic the improvement is. Its the difference between an M60 and a Chieftain; there's only so much you can do with the same chassis.
Granted, I am wholly unfamiliar with the new asian tanks. I hear good things about the new SKorean one, though.
Theta, American tactics don't allow for use of any vehicle in that manner, and I think you are overstating the effectiveness of the BMPT. Notably, it is used for suppression, not clearing. Abrams or BMPT, you still need infantry, and helicopters and drones are more useful there also.
(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/LAND_IVMMD_Husky_w_Trailers_lg.jpg)
Take something more practical than your silly TOR-1!
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Don't really see the point of the BMP-3's ludicrous armament. Maybe the Soviets felt inadequate. lol.
Anyway a derelict Opel Kadett E in Kosovo, 1999 and some tank.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/Challenger2photo1.jpg)
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Agreed, the Leopard is the best tank in world, closely followed by Challenger 2 and M1 Abrams. I don't really have faith in the Leclerc, nor do I think that the T-90 is anything special, really. I don't believe that anything fantastic can come of a T-72 modification, no matter how drastic the improvement is. Its the difference between an M60 and a Chieftain; there's only so much you can do with the same chassis.
The T-90 is actually a interm solution. It will remain in a constant, low rate production untill 2025. This is to allow funds high for the T95. A brand new, state of the art russian tank with technology, Armament and protection never seen before
The T-90 is mere derived from the T-72. Their issent much simular towards it, exept maybe its appearnces. The T-90 is basicly a high grade batte tank derived from a Cheap, simple mass produced MBT like the T-72.
T-90 for instance, has a much more advanced Main gun, backed up by the latest Fire support system, with excellent armor (One T-90 recieved 7 hits by RPG's of various types, and was still in action) backed up by 3 important defensive systems=Shtora ATGM infra red jamming, ARENA Active defense system and KONTAKT-5 ERA. The T-90 that was hit 7 times only had KONTAKT-5. So unlike the T-72, its a pretty good tank
Granted, I am wholly unfamiliar with the new asian tanks. I hear good things about the new SKorean one, though.
Many countries are developing their own MBT's now. South Korea with the K2 black Panther, Japan with the Type 90, with another new tank in development. Turkey is now also designing its own tank now. Not to mention china and India.
Stiff competition from the East. Its true what some people said= We really need to watch out for the chinese.
Theta, American tactics don't allow for use of any vehicle in that manner, and I think you are overstating the effectiveness of the BMPT. Notably, it is used for suppression, not clearing. Abrams or BMPT, you still need infantry, and helicopters and drones are more useful there also.
Indeed. That is true. But having a BMPT in a city, and not having one, matters alot. You can rain an arsenal of diffrent types of Anti personall weapons. No other weapon system has this in the world. And it is a fact that combat has shifted towards the Urbans
Take something more practical than your silly TOR-1!
Still the TOS-1 has proven itself ;) ;)
These days, many countries developed their own MBT. But one other unit is developed by many countries.
The self-propelled 155MM Howitzer. This one is a polish AHS Krab
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Krab_howitzer_MSPO_2008.jpg/300px-Krab_howitzer_MSPO_2008.jpg)
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Winter training in Norway:
(http://94.100.122.217/575650001-575700000/575654101-575654200/575654178_6_ES9v.jpeg)
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11880/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11880~Kistorna%20med%20de%20stupade%20officerarna%20kapten%20Johan%20Palml%C3%B6v%20och%20l%C3%B6jtnant%20Gunnar%20Andersson%20ankom%20till%20%C3%84rna%20flygf%C3%A4lt.)
A few hours ago on Ärna airfield. The bodies of two Swedish officers who earlier in February lost their lifes in Afghanistan.
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11881/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11881~F%C3%B6retr%C3%A4dare%20fr%C3%A5n%20Livgardet%20samt%20F%C3%B6rsvarsmaktens%20ledning%20var%20n%C3%A4rvarande.)
Unloading from the Hercules
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11882/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11882~Vid%20akten%20medverkade%20honn%C3%B6rsstyrka,%20fanvakt%20och%20musikk%C3%A5r,%20samtliga%20fr%C3%A5n%20Livgardet%20i%20Kungs%C3%A4ngen,%20det%20regemente%20som%20de%20b%C3%A5da%20stupade%20tillh%C3%B6rde.)
Troops from the Life Guard regiment attended the ceremony
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11871/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11871~1600%20ISAF-soldater%20p%C3%A5%20milit%C3%A4rflygplatsen%20Marmal%20i%20Afghanistan%20hedrar%20de%20svenska%20soldaterna%20l%C3%A4ngs%20kortegv%C3%A4gen.)
ISAF troops at the military airport of Marmal, Afghanistan during the ceremony a few hours earlier before the ceremony on Ärna airfield
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11869/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11869~Tapto%20f%C3%B6r%20de%20stupade%20svenska%20soldaterna%20p%C3%A5%20milit%C3%A4rflygplatsen%20Marmal%20innan%20deras%20avresan%20till%20Sverige.)
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(http://94.100.116.100/797650001-797700000/797687801-797687900/797687836_6_Erwi.jpeg)
Dutch reported wanted a group photo with SF.
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asking some 19year old dude that just did lumpen (swedish compulsory military service) if he wants to "extend" his service and then go fight ev0l instead of going to some dead-end job, unemployed or to some boring school (it's not gonna give you a job anyway dude, you know how the economy is nowadays, right?) - this is not "free will", it's manipulative and abusive!
I just saw some 19year old child on the news who will replace these guys that got killed. His respons to the question "How does it feel to go there now after this have happened" was... "it makes me wanna go there even more".... :-\ free will.....yyyeaaa...... riiiite.... :-X
Firstly, it's not like every person before ending their military service are told about how cool it would be to go on international missions and how much their life will suck from here on. The initiative always comes from the person themselves being interested.
Secondly, free will doesn't mean the freedom to think what you think just because you know it's right. And if a 19-year old is still a child, sucks to be him/her. Maybe if everyone wasn't so cocooned and protected from the big bad world they would grow up before hitting 30.
Hell, I'd be fine with overseas duty, except that I hate the physical stuff and wearing a ton of clothing in heat. But if I could drive around Afghanistan with a truck/APC for a few months and get paid for it, why not?
Anyway, to stay on topic:
(http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/apr2008/4/4/14462DA0-A324-F122-0DA7ECE6D019876A.jpg)
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Natty, post pictures or feel the wrath of the Nameless One.*
*Jack to his friends.
(http://62.20.57.210/kra/bilder/roosuniformer/savolax%20infanteri.jpg)
Savon Prikaati 1620 - 31.12.2006
These guys are from late 1700's.
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Hated by the guys in charge
Loved by the crews
One of the many US vehicles wich recieved pointless critism, was the M50 Ontos
It was an excellent support vehicle for the USMC. Being very fast, excellent terrain performance and so on
The downsides where that the crew had to exit to reload the Ontos.
(http://warisboring.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/m-50.jpg)
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Yeah, that thing was like a giant armored shotgun. Pity it was recalled from service; there as a new model coming out, with aluminum hull ad full amphibious capabilities.
Hey! You up there! Don't insult Russian Airplanes!
(http://defense-update.com/images/su34-flyby.jpg)
/Cause they're smexy.
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Somebody asked for an intimidating american vehicle?
(http://infos.fncv.com/public/2009/afghanistan-assault-breacher-vehicle-abv-cobra-anger.jpg)
I'll give you intimidating!
Am I the only one who thinks the number of spikes on that plow is a tad bit excessive?
(http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/xml/news/2009/04/marine_abv_041809w/041809mc_abv_800.JPG)
(http://img.blog.yahoo.co.kr/ybi/1/24/56/shinecommerce/folder/24/img_24_7456_14?1196593135.jpg)
(http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/xml/news/2007/06/marine_engineer_vehicle_070609/abv_night_800_070608.JPG)
So bite me, they're small pictures.
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this is not "free will", it's manipulative and abusive!
I just saw some 19year old child on the news who will replace these guys that got killed. His respons to the question "How does it feel to go there now after this have happened" was... "it makes me wanna go there even more".... :-\ free will.....yyyeaaa...... riiiite.... :-X
Say what? A 19 year old qualifies as a child? And his motives sound more like REVENGEE rather than being manipulated.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3-3.jpg)
Yeah yeah, I know bad stance.. Sue me :)
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Somebody asked for an intimidating american vehicle?
(http://infos.fncv.com/public/2009/afghanistan-assault-breacher-vehicle-abv-cobra-anger.jpg)
So bite me, they're small pictures.
whoho! What for a vehicle is that???
Nice i like!
Now convince the US to deploy a vehicle armed with dual 40MM bofors, 2 40MM grenade launcher, twin M240 Machine guns and 4 TOW AT missiles ;D
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I always loved these special tank variants +1 for this one
And +2 for this one!!
(http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingdom/cruiser/centurion/centurion-mk-i-01.jpg)
Centurion MKI on the prowl. The MKI was unique, as it has a17PDR, and a 20MM polsten COAXIAL cannon.
The 20PDR appeared shortly afterwards, and only 340MKI's where build. the MKII with the 20PDR used a standard BESA MG as a coaxial
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Centurion doesn't make bridges collapse at the thought of carrying one. Centurion doesn't move 5kph. Centurion doesn't cost a lot (for a tank).
<3 Centurion (Pwnturion, really!)
Canceled, sadly, and not American to begin with (but they are our baseball cap anyway!)
(http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/MMEVe.jpg)
Those are the CRV-7, by the way. Armor piercing 70mm rockets, not your normal kind. More accurate than a 30mm cannon and can punch through a 3 ft concrete wall.
Dual MGs, and the missiles are dual anti-air and anti-tank weapons.
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_09_09/a02_20405981.jpg)
A CH-53 helicopter releases flares after being shot at from the ground while flying over Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, on September 18, 2009.
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Centurion MKI on the prowl. The MKI was unique, as it has a17PDR, and a 20MM polsten COAXIAL cannon.
The 20PDR appeared shortly afterwards, and only 340MKI's where build. the MKII with the 20PDR used a standard BESA MG as a coaxial
Only prototypes of the Centurion were armed with the Polsten cannon, the Mk.1 was armed with a 17pdr and coaxial BESA, as was the Mk.2, which had the improved cast turret that was used until the end of production. The Mk.3 was basically a Mk.2 armed with the 20pdr and coaxial BESA.
A Centurion Mk.5 AVRE, towing a Giant Viper mine-clearance system crosses a ditch bridged by a Centurion Mk.5 ARK:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/2020.jpg)
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_09_09/a13_20190433.jpg)
Maj. Gen. William Freeman hands a flag to Shelby Summers, daughter of Army Sgt. 1st Class Severin West Summers III, of Bentonia, Mississippi, at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Summers was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 2, 2009. From left, Freeman, Tammy Summers, wife of Severin West Summers III, and Shelby Summers.
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_11943/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~11943~Kadetter%20p%C3%A5%20skjutplatsen.)
Swedish Cadets
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(http://i47.tinypic.com/156x1nd.jpg)
U.S. Marines from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, February 13, 2010. U.S.-led NATO troops launched a crucial offensive on Saturday against the Taliban's last big stronghold in Afghanistan's most violent province and were quickly thrown into a firefight with the militants
Damn cool pic.
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(http://www.ruddock.ca/historyproject/images/content/gasmask.png)
German soldier and some dogs in gas masks. I'm assuming this is from the interwar period, since he has a helmet with the side prongs and a rifle that probably isn't a K98k, but a WWII looking uniform. However, this is all speculation on my part (since the site I got it from claims its a british soldier just a few days after the first gas attack at Ypres).
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/d/da/20091229122809!%22Gas.%22_Australian_troops_with_respirators_on_posed_for_the_camera_in_the_advance_trench%2C_Garter_Point%2C_4th_Division.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/d/da/20091229122809!%22Gas.%22_Australian_troops_with_respirators_on_posed_for_the_camera_in_the_advance_trench%2C_Garter_Point%2C_4th_Division.jpg)
Click the image for a very large version.
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Just look at that landscape...looks like a shot from moon..
German soldiers firing a Gatling "Revolverkanone" in German Eastern Africa, 1906:
(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5419/1906deutschostafrikaand.jpg)
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So i rounded up some shit I stll have from the army but never use, check out how big my closeth is!:
(http://94.100.118.170/874200001-874250000/874233701-874233800/874233743_6_Ilfp.jpeg)
HA! EAT IT taxpayers!
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Yup those where my first sport shoes, The red/white new balance are great!
The yellow ones I think I wear 3 times, they are crap, I got those since I have really big foot and the normal shoes where not available in my size. (I have size 12 ½.)
Thats also Why I have allot of boots, I actually use 2.. but I got 2 pair magnum's and 2 pair old boots extra. (witch are the best made boots ever imo!)
Anyways This is without all the desert crap.. our regular PT close is blue/white btw.. but every new soldier just get Nike spotsclothes.. we have our own regiment PT clothes.
someone spotted the badass mask?
Dutch Leopard tank duringa exercise in Guz Altmark, germany. I totally forgot I made photos there, just found them back.
(http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5471/normald20090624jl2239.jpg)
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How do the germans build such beautiful tanks?
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/TolipM/RweAzleNp3I/AAAAAAAAAjI/YHfrwz1IrDo/s800/leopard2.jpg)
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Its because the germans make also the best :)
Followed closely by the Russians, who also build epic looking tanks
(http://www.aviationpics.de/prev/t-80u%20firing%20in%20midair.jpg)
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Russian tanks has always been robuust. Take one up to date russian tank VS an up to date Westren tank, and you have a tank wich cost much less, easier to maintain, and get simular to better combat performance
Robust until the ammo cooks off. Having plenty of cheap, easy to maintain, robust Soviet armour really helped the Iraqis back in '91.
Thats very easily said.
The Iraqi's had 4500 tanks during the first gulf war. Of these, where the grand majority Type 59(Chinese copy of the T-54) and the Type 69 (Chinese copy of the T-55). These are 50 50 year old tanks. They are infact even cheaper ones then the russian counterparts. These tanks have to face 3150 Modern tanks (US M1 Abrams and M60. British Challenger I). Their is no doubt that they will lose
Of the 4500 tanks, the Iraqi's had 200 T-72M Asad babil or Lion of Babylon tanks. These tanks could destroy the above tanks. Not bad for a tank wich is 20 years older then the M1 right? What was the problem? They lacked night vision, and the devisions equipped with T-72M where often attacked at night. Still, the Frontal armor was able to withstand TOW, Javelin and even some 120MM HEAT rounds fired by an abrams. Not bad for a 20 year old tank ?
Plus their armamant was effecient enough. Many US officials deny it, but their is enough evidence that M1's where taken out by T-72M's. One fully confirmed kill is M1 Abrams Callsign B-23
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/B-23-1991.jpg)
Not bad for a 20 year old tank eh?
And recall what i said. An up to date modern russian tank has simular or better combat performance then many of their westren counterparts. And at a much cheaper and easier to maintain cost.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Victory_Day_Parade_2005-18.jpg)
T-80BV at the Victory day parade in 2005. Real beauties :)
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^^ Not to mention their tanks were rip off's of rip off's (Iraqi's ripped off Chinese tanks Chinese ripped off Soviet ones) so the quality was absolute shyte and the crew...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/M60TSabra.png)
EDIT also pic of the new standard camo :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/untitled.jpg)
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Camel gunner. High caliber much?
(http://www.camelphotos.com/pic/army_camels5.jpg)
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(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46773000/jpg/_46773697_namibia_germans_getty.jpg)
German soldiers in Southwest Africa
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Haha, camelphotos.com for the win!
Let's continue with more camels!
Look at this:
(http://www.camelphotos.com/pic/army_camels13.jpg)
Freaking desert police, for realz! He lost his siren.
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(http://rdsj.com/Share/FunnyPics/2006_11/US_Marine_Humvee.JPG)
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(http://davidderrick.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/turkish-mobilisation.jpg)
Turkish Troops Mobilizing shortly after the declaration of war.
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(http://newwars.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/rafale.jpg)
A French Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft conducts touch and go landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
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(http://www.bluejacket.com/usmc/images/w1_6th_marines_gas-attack-verdum.jpg)
6th US Marines respond to gas attack in Verdun area.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eQNPu6zzxaU/SrZJL1WTuaI/AAAAAAAAZYM/lbVw9XGiqA8/s400/zz32941.jpg)
M51 Supershermans of the IDF during the 6 Day war. It might be hard to belief, but these old WW2 tanks put up a pretty good fight against Arab armor. Taking down modern T-55 and T-62's because of the excellent french 105 mm CN 105 F1 and excellent aiming and firecontrol..
buutt.....when they got hit by anything anti-tank
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(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1060/871100149_2ae28fc7ae.jpg)
A German machine gun unit at Passchendaele.
Probably colourised, but I could care less.
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A French Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft conducts touch and go landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69).
I remember reading about that in the Navy times. Seems they also did that on the Roosevelt (CVN-70) when they hit the Med. Gorgeous aircraft. Here's one fixin to get shot off the "Big Stick".
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MTE3roZy35A/SIh5HyReThI/AAAAAAAACl4/XaCB-2MMBio/s400/French+Military+F-2+Rafale+TR+Carrier+Launch.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Rear-guard_Trenches_NGM-v31-p370.jpg/800px-Rear-guard_Trenches_NGM-v31-p370.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Rear-guard_Trenches_NGM-v31-p370.jpg/800px-Rear-guard_Trenches_NGM-v31-p370.jpg)
A set of rearguard trenches during the Russian retreat in 1915. Apparently, a shell burst overhead just as the picture was taken.
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Very recent Operation
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/20jnut.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/14d3j35.jpg)
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(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/storage_Edited/filename_yo0flkgwnfHcZw1T0Ywv.jpg/id_12019/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~12019~Joel,%20en%20av%20de%20soldater%20som%20ing%C3%A5r%20i%20plutonen)
Swedish soldier from the 313th Airborne Squadron who's a part of the Swedish "Strategic Reserve" who got the call to leave Sweden for Afghanistan last Wednesday due to the attack on Swedish forces where two officers died.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/1917_ortler_vorgipfelstellung_3850_m_highest_trench_in_history_of_first_world_war.jpg/800px-1917_ortler_vorgipfelstellung_3850_m_highest_trench_in_history_of_first_world_war.jpg)
Austro-Hungarian trench at the peak of Ortler (Alps) during 1917.
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(http://i50.tinypic.com/2eg9mdl.jpg)
Soldiers from the Afghan national army work from the back of their Humvee in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 16, 2010.
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US Soldier during training. Its very nice angle.
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Weapons/1342705-lg.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/2i232f4.jpg)
Gendarmarie Commando
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French Paratroopers being dropped at Dien Bien Phu.
(http://www.uncp.edu/home/rwb/dien_bien_phu.jpg)
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(http://www.asasve.es/gallery/gallery/images/memoriales/img/memorial_i-fini/11%20Salto%20paraca%20desde%20avion%20Junker.jpg)
Spanish paratroopers at Sidi-Ifni jumping from a JU-52
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Sgt Jeff "Dogmeat" Anderson JR manning a minigun on a US Blackhawk in afghanistan
His friends also call him Blacky sometimes
(http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/d/dogsoldier.jpg)
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From the same series I posted pictures last week: This is my vehicle, the YPR 765.. But I don't know if you guys will see it underneath my awesome camouflage! And yes it took me hours to set up..
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8761/normald20090624jl2069.jpg)
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What could that be...
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/rekka_camo.jpg)
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(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Dibujo.jpg)
US Air Force with a very special...uh, training.
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From the same series I posted pictures last week: This is my vehicle, the YPR 765.. But I don't know if you guys will see it underneath my awesome camouflage! And yes it took me hours to set up..
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8761/normald20090624jl2069.jpg)
Yep, the tank-shaped pine tree in the middle of a field. Perfect Camouflage. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WOIwlXE9g)
First of all it was I was near the tree line, and second, its a camouflage made to move with..witch isn't easy. At 500 meters it wil be damn hard to spot standing still near a tree line. What you think is harder to spot a vehicle with pine tree branches on it, or with nothing at all.. ;)
(http://94.100.115.147/287650001-287700000/287685801-287685900/287685855_5_HRSj.jpeg)
Other wish it looks something like this. (Night setup).
So yes Perfect camouflage. ;D
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K316.jpg)
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From the same series I posted pictures last week: This is my vehicle, the YPR 765.. But I don't know if you guys will see it underneath my awesome camouflage! And yes it took me hours to set up..
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8761/normald20090624jl2069.jpg)
Yep, the tank-shaped pine tree in the middle of a field. Perfect Camouflage. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WOIwlXE9g)
Nobody here but us tree's!
I find tree's lovely!
Want some shade?
You can't hide!
(http://gamelaunch.de/MEMBERS/manni/panzer/Waermebild.jpg)
Heat image of a smoked tank not using heat obscuring smoke.
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A Phalangist machine gunner on top of a mountain, next to the Phalangist flag and a wooden cross. Scene from the Lebanese civil war:
(http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9943/000021417601114bf850lf6.jpg)
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Barricade in Beirut, during the Lebanese civil war:
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/1604/4217226604.jpg)
And since I´m going back to the barracks today an extra pic.
Trench and street combat in Beirut, again, Lebanese civil war.
**Warning!Graphic!!**
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9038/4217242409.jpg (http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9038/4217242409.jpg)
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Show off the new mag's Tolga!!! ;D
What the new 30 round 7.62 ones?
You wont find too many pics of the new magazine, they're very rare :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/2zfua2r.jpg)
1st 3rd and 4th guy have em
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Yesh Desertfox M203.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3-5.jpg)
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Sea_Sparrow_surface-to-air_missile_launch.jpg
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Sea_Sparrow_surface-to-air_missile_launch.jpg)
Fixed
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/British_Mark_I_male_tank_Somme_25_September_1916.jpg)
An early model British Mark I "male" tank, named C-15, near Thiepval, 25 September 1916. The tank is probably in reserve for the Battle of Thiepval Ridge which began on 26 September. The tank is fitted with the wire "grenade shield" and steering tail, both features discarded in the next models.
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Thats not even near an M-14.
First one is an Dragunov SVD.
The second one is an Accuracy International .338 Lapua (L115A1)
And correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the last one is a McMillan Tac-50?
Tac-50 with a custom stock :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3TTTT.jpg)
Bigger is better <3
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The British figthing force, has always been a marvolous, diciplined and well serious force
as demonstrated here
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/09/world/09afghan-inline-650.jpg)
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(http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t166/Sharkfreak06/renegades5.jpg)
Republican maxim gun in Madrid.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/ConvoyWin.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/ConvoyWin2.jpg)
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(http://www.onze-marine.nl/Laatste%20vlucht%20''Orion''.jpg)
last flight of a dutch Orion, awsome picture just found it on the net!
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Only us Belgians and Dutch people, Dutch SPeaking persons! DARE to do stuff like that! (Check my F16 flyby i was present at a few pages back)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Churchill_VII_AVRE_With_Fascine.jpg)
Churchill MK VII AVRE post war. This can be seen by the fact that it has a 165MM Demolition gun.
These where soon replaced though with Centurion AVRE's. Wich had more armor, mobility and ammo capacity
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Three Westland Wapiti II As of ‘A’ Flight, 1 Sqn IAF (Indian Air Force) rest at Bangalore 1938.
(http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1930s/Images/Wapiti-Blore38.jpg)
I love these planes, especialy the 3.7 meter twin blade prop!!
(http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1940s/Images/Wapiti-00.jpg)
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Top, Otokar Cobra?
Yupp. 20mm Auto Cannon on top, providing support for the UNIMOG's
On another note.
Blackcock helicopters, Sir!
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3TTTT-1.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3TTTTTT.jpg)
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Cold Response
(http://www.mil.se/ImageVault/Images/id_12144/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~12144~Soldaterna%20disponerar%20pansarskott%20f%C3%B6r%20att%20kunna%20s%C3%A4tta%20stopp%20f%C3%B6r%20fiendens%20stridsfordon.)
Swedish
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8978/cold91.jpg)
British
(http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7357/30466105.jpg)
Finnish
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Oh, awesome, thanks alot Raw!
And to go on in this thread:
(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/1841/s28di.jpg)
A KSK-team, equipped for winter combat wiats in the snowy hills of Afghanistan for a pick-up by a US helo
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http://tietokannat.mil.fi/coldresponse2010/gallery.php?language=fi_FI&page_id=2 some finnish army photos from cold response 2010
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2 more from cold response 2010:
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6578/tkl9c2956.jpg)
Austrian Special Forces soldiers in a Bell OH-58B Kiowa and American Special Forces soldiers in a RHIB.
(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3469/tkl9c2953.jpg)
(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/2244/cold51.jpg)
The multinational amphibious task group: including HNLMS Johann De Witt, HMS Ocean, and RFA Mounts Bay.
Sorry, since i didn't post for a while thought I could place 3. (made that rull up myself. ::))
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Cold Response is the name of three different NATO exercises held in Norway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Response
Thnx for the response, first time hearing about such an exercise :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/komando.jpg)
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The following picture is Tolga/turkish/uludaggazoz biased
Turkish M60T Sabra on manouvers
(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6066/m60tmu8.png)
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(http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=15162&d=1260239415)
Sep. 1950, American troops began to start military movements to re-gain Seoul.
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/2nght1k.jpg)
'Machine Gunners' (L-R) Privates Daniel Savage and Steven Heard from the First Mentoring Task Force (MTF1) share a laugh on security patrol in the Mirabad Valley Region.
Aussies!
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(http://claus.espeholt.dk/billeder/mp44/negermp44.jpg)
women of the West Somali liberation front express their support for Somalia during the war against Ethiopia for the border territory of the Ogaden 1977 - 78. The weapons came initially from the Eastern bloc.
http://claus.espeholt.dk/mp44.htm
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(http://claus.espeholt.dk/billeder/mp44/negermp44.jpg)
women of the West Somali liberation front express their support for Somalia during the war against Ethiopia for the border territory of the Ogaden 1977 - 78. The weapons came initially from the Eastern bloc.
http://claus.espeholt.dk/mp44.htm
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3185.jpg)
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Yeah dude! She's so lucky! All she had to do was get shot and possibly died and look at that, she got an awesome weapon! :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3131.jpg)
G3 is where its at 'dawg' :D
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Best weapons imo remain the FN FAL and G3
Colom of Swedish CV9040 and CV9040 AAV
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Calm down, vM, it´s just a Lafette :P
(http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/6311/slavon.jpg)
Croatian soldiers with the Yugoslav version of the Mg42 with a Lafette mount during the civil war.
EDIT:
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What the..?! o0
Are those Shermans?
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(http://online.wsj.com/media/0226pow09_J_20100225212323.jpg)
Marines carried a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter following an attack on their armored vehicle by an improvised explosive device in Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press)
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(http://www.subchaser.org/files/Shooting-LewisGun.jpg)
The crew of SC 354 engaging in target practice with their small arms. SC354 was a sub chaser built by the US in the Great War to find and kill German U-boats.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/C4K3Bora.jpg)
An actual helmet!
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Thanks for that explanation, G.Drew! I stumbled upon this pic in a thread about the Croatian War at mp.net.
Are you wearing body armour, Tolga?
Anyway, alst PotD for me this week (untill next weekend ;)):
Russian troops mounted on APCs driving through a city during the Russian-Georgian war in 08. On the left side a destroyed Georgian tank can be seen (what kind of tanks did they use? T-72s?).
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Are you wearing body armour, Tolga?
That aint me :P Its my good friend from real life, Half-Irish he barely has any Turkish but he decided to come to the Army anyway :D
Aircraft pics?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/image103vd9.jpg)
Konya Airbase
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Like that guys tattoo.
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/842/latvi.jpg)
Latvian soldiers on deployment.
I love there uniforms... can't say it enough.
And i'll at this one, just becose I liked it:
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Thanks for that explanation, G.Drew! I stumbled upon this pic in a thread about the Croatian War at mp.net.
Are you wearing body armour, Tolga?
Anyway, alst PotD for me this week (untill next weekend ;)):
Russian troops mounted on APCs driving through a city during the Russian-Georgian war in 08. On the left side a destroyed Georgian tank can be seen (what kind of tanks did they use? T-72s?).
(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8575/01020126767600.jpg)
Mostly T-72's , around 250 of them
(http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2074/IS-7.jpg)
This monster is the IS-7. 68 tonnes. In 1948 it had 300MM Armor, 8 Machine guns,68 Tonnes , an unexpected road speed of 60!!! KM/H, but more importantly a 130MM Naval cannon, with state of the art Aiming, fire control and stabelizing systems.
Only 3 built though,one can be viewed in the kubinka Tank musuem, and appearntly, the storage of Kubinka tank museum, holds another one(Of wich the storage is secret and holds many many more tanks, of wich Many believe the only remaining French superheavy tank, the Char 2C "Champagne" is located)
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U.S. Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines look for a Taliban sniper from inside a cotton workshop in Marjah, Helmand province, February 19, 2010. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112064&d=1267395343)
Dutch Leopard 2 A6 in Bjerkvik during Cold Response.
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Be glad that i always will speak ingame with english first! Many gerries, frenchies simply refuse to speak in english, and always start first in their language!
I understand and fully appreciate your effort, but just take it as constructive criticism because you'll lose marks in your English essays writing didn't like that. Also, all Germans that I've know have spoken very good English, the French however...
Well they speak good english. But many of them simply have the attitude of= MY language first!
On a server like Hslan, this is alright. It is a german owned server. But many people just come to a server and start to speak in their language when they a problem
Or even worse, Start to insult people in their language.
(http://www.enemyforces.net/tanks/scorpion_2.jpg)
Scorpion Light tanks during manouver's. I always loved these little beauties, and their variants like the Scimitar. THe Belgian army had Many of them, and they had excellent performance of a Tracked vehicle, and the Maintance ease of a wheeled one. Still, our lame Defense minister De crem or "Crembo" says Tracked vehicles are ftl, obsolete, useless etc and wants to phase out all tracked vehicles.
Aka Piranha III armed with machine guns and other light AP equipment are supposed to replace our Leopard tanks. Complete Bullshit imo
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A U.S. Marine from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines gestures during an operation in Marjah, Helmand province February 21, 2010. NATO forces are facing strong resistance eight days into a major offensive in southern Afghanistan as Taliban fighters dig in to fight to the death.
Keep'em pictures coming, yarrr!
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Scorpion Light tanks during manouver's. I always loved these little beauties, and their variants like the Scimitar. THe Belgian army had Many of them, and they had excellent performance of a Tracked vehicle, and the Maintance ease of a wheeled one. Still, our lame Defense minister De crem or "Crembo" says Tracked vehicles are ftl, obsolete, useless etc and wants to phase out all tracked vehicles.
Aka Piranha III armed with machine guns and other light AP equipment are supposed to replace our Leopard tanks. Complete Bullshit imo
Canada was talking about doing that then we went to afghanistan and BAM Leo 2A6M purchases.
(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/501/CAF_Leopard2A6M_Canada_01_Afghanistan.jpg)
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^^ I heard the Canadian Leopard 2's in A-stan was borrowed from teh Germans.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/OtokarCobra.jpg)
A-stan
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Norwegian soldiers save two kids in a firefight against anti-afghan-fighters in Faryab Province. The International Security Assistance Force(ISAF) is a NATO-led, 44-nation military coalition dedicated to helping Afghan authorities provide security and stability and creating the conditions for reconstruction and development. (Photo by ISAF Public Affairs)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H26707%2C_Deutsch-franz%C3%B6sischer_Krieg_1870-71%2C_Paris%2C_Belagerung.jpg)
Prussian battery in the near of Paris, 1870
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Yeah, dont think its the best way to test out your new scope. Unless you wanne go home quickly... in prison.
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I'm just posting due to the helmet. German border police. Seems like they are or were using these. Didn't know.
(http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-62014-galleryV9-mphe.jpg)
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Saab gripens
SO real beauties
So true... So true.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/AE19.jpg)
Anatolian Eagle Exercise.
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It's past midnight, so I can legally post a new pic.
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Gripen and F16 in the same photo.
fap
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Nice post Zrix, NATO exercise of some short? Loyal Arrow exercise perhaps?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/ntm0517iu5-1-1.jpg)
Low quality but meh... Hitting it off with the Frenchies :)
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CF-18 on in intercept mission against a Russian Bear
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i believe those are Danish F-16's
The NATO Tigers hold meeting every year. I was present at the last days
This was the Belgian "Tiger"
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Chilean soldiers patrol the streets to stop looting and keep the order, as a building burns in the background after a major earthquake in Concepcion March 1, 2010.
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Drive to fast! DRIVE to FAST! I dare you! I double dare you mothafuckers! DRIVE GODDAM TO FAST!
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Isreali Centurion on Display. i love the way it looks and how they kept it in this good condition
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At first I saw this picture I was like... Hu?
I somehow saw resemblance to panther tanks, am I the only one?
(http://www.battletanks.com/images/PzKw_VI_Panther_G-2.jpg)
couldn't find a good resembling picture.. it should have shurtze.
I'ts late so It might be just me...
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He's mine! heheh
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BOEM!111 headshot!
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A pepper ball fired by riot police officer pops as it hits a protester, center, in the forehead during an-anti government protest outside the parliament in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP)
http://i48.tinypic.com/25k3bf4.jpg
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Now you mention it the Dardo IFV definately has the look of a Panther, at least from that angle.
to continue with the italian BIAS
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C1 Ariete MBT of the italian army, imo one of the finest looking modern main battle tanks
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4329360727_8fc08b6c2d_b.jpg)
This bad ass picture was brought too you by the Norwegian armed forces!
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4307409318_92ca0948de_b.jpg)
Cv90 destroyed by an IED hit, driver didn't survive. :(
For all of you: Enjoy!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prtmeymaneh/page1/
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An ongoing exercise called the KIŞ-2010 TATBIKAT. Sorry wont get any personal pics from me this time, not allowed to have cams.
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An Iraqi security personnel member stood guard after voting in Baghdad Thursday. A string of blasts targeting early voters killed at least 17 people ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary election.
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The Fall of the Alamo (1903) by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, depicts Davy Crockett wielding his rifle as a club against Mexican troops who have breached the walls of the mission.
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal point in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission in San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas). All but two of the Texian defenders were killed. Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
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East German "Peoples Police" members march with STG44 rifles through the Eastern Sector of Berlin:
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A Chechen fighter during the battle for Grozny, January 1995.
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4 pics in one.. Güneş Harekat (Operation Sun) in North Iraq
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lmao. TA0 you know your shit dude :D
Sicario the tank is an M60 Patton like TA0 said.
Desertfox there are many different upgrades, the most obvious ones TA0 already posted so I dont think I need to explain any further :) M60TTS stands for Tank Thermal Sights, it was used by all upgraded M60 Pattons in the US during the early 90's, and the M60T or Sabra Mark III which is a brand new tank with more armor, stronger engine, bigger 120mm armanent and Infrared warning system..
Anyway contribution
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Lol dude the Beret has a special place in my non existent heart, dont diss :) Its symbolic k? The beret and everything go hand in hand, so you take off the beret and guess what happens? Your pants go missing:
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But when that beret goes on, you look like a badass mother fvcker!
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I know, I know... It was pretty hard to post. It just doesnt seem right. But here.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/komando.jpg)
Thats the last pic ill post, im starting to spam left and right plus I only have 8 mins left on the Internet lol
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Turkey seems to be one of those countries where mustaches are mandatory for military personnel
Not really, they're mostly against it.. The guys in the pic are Special Forces or Özel Harekat.. They can do whatever they want, if that means growing a moustache then awesome :D
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Art squad members of the Korean People's Army Large Combined Unit 264 perform as North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il watches, according to KCNA news agency, at an undisclosed location in this picture released by KCNA in Pyongyang March 5, 2010
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Would this count as racism?
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I dont get it lol.. The guy looks gay though, not to insult him or anything :)
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puppet Navy fail (http://www.bf-games.net/forum/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif)
(http://www.abload.de/img/4t70aw9c8x.jpg)
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Fast attack craft Gepard after the collision with her sistership Frettchen
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oh now I know why the berets are baby-blue, it's to camouflage the heads against that background. clever :-\
Tradition, tradition :)
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Afghanistan.
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Wooden attack ships...nice....
Makes me happy I´m not in the Navy...
Anyway, new day, new pic:
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Georgian special forces soldier, armed with a G36k, wearing MARPAT BDU. Pic was taken during the Caucasus War in 08.
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Talk about ships.
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:)
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Yeah we like to play hide and seek with our guys..
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(http://www.foreignpolicy.com/files/fp_uploaded_images/100218_00022798.jpg)
NEAR GROZNY, CHECHNYA Afterward: Lowe remembers well sneaking into Chechnya from Ingushetia to take this haunting photo of war in Russia, huddled in the back of a minibus "full of old Chechen women and their animals." Driving along a road from the capital city of Grozny to the surrounding villages, he came across an abandoned bullet-riddled car. Nearby, this is what remained after bodies had been dragged away. "To me, this is not in itself a picture of violence, but speaks of what violence means," Lowe says. "You can see traces of each action: first the fresh snow, then a body lain down, and the blood seeps into the snow. Then people running around in chaos."
Credit to Megaraptor for finding it: http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=5143.0
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I think this photo sums up Chinese censorship in a nut shell:
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Military reporters taking photographs at a meeting of the National People's Congress
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^^^ lol.
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Cyprus
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dude in MC Hammer pants chillin' in Kurdistan
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Concept art of the new dutch supply ship being made: JSS: Joint suport ship
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A shame the 18000 didn't won!
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Im still baffled why Turkey invaded Cyprus :P
I went there my holiday ages ago, i remember going to Nicosia and going to the border, where i stood with a Greek soldier and looked over the wall: completley deserted, baron, and what looked like to have been quite a bit of fighting that had taken place there.
Bitches had it coming, yo :D
But yeh, Cyprus was hell, both sides killed POW's so its bleh.
@ Invicible, nice concept, how many are the Dutch planning to produce? We too should be getting an LHD in the next few years and the requirement is somewhere around
- 8 helicopters
- 100 vehicles
- 1000 personnel
- 19 thousand tonnes
- 190m length
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/CakeBarbaros.jpg)
TCG Barbaros (F-245) MEKO 200's and the one in all the way back should be Hellenic Navy
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M42 Duster of the German army (westren)
The "Duster" was THE most hated vehicle by the NVA army in Vietnam.
Play FH1 Alpenfestung, and you know why
EDIT=VERDAMNT
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F005977-0012,_Man%C3%B6ver_Heer,_Flak-Panzer_M-42.jpg)
Merci Siben maateke
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I think you forgot a pic with that discription THeTA0123, so i will do it for you.
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@ Invicible, nice concept, how many are the Dutch planning to produce? We too should be getting an LHD in the next few years and the requirement is somewhere around
- 8 helicopters
- 100 vehicles
- 1000 personnel
- 19 thousand tonnes
- 190m length
Only one is being build for the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Navy or Royal Netherlandic Navy*) so far and is to replace the oldest transport/logistics ship, the Hr. Ms. Zuiderkruis (HMS Southerncross) and is meant to be able to:
- transport heavy equipement (Leopards, Howitzers, 2 chinooks or 6 NH-90's more heli space at the lwoer deck if required, up to 6 chinooks for example )
- Logistic support (heli landings)
- Large storage space (logistics)
- 2 LVCPs
- Room for 300 people (of which a cre of 150)
Size: 204,7 x 30,4 x 8 meters
Weight: 27.800 ton
Speed: 18 knots
Sources:
http://proto5.thinkquest.nl/~lle0555/jss.html
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLOS
* Speaking of which, if we translate the various "royal navies" to inlcude the country name, why not call the British royal navy "Royal British Navy"? xD Plenty of navies call themselfs "Royal navy" in their own language and also use HMS (in their own language) when naming ships. =p
Edit: On the wbesite of the ministery of defence they use a different render:
(http://www.defensie.nl/_system/handlers/ImageResizerHandler.ashx?size=lightbox&image=/media/jss%20vaart%20achter%20bb%20obi_tcm46-113575.jpg&filesize=569%20KB) =/
Source: http://www.defensie.nl/dmo/materieelprojecten/zeestrijdkrachten/verwerving_joint_logistiek_ondersteuningsschip_%28jss%29/
Oh and other ships that are WIP are some OPVs (Ocean Patrol Vessel), which will be of the "Holland klass" (Holland class), they'll be "ocean going patrolships" (corvettes aka "small fregats"):
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/1551/opv1yc8.jpg)
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9856/opv2uj5.jpg)
(http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/838/opv5by5.jpg)
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They's use the names of various provinces (drawing from a source of 7 provinces, theses days we have 12 provinces, for example the former province "holland" was split up in "noord holland" and "zuid holland"):
- P840 Hr. Ms. Holland (Hms Holland)
- P841 Hr. Ms. Zeeland (Hms Sealand)
- P842 Hr. Ms. Friesland (Hms Friesland)
- P843 Hr. Ms. Groningen (Hms Groningen)
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandklasse_%28OPV%29
Not to be confused with the zeven provinciën (seven procinces)class, which are fregats from 2002-2005:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Zeven_Provinci%C3%ABnklasse_%28fregat%29
Rather funny, you'd expect the seven provinces class ships to carry the names of one of the former seven provinces, but these guys carry the names of former people of importance in the KM. :D
(http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/1480/marine2io6.jpg)
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Now with BBQ on deck? :D
(http://www.dodgepowerwagonm880.com/beeldmap/VOC%20De%207%20Provincien%20Batavia%20werf%20rebuild%20of%20the%20zeven%20provincien/7%20Provincien%20Michiel%20de%20Ruyter%201665%20klein.jpg)
7 Provinciën, most beautiful Ship-of-the-Line ever built.
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I beg to differ:
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Well seeing how everybody else is posting seaporn...
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/ssn-virginia-56.jpg)
The Virginia class, Blocks IV and V. These are going to replace the Los Angeles, in similar numbers but much more versatile, cheaper to run, and as quiet as the seawolfs. They only have 4 torpedo tubes to the Seawolfs' eight but also come with 10 VLS tubes as well as lots of sonar (including for minesweeping) and storage and lockout trunks for SEAL teams. Blocks IV and V will have sleeker sails, and plans are in the works for replacing the torpedo tubes with bomb bays for swim out torpedoes of any size. Alternatively, there are tentative plans for replacing the tubes with the supersized tubes of the Seawolf class.
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Pfc. Corey J. Bishop, a machine gunner with Weapons Platoon, India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and an Alexander City, Ala. native, lays down suppressive fire during a company assault exercise at Range 400 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. Feb. 28.
Yep, I'm Swedish so yeah, I'm a real sucker for anything related to the ol' FN MAG
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Well seeing how everybody else is posting seaporn...
The Virginia class, Blocks IV and V. These are goping to replace the Los Angeles, in similar numbers but much more versatile, cheaper to run, and as quiet as the seawolfs. They only have 4 torpedo tubes to the Seawolfs' eight but also come with 10 VLS tubes as well as lots of sonar (including for minesweeping) and storage and lockout trunks for SEAL teams. Blocks IV and V will have sleeker sails, and plans are in the works for replacing the torpedo tubes with bomb bays for swim out torpedoes of any size. Alternatively, there are tentative plans for replacing the tubes with the supersized tubes of the Seawolf class.
That's not even close to what a Virginia class looks like. Not even a little close to the concept designs. Also, the USS California was layed down a year ago. Way to keep up with the times, guys. Stop watching the military channel for "current" info.
THIS, is the Virginia Class submarine North Carolina.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/USS_North_Carolina_%28SSN-777%29_commissioning_2.jpg/300px-USS_North_Carolina_%28SSN-777%29_commissioning_2.jpg)
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So seeing the thing and meeting with the crew gives you inside knowledge of the future design plans, and the credibility to call GlobalSecurity "secondhand rubbish?" Whats next, FAS MAN is a jingoistic rumor mill?
Stationed within a pistol shot of that ship from the moment it's keel was laid down til the end of this past October. I have seen it in a condition that suggests it is under construction. I have met the crew, I have seen their barracks. Call me a liar again.
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U.S. military personnel prepare to board a U.S. Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter during exercise Emerald Warrior 2010 in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., March 11, 2010. The training is a U.S. Special Operations Command-sponsored mission rehearsal exercise involving multiservice participants. The exercise is conducted in multiple states and training sites throughout the southeast. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Clay Lancaster/Released)
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Thanks for the answer Admiral Donutz :D
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Operation Bright Star, Egypt 2009.
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M26 Pershings in Hongchon, Korea
Pershings faced mainly T-34/85 tanks, wich where no match for the american muscle
But the hot climate proved bad for the pershing its engine, and it was unrealible if not proper maintained
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(http://lh3.ggpht.com/TolipM/RwvXjleNqFI/AAAAAAAAAmU/Ex52r-YP-Fg/s800/monster1.jpg)
(http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/Ekranoplanlarge.jpg)
The Caspian Sea Monster from the Cold War Era days
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Sarikam.jpg/800px-Sarikam.jpg)
Russian trenches in the forests of Sarikamish (Dec 1914 - Jan 1915).
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Centurion Mk.3 - the most potent tank to serve in Korea. The Yanks were very impressed by it's combat performance and purchased many for the MDAP.
This Cent of the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, carries men of the Royal Australian Regiment across a pontoon bridge spanning the Imjin river, April 1951.
(http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/centurion-main-battle-tank-2.jpg)
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Hmm, maybe the US army isnt THAT bad after all...
(http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/epic-fail-discreet-fail.jpg)
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Thats not fail, thats win ;D
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Bouvet, the French Battleship in Dardanelles
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/11.jpg)
HMS Irresistible
Today be March 18th, win day to be in Gallipoli.
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Finnish White Guard troops and eastkarelian tribe warriors during Viena expedition, 1918.
Also note, the middle horseman at background is finnish poet Ilmari Kianto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmari_Kianto)
(http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af343/Ciupita/Heimosotureita.jpg)
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(http://www.phfactor.net/wp-pics/kursk-1-wp.jpg)
Russian Submarine Kursk
(http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-1b_23.jpg)
B-1B Lancer. Kinda spooky how you cannot see any pilots through the windscreen.
God that's a beautiful plane. :o
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(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5291/82093025.jpg)
Ethiopian troops during the 2nd Italo-Abyssinian War.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Khalkhin_Gol_Destroyed_Soviet_plane_1939.jpg)
1939 - Soviet plane destroyed during the battle of Battle of Khalkhin Gol
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(http://www.gunpundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/captured-weapons.jpg)
captured weapons by the us in i guess either Afghanistan or Iraq
quite a collection
MG42s, ppsh, k98, no.1 ...
question:
what kind of rifle is in the lower right side, the one with the yellow post-it left of the m79 grenade launcher ?
mosin nagang ? carcano ? cant really tell
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An Israeli soldier escorts Palestinian Mohannad Hussein al-Natsheh after he was arrested for throwing stones at a building inside the Beit Romano settlement during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on March 18, 2010. Tensions over Israeli announcements of new settlement plans as well as the reopening of a 17th century synagogue in Jerusalem have sparked the worst riots in years but are unlikely to ignite a new intifada, or uprising, as the Palestinian Authority appears determined to preserve calm.
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Supercobra's.
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A ceremonial marching Marine from 1st platoon, Company A, Marine Barracks Washington, carries his rifle during the 249th St. Patrick's Day Parade, March 17.
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Latest picture of the domestically produced stealth Corvette 'Milgem'. Going through sea trials and should be in service in 2011.
Some more info
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/milgem2.png
Right after the hull was done being built at docks.
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/milgem02.jpg
Forward gun ready to be put in a I dunno 'stealthy' silhouette or however you spell it.
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Awesome pic of an M19 Duster in Korea
Like the M42 duster would be hated in Vietnam, the M19 was also extremely hated by the korean's.
Unlike the M42 wich dint saw much air targets, M19's did. And they managed to rack up quiet some kills during the Korean war
(http://wigwags.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/m19-dual401.jpg)
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G'day!
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Women in Army, (L-R) Corporal Amanda Wright, Corporal Cindy Veenman and Captain Karin Cann are regulars outside the wire of Multinational Base Tarin Kowt. www.defence.gov.au Hires
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Mine Jammers.. Ones with helmets are Conscripts, and well everyone knows the beret people now xD
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@Natty do you 'dislike' military men of today or something? hehe. Im just wondering most of your comments have been rather 'weird'. Dont take offense, im just wondering :)
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Just one of those pics :|
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/mehmetcik-1.jpg
New 5.56 standard rifles.
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airborne holding the nazi flag.
wher i don't know
any body know ?
em you guy's see that guy with a machety
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Hehe, the guy is über happy xD
Reminds me off the HK416. Related?
Yesh. The Mehmetçik 1 was made after we bought 9000 HK416's off HK.
EDIT:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Fruitcake.jpg
This wasnt much of a contribution.
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Haha, that's ok, we all enjoy our local Turk :D
ULUDAG
ULUDAG
YOU VERY NICE DRINK
FROM PLAINS OF ANKARA
TO NORTHERN FENCE OF BERINGEN-mijn!!
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M163 VADS
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Over 150 years ago during the Crimean war:
(http://www.allworldwars.com/image/072/Fenton021.jpg)
Lieutenant General Sir George Brown G.C.B. & officers of his Light Division staff Major Hallewell, Colonel Brownrigg, orderly, Colonel Airey, Captain Pearson, Captain Markham, Captain Ponsonby of the British Army
Photo by Roger Fenton 1855
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there is no such thing as "military men"... it's just boys in costumes with toys.. fooled into a manipulative system that is overpowering for their personalities. I dislike military systems and the primitive mindset of warfare and how easily it gets justified, that's all. :-\
-no offense-
No offense taken. But in which way do you see me as a boy with a costume and a toy? I mean since you think of all militaries that way it must also include me. My job might not be working for some bank in Istanbul but I take pride in it, I dont do it to be a national hero, I dont do it to shoot guns or people, im not some monster, im just very loyal and choose to serve my state like many people around the world. Yes im 19, Ive made the decision when I was 15. Nobody forced me to sign a paper to join the cadets to become an Officer, nobody forced me to go to war, I did this all voluntarily, as do alot of soldiers. If when the soldiers get to a war zone they lose their mind, well tough luck fvcker you signed up for the Army, its not anybody elses problem but the persons. Anyway enough about my rant to you Greenpeace people lmao
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Another 'victim' of the evil Turkish military with a blue beret in SE Turkey.
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A tandem of Slovenian M84's (upgraded version of T-72) spending taxpayers' money.
;D
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Finnish Rapid Deployment Force/Peacekeeper training
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A freshly Built BMPT and its crew salute. The russian army plans to aquire quiet some of these vehicle's.
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South Vietnamese soldier with a captured Vietminth soldier:
(http://vietphotos.com/photos/large/297-4j4cck2pxngxmqg694dn.jpg)
Well, this one is so small so I will just post it with this pic.
M36B2 Jackson in the First Indochina War.
(http://members.multimania.co.uk/Indochine/photos/t-bisons.jpg)
Still find it funny how much the Jackson actually looks like the Panther from a certain point of view :P
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(http://www.swissmustangs.ch/mediac/400_0/media/FAS-404~$26~FAS-405.jpg)
Cavalier Mustangs FAS-404 and FAS-405 of the Salvadoran Airforce
the aircraft in the front was shot down by a Honduran Vought F4U-5 Corsair during the 1969 war - the last aerial battle between piston-engined fighter aircraft.
Corsair that shot it down:
http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/obr1/Corsair.jpg (http://aces.safarikovi.org/victories/obr1/Corsair.jpg)
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(http://members.multimania.co.uk/Indochine/photos/t-bisons.jpg)
Still find it funny how much the Jackson actually looks like the Panther from a certain point of view :P
I mistaked a M10 Achilles with a Panther ingame already. Happens to me especially when they are only slightly silhouetted against the fog. Leaves you with a very angry teammate.
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This image show whatÕs left of what use to be the Queens palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. The palace was left in ruins after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan Dec 24, 1979.
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(http://www.shrani.si/f/1V/T8/1BieIpqg/2/td10d717657.jpg)
Slovenian M-55S (modernised T-55).
Edit: Resized.
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Probably the most famous picture from the First Indochina War, FFL legionaire marching with behind him a M24 Chaffee, also named Bison by the French troops in Indochina.
(http://z.about.com/d/asianhistory/1/0/a/0/-/-/FrenchForeignLegionaireVtNamDOD.jpg)
And again a picture so tiny it wont be worth it's own post, no info on this picture but I think it's French paratroopers, because the LMG gunner got a beret.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/French_indochina_1953_12_1.png)
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@Invincible. I respect your decision and I wish you every luck in the world. My older brother who is 39 lives in Holland. He has enlisted in the dutch army now, he has lived there for like 12 years. I don't know where they will send him (he will be a captain, dunno what unit) but I hope not to a place where there is any live action.
sorry for the OT, allthough this is OT forum.. so.... I don't like to not face the reality in discussing important things, so if I cut straight to the point with the psychiatric stuff, that's only because I care, and because that is where it will end in the end, if shit goes wrong... :-\
And just because I can, I'll ask you one last question:
If the shit hits the fan, would you be telling everyone how war is wrong and be stomped on, or pointing your medic kit at the enemy in a frozen forest?
This question is also a test to see if you are a ganja smoking hippy living on idealism, or a realist who actually lives on planet earth.
And to be somewhat on topic:
(http://www.military-today.com/artillery/amos.jpg)
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AMOS mortar!
AKA
Aim Mortar On Scrotum
yes, it is that accurate
(http://www.military.ie/naval/flotilla/weapons/bofors.jpg)
An 57MM bofors fires from an ship. The latest MKIII is an extremly accurate AA gun, scoring much higher then expected
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^^ Badass pic Paasky :)
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A soldier sits beside weapons near the parliament in Bangkok March 24, 2010. Thai police and soldiers cordoned off the roads around parliament ahead of a parliamentary session on Wednesday. (Reuters)
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Croatian peacekeeping in Afghanistan ;D
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"Hey Mehmet, get your guys to pose so Tolga can post this shit on FH2!"
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CAKE-1.jpg
Reality at its best.
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French paratroopers, Indochina.
(http://www.well.ac.uk/cfol/fifties%20lecture/nf1.jpg)
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Not so nice..
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Turkish soldiers gather at the site of a NATO helicopter crash on the outskirts of Wardak city in Wardak province on March 23, 2010. A NATO helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan with Turkish soldiers on board, but the military alliance denied that anyone had been killed.
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Yesh. Its a Turkish blackhawk, it crashed in A-stan when it was landing at the same time as another Turkish blackhawk, I dont know what happened after that but I believe nobody died.
You can tell its Turkish by its distinctive camo
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/28iraqspan600.jpg
Speaking of blackhawks. I'll contribute today with 3 pics just uploaded on the Net.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/mg4783.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/mg4784.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/mg4785.jpg)
And as far as I know US sells most in the world, followed by Russia, and then the stronger EU countries like UK France and Germany
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More pictures, less discussing please.
And again, not just a random picture of some vehicle but conflicts, pewpew poofpoof.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ecbf3c3a7
Good appetite. Browse the site for more unedited »snuff«.
Edit:
(http://www.shrani.si/f/B/81/1lU2MhCo/p02d856a80d.jpg)
Family reunion back in Slovenia (after KFOR operations in Kosovo).
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Illegal firearms burned Wednesday in Nairobi as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the center of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some $1 billion or 10%-20% of the global trade.
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(http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/b52-strat/images/bombers_b52_0008.jpg)
nice plane
did they use this ting during WW 2 ? or was it this
(http://www.war-flyer.com/b29schematic.jpg)
please help . ???
some guy at my school say B-52 but i think b-29
what is it ?
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RAF "Wokka" Mk.3:
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/wokkamk3.jpg)
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or CH-47 CHINOOK ;D
(http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/exhibitions/chinook/images/chinook1LG.jpg)
(http://www.enemyforces.net/helicopters/ch47_chinook_2.jpg)
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Using olive uniforms, why? Cause we can, we just can!1!
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/imag0081z.jpg
what a foot patrol looks like
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Turkish UN 'dedication' hahahaha. Sort of a waste of resources, ive only seen them used only around 2-3 times for UN (Somalia, Bosnia and meh forgot)
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Britain's Prince Charles (R) walks with British soldiers at British military Camp Pimon in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province on March 25, 2010. The Prince arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit on March 24, and met with British soldiers serving in the southern Helmand Province.
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What exactly are those?
Modified M113´s with a turret and a machine cannon?
Anyways, OT:
(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4430/1079t.jpg)
Yugoslavian soldiers armed with MP40s
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(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_12801/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~12801~HMS%20Helsingborg%20%C3%B6ppnar%20eld%20med%20kanon.)
HMS Helsingborg opening fire
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Bhudist Monk burns himself in Saigon in protest against the south viatnamese policy.
(http://foodcourtlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/monk.jpg)
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Croatian soldiers preparing to fire at a Yugoslav tank during the Miljevci plateau incident, 21 June 1992
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Destruction_of_a_tank.jpg)
the AT- weapon something looks like a Faustpatron with optics :o
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/IMG_1943i.jpg)
TuAF CN-235
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What exactly are those?
Modified M113´s with a turret and a machine cannon?
It not as close related family to the M113 as you might expect, It was the main opponent from the M113 too find a new APC for the US army. Nowadays it got a far better turbocharged engine as an M113, A 25 mm Gun + coax, It still is amphibious. (although the turret version tends to tip over cose of the weight of the gun.)
But to stay in the Scandinavian futuristic styled ships:
(http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/skjold/images/Skjold_10.jpg)
Skjold Class Fast Reaction Craft. (Norwegian navy)
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(http://www.rannikonpuolustaja.fi/kuvat/ilmapuolustus1.jpg)
Hamina class missile boat.
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At Utah Beach on 6 June, 2001, two legendary figures met again for the first time since 1945. Historian Jake Powers was aware this moment was coming, and he was on the spot with his camera when Dick Winters (left), and Ronald 'Sparky' Speirs shared their first moments reunited. Knowing the life and death situations they often faced, we can only marvel at what thoughts and emotions must have surged through them at this meeting. Thanks to Jake for sharing this priceless moment with us.
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One more :p
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_10466/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~10466~Landning%20p%C3%A5%20korvetten%20under%20h%C3%B6g%20fart)
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German killed by the bombardment along the Somme, 1916.
(http://www.reenactor.net/forums/tp-images/Image/ww1_images/trench-death.jpg)
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(http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/gray/pics/477_overthetop_1020.jpg)
A Canadian Battalion in a Bayonet Charge on the Somme, [ca. 1918]
Unknown photographer
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(http://www.freewebs.com/philippineamericanwar/American%20scouting%20party%20under%20fire.jpg)
American troops returning fire on Filipino guerrillas in 1899.
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WARNING: This post might be graphic for some people, so if you don't like too see it go back now!!
You sure about that? his hand is larger than the skull. I know they would be smaller w/o the flesh and carnage, but still.. that seems smaller than normal.. whatever though.
Remember dead body's swallow up after a while. his other hand looks less big.
more odd is the distance between head and body, for a neck it should be too far from his shoulders.
The might did ad a skull later for propaganda reasons, and placed the arm in front of the neck so you don't see it's fake. but moving a limb of a dead person is very hard! it stiffs up so you might need to brake it.
It's not the first picture I have seen with a full visible skull.
for example this one:
(http://www.warhistorian.org/blog1/images/1865-1916-trench-dead.jpg)
I understand in a muddy dirty conditions with rats everywhere a body might rot quicker, but that fast?
Maybe gas helps rotting it faster?
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kyPhEiYq2tM/S0EXstPWRGI/AAAAAAAACwQ/BctdfZuKOfM/s400/World+War+I+Great+One+WWI+decomposed+German+soldier+dead+mud+skull.jpg)
This photo however looks more like a body that is rotting, although in a strange way?
edit: After google-ing:
(http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/poppyday/images/prevs/gr0066695_H.jpg)
The corpse of a German soldier killed during the Allies' Somme offensive, face stripped to the bone by rats, lying in a trench near the village of Beaumont Hamel, late 1916.
Rats it is...
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Not skeletal North Vietnamese with RPG-2
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Nvarpgteam.jpg)
More NVA. Something about troops marching in formation, always an attention getter...
(http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/enemy/enemy-nva.jpg) (http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/enemy/enemy-nva.jpg)
Edit: That's peculiar, for a moment there only one photo was showing but when I went to the "modify" screen both <img> urls were showing.
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You take a large stick with a million hooks on it, and just hang them? Cant really see a different way you could do that, unless the picture is turned 90°. And by looking at the flames i am not sure witch one, could have been turned.
It's definately turned 90 degrees.
Is it?
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A bird flies off a cache of illegal fire arms stacked in preparation to be burnt in Nairobi, March 24, 2010 as part of a campaign by the Kenyan government to mop-up illicit small arms and light weapons that are at the centre of increasing violent crime in Kenya and Africa. In Africa and elsewhere, the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons is opaque, amorphous and dynamic and a global enterprise, put at some 1 billion USD, or 10-20% of the global trade, with illicit weapons across Africa coming from virtually every major arms producing country in the world, according to Arms sales and Arms management monitoring programmes in the US and South Africa.
Christmastree Afrikan style
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(http://www.braniteljski-portal.hr/files/portal/domovinski_rat21.jpg)
A Croatian T-34 during the war in Croatia
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Major Colin Morrison from the First Mentoring Task Force, patrols the green zone of Sajawul on his 33rd birthday.
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Australian SAS in South Vietnam, weapons, from left to right:
M16A1 w/ M203, L2A1 Automatic Rifle w/ XM148, two AR-15s w/ XM148.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/sasrvietnampm8.jpg)
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Autobots vs. Decepticons: Oh no, Nighthawkticon, you're out of gas and can't escape!
(http://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/F-117_stealth_fighter_RIP.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2975432081_ed608418ab.jpg)
beautiful photo :)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/14.jpg)
Low flying, Aegean. If I had a nickle for everytime TuAF penetrated Greek airspace, I would have gotten 30 nickles since yesterday.
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_03_31_10/a13_7203C024.jpg)
A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey aircraft takes off from Forward Operating Base Cafferata in Afghanistan March 9, 2010.
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French Hotchkiss M201 jeep and Armée de l'Air Crotale SAM systems on transporters, the Gulf 1990.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/M201-7650110-02.jpg)
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(http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/mont-st-quentin/images/e03183.jpg)
An Australian Lewis gun position in Péronne, France, 2 September 1918.
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From near the current day, following Russia's fall after the cold war:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SV2T3EOrO8w/S4mmPsSFZLI/AAAAAAAAAjU/__z2911MZ7A/s1600/kuznetsov2.jpg)
Nuclear Submarine K-118 in its final resting place next to an Aircraft Carrier mooring in Russia. I don't know the condition of the reactor and fuel supply.
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Some russian subs are still operational, dont know in what condition but they seem ok.
(http://media.englishrussia.com/submarines/1_005.jpg)
(http://media.englishrussia.com/submarines/1_003.jpg)
(http://media.englishrussia.com/submarines/1_007.jpg)
Other, well....
Ukranian coldwar era sub.
(http://media.englishrussia.com/submarine_class/3.jpg)
(http://media.englishrussia.com/submarine_class/2.jpg)
(http://englishrussia.com/images/submarine_class/1.jpg)
Yes, it is still in service...
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/af1_07_17/a04_19675373.jpg)
Taliban fighters train with their weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan July 14, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) #
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/hry68x.jpg)
NORTH ARABIAN SEA (March 28, 2010) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Clifford Meyers and Fire Controman 2nd Class Kenneth Truex practice drill team maneuvers for an upcoming talent show being held aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64). Carney is assigned to the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Gina K. Wollman/Released)
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(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/zsu-23-4_DFST9209580.jpg)
ZSU-23 destroyed during the Gulf war.
The Iraqi army did not have many of these Self-propelled AA guns, but they had the best performance of all the AAA and SAM systems employed by the iraqi's
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OWoiuhaA_E
Some scenes are a bit odd, but it´s still a good sign to see official videos with firefights to show the public that there´s actually a war going on.
Anyway:
(http://i39.tinypic.com/5y8fht.jpg)
German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (L) poses with Bundeswehr Military Police and soldiers near the Serbian Orthodox Archangel Cloister during a two-day visit with troops serving in the Balkans on March 30, 2010 in Prizren, Kosovo. Zu Guttenberg is on his first trip to the region since being named defense minister.
Military police anti-riot soldiers (CRC=crowd and riot controll). Pretty cool job, some comrades who were with me in basic training are doing this now.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/British_Surrender.jpg)
British Royal Marines surrender their weapons on the 2nd of April, 1982. Falkland Islands
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Easter Bonus!
USMC Art Colonel D.J. Neary, USMCR (ret.) spent 24 years as a Reservist and artist with the United States Marine Corps. The following are selections from the approximately 100 works of art that the artist has in the Marine Corps Art Collection.
(http://www.heritagestudio.com/norway.jpg)
(http://www.heritagestudio.com/korea.jpg)
(http://www.heritagestudio.com/stormpix.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/T-26tankinSpain.jpg)
Republican T-26 in the streets of Madrid.
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(http://i44.tinypic.com/o7kaao.jpg)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/f1ihdf.jpg)
(http://i43.tinypic.com/fdhg28.jpg)
German Bundeswehr army soldiers from the 263rd paratrooper unit of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) take cover as they return fire during a firefight with insurgents during a mine sweeping operation in Chahar Dara on the outskirts of Kunduz in this December 16, 2009 file picture. Three German soldiers were killed and five injured during a firefight in Chahar Dara April 2, 2010, German authorities confirmed.
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Makin' bacon
(http://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/mmedia/2z/abi/sf1s/54948/normal_702792334.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/8.jpg)
BTR-60**** My bad
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/2hf00b9.jpg)
Taliban insurgents and civilians stand in front of a destroyed German military vehicle in Isaa Khail village of Char Dara district of the northern Kunduz Province April 3, 2010. Three German soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured in fighting in Kunduz, the German Army Command in Potsdam said on Friday. (Reuters)
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Last I checked, that doesn't happen in dire combat ;)
You'd be surprised (http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles47826.jpg)
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(http://i40.tinypic.com/2yx3abs.jpg)
Taliban insurgents pose in front of a burning German military vehicle in Isaa Khail village of Char Dara district of the northern Kunduz Province April 3, 2010. Three German soldiers were killed and five others seriously injured in fighting in Kunduz, the German Army Command in Potsdam said on Friday. (Reuters)
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(http://media.aftenposten.no/archive/00949/mnyh3hovedbilde2301_949073x.jpg)
proud to be a Norwegian and also a member of HVU ;D
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(http://i029.radikal.ru/0807/f8/4c7634a43c20.jpg)
Berg Karabach T72
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/AzerbaijanMig-292.jpg)
Azerbaijan Air Force Mig-29
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I agree. Beautiful plane, and its one of the few things that give Azerbaijan the upper hand against Armenia.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Sirnak23rdBorderPatrol.jpg)
A pic I took a while after Operation Sun (You can wiki it haah). Im expecting Turkish military incursion into N Iraq, as far as I know last night a 100 vehicle convoy moved to the Iraq border at Hakkari.
EDIT: Forgot to say where the pic is. Its at the 23rd border station in Şırnak.
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(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9682/10246578.jpg)
Nairobi/Mogadishu - Dutch marines freed a German container ship that had been seized by pirates off the Somali coast, a spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy Atalanta naval taskforce said.
The MS Taipan was steaming from Mombasa, Kenya, to Djibouti when the pirates attacked around 500 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, the spokesman said.
The Taipan crew made radio contact with the EU task force. When it became clear that the ship would not be able to escape the pirates, the crew was instructed to shut down the engines to make the vessel unmanoeuvrable. Crew members then took shelter in a saferoom, and warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden were alerted to the Taipan's plight.
The Dutch frigate Tromp Lynx was the first to arrive. After a failed attempt to negotiate with the pirates, task force commanders ordered the Taipan retaken by force, and the Dutch crew boarded.
A firefight erupted, and one Dutch marine was wounded, according to the Defence Ministry in The Hague. Ten pirates were captured, and the 15-member Taipan crew was unharmed.
Hr.Ms.Tromp takes part of EU-Operation Atlanta, In total there are now 143 pirates been disarmed by European vessels. 73 of those where done by the crew and boarding teams of the Hr.Ms.Tromp.
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(http://www.militarium.eu/Upload/Pictures/32386IMG_1359.JPG)
Some badass croats going to teach those bad guys a lesson 8)
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(http://img12.abload.de/img/dsc_3572_2custom_tcm469kk4.jpg)
The bridge of the pirated vessel after the Lynx open fire.
Must have been pretty windy when the crew continued the voyage.
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Ye, the PKM just looks dam sexy. It just shouts= FIRE me! FIRE ME!
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1157/00002861290140qo.jpg)
2 unknown rambo's, someplace, sometime
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I gotta agree. The Bixi (slang for PKM) is a badass :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeSights.jpg)
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(http://94.100.114.74/918800001-918850000/918828701-918828800/918828747_5_XF1I.jpeg)
I prefer the MAG 2000. ;D (ok I admit it, we don have PKM's :( )
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still doesnt beat the most awsome MG ever made:
MG3!
(http://www.whq-forum.de/cms/uploads/pics/mg3_12.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSKSsjpkZ3c&feature=fvsr
notice at 0:55
(we have rambo in norway too ;D)
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How about we add the MG42, witch is a very cool MG, to an even cooler MG, the FG42. How would you like that?
(http://www.museum.nps.gov/SPAR/full/0909-JPG633536159052031329.jpg)
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Its not an issue on which is cooler. Its a thing of loyalty :D And im with good ol' Bixi
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Part7.jpg)
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MG 42 beat gay MG3 :P
Gay MG3 would most definitely beat a MG42.
i would love to see the MG42 compete vs modern MG's though
i think only the FN MAG, MG3 and PKM would be a worthy competitor
I somehow think the mg42 would win....
Also, as for the m60, there would be no quarrel between hat and the mg42. The m60 has a slow rate of fires and is notoriously unreliable....
In many ways exept the ease of mounting them on Armoured fighting vehicle's. In this, tbh, the FN MAG and PKM would win
And the M60? HA!
Their is a reason the US adopted the FN MAG
if a FN MAG and a M60 fired 50 000 rounds, the FN MAG would have a MRBS (MRBS, jams that can be cleared within minutes) Around 3000 rounds fired. THe M60= only 800
MRBF, such as a part breaking happend between 7000 rounds fired for the MAG. The M60 at 1670 Rounds!
The minimum desired was 850 MRBS and 2700 MRBF. The FN MAG outperformed that requirment triple.
I know a now retired Belgian army machine gunner. And he got his hands on many machine guns. He once said to me= If i would be dropped right now in hostile territory, and i could choose one Machine gun, i would probaly picked a FN MAG 58,MG3 or a PKM.
When i asked him about the MG42, he replied =Do you have one?can i have it? He then told his experience of the MG42. he LOVED the MG. And he is currently on a mission to legally aquire one.
AND CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WTF THIS IS?PORTABLE RAILGUN?
(http://www.armees.com/IMG/jpg/papop.jpg)
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But nothing can beat the mighty serbian M53 Sarac (The sprayer)!!
(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9550/b800sm8.jpg)
It's said that some MG42 bluprints dissapeared and iteligence reported that they were located in Yugoslavia.
Nasty stuff, ey?
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FN MAG is an awesome weapon! It fires like dream, Its not to heavy, You wont destroy your back when doing a patrol. I definitely choice it above the FN Minimi, maybe becose im Ol'dschool as it comes to weapons.
And they fit perfectly in your trunk! ;D
(http://94.100.122.184/773850001-773900000/773889701-773889800/773889710_5_iA25.jpeg)
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(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/in_pictures_falklands_conflict/img/12.jpg)
On 8 June five Argentine planes hit two British supply ships, Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram, in Fitzroy. Around 200 men, many of them Welsh Guards, were killed or injured as the Argentine bombs ignited the huge amount of explosives the ship was carrying.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Bananacake.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Caaaaake-1.jpg)
Hardy-har-har
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/kyrgyz_04_07/k01_22915803.jpg)
Caption: Riot police are attacked by anti-government protesters in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on April 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov)
Link: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/crisis_in_kyrgyzstan.html
Thanks for the link to boston.com Corvax.
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(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4151/bundeswehrearly7.jpg)
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no offence but why do you always post bullshit in this threat? do it somewhere ells and try to keep this one clean.
I only posted one bullshit photo! And that was the Wehrmacht AT-AT on the other picture of the day!And everyone loved it. Oh and maybe the Photo'shopped Ratte but dam it was photo'shopped so dam well, it was like the Ratte was on that day present
To contribute i just found this and i must say, I once had one of these flying over my head at 10 meter range. It gives awesome a new definition
(http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86d68a2970b-pi)
Not sure bout the date/location
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Yes, i did some reading on it and you are correct, altough to soldiers on Okinawa it was known as the T3 with T120 scope.
Also it was even used in the beginning of the Vietnam conflict, but quickly fased out.
A nicer picture, with battery pack.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/M3_Sniperscope.jpg/800px-M3_Sniperscope.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/CakeHi-1.jpg)
Peek a boo mother fvcker!
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(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/7825/267011.jpg)
United states Army got a new camouflage, well actually its pretty old.. As old as airsoft...
Multicam.
I wonder how it will look next too the British new uniforms, witch is based on multicam.
For those who don't know it yet:
(http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/uploads/camo2_1546793c.jpg)
The new British Camouflage pattern.
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I hate camouflage.
+1 Thank you :D
Whole militaries have become fashion centers with all these different camouflages.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Cake-5.jpg)
New camo from TSK.
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Here comes a long story but I thought it fitted better here then creating a new thread...
(http://www.dn.se/polopoly_fs/1.1071420.1270050667!image/88793637.jpg_gen/derivatives/article-landscape/88793637.jpg)
The man to the right closest to the camera, is Sean Flynn. The son of famous actor Erroll Flynn. The place is South Vietnam and the year is 1968
A few years ago he tried to follow in his fathers footsteps and become a famous actor but got tired of it and then began as a freelancing journalist in Vietnam when America started getting more and more involved in the conflict
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Sonofcaptainblood1.jpg)
(http://www.dn.se/polopoly_fs/1.1071429.1270052927!images/667109477.jpg)
He quickly made a name for himself as a fearless journalist but also for his aggressive drinking and drug abuse
The picture above is a picture of Erroll Flynn in the Hollywood epic "Captain Blood" and the picture above that's the sequel with Sean in the lead.
(http://www.dn.se/polopoly_fs/1.1071425.1270051831!images/3528878492.jpg)
During a trip to Cambodia for a story they got stopped by guerrilla soldiers on a road.
What happened after that have always been a mystery, there has been many speculations regarding what happened that night. Seans mother Lili Damita spent huge amounts of money trying to find his remains without any success.
Now, 40 years later the mystery resolves. Some British folks have found the remains in Cambodia and witnesses who remember a tall blond man being shot in the 1970's by the guerrillas
Seans 53 year old sister is still waiting for the analysis from Hawaii to confirm that it is Seans remains they found in Cambodia, but judging from the witnesses and the time and the place, it's Sean.
To end this little story I'll end it with a beautiful tune from The Clash called just that: Sean Flynn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSWUKOPTt2g
(http://www.pythiapress.com/letters/images/war14.jpg)
Photo taken 2 hours before the disappearance
Some people also say that Sean Flynn was the inspiration for Dennis Hopper's character in Apocalypyse Now. Some say Tim Page was the inspiration but anyhow, here's a clip of Dennis doing his thing in the movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAixFYnDh4
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(http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/VanGuld2/15.png)
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(http://usuarios.multimania.es/mrvalverde/FRR138.JPG)
Spanish Civil war - Heinkel he.51
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(http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/VanGuld2/15.png)
Bring it on Commie bastard!
"More flying less Talking Capital swine!"
(http://www.enemyforces.net/aircraft/an124_3.jpg)
A rather unusual but intresting photo.
2 USAAF B-52's and unknown plane sits next to 2 Tu 95 bombers and a AN 124 ruslan
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(http://)
Bring it on Commie bastard!
"More flying less Talking Capital swine!"
(http://www.enemyforces.net/aircraft/an124_3.jpg)
A rather unusual but intresting photo.
2 USAAF B-52's and unknown plane sits next to 2 Tu 95 bombers and a AN 124 ruslan
The other is a KC-10A Extender. :)
(http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/397/typhoonseverodvinskbeac.jpg)
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(http://s.wsj.net/media/0409pow13_J_20100408195742.jpg)
A U.S. Marine guarded an Afghan detainee at the entrance of a bunker at a U.S. base in Marjah, Afghanistan, Tuesday. A single Afghan man was arrested by Marines near the site where a roadside bomb blew up early that morning. The man had a false Pakistan passport, two different Afghan identification cards, some wires wrapped on a few batteries, an old rifle and pamphlets of Taliban activities in Marjah.
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(http://www.explorateur.ch/explo/photos%20swiss%20sniper%20tireur%20d%20elite%20armee%20suisse%20scharfschuetze%20fass%2090%20tiflu%20zf_files/add013.jpg)
Swiss sniper.
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Post your snipers!!
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7933/1266946786362.jpg)
@zeg: i would feel so uncomfortable if i was that guy, it is very likely a 200 meter drop in front of him and earth isn't the best support on an edge like that.
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Sniper pix?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/2480_6971_03032008_1.jpg)
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Sniper pix huah!
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/7002/5891626155904i.jpg
Get yourself some western equipment Tolga :p
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/M102_howitzers_during_Operation_Urgent_Fury.jpg/1000px-M102_howitzers_during_Operation_Urgent_Fury.jpg)
M102 Howitzers firing during operation Urgent fury
Probaly against snipers ;) ;) ;)
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Sniper killers :(
@ Invincible
You wanted Western equipment lol
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Hallo.jpg)
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Sniper killers :(
@ Invincible
You wanted Western equipment lol
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Hallo.jpg)
hell yeah! thats more like it mate!
Moooooooaaaar!
(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1412/5906770556uifa.jpg)
;D
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Heh. Not much of a sniper :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/CakeB.jpg)
Probably the newest weapon we we have, the Mehmetçik 1. Im probably the only TSK guy with a pic of it :D
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(http://www.mil.fi/maavoimat/joukot/pohmsle/sniper%2001%20web_w530.JPG)
(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/543/finnish_sniper.jpg)
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(http://www.morh.hr/images/phocagallery/zrakoplovstvo/thumbs/phoca_thumb_l_mig_6_21112008v.jpg)
Our mighty Croatian Airforce!!
(Pls don't fall of your chair laughing ;) )
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(http://i40.tinypic.com/mvpzz5.jpg)
Iraqi special police officers demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony, at a police academy in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 10, 2009. Some 600 police officers graduated after two months of training.
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Mig 21 are cute planes :-*
(http://www.mig-21-online.de/Gallerie/Flugzeuge/pictures/438_2.jpg)
JG7 of the NVA
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Yeah they are but they're also obsolete and still in active service in my country (Croatia).
I sincirely hope we get those sexy Grippens 8)
(http://www.outdoorphoto.co.za/forum/photopost/data/520/Grippen.jpg)
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"TF.141 call in a supply drop and prepare to ambush the OpFor forces, somewhere in Afghanistan" ;)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/qwsaetas13.jpg)
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Thats a nice load of weapons!
modern Russian armored trains.
(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/38/79b1e205bc.jpg)
(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/1543/chechnyatrain.jpg)
http://www.kuda1610.com/?p=6355
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Открыть огонь!
(http://www.army-technology.com/projects/tunguska/images/tunguska9.jpg)
Modern Russian M1 Tungska opens fire with his 30MM cannons
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ItPsv 90 "Marksman"
(http://www.armyrecognition.com/forum_pic/finland/T-55_Marksman_Finnish_army_Finland_001.jpg)
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BMPT
wait for it...
waaaaait!
PREPARE!
UNLEASH THE FURY!!!!!!
(http://btvt.narod.ru/5/bmpt/bmpt20.jpg)
(http://btvt.narod.ru/5/bmpt/bmpt22.jpg)
(http://btvt.narod.ru/5/bmpt/bmpt15.jpg)
Armament:
- two 30 mm 2A42 dual-feed cannon with a cyclic rate of fire of up to 600 rds/min
The cannon can fire a wide range of ammunition types including: High Explosive - Tracer (HE-T), Armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS), High Explosive Fragmentation (HE-FRAG) and Armor-Piercing - Tracer (AP-T).
- four launchers for the Ataka-T anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) which can fire various types of warhead,
These include a tandem HEAT warhead to defeat targets fitted with explosive reactive armour.
- two AGS-17D 30 mm grenade launchers
- one 7.62mm machine gun
if there is going to be a zombie apocolypze: IM BUYING ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!
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:OOOOOOOO
Brining the big guns?!1!
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Peekaboocake.jpg)
And for the Croatian lad
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/1258380281-2.jpg
<3
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:OOOOOOOO
Brining the big guns?!1!
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Peekaboocake.jpg)
is that a quad 50. i see?
that thing couldnt even penetrate your mother ;)
tin can with a peashooter ;D
now this is how the big boys play:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1084/152x2ft0.jpg)
MOAR:
(http://www.military-today.com/artillery/tos1.jpg)
EVEN MOAR:
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/ground-effect/lun01.jpg)
wait whaaat?
(http://englishrussia.com/images/flying_fortress/1.jpg)
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All of you missed the real weapon...
BERET anyone? <3
Plus you can sugar coat an AA anyway you want, still an old AA.
Not enough to defeat something like
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/aetn0038.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/aetn0038.jpg)
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s-400 "triumph"
(http://steeljawscribe.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/s-400_launch.jpg)
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Buk m2
(http://www.baoquangninh.com.vn/images_upload/small_42617.jpg)
=
1000000000000 dollars wasted ;D
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is that a quad 50. i see?
that thing couldnt even penetrate your mother ;)
tin can with a peashooter ;D
now this is how the big boys play:
(http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1084/152x2ft0.jpg)
meh
THIS IS FOAR MENS
(http://www.strangemilitary.com/images/content/144876.jpg)
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pssh, can't touch this
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/little-david-1.jpg)
36-inch (914mm) little David mortar
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(http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/graphics/p/parisgn2.jpg)
;D
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(http://lh5.ggpht.com/abramsv/SI17YChfLlI/AAAAAAAAXqI/J6O9xRS5O5M/s640/wetrdfgdfgdfsdf.jpg)
Why Tolga's people gotta beat us at everything. :-[
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(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii292/cabatli_53/image-3F16_4BBF96BE.jpg)
Turkey's Otokar has unveiled a new 6x6 wheeled armoured vehicle
Looks Like a nice vehicle!
Hope they send one to you Tolga, way better then some shitty Landrovers.
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(http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4876/koreanorth135128500x380.jpg)
North Korean soldiers joke around while guarding the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.
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(http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/501/Type_99_1.jpg)
To have an army like that...
@Gen. T.: Haha where did you find that?
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(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6517/hull3jc3.jpg)
Some state of the art superior British tank on a bad day in Iraq after being team killed.
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Looks Like a nice vehicle!
Hope they send one to you Tolga, way better then some shitty Landrovers.
/agree :D
The Landrovers are fucking screaming 'rape us, were wide open!' haha
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This photo could be really wrong if you didn't read the caption:
Snowball fight: An Afghan policeman attacks the Norwegian soldier with a snowball! At 2500 meters height, soldiers were able to find some snow, and despite age and nationality, some things are never too old. Photo: Lars Magne Hovtun / Norwegian Armed Forces
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(http://www.spiegel.de/images/image-77464-galleryV9-nkbo.jpg)
A-stan insurgent got new secret super weapons
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To make up for my mistake, this is an US tank taken out by a roadside bomb.
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South Korean soldiers stand guard at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, north of Seoul April 14, 2010, while a group of media people visit during a media tour organised by the U.S. Forces Korea. (Reuters)
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South/North Korea border = WIN.
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(http://studiesirishreview.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/barricades_in_spanish_civil_war.jpg)
I just loled when I saw that ;D
Oh yeah, the pic is from the Spanish Civil War.
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To make up for my mistake, this is an US tank taken out by a roadside bomb.
(http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9177/abrams20182ce7.jpg)
Im afraid you made one more mistake. - This is the famous "Cojone Eh" M1 Abrams disabled during Thunder Run and later destroyed by the USAF.
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(http://therogersinhaiti.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/national-geographic.jpg)
Not really a war zone, but this illustrates the difference between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. There are pretty much no trees whatsoever left in Haiti, all of them having been burnt for charcoal, and the ensuing degradation of the terrain has also been similarly impressive.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Stahlhelm1.jpg)
Austro–Hungarian soldiers throw granates, left German steel helmet, right Austrian-Hungary
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Nice photo Doc.
(http://usuarios.multimania.es/mrvalverde/HE-70X.JPG)
A formation of Heinkel He.70's of the Condor Legion in Spain.
Originally designed as a transport plane for Lufthansa, it was significantly faster than nearly all fighters at the time of its production in 1932, It even set 8 speed over distance records.
It has been said that the He 70 was an inspiration or influence for the Supermarine Spitfire's elliptical wings
and was also sent to Japan for inspection and inspired the development of the Aichi D3A Val light bomber
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No i do not, but you see destroyed soviet stuff all the time, do you get off on stuff like that? People died in those just like in this. For me there is no difference, just the annoyance of the complete lack of pictures of destroyed allied stuff.
At least in the WW2 picture of the day tread you see both allied and axis tanks that where taken out, here it seems that allied has some huge bias and can not be shown in a weak position.
And at least i post pictures of actual war and there results, like it says in the rules of the tread.
EDIT: A second picture, for those who don't want to see pictures of our side losing.
(http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/9463/iraqitankr.jpg)
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(http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/world/gallery/2007/may/21/iraq/GD3418337-9760.jpg)
Destroyed M2 Bradley in Iraq
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(http://94.100.114.23/922650001-922700000/922658801-922658900/922658867_6_kfUx.jpeg)
Hell with it I just post it,
I got accepted today for a photography study next year, Witch I am extremely happy about!
So I'm leaving the army for the next 3 years.
This is one of the photos I used for my presentation.
It is army related, So I thought I just post it here.
One of the forum members here, DanaragM1 helped me out with the editing work. Thanks mate, much appreciated!
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Leaving the Army? nooooooo! :D
Nah im kiddin, grats lad.
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Knocked out Abrams tank. Same tank on 2 different times.
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4557/abramspenetratednk5.jpg)
(http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2810/30337260.jpg)
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Military exercise in southern Sweden.
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13167/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13167~SK%C3%96VDE%2020100417%20Delar%20av%20bataljonen%20har%20kontroll%20%C3%B6ver%20en%20del%20av%20garnisonsomr%C3%A5det.)
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13169/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13169~SK%C3%96VDE%2020100417%20%C3%96vning%20utanf%C3%B6r%20F%C3%B6rsvarsmaktens%20omr%C3%A5de%20inneb%C3%A4r%20ocks%C3%A5%20f%C3%B6rflyttningar%20p%C3%A5%20vanliga%20trafikleder,%20vilka%20planeras%20f%C3%B6r%20att%20kunna%20genomf%C3%B6ras%20p%C3%A5%20s%C3%A5%20s%C3%A4kert%20s%C3%A4tt%20som%20m%C3%B6jligt.)
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13171/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13171~SK%C3%96VDE%2020100417%20N%C3%A5gra%20har%20skadats,%20fienden%20forts%C3%A4tter%20att%20skjuta,%20nu%20pr%C3%B6vas%20det%20om%20kunskaperna%20sitter%20%C3%A4ven%20n%C3%A4r%20situationen%20blir%20stressigare.)
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Ah god. Love those Leopard 2's :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSC_0044.jpg)
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Hehe, we both fail, Zrix ;)
Anyway, that should work:
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/818/026cc578.jpg)
For description see my post above.
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(http://tietokannat.mil.fi/maanvyory09/maavoimat/include/thumbnail.php?id=670&width=640)
Finland doing their thing, I mainly chose to post this picture since the area in this picture reminds me so much of where I live
EDIT: As in the other POTD thread, I blame my lack of absence for posting more then one picture but this picture was just too interesting...
(http://i43.tinypic.com/1zol3j9.jpg)
A soldier from the U.S. Army's 2nd Platoon, Alpha Troop, 2-1 Infantry Battalion, 5/2 Striker Brigade Combat Team questions an Afghan man about a SIM card he found hidden during an operation in the Arghandab River Valley in Kandahar Province April 16, 2010. (Reuters)
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Btw, Tolga, do you wear any body armour during your operations?
Nope, never. Only time we wear body armor is during exercises.
And the uniform is standard woodland :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Cake222.jpg)
^ Basically what we look like during Operations, only a light vest.
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(http://www.axishistory.com/fileadmin/user_upload/s/stuka-spain.jpg)
Junkers Ju 87 Stuka during the Spanish Civil War
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(http://www.swissmartial.ch/Samurai_with_weapons.jpg)
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Demonstrators protect themselves with shields they seized from the city's public order force during bloody clashes which broke out over the demolition of a cemetery outside the Jakarta international container port on April 14, 2010. Bloody clashes broke out in Indonesia's capital between scores of demonstrators and security forces over the demolition of a cemetery, witnesses and officials said. (AFP / ***** Images)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/12inchRailwayHowitzerHildaYpres7November1917.jpeg)
'Hilda', a 12 inch Mk I Howitzer on Railway Hill, in the Ypres sector. 'Hilda' was accustomed to taking up different positions on the railway line and firing on special targets in the enemy territory.
Belgium, Ypres 1917
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/12inchRailwayHowitzerShell444SiegeBatteryAndKitten19July1918.jpg)
Showing that not just German soldiers can pose with kittens, this officer of 444 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), smokes a pipe as he supervises the kitten balancing on a 12 inch gun shell near Arras.
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TN frigate TCG Gelibolu pwning pirates the other day.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/voybns.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3489/3304110243_d589afd3c9.jpg)
There's a picture of Afghanistan
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Dessert? more like stuck in de mud :)
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6462/800pxdestroyedm1dmsd040.jpg)
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http://amazing-nature.blogspot.com/search/label/Afghanistan
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1113/678294308_590d175f60_o.jpg)
Afganisthan.
Oh and that pic of the destroyed Abrams. Its from Iraq.
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Well, no idea about the Finnish vests, but the American crotch covers are made to stop shrapnel.
(http://newsblaze.com/pix/2007/0129/pix/Brandon-Dockery.jpg)
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Crotch covers you say?
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/C4K3Bora.jpg tallalalalal.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Touchmytalala.jpg)
SVD that ass <3
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advertising of Michelin tyres, 1917 :D
(http://www.greatwar.nl/kleur/fr-michelin.jpg)
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(http://www.netherlands-australia2006.com/geschiedenis/au/gfx/beeld/097.jpg)
KNIL and the Military Air Force Division servicemen from camp
St. Ives, July 1945. The men have camouflaged their faces to carry out a night patrol.
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I think this IDF tank missed the turn at the top of the mountain, started rolling down and hit the road below. Must have been quite a impact if you look at the cracks in the road.
(http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9366/200608merkavadestroyedb.jpg)
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(http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_06_03/afghanistan5.jpg)
Wow. Im amazed by that pic lmao
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/311rqj7.jpg)
Chest beating, flag waving nationalist bullshit :D
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Full series:
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x249/lancero444/maio/nl7.jpg)
(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x249/lancero444/maio/nl6.jpg)
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Think he smashed his optics there. :)
A US Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit dodges bullets after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmser in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on May 18, 2008. The Marine was not injured.
Allot of awesome photos from the same series:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?135152-24th-Marine-Expeditionary-Unit-in-Afghanistan
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German film crew records the action.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1983-0323-501%2C_Kriegskinematograph_im_Sch%C3%BCtzengraben.jpg)
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/3165842685_3c82ce2b43_o.jpg
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I have no idea what happend to this tank, or why they cut of his barrel but left the .50 on it, but it looks pretty dead to me.
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No, i am planning on starting to show some destroyed bradly's and LAV's soon.
Also, in the rules of this tread:
Post your interesting / amusing / remarkable war photographs in this thread.
All wars are allowed to be posted except for World War Two related pictures.
So 2/3 of the pictures in this tread aren't even sepose to be here. Some training exercise (like all those plane pictures a while back) are not allowed here. only war/combat photographs.
EDIT: Extra picture so this post does not go to waste:
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(http://www.1ofthefew.com/Mcdonnell/Destroyed%20LAV.jpg)
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When a Bushmaster of ours was disabled we trow incendiary grenades in them, It didn't had enough effect so Apache's finished the job. So yeah they do blow there own stuff up.
(http://www.abload.de/img/dscn2576bc1q.jpg)
Interesting picture for comparisation: Leopard 2 and Panzer IV
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TCG Gelibolu is on a roll, capturing its second group of pirates this week.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pz-IVG-latrun-2.jpg/800px-Pz-IVG-latrun-2.jpg)
Syrian Panzer IV. I was pleased to find that the mk IV had a long post-war service record.
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I'm gona make a threat for beute panzers/ and pre-war used armor
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Syrian Jagdpanzer
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What happens when an RPG 7 hits the side of a bradley.
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/9726/74546244.jpg)
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Here are the non resized pictures.
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3239/2737483.jpg
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9598/2737485.jpg
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/3561/2737487.jpg
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/450/2737489.jpg
I don't know WaW]hOMEr_jAy if anyone got seriously hurt. The spall liner did get breached if you look carefully, and you can see clear shrapnel hits in the interior. Also i THINK that what you see is the Left (breached) and Right side (damaged) of the passenger compartment. So the passengers in between would probably be full off shrapnel. Dousn't mean they are dead tough, there own kevlar and helmet (if they were wearing that) probably would have stopped a lot of it.
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Section Commander Corporal Joe Danyluk of NSW (right) and Private Dick Bligh of Qld,of B Company 8RAR, ‘take five’ before beginning their search of a Viet Cong bunker system in the Long Hai mountains during Operation Hamersley. In February 1970, 8RAR together with other 1ATF units fought Viet Cong soldiers entrenched in the mountains. The area was pounded by air strikes, naval bombardments from HMAS Vendetta and artillery fire, killing an unknown number of enemy troops. The Australians sustained very heavy casualties during the operation, eleven were killed and 59 wounded, among them many mine victims.
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I do not know for sure if this is training or demonstration or not, still, its a cool and interesting picture.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/GermanInfantry1914.jpg/800px-GermanInfantry1914.jpg)
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^^ Repost? Im not sure, just asking :P
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American troops in Vladivostok, August 1918, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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Soldeir next to bones
Its ANZAC Day today in NZ and australia, so a picture of the Battle of Chunuk Bair, 1915, Gallipoli
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Soldiers about to fire the M202A2 FLASH rocket launcher.
This is what replaced flamethrowers after WW2. It fires 4 66MM incendiary rockets. With a range of 750Meter max
In THEORY the FLASH could fire the same rockets as of the M72 LAW. But this was never done.
i want one of these
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A riot policeman fires teargas toward demonstrators in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, April 7, 2010.
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Classic from Korea :D
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another pic of el presidentes pinata airforce ;D
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(http://www.afwing.com/intro/india/ach-47a.jpg)
The front of an ACH-47A in the vietnam war.
The ACH-47A carried five M60D 7.62x51 mm machine guns or M2HB .50 caliber machine guns, provided by the XM32 and XM33 armament subsystems, two M24A1 20 mm cannons, two XM159B/XM159C 19-Tube 2.75" rocket launchers or sometimes two M18/M18A1 7.62x51 mm gun pods, and a single M75 40 mm grenade launcher in the XM5/M5 armament subsystem (more commonly seen on the UH-1 series of helicopters)
Not many where built, but one survives.
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Why you should not drive over a TM-57 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM-57_mine)
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3626/anbar2005aftertm57strik.jpg)
Looks like a mobility kill to me, the tank itself seems fine.
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Chinook?
Ah nvm, CH-53 Sea Stallion.
CH-53C Super Jolly.
The front of an ACH-47A in the vietnam war.
The ACH-47A carried five M60D 7.62x51 mm machine guns or M2HB .50 caliber machine guns, provided by the XM32 and XM33 armament subsystems, two M24A1 20 mm cannons, two XM159B/XM159C 19-Tube 2.75" rocket launchers or sometimes two M18/M18A1 7.62x51 mm gun pods, and a single M75 40 mm grenade launcher in the XM5/M5 armament subsystem (more commonly seen on the UH-1 series of helicopters)
Not many where built, but one survives.
Four were built, three were destroyed in Vietnam, one in a ground collision with a standard Chinook, one shot its front rotor blades off during a gun run (the mount of one of the 20mm's shook itself loose and fired upwards). The third was destroyed by NVA mortars on the outskirts of Hue during the Tet offensive following a force landing after taking small arms fire.
The Guns A Go-Go was an impressive bird but the development of the AH-1G Hueycobra made it rather pointless.
The same could be said from the Armed versions of the UH-1 Huey's. Yet both where found deadly and way more versatile then the AH-1G
(http://www.incolor.inetnebr.com/iceman/data/lndryday.jpg)
UH-1C Huey "Easy rider" over vietnam. These "Huey gunships" or "Hogs" where used as escorts for the regular Huey's. Origenally used as a stopgap for the AH-1, they where well used untill the end of the war, mostly because of their versatility of roles and weapons.
Examples of weaponary include 2X rocket pods + 2 7.62MM Gatling guns. 2x rocket pods + 4-6 .50 CAL.
Basicly almost everything to a 7.62MM machine gun, to a 30MM autocannon, to a 40MM grenade launcher could be added to the UH-1C. Wich was not the case for the AH-1G
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M6_Schematic.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M16_Schematic.jpg
http://www.dontgivvafuq.com/misc/pics/nam/gunsagogo/ach-47a_cost_of_living_03.jpg
US helicopter armaments have always amazed me!
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US helicopter armaments have always amazed me!
Russian armaments> US armaments
Kirov class:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Kirov-class_battlecruiser.jpg/800px-Kirov-class_battlecruiser.jpg)
Armament:
20 P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) AShM
14 SS-N-14 Silex ASW cruise missiles
12x8 (96) S-300PMU Favorit SA-N-6 Grumble surface-to-air missiles
96 S-400 (SA-NX-20 Gargoyle) long-range SAM
192 9K311 Tor (SA-N-9 Gauntlet) point defense SAM
44 OSA-MA (SA-N-4 Gecko) PD SAM
2x RBU-1000 305 mm ASW rocket launchers
2x RBU-12000 (Udav-1) 254 mm ASW rocket launchers
1 twin AK-130 130 mm/L70 dual purpose gun
10 533 mm ASW/ASuW torpedo tubes, Type 53 torpedo or SS-N-15 ASW missile
8x AK-630 hex gatling 30 mm/L60 PD guns
6x CADS-N-1 Kashtan missile/gun system
and room for 3 KA-25 and KA-27 ;D ;D ;D
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hrhrhrhrhr the kirov class always amazed me.
that one is the admiral lazarev if i recall. they first planned to scrap it, but are now gonna fully overhaul it and put it in back to service, because the ship itself is in very good condition
BONUS=Russian special!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Corvette_Steregushchiy.jpg)
Steregushchy class corvette at the Neva river in St Petersburg. This is the most modern corvette today.
Armament:
1 x Arsenal A-190 100mm
2 x MTPU pedestal machine gun 14.5 mm
1 x Kashtan CADS
2 x AK-630 CIWS
8x P-800 Oniks anti ship missiles in 2 vertical launchers
6x 3M-54 Klub(91RE2) antisubmarine missiles in one vertical launcher
8x Kh-35 missiles
4 x 400mm torpedo tubes,
SS-N-29 /RPK-9 Medvedka Medvedka-VE anti-submarine rockets
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Sa-7.jpg/220px-Sa-7.jpg)
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Ah, yes Zeno, the Kirov is a far superior helicopter to American ones :P
(http://www.guncopter.com/images/mi-8-landings.jpg)
^ and CPS's post would be appropriate for a "you pwn me" thread.
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I have come pictures to show from the cold war now, they where taken in 1982 and they have my dad in them. He guarded one of the most secret bunkers Nato had in Europe, i don't really remember the details but it was something with control bunker for northern European forces. Many great story's he had about that time :D
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8651/p1020270f.jpg)
Posed pic.
(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4325/p1020269d.jpg)
Guarding inner perimeter. Very strict, they had to hold EVERYONE at gunpoint with several people while papers were being checked. It was double fenced meaning you drove in, you were then locked in, checked, and then let out again on the other side. Lots of very high ranking people passed there. Note the Thompson M1A1 in his hands.
(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4606/p1020267j.jpg)
Guarding outer perimeter, rules where not so strict as you can see by the case of beer in front of him. Yes, he is carrying a loaded SAFN rifle. He only had to report suspicious things here.
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(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4606/p1020267j.jpg)
Guarding outer perimeter, rules where not so strict as you can see by the case of beer in front of him. Yes, he is carrying a loaded SAFN rifle. He only had to report suspicious things here.
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JUUUPPPILEER
MANNEN WETEN WAAROM!!!!!
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Belgian FV107 Scimitar in kosovo i think. All these cool vehicles have been phased out though >:( :(
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU PIETER DE CREM Minister of Defense of my kloten!
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Nice pics Siben :) Props to your dad.
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Today it's time for a knocked out abrams again. This time no huge explosion or bombed out wreck but a simple SABOT hit that took the tank out of combat.
(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8929/12955994.jpg)
(http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/7172/19184999.jpg)
(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8691/47668116.jpg)
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First pic, ooh, what have we there, dousnt look so bad.
1: Looks like a small dent
2: Nop, its a hole
3: That went true the side armour
4: Inside the turret
5. True some poor guys chair (i guess this guy could be seriously injured)
6: where it did a bouncy bounce
7: Towards a small box
8: that looks like it was important (this is the reason the tank was taken out)
9: Against the main armour on the other side.
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"SIR! THE INSTRUCTIONS on the panel has been scratched!"
""WHAT??ABANDON THE TANK!!!EVERYONE OUT!""
(http://g.imagehost.org/0816/bmp1.jpg)
The first infantery figthing vehicle. The BMP1
This one is somewhere i think in south america
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(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13413/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13413~Tyska%20och%20svenska%20ISAF-enheter%20under%20operationen%20i%20Baghlan.)
German and Swedish units during an operation in Baghlan
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How many CV90s does Sweden have in A-Stan?
3 CV9040C, and 1 Recovery vehicle.
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_7793/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~7793~De%20fyra%20stridsfordon%2090%20%C3%A4r%20nu%20p%C3%A5%20plats%20som%20planerat.%20F%C3%A4lttestet%20ig%C3%A5r%20visar%20att%20%C3%A4r%20som%20det%20ska%20efter%20transporten%20fr%C3%A5n%20Sverige.)
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Here is another picture of the three CV90s.
(http://andersonchris.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/cv90_bq.jpg)
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Their 40mm cannons definately make a great impression on those Talibs/OMF/insurgents/asshats.
One of the Marders Germany has in Afghanistan. I can only hope we´ll get the Puma soon...still, it´s better than nothing.
(http://www.news-adhoc.com/wp-content/uploads/image2009/image/marder-bundeswehr.jpg)
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How many CV90s does Sweden have in A-Stan?
3 CV9040C, and 1 Recovery vehicle.
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_7793/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~7793~De%20fyra%20stridsfordon%2090%20%C3%A4r%20nu%20p%C3%A5%20plats%20som%20planerat.%20F%C3%A4lttestet%20ig%C3%A5r%20visar%20att%20%C3%A4r%20som%20det%20ska%20efter%20transporten%20fr%C3%A5n%20Sverige.)
Norway also have some CV9030s in A-stan:
(pic of the destroyed CV9030 that got blown up by a huge IED killing the exposed driver)
(http://gfx.nrk.no/5rnEY0i6CoZIoVcSIm2QmwK4cOXGOK9tFbO6mjtTOlAQ.jpg)
the CV90 have some of the best mine protection there is but this IED was massive...
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(http://www.nordac.org/DBFx/Artikler/land/pg%20amos.jpg)
A CV90 Chassis armed with the AMOS 120MM mortar system, developed by The Finnish and Swedish.
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And here is one with a 120mm gun. Is it the same gun that the Leo2 uses?
(http://www.mainbattletanks.czweb.org/Tanky/cv90120.jpg)
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The results of a very, VERY big IED.
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6497/l6d30d5aea0c740809c9bb9.jpg)
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/2861/c3vt2.jpg)
(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9459/c1nl4.jpg)
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1996/iraqtankdestroyed.jpg)
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A great idea for a television show: Central Powers Babies!
(http://www.diggerhistory.info/images/posters3/kameraden.jpg)
(http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/images/CePointro1.jpg)
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(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad315/meckie_m/SPzPumaStrand07-2009Pic001.jpg)
Puma AFV Planed to enter Bundeswehr service in 2011.
Test bed:
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad315/meckie_m/Rohbilder-WTD-41-Trier-2009-Teil2-0.jpg)
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Burning Iraqi T-55.
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1967/anotherdestroyediraqit5.jpg)
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_04_30_10/a03_22957691.jpg)
Caption:A CAT Scan shows the placement of a 14.5 millimeter high explosive incendiary round which was removed from the scalp of an Afghan National Army solder at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 18, 2010. The injury was sustained during an improvised ordinance device attack. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Richard Williams, US Air Force) #
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Did he make it?
A SOLDIER underwent a five-hour brain op to remove a high-explosive bullet - which could have blown his head off at any moment.Army surgeons donned BODY ARMOUR after the Afghan man was rushed in following a bomb blast. Non-essential staff were evacuated when a scan on what was thought to be just shrapnel revealed it to be a 2½in incendiary round. The Taliban bullet, containing 2oz of high explosives. was powerful enough to have killed the entire surgical team. But the brave US medics succeeded in delicately extracting it during the marathon operation at Bagram air base, Afghanistan.
Their unnamed patient - a member of the Afghan National Army - suffered serious brain injury but was recovering last night.
Relieved Sgt William Carter, a member of the surgical team, admitted: "It was a real concentrated effort on everyone's behalf to ensure that we were all safe - and the patient was safe as well." Radiologist Lt Col Anthony Terreri, whose scan revealed the bullet, said: "Initially I thought it was a spent end of some sort of larger round. Then I saw that it was not solid metal on the inside."
The military hospital went into immediate lockdown and bomb disposal experts were called.
After the op the bullet was taken away to be destroyed. It is the first time such daring surgery has been carried out since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. In half a century US medical teams have tackled fewer than 50 cases involving the removal of deadly explosives from patients.
Sgt Carter said: "This type of situation is remarkable."
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Its the info I could dig.
Also...
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Weapons/50bmg914.jpg)
Modified M2 50 cal, modified by Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock with a 12x Unertl scope and a modified tripod with precize elevationand traverse to pulverize Vietcong's targets over the distance of 2000 meters; done several times.
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(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9550/image059h.jpg)
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(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4224/51332761261vi7.jpg)
FN MAG 2000 on tripod, pure pleasure to shoot with!
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CIMG_0056.jpg)
Operation in Hakkari...
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More conflicts, less patriotic posts or training posts.
Because u ask so nicely, I think these are 2 Bradley's. The one on the front has had better days is seems tough.
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4913/figh1.gif)
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The thing what cleans up and tows away US vehicles
(http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/images/m88a1-crane.jpg)
The migthy M88 Recovery vehicle demonstrates its lifting capability
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Heh ive heard of the whole 'waterbottle in the barrel' thing before...
A picture of a picture of my family member who fought in the East in the early 90's :)
And yes the pic is from a war zone, so dont bust my balls :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/EhhhCake.jpg)
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Iraqi fail tank. The caption said T-55 but it is probably some cheap Chinese knockoff like the last pic. My guess is a large bomb barely "missed" it causing it to flip over.
(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9616/1272589185131.jpg)
And as an extra, artillery suppressor? All i know is that the Germans did something crazy here.
(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7320/1272977540642.jpg)
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The grand majority of Iraqi tanks where chinese type 59,62 and 69.
They had around 1000 T-62's. Wich was 20% of the tank forces if i recall (as their where 5500 tanks during the first gulf war)
The best tank the iraqi's had, where T-72 "asad babil" tanks. Wich where slightly better equipped(Belgian Night/thermal vision on some and camera's) T-72's but with less armour
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/DerelictAsadBabil.JPEG/800px-DerelictAsadBabil.JPEG)
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The Iraqi 'tanks' shouldnt have been called 'tanks' they were rip off's of Soviet tanks. Sure some of them were actual tanks from the Soviets but many of them were rip off's. Im surprised they ran at all.
2nd pic today, sue me.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/CIMG_0037.jpg)
Hitting a PKK position with Artillery.
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Well, yeah, they are tanks by definition.
Also some Chinese rip off's are better then the original, you know that? also pretty much everything in the world is Chinese at the moment so that argument isn't really valid any more since the stuff they rip off are often also made in China.
Anyway, fixing a tank, soviet style, Bosnia, 1995
Note how he grips the hammer incorrectly.
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7541/hr10kolovoz19952.jpg)
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Well, if one of my friends brings an RPG-29 then that the problem is solved.
But it does not really matter, a lot of tough looking guys often are nice people, this could just as well be the case here since i don't belong to the group of people that he is trying to kill.
Anyway, i think this could be irony at work, mine clearing tank knocked out with mine.
(http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9220/abrams05752lu3.jpg)
Also, The person they based Rambo on.
(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5003/1272984201642.jpg)
What is that, 20mm, 25 mm? Even more? I have no idea what kind of canon this is, but it looks like it came from an IFV or so.
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Looks like a 25mm.
2 pics from an Operation in Tunceli on May 1st.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Aqyo.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Talal.jpg)
Story is that PKK hit a Jandarma station and killed 4 soldiers and wounded 7, they called for backup but there was too much fog for the helicopters so a 100 man Mountain Commando team jogged 30 or so kilometers but couldnt make it in time.
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Tolga,
If the Turks would be attacking a PKK base I am pretty sure you would wait for an opportunity to outnumber your stupidly sleeping enemy and attack in surprise.
If this attack was planned 3 months ahead : Why did you not prepare yourself better for it ?
They can still pick a time of the day with very high chance of fog (like early mornings) and make advantage of it. You would have done the same.
I just smell such a big blind bias ; I understand you think your fight is justified and honorable. But they think the exact same, and have their own arguments why what you are doing is unfair and not honorable (And/or stupid). A befriended photographer went to Kurdistan in Northern Iraq for a few months and did a documentary there...the story always has two sides.
And the turkish-pkk one is not 100% as 'clear' as you think it is yourself. It's messy, complicated and politicized.
Just for you, a pretty Kurd girl :)
(http://www.defocus.nl/temp/kurdgirl.jpg)
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Less talk more pics plzkthxbai.
Anyway:
(http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6244/oe610x.jpg)
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/2174/kq610x.jpg)
German Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) search a house in a raid in northern Afghanistan. Most likely the area is around Kunduz, the troubled province where fights between German forces and OMF started to escalate since the beginning of 09.
I hope these pics work now, if not, Ciupita, it´s your turn again ;)
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Tolga,
Very mature and well thought out response, thanks for that. I dont think there is a further need for PM conversation, ++ for you :).
Some images of PKK warriors in Northern Iraq (mabe some are dead by Tolga now :'( ;D )
(http://www.phild.ch/photos/8/06_.jpg)
(http://www.phild.ch/photos/8/03_.jpg)
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Your 2nd pic, M4 with Eotech ftl :O
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/patrol2.jpg)
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time for a small break, and do some reading with the locals.
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/245/1272175526902.jpg)
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^^ Heh I always loved that pic.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/pkk17.jpg)
Another pic of the PKK... They look like a nice group of gals eh?
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Bit young for me, Tolga. I know you're a musselman and everything so you're not as picky. But still.
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Ah you have a disgusting state of mind xD lmao
Cant believe you would even think that, PFT and technically im supposed to respect you or bla bla because you're 10 years older than me rofl :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/PKKgirls.jpg)
talalalala.
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age has nothing to do with maturity
or well from a certain point upwards lets say ~16.
i ve seen 16 year olds do more mature and responsible stuff than 32 year olds ...
(http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/civil-war.jpg)
civil war guys ;)
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Speaking of black guys,
(http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/compass/0502/Images/soldierAndFamily.jpg)
An unidentified Buffalo Soldier with his family in the late 19th century.
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A Diemaco C7 (similar to a M16) It sight is set on 300 meters, while a C8 (similar to the M4) is set on 250 meters. those are the optimal settings, but it possible to do higher range.
300 meter head-sized target isn't that hard.
A dutch rifleman trains at 300 meters, but I once had a hit on 800 meters in prone position, you need to aim iirc 14 cm above target. witch is hard. And of course its on Single-shot, impossible on burst.
But most gunfights take place between 200 to 400 meters, for the longer shots you have a SLA(dm). Its hard for us to hit but even way harder for a half trained Taliban fighter.
Edit:
(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=121252&d=1273097745)
HNLMS Holland P840, newly build ship, not done yet, but she looks pretty already!!
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Dutch ships looks so epic
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/HNLMS_De_Zeven_Provincien_(F802).jpg)
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KNM Fridjof Nansen is far superior!
(http://www.fosna-folket.no/multimedia/archive/00701/KNM_Fridtjof_Nansen_701421a.jpg)
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Should have paid more attention to the road ahead.
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/8910/missedturn.jpg)
I wonder, do modern tanks have seatbelts? I crawled inside a leopard 1 once but i don't remember seeing them.
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With the space that the crew have, I doubt they need seatbelts :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/LiveImages_FotoHaber_698_Iraksnrnda.jpg)
Troop build up in N Iraq again :D
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Spot the ww2 era gun ; Somalia, probably somewhere in the 80's
(http://www.necrosant.net/zbxe/files/attach/images/3392/669/001/mp44insomalia.jpg)
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STG-44 on the front, IIRC there are more ww2 era weapons on it but you can't see them on the low res version.
Very famous picture, guy was 'ok'.
(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/5410/basrajumpsized.jpg)
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Being the 177th page, Here are some XM177's, the first two shown are E1s, the last picture is an E2
LRRP member equipped with an XM177
(http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1346/rk1mannvd6pm0.jpg)
No idea
(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1690/winstoncloughno5fr4.jpg)
and a last one...
Xm-177E2, held by an asian man, no idea where
(http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/9808/hyakhy0.jpg)
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(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1747/aga09016.jpg)
German Bundeswehr recruits provide security on a training checkpoint during basic training.
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EDIT: Combat area pic would be better.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/C4K3-4.jpg)
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(http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/graphics/hitler_munich1914.jpg)
Hitler (circled) in Odeonsplatz, Munich, on 1 August 1914
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/M20_75_mm_recoilless_rifle_korean_war.jpg)
An M20 Recoilless rifle opens fire during the Korean war.
It was a lightweight 75MM Recoilless rifle, with a penetration of 100MM of Armor. They where mostly used against softer targets, in wich they where devestating.
Even T-34's could withstand fire from this weapon ;D
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(http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4318/pt610x.jpg)
G-3 still kicking strong today in the German Army.
Sorry No captions!
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(http://i32.tinypic.com/e0pmcn.jpg)
Riding into the desert...
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(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5994/rauhanturvaajatsad.jpg)
Finnish peacekeeper shaking hands with kids in Chad.
Today's extra
(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4462/sniperchad.jpg)
Finnish ISAF sniper in Afghanistan. Armed with Sako TRG-42. At background, Mi-8 helicopter bringing supplies.
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Humvee
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/5633/b5pkj7.jpg)
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(http://www.yukleresim.com/images/gsv4oe85jyi278n134cf.jpg)
Tolga ;D?
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^^ Pouahahahahah :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Pouahahahah.jpg)
Operation Sun... Again.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Italian_troops_at_Isonzo_river.jpg)
Italians on the Isonzo River, 1915
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Aah, makes sense now, it is only useful when you shoot it several times in a short period of times, lets say 10 bullets in 1 minute. The sun heating up the rifle has nothing to do with it like with regular mirages.
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1576/1271342699415s.jpg)
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/5btmw1.jpg)
A little less conversation, lads.
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Canadians on an uneventful patrol with nothing worth telling the guys back at the base...
(http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/pics/soldiers_in_the_grass.jpg)
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Afghan%20National%20Army/9a044f59.jpg)
ANA, They became a real army. deep respect for them, although sometimes they are a little crazy.
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^ Interesting camo pattern they have there, i'd expect something a bit more 'desert' like :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/omgcakewhut.jpg)
Jandarma blackhawk N Iraq.
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Patriotic IDF pic
(http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3260/1271922946171.jpg)
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(http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/pix/bw_kpz_leopard_3_vt_2_augustdorf-1315.jpg)
This unusual looking vehicle is the Leopard 3. It never enterd production
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Well, they cancelled it, there must have been a reason for that...
ether he lost his wheel, or he drove into a ditch because he turned to tight. I go for the second option.
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/7659/1273686178534.jpg)
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This Leopard 3 is a total failure, end of story ladies! :D
TAF in the daylight
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ohawtfcake2-1.jpg)
And then after the lights go out
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Omgwhutcakelol.jpg)
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(http://www.panzerbaer.de/types/pix/bw_kpz_leopard_3_vt_2_augustdorf-1315.jpg)
This unusual looking vehicle is the Leopard 3. It never enterd production
Sraight out of Red Alert, Mammoth tank bitch!
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/jazzking2001/mammoth-tank-papercraft.jpg)
Verdun, 1917
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148%2C_Westfront%2C_deutscher_Soldat_crop.jpg)
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(http://austria-lexikon.at/attach/AEIOU/Weltkrieg,_Erster/Weltkrieg,_Erster1.jpg)
Advance of the Austrian-Hungarian troops in Ukraine
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A couple fellas who's names I'll not mention manning a defensive M-240 mount.
(http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4327/securitycensored.jpg)
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JGSDF Type 60 106mm SP Recoilless Rifle.
(http://www66.tok2.com/home2/tankguy/jgsdf01/type60sprr/type60sprr-03.jpg)
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/n180p4.jpg)
An honor guard holds the colors during a deployment ceremony on May 10, 2010 in Centennial, Colorado. A dozen Colorado Army National Guardsmen volunteered to be sent to Afghanistan to work with fellow ISAF troops from Slovenia to train and mentor Afghan National Army soldiers. Expanding Afghan security forces has become a cornerstone of Pentagon's new war strategy ahead of a planned drawdown of U.S. forces beginning in the summer of 2011
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Silly dutchies, stuck in the mud.
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/5826/1273686055207.jpg)
What kind if vehicle is that?
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It's called an Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle , ore MRAP.
Function is to transport Infantry man around, It build with a V shaped hull, so the blast is pushed away from the bottom of the vehicle, protecting the man inside.
I have my driving licence for it ;D, A shame those silly Australians put the wheel on the wrong side!
(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j75/meerpaal/landmacht/738196303_6_lohE.jpg)
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(http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/5439/610xw.jpg)
German Lt. Gen. Kasdorf, right, Chief of Staff with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), pins a Gold Cross medal onto unidentified U.S. Airborne soldier, part of the NATO-led ISAF forces, during an awards ceremony in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Kasdorf presented the Gold Cross Medal to 14 American service members for their bravery in extracting wounded German soldiers from a firefight in Kuduz last month. AP Photo
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(http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4817/polska0001.jpg)
Dutch Engineers building troop barracks during the mobilization of 1914.
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The Turkish Army - Gaying it up since 1923.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ohacake.jpg)
Excuse me? :D
How many of those MRAP's do the Dutch have?
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(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4399/865845228uuwmhl.jpg)
Supreme Allied Commander Europe Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis is greeted by a ceremony presented by the Life Guard of Sweden at Karlborg Castle in Stockholm May 12. The SACEUR made his first official visit to the country to meet with armed forces leaders concerning it's contributions.
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The Turkish Army - Gaying it up since 1923.
Excuse me? :D
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/aim.jpg)
You heard me.
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slightly less good against mud ; prolly because of the weeight ;D
No wheeled vehicle is good in mud. Good thing about these bushmasters is they can pull eachother out of it. Very strong engines. They were bought for use in Afghanistan that is why only 80+ were acquired.
This one was hit by an IED. Crew walked away without injuries.
(http://www.abload.de/img/imv3uazp.jpg)
(http://www.abload.de/img/imv2py70.jpg)
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(http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/europe/greece/main_battle_tank/leopard_2a6_hel/pictures/Leopard_2A6_HEL_main_battle_tank_Hellenic_Greece_Army_002.jpg)
Gotta love the MBT Leopard 2 A6 HEL :D
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^^ Yupp. The only thing im afraid of in all of HAF's arsenal are those 170 Leo 2A6's..
You heard me.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/AimPwnage.jpg)
Actually no I didnt, come again?
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Soviet VVS Frontal Aviation MiG-23MLD 'Flogger-K' about to touchdown in Afghanistan.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/potd/afghmig23mld.jpg)
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Actually no I didnt, come again?
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/pum.jpg)
Oh I'm sorry, I must've accidentally destroyed your little base.
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Please do not turn this into the I pwn you thread.
TOO LATE :D
Oh I'm sorry, I must've accidentally destroyed your little base.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/Mmmmmmydingdingdong.jpg)
Oh im sorry, I must've destroyed your cute little artillery system :)
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(http://koti.welho.com/msolanak/apachelong.jpg)
cobra<Apache
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NO!! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!! NOBODY CARES!! This is a picture thread, not a pissing contest. If it were America > anyone. But that's not what this thread is about. Nor is it about two guys having an annoying and witless back and forth.
Good because I just ran out of pictures :P
Actually I didn't!
(http://koti.mbnet.fi/peksoft/wawstuff/pasit.jpg)
Patria XA-185's & XA-202's at Niinisalo.
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Dutch Engineers with a UNI-BM ''Werklust'' WG 35B.
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/324/sdc10274f.jpg)
Doubles as wheel loader and beach buggy. ;D
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Patrolling the hood.
(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/935/1273666793851.jpg)
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(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6573/101vq.jpg) (http://img193.imageshack.us/i/101vq.jpg/)
<3
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HEY!!! Only WE can talk about our cities like that *shakes fist*
Anyhoo, off to Nam to save babies and preserve democracy...or...whatever...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/LVTP5-vietnam.gif)
"LVTP-5 amphibious tractors transport 3rd Marine Division troops. , 1966."
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NO!! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!! NOBODY CARES!! This is a picture thread, not a pissing contest. If it were America > anyone. But that's not what this thread is about. Nor is it about two guys having an annoying and witless back and forth.
Pft, at least were posting pics and not nagging about 2 guys having a piss race :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/Touchmytallaa.jpg)
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A Dutch Leopard 1 Engineer Tank ''buffel'', breaching a anti-tank ditch.
(http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6023/sdc10049c.jpg)
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Libyan Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M 'Fitter-J'.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b180/skcoclis/potd/Su-17.jpg)
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(http://www.aviapedia.com/files/fighters/Su-22/Su-22_1.jpg)
An Ex-East german SU-22 flying with the luftwaffe. The Luftwaffe painted them in their colors and added their markings and widely tested the plane
Another bonus picture
(http://www.airwar.ru/photo/su17/su22m4-luftwaffe.jpg)
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Another pic of the turkish army:
(http://www.allworldwars.com/image/085/GermanWWIPhotos096.jpg)
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Gallipoli!
(http://coachburke.homestead.com/Gallipoli--soldiers_attacking.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/TSKRambo.jpg)
Strike a pose!
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(http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/8000/1273697646618.jpg)
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Well he's going to kill you all with lightning one day for the betrayal.
Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, the coolest battleground-name of the 20th century.
(http://www.dcvonline.net/php/images/082007/dienbienphu.jpg)
Ppsh's!
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Uniforms of Pori Regiment
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Porin_rykmentin_univormut.jpg)
From left to right: 30-years-war era (17th century), Great Northern War era (early 18th cent.), year 1798, Finnish war (1808-09) and Finnish Civil War (1918)
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I like the uniform in the middle most, the one on his left (our right, finish war) isn't so bad tough.
A guy not feeling so tough, Georgia.
(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/9458/1274069093894.jpg)
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(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h46000/h46707.jpg)
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(http://indomiliter.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/strike6.jpg)
Close up picture of an OTO Melara 76MM Naval gun firing
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/s7031rd4.jpg)
Afghanistan
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Looks a lot like Belgian cammo disign indeed so very likely. Strange that they are not wearing there desert cammo tough, it looks so sexy.
(http://www.old-print.com/mas_assets/full/E2631915258.jpg)
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Yupp. As far as I know they both use that pattern on their blackhawks.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/dutchapacheturkishblack-2.jpg)
Dutch Apache in the background.
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WAH-64 Apache AH.1 > AH-64D Apache Longbow > (RNLAF) AH-64D Apache. ;)
(http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4A815922-4A94-4EAD-B9AB-2FD779470452/0/ArkApache1.jpg)
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IHr-jLQd3rI/SzS1_aaOCLI/AAAAAAAADIQ/QXQG3Op94wU/s1600/greek_f16.jpg)
Greek F16
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(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6824/chatham021.jpg)
HMS Chatham goes 'hands to boarding stations' after closing on a suspected pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden
[Picture: Petty Officer Airman (Photographer) Owen King, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Now thats a real gun!
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http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6824/chatham021.jpg
HMS Chatham goes 'hands to boarding stations' after closing on a suspected pirate vessel in the Gulf of Aden
[Picture: Petty Officer Airman (Photographer) Owen King, Crown Copyright/MOD 2010]
Now thats a real gun!
FFS, who the hell designed this? Maybe put a little protection in there for the operator? Like oh i don't know, don't use a box of high explosive ammunition as a shield?
Anyway, before this turns into a ooh look at my perrty F16 tread again here is a cool war picture.
(http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4416/1274248197470.jpg)
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YEAH MOAR WAR PHOTOS!
Cheering in the streets of Knin after being liberated from Serbian oppresors
(http://www.dubrovacki.hr/datastore/image/55881/article_home)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/18sd5.jpg)
Afghanistan... Again. Dutch Apaches and 2 Turkish blackhawks behind it.
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Bouras you of all people should know TSK shows love with aircraft :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/LOL.jpg)
Showing a HAF Mirage some 'loveee' pouahaha :)
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Yakovlev Yak-28PP 'Brewer-E' electronic countermeasures aircraft.
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/spy/yak28pp/yak28pp-1.jpg)
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Sniping zie tanks. WW1 i believe.
(http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3739/1274094675115.jpg)
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You asked for war.
(http://vatopaidi.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/turkish-f-16-in-the-gun-sights-of-a-greek-f-16.jpeg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEp6wJmrTV8
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USMC Grumman EA-6A 'Electric Intruder' in Vietnam.
(http://www.mcara.us/images/photos/aircraft/EA-6A/EA6.jpg)
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(http://sbiii.com/ordpix/bertha2.jpg)
Big bertha and its crew pose for a photo
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The war on terror, homefront.
(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2805/1274106463913.jpg)
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I mean, unless you're shooting down innocent airliners, a SAM system kills probably the least amount of innocent people of any modern weapons system.
x2 A SAM couldnt kill innocent people, unless ofc you fired on a civilian airliner...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/hhhh.jpg)
N Iraq
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Ran out of real deals?
Have about 5 dead abrams left, 2 dead bradleys some dead iraqi tanks, a shitload of iran iraq tank pics and some kosovo but then yeah, i am out, just thought that i should put some randoms and so in between.
But just for you, another real deal :p
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/6982/772b6f53dddf.jpg)
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MiG-25BM 'Foxbat-F' SEAD aircraft.
(http://www.valka.cz/html_images/10_2006/image1162060265.JPG)
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Aah, ok, wel, i never watched the series properly and just found it a funny pic.
I was just thinking that the guy on the far right looked like Rudy Reyes, who played himself for the miniseries. ;D
Chicoms, like some here at FH2 ( ;) ), gloating over a killed Pershing tank, early in their involvement in the Korean War.
(http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/5115/korea31.jpg)
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(http://military.discovery.com/history/great-battles/images/french-pows-324x205.jpg)
French Union prisoners are marched out of Dien Bien Phu.
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(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5691/thousandyardstare.jpg)
Helmand, Afghanistan
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(http://media.riemurasia.net/albumit/mmedia/ck/5e/l817/44694/712990214.jpg)
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What do you call that?
Theres a psychological word for it.
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5691/thousandyardstare.jpg)
Helmand, Afghanistan
He kinda looks the same :o
(http://images.publicradio.org/content/2010/02/07/20100207_ww2_soldier_33.jpg)
American Soldier after intense battle.
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(http://cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/204/8-10/dien_bien_phu.jpg)
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^^ Piccy wont show Bouras.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/dg19.jpg)
2 Greeks and one Turkish soldier doing whatever they're doing at Doğanbey, Turkey during Operation Destined Glory.
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Talking about bombs :
(http://www.geetha.mil.gr/media/anakoinoseis/2008anakoinoseis/sarisa/big/4.jpg)
Hellenic Armed Forces "Sarisa 08" Exercise
You dare me....You dont want to dare me...Trust me...
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Let's keep up with current affairs for a moment, David Beckham visiting the troops in Afganistan.
(http://static0.hln.be/static/FOTO/pe/8/15/9/album_large_3705369.jpg)
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Estonia/c3d912df.jpg)
Estonian Army Sniper
And YES thats a advanced awesome and very beautiful looking M14.
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(http://www.vietnamwar-guns.com/shop/images/tmm14_1_jpg_0509_260.jpg)
Origenal> Beefed up plastic modern one's
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Post pictures of weapons in use Theta0123, here's one with an M14.
(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/1495/sealsgloriettabayjul83.jpg)
SEALs, Glorietta Bay, July 1983
I love the M14, its my favorite rifle, but I like the Estonian version also.
It still is pretty and clearly an M14, did you seen the US one? its butt ugly.
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(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3581/bradleyke1.jpg)
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(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Troops/m82a1m2tw.jpg)
m82a1 of the Greek Army. I love that beast!
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(http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3687/korea32.jpg)
Members of the Turkish Brigade move into position in December, 1950, shortly after suffering severe casualties attempting to block encirclement of the U.S. 2nd Division at the Chongchon river in North Korea.
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(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13815/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13815~Med%20stridsvagn%20122%20som%20underst%C3%B6d%20i%20t%C3%A4ten%20gick%20den%20mekaniserade%20bataljonen%20fr%C3%A5n%20Skaraborgs%20regemente%20in%20i%20Ystads%20hamn%20under%20natten%20mot%20s%C3%B6ndag.)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/T-37_Serbia.jpg)
Republika Srpska T-34 tank abandoned in Bosnia, 1996.
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*Republika Srpska ;D
Not a big mistake but still a person who lives in a bordering country (like me) would know that ::)
Anyway look at this monsta!
Tupolev Tu-160 bomber.
It could excede mach 1 with its swept wings
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/imgs/tupolev-tu160-blackjack.jpg)
Note that his wings are adjustable :D
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Bouras which Greek unit wears the green beret?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Cakeness.jpg)
Thats right biatch.
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Kill me? What are you gonna do? Send 300 naked angry screaming Spartans? And no I dont really :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/2399_9883_25022008_3.jpg)
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At last i've found a pic exactly what i was looking for !
(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4585/leo2a6helfiring.jpg)
Leopard A2A6 Hell Firing <3
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The Leopard 2 Hel is a derivative of the 2A6, ordered by the Greek Army in 2003. The "Hel" stands for "Hellenic". The 170 tanks are to be delivered between 2006 and 2009. A total of 140 will be built in Greece by ELBO, which delivered the first units in late 2006.Includes the addition of the Rheinmetall 120 mm L55 smoothbore gun and a number of other changes
(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/jnleo2elvo16vk.jpg)
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More hardcore pics coming tomorow
(http://static2.hln.be/static/FOTO/pe/18/12/13/album_large_3706063.jpg)
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(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7561/korea22.jpg)
A marine tank supports South Korean soldiers guarding North Korean prisoners captured in the assault on Seoul, September, 1950. (U.S. Marine Corps photo.)
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/MiG-15_Over_Korea.jpg)
Soviet MiG-15 being shot down over Korea, April 1953.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Homercake.jpg)
C-C-C-C-C-Cyprus.
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Cry me a river Bouras, Greco's burn the Turkish flag on a daily basis and I dont give 2 shits. You guys couldnt afford WW3 anyway
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/1920196320SAMPSONOrmophita.jpg)
Your little 'comrades' 15 mins of fame.
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Dutch people wipe their arse with belgian flag
Us belgians would use their flag as a towel to dry a dog
Yet we still love eachother in the end<3
Belgie en nederland, ne schone relatie <3
(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Belgian%20Army/0f1885c5.jpg)
Belgian troops inspect idunnomortar in afghanistan
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That seems ridiculous. Like the yanks who pledge their allegiance directly to their flag. It's just retarded. Symbolism is creative and all but don't start mixing up real things with their symbols.
The end of the line on the Western Front, Belgian coast near Nieuwpoort.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/WW1_Western_Front_at_Nieuport.jpg)
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McDonnell Douglas EF-4C Phantom II Wild Weasels.
(http://67tfs.org/f-4c433-675.jpg)
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You mean keep the Boche and the Frogs out.
And yes, there was. The Swiss built a series of watchtowers and fortifications to make sure they weren't used as a detour like the Belgians were.
(http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/graphics/gws_gertrenchswiss_01.jpg)
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The endless battle between MaJ.P.Bouras > and Tolga is kind of screwing up the threat, come one boys less patriotism. I'm fatherland beloved as well, but I don't have to defend my country constantly against my neighbor.
For now... Women:
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/3033/lcplmurraylcplgarraway.jpg)
Lance Corporals Murray and Garraway with female US Marines at Camp Leatherneck [Picture: Crown Copyright/MOD 2010] www.mod.uk
Bonus:
German personnel carrier "Boxer" being tested in Australia:
(http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9556/gtkgmw19.jpg)
(http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/9939/boxerinfahrt6.jpg)
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Nah Greeks and turks dont look alike(most of the times).Im short yes but i have blond(ish) hair and blue eyes myself .And its not an endless battle is showing some love ;D .
Anyways if you don't like it i stop responding here.
Sioux Plains Indians
(http://www.old-picture.com/indians/pictures/Plains-Indians.jpg)
A photograph of Plains Dakota Sioux Indians. It was made in 1905 by Edward S. Curtis.
The photo illustrates Three Sioux Indians of horseback on plains with rock formation in the background.
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Afganistan, 1980. Russian pilot standing next to the SU-25 he just landed.
(http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5727/su25.jpg)
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hehe Paasky.
Stil...amazing the thing still flew. Not all SU-25's are as tough as that though :
Iraqi SU-25 destroyed during operation Desert Storm
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2f/Su-25IRAQ.jpg/800px-Su-25IRAQ.jpg)
Not sure what the pinkish stuff is on the lower right. Could be an unlucky goat or the pilot :-X
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Good stuff @F-15. I guess the A4 pilot didn't make it though?
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/374/korea23.jpg)
U.S. 7th Division infantry wait as an army M4A3 Sherman tank clears a gap in a barricade during the street-by-street North Korean defense of Seoul in September, 1950.
I really hope the Korean War mod for BF2 sees the light of day.
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http://www.whoisthemonkey.com/videos/31f15-flying-with-1-wing
This thing amazes me! Now thats strong structure
You'll be amazed what an A10 can withstand. Since it's a lowflying, slow, ground attack airplane it is likely to get hit by smallarms. So they made sure in their design that it can still fly home with (parts of) the wing missing, only one of two engines, one of two tails, landing gear damaged and hydraulic systems damaged.
(http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/survivability/a10.jpg)
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2 pics from a Naval/Air/Land exercise today, Efes 2010...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/77e92bbebc7eb5249da8338a494b9d79_k.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/2619f89cc2e226ce282e2e84c44a8e17_k.jpg)
EDIT: Found a video of the operation during the night too
http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/category.aspx?cid=2&vid=6796&bid=1
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If thats true then you're close enough to call my countries Police :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Cakepoauaha.jpg)
Boom, bitch :D
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a SU-25 shows its teeth=S-5 rockets of wich it can hold 192 in rocket pods containing 32 each.
The russian airforce has long switched however, to the S-8 rocket, wich is larger but much more powerfull
(http://www.allworldwars.com/image/019/zchinvali041.jpg)
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(http://s45.radikal.ru/i109/0809/48/ffd44ad3ecaf.jpg)
su-25 in georgia , those things REALLY withstand damage Oo
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to little Norwegian forces in this thread!
Awsome pic!:
(http://images.bt.no/btno/multimedia/archive/00607/Marinejegere_F-Br___607187a.jpg)
Try speeding here:
(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p310/Blurghh/tk2881.jpg)
Surprise buttsex!:
(http://airsoftnorge.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10011/normal_pic_2.jpg)
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Dougla EA-1F Skyraider.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/EA-1F_VAW-13_1966.jpg)
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(http://www.midwaysailor.com/midwayva25bomb/va25specbomb-001b.jpg)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/WWI_Poster_Rumania.jpg)
It's not healthy that I find propaganda so cool.
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(http://www.bf-games.net/forum/uploads/1266558736/gallery_28554_184_29282.jpg)
The prototype of the A7V is demonstrated to the OHL (Kaiser Wilhelm II) 19.05.1917 Mainz
The structure is from wood and the chassis is burdening with 10t
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@ CPS: I've seen that one before...I always lol at the idea of the allies in WW1 fighting for "freedom and justice" ::)
And of course, Romania got its ass handed to it. :P
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/General_Toshev_and_Hilmi_Pasha.JPG)
General Toshev and Hilmi Paşa observing the fighting around Medgidia
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"Humanitarian help from the Hellenic Composite Battalion in Afghanistan to Kabul's Deaf-Mute School"
(http://www.centcom.mil/images/stories/090723greece.jpg)
Humanitarian help from the Hellenic Composite Battalion in Afghanistan (ΤΕΣΑΦ) toKabul’s deaf-mute school started in March 2009. 250 children are attending the school, which is
located in the center of Kabul. On a weekly basis (every Saturday) a number of approximately 10 students, some representatives and some professors are hosted by the Battalion.
During the visits lunch is provided to the Afghan kids and their chaperons who have the opportunity to enjoy video projects about geographic, historical and civilization information with the Battalion personnel. Afghan kids have fun with the ΤΕΣΑΦ’s entertainment means playing soccer, ping-pong, board games etc.
School gifts are presented to the kids and commemorative presents to their teachers. On May 19th 2009, Greek Battalion’s Commander and some officers visited the aforementioned school where they donated 21 marker boards, soccer balls and they provided food goods for the coverage of school needs.
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^^ I remember something like that last year :O
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/gaycake.jpg)
Turkish special forces volunteer Yusuf Ziya Arpacık during the Nagorno-Karabakh war... He also did some 'things' in the East against the PKK before and after Nagorno-Karabakh war..
EDIT: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL us after 10+ hours of watch :)
http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/?action=view¤t=lololololmiggy.flv
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I have no fucking clue what he was saying but that video was funny enough to transcend any language barrier. ;D
Half a day of watch, and you wouldnt understand it if we said it in english either :D
Basic translation is
IM TIRED, IM NOT A FUCKIN ANIMAL, MY MUM AND DAD ARENT A FUCKIN COW, FUCK THIS, IM TIRED! And then the laying down :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/CAKENESS.jpg)
EDIT: Also a pic from joint Turkish-German Naval exercise west of Crete
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Ships/12023.jpg
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Not sure if I posted it before, but oh well. The one in the foreground is the carrier "Harry Truman" and the one in the distance is the "Theodore Roosevelt". Note the fella standing on the Truman.
(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/862/trumanroosevelt.jpg)
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I'd like to see a carrier and this one next to each other. And what would it be called if you mix these? :D
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Oasis_of_the_Seas%2C_October_30_2009.jpg)
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(http://www.navy.ru/science/images/nk1144peter.jpg)
Russian Kirov class missile cruiser steams on
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(http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6250/madsenbn5.jpg)
The text says "Machine gun of the Russian cavalry".
The photo is scanned from an old book I got from my grandmother. It´s part of a series and contains articles of German WW1 press articles. The books are full of propaganda, but also contain tons of images and articles and are called "Illustrated history of the World War". I´m not sure when the books were printed, but they´re pretty old.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeDoggie.jpg)
N Iraq
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So exactly what type of machine gun is that "Russian cavalry machine gun"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_machine_gun
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Norwegian_soldiers_with_Krag-J%C3%B8rgensen_rifle_and_Madsen_LMG.jpg)
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(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/7307/akfmaklfdw9.jpg)
A German Wiesel "weapon carrier" armed with a TOW wire-guided anti-tank rocket in Afghanistan, I think in 2006. They were withdrawn but there are plans to send them back to Afghanistan because the TOWs are pretty succesful in penetrating the thick mud walls of local compounds where OMF usually hide behind. In the last two years the situation in German-controlled Northern Afghanistan, especially Kunduz area has slowly escalated and transformed the area into a fighting zone. Soldiers and politicians call for long for more heavier weapons in order to stand a chance against OMF, especially since the Bundeswehr has led and will lead numerous offensive operations in order to drive the OMF away and establish FOBs in the disputed areas.
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(http://www.enemyforces.net/tanks/scorpion_2.jpg)
British FV101 Scorpions. I always loved the CVR family. The scorpion, the scimitar, the Spartan...
We belgians had many Scorpions and Scimitars. And all where in very good state and one of our most used vehicle's in foreign operations, but our ex-minister of defense De crem (Crembo) phased out ALL Tracked vehicle's...
With result is that we our largest firepower atm is 12.7MM and 90MM guns..
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(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3923/par10kr4.jpg)
I NEED TO GET TO WORK DAMNIT! GREEN THIS LIGHT!
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Another crashlanded SU-25. Strong planes indeed. Looks like it was hit by a heat seeking AA missle (Stinger??) in Afghanistan, 1980.
(http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3517/su252.jpg)
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(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/3923/par10kr4.jpg)
I NEED TO GET TO WORK DAMNIT! GREEN THIS LIGHT!
I wanna know where this guy works :|
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/Sexaycobra.jpg)
Cobra
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Sorry for posting another pic so early, but I just have to post it.
Hell yeah, finally the first Panzerhaubitze 2000 has arrived in Kunduz Camp. Hopefully they will be used in offensive ops and will fire HE shells and not just smoke rounds to finally give our lads precise and hard-hitting firepower!
(http://www.euronews.net/wires/ddp/images/I137002381530497_BLD_Online.jpg)
Sexy beast!
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A7 Corsair
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hahaha i was reading the Norwegian army field manual and it descripted how you could use your AG-3 for AA use agains strafing jets. i rofled so hard ;D
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AG-3 F2 version (with railzzzz and aimpointzz)
(http://k53.pbase.com/g4/76/574376/2/65267120.OX7TKnll.jpg)
i have been shooting this baby all weekend now ;D ;D ;D ;D
and i also got to shoot the new HK416 that the Norwegian forces are using:
(http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/606/606562/6065621/jpg/active/960x.jpg)
(yes that is the standard issue version)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
i also have been shooting the Glock 17 or P-80 as its called in norway :P
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(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=124095&d=1275327202)
Dutch Leopard 2 tanks.
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You need to clean those tanks up ;D . I like the black and white effect though!
(http://greekmilitary.net/webzoom.freewebs.com/gfile/leopard1A5%20tank%20guards%20greek%20Military%20hovercraft.jpg)
Leopard 1 A5
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First Croatian made MBT!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3610/3745290936_049bb4039e_o.jpg)
M-95 Degman MBT
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The MAG is more forgivable on that. But it has a lowwer ROF. And 200 grammes of more weight
(http://upload.milpedia.org/wiki/nl/thumb/5/5b/MAG_01_UK.jpg/300px-MAG_01_UK.jpg)
British forces on excercise with the L7 GPMG(FN MAG) Now you can see how much this man has to carry.
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Nice pic Bouras, you guys still using Leo 1?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/2mm9ukn.jpg)
Turkish Leopard 1T
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MG3 eats too many rounds. PKM's generally more lightweight and has a very good/smooth rate of fire. Dunno about the MAG though.
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MAG is easy ;D
Anyway's this time no operational photo from me,
Fresh out of the box!!:
(http://94.100.114.16/955150001-955200000/955156001-955156100/955156038_6_eP3o.jpeg)
And yes, the sand colored parts will be standard :o
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Basically an updated M-84, itself a license built T-72.
M-84 was Yugoslavian :P
But they were/are built in the same factory, so it's still an updated M-84, doesn't matter what the country was called when they were made.
Slovakian AF Mil Mi-8PPA 'Hip-K'
(http://flanker-aviation.com/up/mi8ppa_slovakaf_7520_1.jpg)
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I don't know about you, but the Mi-8 and its derivatives have allways had a certain charm about them for me.
(http://www.guncopter.com/images/mi-8-landings.jpg)
Multiple Egyptian MI-8 Hip F assault helicopters.
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There is only one helicopter i love in the whole world.
(http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~junap95/helicopters/images/mi24/hind_d.jpg)
And that is the Hind E (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-24)
Maybe because the first game i ever played was Metal Gear Solid on play station 1...
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And the hind story doesnt end
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/7/9/1268979.jpg)
Export MI-35 Hind E
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yeah really liked that movie
and just for kicks stinger to take down the evil gunships
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_abaJ0xbRju4/R95gJdurf2I/AAAAAAAAAJg/t4g3KW7yuOQ/s320/handheld-stinger-missile.jpg)
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(http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/military/rotorcraft/ch47d/images/US-Army-Chinook-2.jpg)
(http://www.skycontrol.net/UserFiles/Image/Helicopters_img/200807/200807-agustawestland-ch47f-chinook-boeing-farnborough-1.jpg)
CH-47F Chinooks <3
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^^ Rawr.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Otokar.jpg)
Otokar Cobra...
EDIT:
Supercobra's firing on PKK position in Tunceli
http://webtv.hurriyet.com.tr/category.aspx?cid=2&vid=6974&bid=1&hid=14906608
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East German army magazine, featuring a cute radio operator.
(http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/2697/post1010658908333zmpo2.jpg)
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HH-47 Chinooks
(http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/HH-47_Chinook_helicopter_Poster_Small.jpg)
(http://www.combatreform.org/HH47usafgray.jpg)
the latest of the combat version
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Mouahahcake.jpg)
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never liked those blackhawks
A skycrane in vietnam shows its lifting capability=2 Full UH-1 Hueys!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Sikorsky_Skycrane_carrying_2_Hueys_c.jpg)
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(http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=124125&d=1275341144)
Dutch CV90 ;D
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Since i havent posted in two days i will post two pics :D
(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/IMG_0665.jpg)
Greek troops exiting a Leonidas APC
The Leonidas APC is based on the Steyer Daimler Puch model 4K7FA, and was built domestically by Steyer Ellas (now ELVO) starting in 1982. Additional units were also sold to the National Guard of Cyprus.
(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/Greek%20army%20AT.jpg)
Milan Anti Tank in action
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They stopped using the skycranes didn't they?
US forces are indeed using CH47´s and MH/CH53´s for heavy lifting nowadays. Blackhawks do the normal lifting.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/UH-60_and_CH-53E.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/MH-53J_Pave_Low_III.jpg)
Really kick-ass helicopters. :D
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CV90!! ;D ;D<3<3<3<3
best apc ever!:D
IFV*
And speaking about the CV90;
CV9040C in Afghanistan.
(http://pici.se/pictures/medium/XkspwcoSS.jpg)
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A SU-24 shows off its armament.
(http://www.red-stars.org/IMG/jpg/Su-24_armement.jpg)
Impressive Soviet beast!
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Helicopters/DSCI0127.jpg)
Mountain and Commando Brigade HQ.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Bosnia_mig29.jpg)
A U.S. Army documentation team surveys the wreckage of a Former Republic of Yugoslavia MiG-29 outside the town of Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on March 27, 1999. The aircraft is one of two shot down by NATO forces during Operation Allied Force, the air operation against targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Inbetween the 2 engines, what is that thing that looks like a parachute is coming out of it? Hyperdrive?
Or it could be a parachute, to reduce the speed as it's landing...
as seen here:
(http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac324/Oddball_8/mig29_landing.jpg)
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That could be the Mig-29 shot down by a Dutch F-16. It was the first kill of the Operation Allied Force, And the first "Air to air" kill since World war 2 by a Dutch pilot.
It got destroyed by an AMRAAM head-on missile intercept took place 18km from the lead F-16.
http://www.f-16.net/news_article607.html
And as a Cooky: 2 dutch Demo F-16's
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3409223867_0b0230efec.jpg)
(http://www.the306sqn.com/sitebuilder/images/Naamloos-1-551x390.jpg)
For the Dutch/Belgium/German plane lovers; Dutch Airforcedays 18 en 19 june, Gilze rijen AFB.
http://www.defensie.nl/luchtmacht/luchtmachtdagen/
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(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/Kentavros.jpg)
ELBO Kentaurus
Kentaurus is an Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle (AIFV) designed and developed by the Greek vehicle builder ELBO. Its history is connected with the need for an advanced AIFV by the Greek Armed Forces.
After aborted efforts including Leonidas-2 variants and other attempted improvements and joint developments, ELBO worked entirely on its own, on a new design according to the specifications given at the time by the Greek Army. The resulting AIFV developed by the Greek company, named 'Kentaurus' was officially introduced in the Defendory Arms Exhibition in Athens in 1998, and at that time was one of the most advanced AIFV's in the world. It features a 420hp MTU Diesel engine, 30 mm EBO cannon and 7.62 mm machine-gun (built on Mauser and Rheinmetall designs), Pyrkal smoke-grenade launchers, Toxotis computerized fire control system and KUKA turret. The crew is 3+8, maximum speed (street) is 75 Km/h and maximum weight is 19.8 tons. However, despite successful intensive tests by the Greek army, its approval, and an initial agreement in 2003 for an order of 140 vehicles, its fate is to this date uncertain due to subsequent cutbacks in relevant military spending, and evaluation of cheaper alternatives.
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As far as I know the first Mig-29 in that conflict was taken out by a Dutch F-16, and the Pilot got killed.
If i'm not mistaking it was a Female Pilot also. Anyways doesn't mater.
Anyways A shot from Afghanistan:
(http://94.100.118.171/958950001-959000000/958996501-958996600/958996589_6_5s_H.jpeg)
Dutch SLA at the shooting range.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/vehiculo012.jpg)
Afghanistan
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Cry me a river Bouras, Greco's burn the Turkish flag on a daily basis and I dont give 2 shits. You guys couldnt afford WW3 anyway
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/1920196320SAMPSONOrmophita.jpg)
Your little 'comrades' 15 mins of fame.
When is that and why this guy is smiling, and wtf is that a No1?!
(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3232/a39tx.jpg)
Argentine Huey shot down during Falklands War. Sad.
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(http://www.e-grammes.gr/photos/greece/desert.jpg)
thanks
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When is that and why this guy is smiling, and wtf is that a No1?!
Cyprus, and dont ask why he's smiling lol
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/omgstfuwat.png)
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(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/greek%20M-113A3%20APC.jpg)M113s A3 of the Hellenic Armed Forces
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^^ Replace those, ASAP. :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Trololol-1.jpg)
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(http://img15.nnm.ru/2/e/e/a/b/d4e89bd8a3c607f1fc52b1c6a61.jpg)
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http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/519/Jurmo-4.jpg
Finnish Jurmo-class landing craft.
c-c-c-c-combo
(http://www.forsvarsmakten.se/ImageVault/Images/id_13961/scope_0/ImageVaultHandler.aspx?~13961~En%20finsk%20stridsb%C3%A5t%20av%20Jurmoklass,%20brevid%20en%20stridsb%C3%A5t%2090%20H.)
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T-t-t-t-t-t-t TRIPPPPPLE!!!!!
(http://gfx.dagbladet.no/pub/artikkel/4/43/433/433377/Stridsbaat.jpg)
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Mussolini, 1917.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Benito_Mussolini_1917.jpg)
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Thee HK417 is designed more for use as a "designated marksman" rifle than an assault rifle, with its increased cost, accuracy, penetrative power and effective range weighed against decreased rate of fire and magazine capacity (although fully automatic fire is selectable).
But on the H&K site its being named an assault rifles.
I have seen Dutch SF also use it in an Assault rifle form.
I wanted to show you guys This:
A British Harrier Crash Landed at KAF:
(http://i45.tinypic.com/2njv82d.jpg)
And here the footage of the Crashlanding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB5CXlEALJ0&feature=player_embedded#!
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It could be him trying to land a light support aircraft with bombs on the racks.
Probably had to come in too fast because of the extra load
Probably landed too hard, snapping the flimsy gear.
Probably that ^^
Warning GRAPHIC, 'biatch'!
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0029.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0028.jpg)
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(http://pontosandaristera.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/asarticlerecords-1040_armenians3.jpg)
No thats the way....Pontus massacred by the Turks.
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Ooh, are we posting dead guys now? ok then.
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1803/1272628886791.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/LALALLALALA.jpg)
Turkish Blue Berets practice comraderie after a long day of work
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Barbarians.
Dont flatter yourself.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Tunceli.jpg)
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I'm gonna make my Point here,
Tolga I suport you in your opinion.
If that guy was shooting at you hours before, trying to kill you.
You don't mind about the respect you have for the person.
Especially when you know how they threat others. For example:
!!!! WARNING graphic image !!!!
(http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/262/8sep06kakrak018.jpg)
This kit was hang by the Taliban then shot, after that they put an IED in his body.
He helped Dutch forces building a school witch he afterwards attended.
They put him there to scare us, find him take him down the tree and hope we would not noticed the damn IED on him.
If you have been in a wartime situation, you gonna look a whole lot different to dead body's.
I understand the posing thing is maybe a bit overdone. But I also have tons of photos we took for reports.
Happy the Taliban take the dead with them most of the time, so we don't have too clean up the mess like Tolga have to. And sorry that I say so..
but a person/relative that died of cancer cant be compared to a person who died trying to take your live.
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(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Troops/dyk2es2.jpg)
Greek M4s with M203
Dang it i just looked at the main gun and forgot about the butt stock .
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Why make such a huge thing out of two pictures? Shit happens, get over it and post some pics..
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0138.jpg)
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(http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/548/mg4123.jpg)
Dutch KCT
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(http://img455.imageshack.us/img455/5642/mr210066wd.jpg)
F-16 Block52+
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HFDkzuFx0qg/SX35V4UcqWI/AAAAAAAAAMI/0MPT_9s5DQo/s1600/2635672697_aa69434e24_o.jpg)
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wtf... ak mag on a ag3 ;D
we only use the standard 20 round mag ::)
Its not an AK mag and its not an AG3, its not a G3 eitehr xD Its an HK33
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0113.jpg)
Now THAT is a G3 :)
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If you guess which rifle is this, you'll get 2 boxes of e-cookies ;D
(http://www.fyjs.cn/bbs/attachments/Mon_0903/26_102825_2a18ada0f7f08ec.jpg)
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VHS? I would've said FAMAS but I think France is the only European country to use em.
Another pic
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0141.jpg)
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Then how bout G36
(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Troops/fa6od7.jpg)
That is sexier imo
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Confiscated weapons, Afghanistan, 1980
(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/1917/90064852.jpg)
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Today I post 3 pictures. Why? Because I can.
(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Royal%20Marines/4d06e0cc.jpg)
(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/Royal%20Marines/81866fd8.jpg)
British Corporal Tony Galacki (R), of 40 Commando Royal Marines, carries the newly issued 'Sharpshooter rifle' next to Marine Ross Williamson in Afghanistan’s Helmand Provine June 6, 2010. The first new infantry combat rifle introduced to British forces in 20 years, the semi-automatic Sharpshooter fires a larger and longer range 7.62 mm round than the standard weapon. The Ministry of Defence ordered 400 of the rifles from US firm Lewis Machine and Tool as an urgent requirement, in response to longer range small arms battles in Afghanistan. Picture taken June 6, 2010.
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48019000/jpg/_48019815_sharpshooter_rifle_466.jpg)
Royal Marines in Afghanistan have begun using a new long-range rifle in their fight against the Taliban.
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Then how bout G36
G36, G3... Doesnt matter for me, all I know is the Germans are the gods of small arms, tanks and howitzers...
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Cakecakecake-2.jpg)
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(http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/south_america/peru/exhibition/sitdef_2009/pictures/F2000_combat_assault_rifle_FN_Herstal_Belgium_Belgian_SITDEF_2009_Defence_Exhibition_Peru_Lima_003.jpg)
That weapon is the weapon i love the most.If it was a woman id hit it . FN F2000 . 2009 Defence Exhibition Peru Lima.
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeDoggie.jpg)
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More pics, less text guys.
Gulf War 2: Bad driving
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/6690/destroyediraqit55mv4.jpg)
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(http://www.militarize.org/waffen/main_battle_tank/t-64/t-64a.jpg)
Soviet propaganda photo showing T-64's and Mi-24 hinds
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(http://www.traininglabint.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Greek-Military-full-camo-Trooper.jpg)
FN FAL Greece: Adopted the FAL and FALO under license by the Pyrkal factories before using Hellenic Arms Industry-made G3A3s. This move was due to lack of support by the Greek government on Pyrkal. It was in use with the Greek special forces and the IV Army Corps in the Evros region from 1973 to 1999. The FAL was replaced in 2000.
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(http://i46.tinypic.com/whecg7.jpg)
Royal Marines from 40 Commando undertake a patrol in Afghanistan's Helmand province on the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/POuahahahaha.jpg)
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(http://www.i-f-s.nl/pres/EE/6681.JPG)
F-104G I think.I have been at this exhibition its only a bit away from my house here in Athens and i have been inside every single vehicle (including this plane).This is my heaven! It includes a helicopter,An AA tank,Some ex-MBT's,Some cannons and this plane.God how much i love that place.
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(http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt104/vor033/USMC%20-%202/b52f2444.jpg)
US marines commanding officer, Captain Stephan Karabin with 1/3 marines Charlie Company (foreground-L) briefs British army Major Tom Giffard with A Squadron, Household Cavalry Regiment (foreground-R) in front of a Danish Leopard tank as they clear Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)s from a main route with US army soldiers from Thorn Task Force in Trikh Nawar on the North Eastern outskirts of Marjah, 2010.
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(http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1052/47203525.jpg)
Helikopterski's of mighty Russian Airforce! da!
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@tolga gangsta's only if they where using drugs the picture was complete
Cuz thats how we roll.
Bouras, F-104's were known as uçan tabutlar or flying coffins in Turkish Air Force service, poor safety record ftw
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/1_t2_1.jpg)
TuAF F-16's and tanker flying over Canada during the maple flag exercise a month ago... (Not really, were invading Canada) :)
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Germany, italy and other countries also had bad safety records with their Starfighters
Our Starfighters where locally built by SABCA and many other companies. We had a relativly low accident number with the F104
(http://asiadefence.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/air_su-33_landing_and_parked-folded_lg.jpg)
SU-33's on the Admiral Kuznetsov of the russian navy
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Bouras, F-104's were known as uçan tabutlar or flying coffins in Turkish Air Force service, poor safety record ftw\
The F-104 gets my vote for "crappiest jet fighter America has ever produced."
I would vote for the Yak-38. All the maneuverability problems of the F-104 (which was at lest fast) plus stupidly short range (something like 20 minutes IIRC).
(http://www.acig.org/artman/uploads/yak-38_forgers_on_deck____3.jpg)
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They had a range of 1300KM
the Yak's true problem was the limited payload. It couldnt carry only 1000KG max, but in hot conditions this was barely or never achieved.
All of its problems where solved with the Yak-141. But it never enterd production due to end of cold war + not really a need for VTOL aircraft. SU-27,33 and MIG 29 and others where showing excellent performance onboard russian aircraft carriers.
Either 1300KM range for yak 38 and no payload, or only 400KM with barely any payload
(http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/yak141a.jpg)
Graphic of the underside during VTOL stage
(http://www.rcthai.net/webboard/download/file.php?id=1129118)
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@ Tolga
(http://www.freewebs.com/gfile/341-08b.jpg)
Two can play this game ;D
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I never rooted for Yak in general anywho :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/isaf2.jpg)
Afghanistan, ive always hated the fact that they gave old woodland to our troops there, but gave them vests with the new camo pattern, its like w0tf guys how bout our uniforns match our vests?
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In line with the carrier mishaps in the other thread, here's a crash of an F9F Panther on the USS Midway in 1951.
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/F9F-OnEdge.jpg)
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/F9F-FireBall.jpg)
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/F9F-Recovery.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJh1N6vsBqg
The pilot suffered some burns on his ears but no other injuries: link (http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/F9F-Duncan.htm)
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This thread needs more quality pics.
Just imagine how miserable this must have been:
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam021sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
Paratroopers of the U.S. 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Viet Cong positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, South Vietnam, Sept. 25,1965. The paratroopers had been searching the area for 12 days with no enemy contact. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
Many more here: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/30/captured-a-look-back-at-the-Vietnam-war-on-the-35th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-Saigon-2/ (will be posting the best in the next few days)
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(http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/2183/image2028eu2.jpg)
ISAF Afghanistan Hellenic Army
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam027sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, 1966 during the Vietnam War. (AP Photo)
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(http://www.militaryaircraft.de/pictures/military/aircraft/Super-Etendard/Super-Etendard_RIAT2007_0830_800.jpg)
A french Super Etendard comes in for a landing.
Beautifull planes
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/nbet-1.jpg)
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German anti-aircraft gun
(http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/albums/uploads/aviation/21628v.jpg)
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Hellenic Army Smyrna 1919
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Greek_army_Smyrne_1919.jpg)
Scene From the Marching of the Hellenic 1st Division on the docks of Smyrna, 07.50 , 2 May 1919
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That what you call Izmir? Smyrna? No wonder we took it back, thats a terrible name xD
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/UT0135381.jpg)
North Iraq... US soldiers in the background ^^
Also found this
http://www.haberantalya.com/video.asp?videoID=586
Training Afghan Army, the guys cant keep rhythm on march and sometimes turn to the wrong side :)
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam033sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
Water-filled bomb craters from B-52 strikes against the Viet Cong mark the rice paddies and orchards west of Saigon, Vietnam, 1966. Most of the area had been abandoned by the peasants who used to farm on the land. (AP Photo/Henri Huet)
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Looks like the B-52s hit valuable targets. ^^
(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2203/afghannationalarmy8smal.jpg)
Soldiers with Afghan National Army train firing the SPG-9 Russian Recoilless Rifle at the Kabul Military Training Center June 16. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Markus M. Maier)
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More recoilles rifles
(http://www.soldf.com/images/s_pvpj1110_1.jpg)
Swedish PVPJ1110 90MM recoilles rifle
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I am very sure that is a French kepi and French leggings. I believe Austro-Hungarian officers would be wearing some sort of jackboot.
This is an Austro-Hungarian soldier. Note the different style of hat. (He is junior enlisted, non NCO, but it illustrates the different type of hat that issued by Austria-Hungary.)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/2654134963_61696a7082.jpg)
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More recoilles rifles
(http://www.soldf.com/images/s_pvpj1110_1.jpg)
Swedish PVPJ1110 90MM recoilles rifle
They made it even more awsome by mounting in on a Volvo:
(http://www.mv-museum.de/vehics/jeep/images/volvo_pic.jpg)
It is called Pvpjtgb 9031 which is an acronym for PansarVärnsPJäsTerränGBil 9031 (freely translated to Off-road anti-tank car 9031).
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Also, the boots are just normal low boots, and the leather gaiters were common for officers as private purchase right into WW2 for many countries. The kepi is dead on austrian officer as well.
(http://home.earthlink.net/~josephsullivan1/images/IMperial%20Austrian%20cavalryman%20on%20arabian%20in%20snow.jpg)
Note the coat, similar style to the other guy's.
And here's some reserve officer's fooling around. Note the kepis:
(http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/kukdance.jpg)
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Can anyone identify this gun? I'm just curious how old it is and whether it is eastern or western made. I took the screenshot from a coverage about somalia. Seems to be the best the so called government troops got over there. So, does anyone know what ancient thing we got here?
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1489/somaliaat.jpg)
CP: 15:31 (http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1069243.html)
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(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/996/eldafqo4.jpg)
Tolga i heard twelve Turkish soldiers died and same amount of kurd rebels ? Now the PKK even threats for attacks at all major cities in Turkey.
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Can anyone identify this gun? I'm just curious how old it is and whether it is eastern or western made. I took the screenshot from a coverage about somalia. Seems to be the best the so called government troops got over there. So, does anyone know what ancient thing we got here?
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1489/somaliaat.jpg)
CP: 15:31 (http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1069243.html)
It looks like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-10_recoilless_rifle) one; Russian made B-10 82mm recoilless rifle (1954).
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/B-10-82mm-recoilles-rifle-batey-haosef-1-1.jpg/296px-B-10-82mm-recoilles-rifle-batey-haosef-1-1.jpg)
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam043sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
A U.S. Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter comes down in flames after being hit by enemy ground fire during Operation Hastings, just south of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam, July 15, 1966. The helicopter crashed and exploded on a hill, killing one crewman and 12 Marines. Three crewman escaped with serious burns. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
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Peacekeeping in Afghanistan
(http://zastita.info/files/img/2009/8/18/HV_afganistan.JPG)
Haven't posted pics in a long time...
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Tolga i heard twelve Turkish soldiers died and same amount of kurd rebels ? Now the PKK even threats for attacks at all major cities in Turkey.
Thats right, 2 nights ago 250 members of PKK snuck in and attacked a station of 40 soldiers.. 12 dead on our side 19 (or more) on their side, another Operation in N Iraq possible :P
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Jizzinmehpants.jpg)
Btw, alot of NATO and non NATO soldiers exchange weapons and fire them a little, its pretty common :) I also had a TSK soldier with an SA80 in Afghanistan
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Worked with some pretty bearded US, I'm tellin ya ;D!
Anyways everyone is allowed to grow beards with my units on deployment, but back home there are still strict rules. thats how it should. Its a good thing that army's change there rules to blend in more with the Culture of the country in witch they deploy.
In the first part of the war Taliban and locals used to call the SF personal, "Beard mans". Every normal personal still shaved every morning, which made the SF personal distinguished because of there wild look.
I think we all know this photo:
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y93/RyanWoods/military%20photos/SFsoldierAfghanistan.jpg)
BEARD B-B-B-B-B-BONNNNUSSSSS
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y55/Reppluton/SF/Special_Forces_soldier.jpg)
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ok, so here is a cool picture.
(http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/3775/1277032044815.jpg)
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Direct hit:
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam063sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
This general view shows a direct hit with North Vietnam 122 mm shell explosion in a U.S. ammunition bunker of 175 mm cannon emplacements at Gio Linh, next to demilitarization zone between north and south Vietnam, Sept. 1967, during the Vietnam War. (AP Photo)
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Anybody said beard? :D
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Bundesarchiv_Bild_134-C1743%2C_Alfred_von_Tirpitz.jpg/417px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_134-C1743%2C_Alfred_von_Tirpitz.jpg)
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SVD Dragunov...very nice. I see that the ol' dragon still kicks ass.I own a captured chinese made Dragunov one from the FARC, shoots beautifully.
You can never go wrong with that rifle :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/BIXI.jpg)
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And if you buy 10 rifles to fill up your Tolga's Turkish Gunshop loyalty card, The 11th rifle is 30% off AND you get a 24 pack of uludag gazoz
(http://img.youtube.com/vi/wUj9pzoXNGo/0.jpg)
BM-30 Smerch launching its rockets.
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Aftermath of a massacre where VietCong murdered 114 civilians...
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam069sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
General views of the destroyed montagnards of Dak son new life Hamlet, December 7, 1967 in Vietnam. Vietcong killed 114 of the villagers and wounded 47. (AP Photo)
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I, I Really dont know what the Fuck is this but, i entered "Civil War Niger" (The country, dont be a fool) and this came in...
(http://writingcompany.blogs.com/this_isnt_writing_its_typ/images/mend_rebels.jpg)
They Seem to be, "Mend Rebels", probably fighting against Nigerian Troops.
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(http://www.hellas.org/military/navy/images/fleet-2.jpg)
So another attack Tolga ? A bus from Constantinople ? Heard it again on the news...3 dead this time .
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Yes Bouras. A bus in Istanbul full of off duty NCO's was hit by an IED. 4 soldiers dead plus the 17 year old daughter of one NCO. Kurdish sources state 2000 soldiers and 50 tanks are in North Iraq though.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeAK74.jpg)
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(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/3255/e6edb34f95d648a49a701cb.jpg)
Kyrgyzstan
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Any of you tank lover seen this yet!
New Leopard 2 upgrade by Rheinmetall
(http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/2966/1001380yh.jpg)
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=127093&d=1277208670
And this, Possible the new Leopard 2a7, but there is something interesting about it!
Dutch people pay very good attention!
(http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9878/p6169128.jpg)
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Danger close airstrike, siege of Khe Sanh, 1968:
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam080sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
U.S. Air Force bombs create a curtain of flying shrapnel and debris barely 200 feet beyond the perimeter of South Vietnamese ranger positions defending Khe Sanh during the siege of the U.S. Marine base, March 1968. The photographer, a South Vietnamese officer, was badly injured when bombs fell even closer on a subsequent pass by U.S. planes. (AP Photo/ARVN, Maj. Nguyen Ngoc Hanh)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/KIraq.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Aim.jpg)
North Iraq
EDIIIIIIT:
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/parad_Tbilisi1.jpg
WHAT THE PHUCK did Georgia do to our beautiful Cobra's?
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^^ How many would they have to replace? 80? 90?
Camo of the Georgian Cobra's look something like
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/LEO2_3.jpg)
Wouldnt you agree, Bouras? xD
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First of all Macedonia is a part of Greece not an individual country...
Secondly FYRO"M"'s army is so tiny that they could not afford a frigging shell of a Leo2 let alone a MBT
That is a Greek Leo apparently repainted for parade or something (you can See its Greek from the Flag on the side.) Or a newly completed one..
(http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/9939870.jpg)
(http://altair.com.pl/files/news/2008/06/i-i08-06-003leo.jpg)
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam079sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
An American C-123 cargo plane burns after being hit by communist mortars while taxiing on the Marine post at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam on March 1, 1968. (AP Photo/Peter Arnett)
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LoL for a second i though it got hit by mortars while flying ;D
(http://www.haf.gr/media/F-4E_pa.jpg)
(R)F-4 E Phantom II / PI2000
This aircraft started it's long career in the air forces of numerous countries with the fighter designation F-110A in 1962. The Phantom has seen an extraordinary amount of improvements, all inspired by it's performance in the Vietnam conflict. The F-4 currently serves in the Hellenic Air Force as a multi-purpose fighter, as well as in reconnaissance roles (RF-4). A number of these aircraft have undergone major modifications (Peace Icarus 2000) by DASA of Germany, thus making them the most advanced Phantoms to ever fly.
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(http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2006-12/18/1872.jpg)
One of the coolest plane's my nations airforce ever had= The Mirage V
(http://www.amerikaantje.be/images/artikels/new_insignes/Mirage%20V%20Belgian%20Air%20Force.jpg)
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I believe their was also an account when a stuka coming in for an emergency landing, just behind enemy lines, a Artillery round exploded just underneath the plane, causing it to crash. Later on they found out that the only working artillery gun on that moment was a Soviet 122MM M1931/37
And here is the succesor to that model=
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/122h63ampuu.jpg)
Finnish 122MM D-30 soviet gun right after it fired
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This picture captures the moment the First Cavalry Division linked up with the Marines on the outskirts of Khe Sanh, lifting the siege of Khe Sanh.
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/vietnam087sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_5.jpg)
Pfc. Juan Fordona of Puerto Rico, a First Cavalry Division trooper, shakes hands with U.S. Marine Cpl. James Hellebuick over barbed wire at the perimeter of the Marine base at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, early April 1968. The meeting marked the first overland link-up between troops of the 1st Cavalry and the encircled Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. (AP Photo/Holloway)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/M108-105-mm-howitzer-vietnam.jpg)
M108 Self-proppeled artillery in vietnam after a firing mission. The US deployed many self-propelled artillery during the vietnam=
-M108 105MM howitzer
-M109 155MM Howitzer
-M107 175MM Field gun
-M110 203MM howitzer
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(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/61/zubronthemovefl7.jpg)
Zubr on the move;Hellas has 4 of those beasts
* ΠΤΜ Κεφαλληνία (L180)
* ΠΤΜ Ιθάκη (L181)
* ΠΤΜ Κέρκυρα (L182)
* ΠΤΜ Ζάκυνθος (L183)
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(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/61/zubronthemovefl7.jpg)
Zubr on the move;Hellas has 4 of those beasts
* ΠΤΜ Κεφαλληνία (L180)
* ΠΤΜ Ιθάκη (L181)
* ΠΤΜ Κέρκυρα (L182)
* ΠΤΜ Ζάκυνθος (L183)
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Zubr ftw!
Yeye ;D
(http://www.pivovary.info/prehled/prerov/l_zubr10.jpg)
Plus, on topic,
Allied soldiers take a breather before the next round of German bombardment
(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_01/soildersDM_1171x800.jpg)
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EDIT: SCREW THE MORTAR PIC
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/yen3ql0.jpg)
Polis Özel Harekat, keeping it classy since 1984!
+ Balancing G3. For those of you that have held a G3, you know how hard it is :)
http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/?action=view¤t=G3Tufek.mp4
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German paratroopers in Afghanistan. Must´ve been one of the pretty early contingents, because they still wear woodland pattern Flecktarn uniforms and the fella on the right wears the British "Bristol" body armour, still in DPM camo patter.
If you get the joke and think it´s funny btw, you have a very dirty mind, which is good! ^^
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8291/afg24.jpg)
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(http://johnfenzel.typepad.com/john_fenzels_blog/images/2007/05/28/darfur3.jpg)
Chad, War in Chad?
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ALL ATTENTION PAY! CAMOFLAGE WEAPON!
*dips AK-47 in mud
(http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/4623/cv90_120-T.JPG)
Swedish CV90 120T
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Pic from my basic training. We had a 3-day "EAKK"-training where we spent the time patrolling our operational area, looking for IEDs, UXOs, talking to "locals", guarding the checkpoint to our companies camp and patrolling the camp all with not much sleep and extremely hot temperatures. That was especially a pain in the you-know-where as we had to wear flak jackets when outside the camp...I drank so much but yet didn´t have to urinate because I sweated all the water our out. Atleast we slept in old ammo bunkers where it was pretty cool inside.
This scene shows the 3rd squad of my plattoon maning the checkpoint. We often had scenarios where we had to search cars or individuals for weapons and explosives or got shot at and had to react. On our first patroll outside the base I nearly triggered an IED but fortunately the guy behind me saw the thin wire and so we were able to call the EOD guys and they could "disarm" it (a squad from another platoon actually triggered it which caused a small explosion. Of course they´re DIs werent happy at all ^^). The checkpoint (only a small part here) was quite complex and had a lane where we searched cars, alert posts with machine guns etc.
(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1747/aga09016.jpg)
The whole training was pretty cool because it actually had a practical use especially with todays "peace-keeping" missions like in Kosovo or Afghanistan (although especially the Kunduz area develops more and more into a battlefield nowadays).
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(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4918/brdm2l3.jpg)
BRDM-2
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Pic from my basic training. We had a 3-day "EAKK"-training where we spent the time patrolling our operational area, looking for IEDs, UXOs, talking to "locals", guarding the checkpoint to our companies camp and patrolling the camp all with not much sleep and extremely hot temperatures. That was especially a pain in the you-know-where as we had to wear flak jackets when outside the camp...I drank so much but yet didn´t have to urinate because I sweated all the water our out. Atleast we slept in old ammo bunkers where it was pretty cool inside.
This scene shows the 3rd squad of my plattoon maning the checkpoint. We often had scenarios where we had to search cars or individuals for weapons and explosives or got shot at and had to react. On our first patroll outside the base I nearly triggered an IED but fortunately the guy behind me saw the thin wire and so we were able to call the EOD guys and they could "disarm" it (a squad from another platoon actually triggered it which caused a small explosion. Of course they´re DIs werent happy at all ^^). The checkpoint (only a small part here) was quite complex and had a lane where we searched cars, alert posts with machine guns etc.
(http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1747/aga09016.jpg)
The whole training was pretty cool because it actually had a practical use especially with todays "peace-keeping" missions like in Kosovo or Afghanistan (although especially the Kunduz area develops more and more into a battlefield nowadays).
I think you already posted that Pic, or atleast you posted one just like that pic.
(http://www.nation.co.ke/image/view/-/599252/highRes/78486/-/maxw/600/-/p80lthz/-/PIX+1.jpg)
Somalian Fighters during the Somalian Civil War, Mogadishu.
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^^ They're not as primitive as you think :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Cake2.jpg)
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^^ They're not as primitive as you think :)
Exuse me?
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/mikequell/R6wWN9rCKaI/AAAAAAAAAoc/tNH9zGB2Uao/s800/lifejackets.jpg)
(http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/7/20/633521542935297811-lifejacketstheycansaveyourlife.jpg)
Plenty of stupid out there :)
Love his flack jacket, must offer great protection.
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funny useless M60A2 Starship tank ;)
(http://i36.tinypic.com/ehu9t.jpg)
Western germany, NATO exercice
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(http://www.namsa.nato.int/gallery/systems/m60-GR-3.jpg)
;D ;D ;D ;D
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M60, such a lovely tank.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/DM-SC-92-03658.jpg)
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(http://wigwags.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/korean_war_ha-sn-98-07085.jpg)
Get to da choppah! (Korean War)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/F-4D_194th_FS_California_ANG_in_flight_1987.JPEG)
F-4 Phantom of the 194th FS, 1987. Unit was tasked with defending the continental United States from a Soviet air attack.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Convair_F-106A_Delta_Dart_1.jpg)
F-106 Delta Dart firing a nuclear-tipped AA missile (obviously a dummy test).
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Well since its a Plane fest i should post my favorite
Airplane Spaceship here
(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uploads/ats49362_blackbird1.jpg)
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(http://aboutfacts.net/LargePictures/CubanMslCrisis/1.jpg)
A U-2(I believe B, the second seat was in the C) taking off to spy on cuba during the Cuban missile crysis
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/North_Yemen_Civil_War.jpg)
Yemen Civil War. Yemen troops attempting to Repell a Egyptian Attack... Holding a Recoiless Rifle?
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Well since its a Plane fest i should post my favorite Airplane Spaceship here
(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/uploads/ats49362_blackbird1.jpg)
The first airplane that actually managed to lock the Blackbird on radar with its weapon systems:
(http://mccoy.nu/viggen2.jpg)
Nice article about it:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-65940.html
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HRHHRHRHR swedish planes have always looked so awesome
(http://origin-images.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfiles/35977/Ca80529.jpg)
Saab Draken
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And here, the fastest aircraft in NATO that managed to sneak up on a 'slow' flying Blackbird for a few seconds.
(http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/photos/englishelectriclightning/images/20179/english-electric-lightning-p1b.jpg)
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Untill you are on the recieving end of its HE shell or its SHILAG AT Missile
:D it depends if you are in the range of engagement. The dead Range is 730 meters !
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F027410-0011%2C_Flugzeuge_F-104_Starfighter%2C_JG_74.jpg)
F-104 "Starfighter", the widowmaker of the lufwaffe
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2490/3892348013_9be2f4b43e.jpg)
Saab J 29
I always have find that a sweet little bird!
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(http://i48.tinypic.com/qnvh9i.jpg)
Peekaboo! German A7V hiding in the bushes.
I also just read the Americans had an A7V at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds but scrapped it in 1942. What the fuck USA?
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(http://i48.tinypic.com/qnvh9i.jpg)
Peekaboo! German A7V hiding in the bushes.
I also just read the Americans had an A7V at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds but scrapped it in 1942. What the fuck USA?
That made me sad :'(
A7V DAY!!
(http://www.iart7.com/WARBIRDS/gallery%20photos/A7V-1s.jpg)
I suppose both A7Vs we posted is "Totenkopf"
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/American%20Armor%20Foundation%20Museum/GermanWWItankerhelmet.jpg)
#24 is an A7V crewman's helmet.
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(https://www.cwgc.org/spring1918/imagelibrary/photo_lib/9827.jpg)
:'(
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(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00ZXb1j3XzexY/610x.jpg)
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(http://www.nci.org/02NCI/01/f4_image2.jpg)
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(http://www.muza-chan.net/aj/poze-weblog/marines-tank-korea.jpg)
M46 Patton in Korea <3
Edit: An extra one, just for you guys
A Sikorsky S-72 "X Wing" experimental helicopter, an early joint attempt at a helicopter/plane hybrid by Nasa and Sikorsky in the 1972 :P
(http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/X-Wing/Medium/EC86-33555-2.jpg)
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I guess airwolf can go home now.
(http://www.tvshowcentral.net/tvshows/airwolf/airwolf_show_7.jpg)
Modified Bell 222
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Stop posting that lame civilian stuff. Things that are meant to be shot at, if you please.
You asked for it..... ;D
(http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac324/Oddball_8/bartletti4.jpg)
...Sorry...couldn't resist....
...A different but just as important kind of war...
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(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a308/chriswr450/GreekMilitaryCHINOOK.jpg)
Hellenic Army Chinook
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A very specific croatian MiG-21 ;D
(http://www.croatianworld.net/Letters/Croatian_Air_force.jpg)
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(http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/Edwards2005/Highlights/UsaFlagF117_1.jpg)
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you call THAT an awesome paintjob?
Us belgians and our nothren neighbours know what paintjobs are
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/6/4/3/1507346.jpg)
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A7 Corsair "Tiger"
(http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/Tiggerlarge.jpg)
http://www.haf.gr/media/airshow/haf/airshow_1191.jpg
F104 "Tiger"
http://www.haf.gr/media/f-104_tigris.jpg
"Mount Olympos"
http://www.haf.gr/media/f-104_olimbos.jpg
THIS IS "SPARTA"!(Honestly!)
http://greekmilitary.net/Airforce/340.jpg
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/1213438.jpg)
Hungarian "eagle" Mi-24.
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(http://www.geocities.jp/eaglet_f15/MILITARY/PICTURE/AH-1Z_L2.jpg)
AH-1Z Viper
And with its little twin brother:
(http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/1/3/9/1146931.jpg)
AH-1Z Viper & UH-1Y Venom
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It was a normal and happy day in the suggestion forums when suddenly...
*plz bring in more nazi tanks thx *
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On topic:
Verdeja tank,a spanish thing that never saw the factories at all..
(http://www.rojoyazul.net/images/militaris_imag/verdeja.jpg)
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(http://www.uncoached.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/army_photos_14.jpg)
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Palestine kid trowing an anti-tank rock against an isreali Malach 5 tank
(http://www.hotpolitics.com/tank_rock.jpg)
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^ Been playin' PR too much.
(http://media.englishrussia.com/daily-20/24.jpg)
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(http://www66.tok2.com/home2/tankguy/bulgaria/stug3-01.jpg)
With all that Stug 3 discussion i searched teh internets for teh Lulz.
;D
Posted here for being a "modern" age photo.
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(http://media.englishrussia.com/daily-20/24.jpg)
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(http://www.military-today.com/apc/wiesel_1.jpg)
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(http://www.haf.gr/el/structure/units/ata/units/images/337_F84_acro1.jpg)
Fallout anyone ?
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(http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/imgcacheA/15522.png)
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Get a room ffs.....
(http://greekmilitary.net/Greek%20Armoured%20Core/leo3ew5.jpg)
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Finnish T55 tank during Itä110 (East110) exercise, 15 June 2010.
(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/7101/ita110.jpg)
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Get a room with your nationalistic POTD submissions.
^this
You and your constant Greek army Ownage this and that! Post something else dammit!
(http://www.dontgivvafuq.com/misc/pics/nam/arrs/hh-53_and_a-1_skyraider.jpg) A-1 skyraiders on a CAS mission during a combat rescue operation.
A1 skyraiders saved many pilots during the vietnam war by flying support with helicopters
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T-72? 2010?
Wtf? Something doesnt compute right now. Those things have been scrapped, no?
no, only T54 and 55s. T72s are still in reservist service.
But...that thing is not T-72 ??? Turret and hull are all wrong. And by my understanding, T-72's have been either scrapped or sold as spare parts for Czech Republic. Let us compare shall we?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/T72.JPG)
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At least you guys still have tanks. All of our heavy equipment is removed, and the biggest we have of vehicles atm is MOWAG piranha's with .50CAL machine guns
(http://armyreco.ifrance.com/europe/belgique/vehicules_lourds/leopard_1/leopard1a5_belgium_23.jpg)
Belgian Leopard 1A5. The last mainbattle tanks we will ever have. They are currently being sold to lebanon and other nations
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Kham_Duc_Evacuation_during_Vietnam_War_May_12th_1968.jpg)
This is the only known picture of an action which led to the Medal of Honor being awarded. Taken at the Battle of Kham Duc, South Vietnam, May 12 1968.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Lt. Col. Jackson distinguished himself as pilot of a C-123 aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson volunteered to attempt the rescue of a 3-man USAF Combat Control Team from the Special Forces camp at Kham Duc. Hostile forces had overrun the forward outpost and established gun positions on the airstrip. They were raking the camp with small arms, mortars, light and heavy automatic weapons, and recoilless rifle fire. The camp was engulfed in flames and ammunition dumps were continuously exploding and littering the runway with debris. In addition, eight aircraft had been destroyed by the intense enemy fire and one aircraft remained on the runway reducing its usable length to only 2,200 feet. To further complicate the landing, the weather was deteriorating rapidly, thereby permitting only one air strike prior to his landing. Although fully aware of the extreme danger and likely failure of such an attempt. Lt. Col. Jackson elected to land his aircraft and attempt to rescue. Displaying superb airmanship and extraordinary heroism, he landed his aircraft near the point where the combat control team was reported to be hiding. While on the ground, his aircraft was the target of intense hostile fire. A rocket landed in front of the nose of the aircraft but failed to explode. Once the combat control team was aboard, Lt. Col. Jackson succeeded in getting airborne despite the hostile fire directed across the runway in front of his aircraft. Lt. Col. Jackson's profound concern for his fellow men, at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Air Force and reflect great credit upon himself, and the Armed Forces of his country.
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Oh yeah I remember, all militaries are having a hard time. IIRC the Dutch military already spended their budget for 2010 in January/February ;D
I dont know if EU countries are having a hard time or not, but our budget has been nearly tripled, for the first time in ages we arent having any budget problems :D
EDIT: People are posting tank pics so ill roll with that
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/lal.jpg)
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/10/world/taiwan.650.22.jpg)
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Chief Parachute Rigger Carrol holding a Hatian child born aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.
(http://www.amdo.org/Vinson%20_from_Haiti.JPG)
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(http://www.battle-fleet.com/pw/his/f117/F-117-a.jpg)
USAF F117 refueling
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I just read how the U.S. Department of Defense has a public relations department with 25,000 employees and a budget of $6 billion dollars. Unreal where the money gets spent.
Anyway, before I irritate our Finnish overlord:
(http://www.chosinreservoir.com/Library/images/image35_jpg.jpg)
Marines retreating from the Chosin Reservoir.
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Interesting digital pattern Kading, what is that the standard uniform on ships or somethin?
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/DSCI0153.jpg)
Üzümlü, Hakkari :)
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One Sexy Mirage F1 taxieng.
(http://www.airplane-pictures.net/images/uploaded-images/2008-4/23/13951.jpg)
This has been one of the most beautifull jets ever imo
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(http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/project/Biographies/Joint-Crash-Details/2006-05-29-Mirage-2000-5/2000-5-69.jpg)
I prefer the Mirage 2000-5 if its about french planes.
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USAF F-15E drops flares during a mission over Afghanistan, Nov. 12, 2008:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Afghanistan_Flyover%2C_F-15E_from_391st_Expeditionary_Fighter_Squadron_deploys_flares_during_a_flight_over_Afghanistan%2C_Nov._12%2C_2008.jpg)
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F-15's. What a bunch of sexy beasts lol
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/talalal-1.jpg)
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(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1976/karte038mb.jpg)
Swiss border 1914
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Russia, Moscow, 1938.
(http://englishrussia.com/images/workers_peasants_red_army/Rkka_16.jpg)
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(http://i37.tinypic.com/24lvsz8.jpg)
Nigerian Troops, maybe during Nigerian Civil War.
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(http://www.murdoconline.net/2008/canadian_laviii.jpg)
Canadian LAVIII in Afghanistan with what i'm guessing is an afghani mi8
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(http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/2479/image207ip4.jpg)
I want a job like this...
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I want a job like this...
I want you to say that when the chute doesnt open :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Trololcake.jpg)
Pic from the ciggarette smugglers raid hahaha.
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(http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/7684/landcruiserzpu2145mm0lm.jpg)
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(http://www.dragunov.net/action/mideast/dragunov_usa_iraq.jpg)
Description said ''note the panoramic photo above the solider'', does anybody know what it's used for?
For guard duty so you'd recognize any out of the ordinary (<- 'the ordinary' being that photo) perhaps?
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(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/5536/armyphotos1.jpg)
Ant another one because i haven't really contributed much lately.
Those sneaky bastards :D
(http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/8523/knipsely.png)
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^^ Leave it to the Americans to make an MG look cute :D
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Pose.jpg)
Boom.
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Why are they holding the M16 so high on their shoulder?
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b250/GREEK-AIRBORNE/OMOIOMA71.jpg)
(Can someone tell me what is the MG the right guy is holding?Browning 50cal?)
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Euhm, i don't care what you do between missions, just don't involve me....
(http://acidcow.com/pics/20091229/picdump_118_73.jpg)
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^^ Sexy.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeKomandoo.jpg)
Özel Harekat C-Team
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(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6496/92536810868igj.jpg)
.Dutch soldier and his .50 cal.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Hanzomon_February_2x_1936.jpg)
Japanese troops in the streets of Tokyo during an attempted military coup, February 26, 1936.
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Yes I'm posting 2 pics in a row.
(http://www.history.army.mil/photos/Korea/kor1950/SC351390.jpg)
Street fighting in Seoul, September 20, 1950.
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(http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/3154/1370mp3.jpg)
Hellenic Army with King Constantine Enters in Thessaloniki after the commander of the 8th Turkish army corps, Pasha Hassan Taxin, Surrendered the City of Thessaloniki to the Hellenic Army on 26-10-1912
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I feel like i have let you guys down a bit with pictures, so here is something hardcore again.
AAAAAAMMMMBUUUUUUCCHHHH!!!!!!11!!!1
(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9523/1278450907273.gif)
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The pics they never show to the US Public. Wich still thinks that the US are still winning the war.
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3743/su24mafterburnerny9.jpg)
Russian SU-24's taking off
While going to replaced by the SU34, this is unlikely to happen soon, as the SU24 is still very combat capable
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ACW
(http://www.difrontealfuturo.net/images/American_Civil_War_12_cr.jpg)
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He is right you know. It is like the german biased people on this forums who think their german army was superior on all levels and took down 50 allied soldiers and 25 allied tanks down before they even took fire.
Just as you go to an american forum, wich will ONLY show pictures of destroyed iraqi tanks, failed terrorist bombings and dead terrorists. They claim THEY are right and they alone, and if you are not supporting them, you are against them and against freedom and all the other bullcrap that comes out of their mouth.
(http://www.combatreform.org/usmcLAV25rubbertiresburningoniraqihighwaytn.jpg)
LAV25 burning after an attack. No further details exept that it is in Iraq
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Im probably the wrong person to say this, but i'd say we stay away from the political part of wars :) at least on this thread.
Jandarma Özel Harekat (Gendarmarie Special Operations) C-Team again.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Braaaat.jpg)
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The pics they never show to the US Public. Wich still thinks that the US are still winning the war.
Being a member of the US public, I can say that they do show those pics, and every casulty that is taken in Afghanistan and Iraq gets reported, along with pictures of the person and their family and such. So no, we do know the cost of war.
Btw, last I checked, we won Iraq. ::)
I think the pics you see are more like coffins (like pic 1) with a nice picture of the people in the coffin while they where still alive. I doubdt you see pictures like pic 2.
Pic 1:
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/5637/1278506812706.jpg)
Pic 2: *Warning, do not open this if you are easily shocked*
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/1788/1278506474505.jpg
Sure, this guy is perfectly fine, had a bad wound but nothing lifetreatening anymore. Hitting someone flatout with a baseballbat in the stomach would be a more severe wound. But still....
I did not add the caption on this, i believe it should not be there but it is so sorry
And you won iraq? Then why are you still there? You did not win Iraq until you completely leave it and it is a healthy selfsubstaining country. And that will take many, many more years.
Up untill here was what i think the us people see. Please tell me what is wrong in what i say, what do you really see? I only recieve CNN here and all i do on that is watch the news sometimes and watch Stewart (love the guy :p)
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Should the public really see a picture of their soldiers with ripped off arms and legs? I mean really, the pictures doesnt prove anything. Even if they saw the picture, they would rant about it on some forum and carry on. On paper the US has won in Iraq, but the occasional bomb or shootout will occur (which country DOESNT have shootouts or bombs?) 'Yeah, lets go show pictures of dead soldiers to our comrades, that'll fix things'
And since I HAD to post, I will contribute another pic (blame yourselves, not me :))
PKK arent the only ones pulling off ambushes.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Oldschool.jpg)
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Guys, enough political crap, get your own wee thread.
On the day that Westminister announces that British troops are to pull out of Sangin Province:
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm124/ajed125078739/sangin03.jpg)
British forces based at Forward Operating Base Jackson on patrol in Sangin.
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you are right. Politics suck
(http://www.armyrecognition.com/europe/Belgique/exhibition/Ben_Hur/pictures/Belgian_Mortar_team_Belgium_01.jpg)
Belgian mortar troops.
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The pics they never show to the US Public. Wich still thinks that the US are still winning the war.
Yah, because losing soldiers in a war is a sure sign of defeat. ::)
Reclining on the right is Lt. George A. Custer. Taken during the American Civil War.
(http://www.watsonswildlife.com/civil_war_photographs/The_Peninsula_Va_The_staff_of_Gen_Fitz_John_Porter_Lts_William_G_Jones_and_George_A_Custer_reclining.jpg)
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http://i37.tinypic.com/24lvsz8.jpg
Is that a MP40 near the bottom?
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(http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8207/610xav.jpg)
JELUWAR, AFGHANISTAN - JULY 06: A U.S. Army MRAP with Task Force Thor Route Clearance Patrol from 23rd Engineering Company, Airborne pushes rollers through sand during a day-long route clearance mission July 6, 2010 in Jeluwar, Afghanistan. The U.S. Army route clearance unit uses specialized equipment to seek out improvised explosive devices (IED) on roads throughout Afghanistan to prevent military patrols and civilians from being hit by the homemade roadside bombs that have injured and killed hundreds of NATO troops and locals.
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A very rare combat photo from the American Civil War:
(http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/Passaic1k.jpg)
Monitors engage Confederate batteries on Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina. Photographed from one of the Confederate emplacements, the ships are identified as (from left to right): Weehawken, Montauk and Passaic. The monitor on the right appears to be firing its guns. Date is given as 8 September 1863, when other U.S. Navy ships were providing cover for Weehawken, which had gone aground on the previous day. She was refloated on the 8th after receiving heavy gunfire from the Confederate fortifications.
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http://i37.tinypic.com/24lvsz8.jpg
Is that a MP40 near the bottom?
Looks a hell of a lot like the FBP m/948 submachine gun, from Portugal, but it still has a wooden stock =/
http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg112-e.htm
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maybe Christmas-Austro-Hungarian troops, WWI
(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5971/dodpolednisiesta.jpg)
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i m always wondering, were mustaches required to join the army back in these days ?
i mean seriously there is rarely a soldier in WWI on photos without a mustache, or some other kind of facial hair.
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Well the last thing i wanna do when i am in the trenches, is shaving....
Shows the enemy i am a veteran, not new Meat.
Then again...war is the last place i wanna be in
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well you still need to shave a mustache, or you grow a lumberjack /taliban beard instead.
i guess it was just the manly fashion of that time.
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i guess it was just the manly fashion of that time.
This. Back then you needed a mustache you could beat a bear to death with to be considered a man.
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so no mustache = no army service ?
nice way to opt out of the war(s) :D
(http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/image.jpeg)
spanish civil war
not many mustaches here
might be too warm for them
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/generalwoolsaltillomexico.jpg)
This is one of the first war photographs ever taken. From the Mexican War of 1846-1848. It shows General John Ellis Wool and his staff after the capture of Saltillo, Mexico in 1847. This occurred at the end of a 900 mile march through the desert from San Antonio.
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(http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/images/dykPhotos/kyma_16_2_04/DSC_3762.jpg)
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Obviously Special Operations unit, but which one Bouras?
EDIT: Nvm this was a repost
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Cakebooty.jpg)
With Police SF
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We call them Frogs....I guess you can understand their job.
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Yeah, hop away as we break through the frontlines :D <3
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Actually...Be already behind your frontlines destroying roads,bridges and wrecking as much havoc as possible without anyone know they even existed...
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How they gonna get there? Hop across the border dressed as frogs? :D By the way, they seem to use digital camo, whats up with that? First time seeing a Greek military unit (even SF) with digi camo on.
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Could be...They tried but drivers seemed to enjoy stepping on them...So they decided to go underwater...Amphibious .Dressed as frogs again in the start but some fishes tended to eat them...So they went for something better.
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http://i37.tinypic.com/24lvsz8.jpg
Is that a MP40 near the bottom?
Looks a hell of a lot like the FBP m/948 submachine gun, from Portugal, but it still has a wooden stock =/
http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg112-e.htm
Thanks!
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Croatian antiterrorist unit (ATJ Lučko)
(http://dalje.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2008/m12/y189549702141327.jpg)
The famous UFC fighter Mirko Filipović was a member before he started fighting :D
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The French St Chamond tank in WWI
(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/histoire-militaire/infanterie/stchamont1_10.jpg)
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Chad ftw
(http://www.acig.org/artman/uploads/17.jpg)
Chadian troops inspect a captured Libyan ZRK-SD Kub armoured vechile with the launcher for three SA-6 SAMs, captured in Ouadi Doum. The Chadians captured practically the whole heavy equipment used for the defense of this airfield intact. Most of this equipment was transported to France and the USA in the following days, but some SA-6s remained in Chad, and one of them was used to shot down a LARAF Tu-22B! (via Tom Cooper)
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Another from Austro-Hungary series, some really weird guntractor?
(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/1839/anv2a4617xi2.jpg)
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Looks to me like they mounted their 305mm morser on a semi-mobile carriage. Quite ingenious :3
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(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/1531/mp7q.jpg)
This pic was on a other forum, It suposed to be a MP7 used by a US operator explaining all the gadgets.
Looks like a badass setup!
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Seems strange. You use a smg so that you have good manoeuvrability and then put so much shit on it. You could have just picked a carbine.
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Seems strange. You use a smg so that you have good manoeuvrability and then put so much shit on it. You could have just picked a carbine.
I could see some plus compared to the M4. (Although the M4 is more versatile).
Its lighter and I heard the bullit velocity is higher as the on of an m4. (mondingssnelheid).
It should penetrate every vest within 200 meters, so they say.
Also the caliber is better then 9mm like alot of smg's use. For CQB it should be a fine weapon i geuse.
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Its pretty much like the FN P90. Up to 200m, that thing will penetrate almost any kevlar vest
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Seems strange. You use a smg so that you have good manoeuvrability and then put so much shit on it. You could have just picked a carbine.
I could see some plus compared to the M4. (Although the M4 is more versatile).
Its lighter and I heard the bullit velocity is higher as the on of an m4. (mondingssnelheid).
It should penetrate every vest within 200 meters, so they say.
Also the caliber is better then 9mm like alot of smg's use. For CQB it should be a fine weapon i geuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7TmgyiLoY4
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b250/GREEK-AIRBORNE/ENOPLES%20DYNAMEIS/MLRS_12.jpg)
I like fireworks
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(http://martinbuckley.com/custom/tank.jpg)
Lybian-Chadian War.
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This is not me but still from personal pics of family in Bosnia.
I will post a few so dont kill me :(
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Dogan%20Bosna/poopie3.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Dogan%20Bosna/poopie2.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Dogan%20Bosna/poopie.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Dogan%20Bosna/poopie6.jpg)
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Italian mountain fortress at Campologno which was totally destroyed by battery of heavy artillery.
(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/541/jb2ccb9bvalka10cmyk.jpg)
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This is not me but still from personal pics of family in Bosnia.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Dogan%20Bosna/poopie6.jpg)
YPR PRI.
Dutch army is in the process of replacing them with CV9035 and Boxer MRAV. It's a shame to see them go though.
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Just like in Belgium.....all the good equipment gets phased out, or is phased out, yet we see no replacements.
But the CV90 is a nice replacement :)
(http://blogfile.paran.com/BLOG_245697/200806/1213186530_CV-9040.jpg)
Here a swedish CV9040
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I as an Ex-YPR-PRI driver can tell you....you guys are nuts.
YPR is a fine vehicle, but needs very very very veryyyyyyy much maintenance.
They served well, but the Cv90 is in most aspects so much better.
YPR's are old, they brake down very often, just becouse they served there time.
I once drove from DW to TK, and they broke down 6 times.. wich twice was mine.
(first my track ran off cose of a broken roadwheel, and second time my whole engine needed to be replaced.)
Boxer apc with turrit:
(http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1089/p6169164.jpg)
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*Turret :D
We have well over 2000 of these APC's active, they're known as ACV-300 in Turkish service though. But the Army has a tender to replace them, the tender is for somewhere around 4,000 new APC's, basically doubling the fleet, replacement is either Otokar Arma or FNSS Pars.
Otokar Cobra unloading in Afghanistan
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/pooooopie.jpg)
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I as an Ex-YPR-PRI driver can tell you....you guys are nuts.
YPR is a fine vehicle, but needs very very very veryyyyyyy much maintenance.
They served well, but the Cv90 is in most aspects so much better.
YPR's are old, they brake down very often, just becouse they served there time.
I once drove from DW to TK, and they broke down 6 times.. wich twice was mine.
(first my track ran off cose of a broken roadwheel, and second time my whole engine needed to be replaced.)
We Belgians had AIFV-B types wich we produced locally. I spoke to an ex-driver before, he kinda liked the vehicle. The most problems he had where mainly the tracks, roadwheels and suspension. They needed regular maintance or else :/ you drove them aswel, you should now it ;)
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I wil give you some more - points:
-the side and back armor can be penitrated by an AK-47 or PKM with armor pearcing rounds.
-The enginefilters fill up with dust en sand in no time. you have to clean them when you stop.
(note this isnt that easy as it sounds)
-the suspension and roadwheels are just breaking down of aging.
-the bottom of the vehicle is a dead trap for mines
+the 25mm gun with canadian ammo works damn well in Uruzgan.
+we have so manny that we do have allot of spair parts.
And mate beleave me there is a diference between regular maintance and every single spare hour of the day.
We (the gunner and I) where constantly doing maintance while the rest was sleeping, witch ended up in us getting almost no sleep.
But good thing some arabic country bought all of our old ypr's.
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(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/Mexican%20War/legamputation.jpg)
A leg amputation in a military hospital after the Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 18, 1847 during the Mexican-American War.
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Looks like its all mexicans in that photo
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(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c49/Yustax/Weapons/Burning_Armored_Fighting_Vehicle_an.jpg)
Last time I heard, this poor guy riding in a M3A1 Bradley; he's vehicle just drived when there was a riot and they throw a molotov cocktel at him, but he survived with lesser burns.
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Its an British Warrior IFV.
(http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/09/20/basra2_wideweb__430x400.jpg)
A British soldier prepares to jump from a burning Warrior vehicle in Basra after angry crowds attacked it with petrol bombs and rocks yesterday.
Photo: Reuters
"During the chaos, one British soldier could be seen scrambling for his life from a burning Warrior armoured personnel carrier and the rock-throwing mob"
Full story here. (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/troops-petrol-bombed-in-spy-op/2005/09/20/1126982027612.html)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/110720101145006813465_3.jpg)
The first two rifles are supposed to be replacing the older rifles in Turkish service, first should be replacing the SVD or 'Dragunov' and the second is supposed to replace the HK33. To me the second looks exactly the same as an HK33 but with foldable stock and an attached scope...
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/110720101145006813465_3.jpg
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/CakeCougar.jpg)
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Funny thing with Greek weaponary is the fact that even us don't really know whats the official rifle...
Apparently its the G3 but : We have G3,G36c,G36k,M4,M16,M1,AK74,AK47...
(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w162/sfinias/Naamloos-gescand-03-7-2.jpg)
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I think most of the 'Hellenic' Army uses M4 and G3. Thats the most ive seen, SF and Marines with M4 and regulars with G3A3.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Defenders_NGM-v31-p369-A.jpg/800px-Defenders_NGM-v31-p369-A.jpg)
World War I Russian infantry.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Scylla-Odinn.jpg)
HMS Scylla and the Icelandic patrol ship Odin collide in the North Atlantic during the Third Cod War.
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A7V Überlandwagen
(http://www.landships.freeservers.com/jpegs/uberlandwagen_bw3.JPG)
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"Remote Linking Forbidden"
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"Remote Linking Forbidden"
Damn
(http://i25.tinypic.com/2upbxy0.jpg)
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swastika on WWI equipment ?
i know it is not exclusively used and invented by the nazis (see finns) but this seems a bit strange
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Again a swastika was originally a symbol of luck, but since our old pal Adolf it's been linked to nazism.
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swastika on WWI equipment ?
(http://www.historiainfinitus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/beckhard1.jpg)
Fritz Beckhardt, 17 victories. (He was jewish, btw.)
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Again a swastika was originally a symbol of luck, but since our old pal Adolf it's been linked to nazism.
Yeah, stupid Adolf. It's a nice symbol, but will never again be used publicly in western countries...
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Greek helmet with swastika marks on the top part (details), 350-325 BCE from Taranto, found at Herculanum. Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.
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Greek helmet with swastika marks on the top part (details), 350-325 BCE from Taranto, found at Herculanum. Cabinet des Médailles, Paris.
While commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the swastika symbol is more than 3,000 years old. The term "Swastika" was originally the name for a hooked cross in Sanskrit, and swastikas have been found on artifacts, such as coins and pottery, from the ancient city of Troy.
Not only are swastikas associated with ancient Troy, the symbols are found in many other cultures, such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and southern European. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well-known symbol and had many different names, depending on the country. In some cultures, such as in ancient China, the symbol is turned counterclockwise (sauvastika).
Throughout its history, the swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. In the early 20th century, it was still considered a positive symbol. During World War I, it was found on shoulder patches of members of the American 45th Division and the Finnish air force. Only after the Nazi period did its connotation change.
German nationalists chose to use the swastika in the mid-19th century because it was associated with the Aryan race and Germanic history. At the end of the 19th century, German nationalists used the symbol on periodicals and for the official emblem of the German Gymnasts’ League. By the 20th century, it was a common symbol used in Germany to represent German nationalism and pride, for example, as the emblem for the Wandervogel, a German youth group. Swastikas also were used, however, in anti-Semitic periodicals.
The swastika officially became the emblem for the Nazi Party on August, 7, 1920, at the Salzburg Congress. Describing the new flag in Mein Kampf, Hitler said the swastika symbolized the victory of the Aryan man.
Today the symbol is most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, neo-Nazis and other hate groups.
Overview
The Swastika has an extensive history. The motif seems to have first been used in Neolithic Eurasia. The swastika is used in religious and civil ceremonies in India. Most Indian temples, entrance of houses, weddings, festivals and celebrations are decorated with swastikas. The symbol was introduced to Southeast Asia by Hindu kings and remains an integral part of Balinese Hinduism to this day, and it is a common sight in Indonesia. The symbol has an ancient history in Europe, appearing on artifacts from pre-Christian European cultures. It was also adopted independently by several Native American cultures.
In the Western world, the symbol experienced a resurgence following the archaeological work in the late nineteenth century of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the symbol in the site of ancient Troy and associated it with the ancient migrations of Proto-Indo-Europeans ("Aryan" people). He connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorised that the swastika was a "significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors," linking Germanic, Greek and Indo-Iranian cultures. By the early 20th century it was widely used worldwide and was regarded as a symbol of good luck and auspiciousness.
The work of Schliemann soon became intertwined with the völkisch movements, for which the swastika was a symbol of "Aryan" identity, a concept that came to be equated by theorists like Alfred Rosenberg with a Nordic master race originating in northern Europe. Since its adoption by the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler, the swastika has been associated with fascism, racism (white supremacy), World War II, and the Holocaust in much of the West. The swastika remains a core symbol of Neo-Nazi groups, and is also regularly used by activist groups to signify the supposed Nazi-like behaviour of organizations and individuals they oppose.
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Note the swastika is nothing like the nazi one.
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Its a Sauwastiga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauwastika)
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Officer checking his watch = not good.
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Vigen lovee.
wallpaper bonus:
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7195/grippens3.png
Grippen loveee
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Draken is better :D
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Saab 37 Viggen 'nuff said
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The Viggen has an amazing ability to look awesome from above and hideously ugly from below.
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Why forget the Lansen?
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And Tunnan :D
My grandfathers brother flew J32 Lansen
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And Tunnan :D
My grandfathers brother flew J32 Lansen
the tiny jet from bf1942 anyone? ;D
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A McDonnell-Douglas CF-18 fighter aircraft during a test of the Canadian-made CRV-7 unguided air-to-ground missile by the Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment in 1985. The CF-18 came into Canadian Forces service in 1982. (DND, 85-921)
The CRV7 is a 2.75 inch (70 mm) folding-fin ground attack rocket produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When it was first introduced in the early 1970s it was the highest performing 2.75 inch rocket (the standard US size) in the world, the first with enough energy to penetrate standard Warsaw Pact aircraft hangars. The CRV7 remains the most powerful rocket to this day, and has slowly become the de-facto standard for Western-aligned forces, at least outside the United States.
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1917. Officers and NCOs compare the MG08/15 and the British Lewis Gun
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F-4 and F-16 rulez all
EDIT: Alright G.Drew I will resize it JUST FOR YOU :D
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This one is full size
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Aircraft/1_t2-13.jpg
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Needs a resize :P
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The old HK G3 gets a revival n Afghanistan as "pimped" DMR:
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DMR? D? Marksman Rifle?
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Designated Marksman Rifle. Used as a gap-filler between normal riflemen armed with 5.56mm rifles and the more heavier sniper rifles to give an infantry squad the ability to fire more precise shots on medium ranges where 5.56 rifles would be too inaccurate.
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Thanks, had no idea what D stood for.
Pimped G3 will do the trick then :P
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Warnek visit NVA soldierts(in the background T34-85)
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wondering, the DMR for in the German army, his DMR is his primary weapon?
I have been DMR "Sla" for half a year, and my primary weapon would be the Diemaco C7, and on my back there would be a backpak with a Accuracy rifle init. off course that weapon is big and not suitable as a battle rifle.
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DMR's are usually semi-auto rifles. Sometimes modified battle rifles are used, such as the US SDM-R (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Squad_Designated_Marksman_Rifle).
Combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to a proliferation of all sorts of DMR's in the US military. I see it's now catching on with other countries as well.
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Accuracy fires a different calibre though, lapua rounds iirc? At least larger than 762.
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Our G22 built by AI fire .300 WInMag (7.62mmx67), which gives it more range than the standard 7.62 NATO.
Actually the usage of DMRs in the German army is somewhat dubious. We don´t have any official order on how to equip and use DMRs. For example each Jäger Kompanie (light infantry) has a group of snipers, who can be equipped with G3s but except for that I haven´t found anything official that regulates DM. AFAIK the infantry units in Afghanistan simply took G3s they had in their depots and use them now in squads, but how many are used and what other weapons these DM carry, I can´t tell. Judging from photos I´ve seen it looks like they carry only G3s, but that´s just a guess (not that you´d need yet another gun that weights you down! ^^). Too bad I´ll never go to Afghanistan so unless someone has some first-hand experience we can only interprete what we see on photos.
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lol raptor i just told ya, I have been a DMR, no need to explain what it is. And yes the accuracy use the lapua magnum round witch is .338. but the rifle itself is uses in the same function as an DMR. just like the germans use the G3 and the Americans the M-14.
Our special forces used a special modified scoped FAL for a while but this was soon replaced.
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^^ We got SVD doing that job here :P
Polis Özel Harekat
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F-117A in pale gray camo. Not sure how often this was used.
Edit: Here's another non-standard F-117A paint scheme, used for the first production aircraft:
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What a disgustingly ugly thing...
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NO !!! I love the F117 ! Especially in the Black Color
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Loved the F117 in the game zero hour
Designed in 1918...and still being used today, with still no replacement or prototype that can match it performance
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US Soldier manning M2 .50CAL in Vietnam
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I heard the F117 is no longer beign Produced, right?
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Its fully retired actually, as of 2008.
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Mudra is correct. New planes like the B-2A and F-22 are stealthier, faster, have greater payloads and require less maintenance upkeep on their stealth features.
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Yeah technology is advancing rapidly in manned and unmanned Air vehicles...SR-71 Blackbird,F16,F117 all starting to look ancient...
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Not the F16 ;) that plane still goes very strong
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Yeah but still it is a bit outdated...
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Yeah but still it is a bit outdated...
Depends which model, F-16As are outdated, F-16Cs are getting there, the newer 4.5 generation Block 52+, F-16I and Block 60 used by Greece, Poland, Israel and the UAE are still going strong.
Love the F-16I, it just looks so much more powerful than an F-16C:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/F-16Isufa002.jpg)
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it looks so completely un-aerodynamic compared to the earlier F16 I'm surprised it still takes off ....pff :/
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Yeah i too don't like the new design.The older one was making it look silk and awesome this looks strange.And of course F16's are good still when updated to the newer versions but i would only use them in SEAD missions or other type of smart tactical bombing not as a fighter and although it is proven to be good fighter i think it cannot hold against newer generation airplanes..
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The external fuel tanks just look straight up wierd. But I like the paintjob on both the HAF F-16's and IAF F-16's.
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You call that a paintjob?
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Us Belgians and our Dutch neighbours. We know what good paintjobs are.....
but the funniest part is that the pilots often pay for them themselfs ;D
Especialy the Tiger squadron's
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Do they actually use those operationally? Or is it just a one-time for show thing?
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One time show i bet...Otherwise they are all stoned flying and not ...
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Do they actually use those operationally? Or is it just a one-time for show thing?
Ye. The Demo teams of belgium and Holland have a paintjob wich is changed once a year.
The tiger squadron's get one plane a year wich they can paint, but at their cost.
A paintjob for an average size jet like a F16 or Mirage costs 1500 euro
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A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter shot down by anti-aircraft fire in Grenada on October 25 during Operation Urgent Fury.
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i know this is not a picture but i realy want to share this:
http://www.vgtv.no/?id=31276
Norwegian soldiers being ambushed.
the vehicle is a IVECO LMV with a M2 50. cal
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Picture
There are rumors that the KSK got these guys some time after they were posing infront of that burnt-out Dingo.
This particular vehicle has been destroyed by German forces after they were unable to recover it during the firefights on Good Friday 2010.
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This is, I believe, the coolest looking airplane ever.
Boeing Bird of Prey - an experimental stealth aircraft that flew from 1996-1999.
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German troops entering Riga during World War I.
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Brits in a hot situation. I wonder if the IFV is on fire aswell.
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Ever wondered what it's like to be in the middle of a hostage rescue? Then watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/H4HvwcwJ3Z
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Brits in a hot situation. I wonder if the IFV is on fire aswell.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5570/1278451500772.jpg
Another angle of the same event.
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Zrix, euhm, no? There is no fire at all near the back on you pic, just the turret. On mine there is no fire on the turret, just the back thus it must be 2 different incidents. Also, my turret is pointing forward, yours to the right. It also has a different kind of cage armour.
Molotov is a popular weapon, many incidents like this.
Anyhow, people died in this one. 6 I think.
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Yea, you're right it's not the same vehicle. I never said it was though :P
I still believe it's from the same incident in Basra 2005 though.
But enough discussion.
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Small picture but perfectly captured it for me, this guy wants one thing; out.
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All terrain low maintenance tactical combat vehicle.
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"Shadow of the Valley of Death" Dirt road in ravine scattered with cannonballs, Crimea. Cannon shot falling short of their target during the Siege of Sevastopol. Uncropped, no color correction for this historic image.
As far as I can tell from wiki, this is the first true war photograph (i.e. taken while under fire).
Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
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Not sure if that picture was take during the battle or post battle. Got a source for that? Back then, cameras were the size of wagons.
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Not sure if that picture was take during the battle or post battle. Got a source for that? Back then, cameras were the size of wagons.
And needed like an hour of exposure (ok, probably less, but still a lot)
The camera seems to be in a safe position if you ask me, between those 2 hills, out of sight for all meaning that only a lucky shot could have hit them.
So it could go both ways, although i think that just post battle is most likely.
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I'm almost sure that was taken post-battle, I studdied that photo/photographer when I took a photography class a little while back.
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And target practice at the Mountain&Commando brigade
http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/?action=view¤t=Targetpracticecake.mp4
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Whoa! Is there really a guy standing 1 metre next to the target?! o0
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turkish people aint the brighest indeed....could've been iraqi's doing the same. *shakes head..*
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I bet you would get court martialled for that over here.
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Trust exercise!
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Delta Force used to train for hostage rescue by using other Delta Force people as the "hostage" which was being held as a human shield by the target dummy. Each guy had to take turns being the hostage and having .45ACP rounds flying inches past his face.
Then, the inevitable happened and someone got killed, so they stopped doing it.
Edit: Pic so I don't get yelled at:
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Belgrade burning. Kosovo War, 1999.
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Whoa! Is there really a guy standing 1 metre next to the target?! o0
He's leaning on it with his hand, so its less than 1 meter :P
And its what CPS said.
EDIT: Fresh pic from today
An Otokar Cobra got hit by an IED, nobody dead though.
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Whoa! Is there really a guy standing 1 metre next to the target?! o0
He's leaning on it with his hand, so its less than 1 meter :P
And its what CPS said.
Builds "dishiprin" too. Reminds me of when the sound of explosions used to make me jump, I went out to a shooting range and sat around without earplugs trying to start conversations with people. Now I can literally stand next to a cannon going off without so much as a flinch (Von Mudra can vouch for this).
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Yep, that was a fun arty show at Fort Mac...watching the people jump and flinch as they all went off :3
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IIRC Somalia, present day.
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Dosent look very Somalian to me - Im thinking more like Liberian civil war 1999-2003
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Dosent look very Somalian to me - Im thinking more like Liberian civil war 1999-2003
Your probably right, does look west african.
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Day of Russian NAVY ;D
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Omnomnom.
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Day of Russian NAVY ;D
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Any of my Greek friends will do that same trick the very instant that their manhood is challenged.
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So manny army's seems to demostrate so usless skils ;D.
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The US 1st Cavalry Division's Horse Cavalry Detachment preforms a charge alongside the division's combat aviation brigade.
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So the helicopters shoot the terrorists while they die laughing ? ;)
(http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/images/img6.jpg)
The Berkut is one of the most curious and powerful aircraft today. Not many aircraft can boast forward swept wings, high speeds, heavy armaments, and large dog fighting capabilities. The original Berkut that was produced was intended as a technology demonstrator, but Sukhoi wants to market it. Actually, it is thanks to Sukhoi that this aircraft was finished at all, as you will read below.
In 1983, the Soviet High Command decided to order their air force to develop a powerful forward-swept wing fighter. But a small problem arose, nothing big, just that the entire USSR dissolved. Since the country collapsed, funding was stalled and delayed. This is where Sukhoi Avionics comes in. Sukhoi saw potential in this aircraft, and funded it. Since the USSR had collapsed, Sukhoi was funding the entire project, which wasn’t cheap. In America, a fighter that looks similar to the Su-47 but half as big and painted white, the Grumman X-29, had been built. However, unlike Grumman and their X-29, Sukhoi intended the Berkut to be more than a technology demonstrated. They wanted to see it as a standard service fighter.
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An Italian Aérostatier with a French design "Flower-Pot" parachute
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That calvary pic made me laugh ;D
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So the helicopters shoot the terrorists while they die laughing ? ;)
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Is that thing ever produced in big numbers?
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So the helicopters shoot the terrorists while they die laughing ? ;)
(http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/images/img6.jpg)
Is that thing ever produced in big numbers?
Nope only one, was really only a technology demonstrator.
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Same as this one
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Both of these planes their technology and studies resulted into the Sukhoi PAK FA
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Real World Facts about the Su-47 Berkut
Maiden Flight: September 25, 1997
Powered by: Dual Lyulka AL37FU engines. (Prototypes utilized dual aviadvigatel D-30F6 afterburning turbofans with thrust vectoring)
Range: 3, 300 km
Max. Speed: 1600 KmH in tests, predicted 2710 KmH in service.
Armament: 1 30 mm GSh-30-1 cannon and 14 hardpoints for a variety of AA and AG munitions.
The Berkut is one of the most curious and powerful aircraft today. Not many aircraft can boast forward swept wings, high speeds, heavy armaments, and large dog fighting capabilities. The original Berkut that was produced was intended as a technology demonstrator, but Sukhoi wants to market it. Actually, it is thanks to Sukhoi that this aircraft was finished at all, as you will read below.
In 1983, the Soviet High Command decided to order their air force to develop a powerful forward-swept wing fighter. But a small problem arose, nothing big, just that the entire USSR dissolved. Since the country collapsed, funding was stalled and delayed. This is where Sukhoi Avionics comes in. Sukhoi saw potential in this aircraft, and funded it. Since the USSR had collapsed, Sukhoi was funding the entire project, which wasn’t cheap. In America, a fighter that looks similar to the Su-47 but half as big and painted white, the Grumman X-29, had been built. However, unlike Grumman and their X-29, Sukhoi intended the Berkut to be more than a technology demonstrated. They wanted to see it as a standard service fighter.
High costs arose, so Sukhoi put their own touches on the Berkut. It is aproximately the same size of the Su-35 Superflanker. The landing gear, forward fuselage and vertically-pointed tails were borrowed from Sukhoi’s highly successful Su-27 Flanker series. The Berkut, however, although it isn’t a total stealth fighter, has some very nice stealth capabilities. To start with, we have the internal weapons bays, you may look under the Berkut and wonder where the weaponry is, but don’t worry. It’s in small bays under the aircraft and on the sides of the fuselage. However, the aircraft can also carry small wingtip-mounted AA missiles for extra firepower, but at the cost of stealth. It has a reduced radar signature and is coated with layers of radar absorbing materials.
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/images/img6.jpg
The forward swept wings present many advantages. It means delayed stall, higher maximum lift, reduced bending moments, and it can perform incredible maneuvers without the wingtips generating resistance and stalling the aircraft. However, good things come with bad things too. Forward swept wings have one fault, and one fault only, but it’s a biggie. They generate such a vicious twist that if constructed with conventional or extra strength materials, they’re going to blow right off the plane. So, this is why forward-swept aircraft only were usable when composite materials were discovered.
The Su-47 can fit advanced Russian radars and other electronics. It has a fly-by-wire system as well. Actual service models will get folding wings, though not because they will be navalized carrier models. The wingspan is large, and Russian hangars need to fit the aircraft inside. The Berkut can maneuver at subsonic speeds, a big advantage in combat. It can maintain control and most important stability at a high AOA (Angle of Attack). This way, as soon as a pilot defeats one target, he can turn the aircraft to engage the next as quickly as possible. Also, this baby is an STOL (Shorter Take Off/Landing) fighter. The wings generate so much lift that a long runway isn’t necessary.
The wings are made of 90% composite materials, and the canards are mounted in such a way to make the aircraft turn on a dime. The Russians were reluctant to raise the aircrafts speed past mach 1.6, because even with composites.
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Thought pics had to be at least from a combat active zone...
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USMC minesweeper crossing a ditch outside Musa Qala, Afghanistan.
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Thought pics had to be at least from a combat active zone...
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He's an easy target, also whats the target holding? AWM?
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So manny army's seems to demostrate so usless skils ;D.
It's not useless, can you move a table with no hands? and its fun to watch, like this for example.
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Doesn't he look hardcore? :)
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USMC minesweeper crossing a ditch outside Musa Qala, Afghanistan.
I wonder though, that rock is like the perfect place for a pressure triggered IED. I hope he checked it before jumping on it.
And on a more serious note, my picture of the day.
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German AA position
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He's an easy target, also whats the target holding? AWM?
Correct, AWM but thats not a combat position, just a pose for a picture...
@Bouras thats an Aegean exercise of some sort?
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(http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9946/jaakaripataljooalibauss.jpg)
Königlich Preussisches Jägerbataillon Nr. 27 (better known as Finnish Jägers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_J%C3%A4ger_Battalion_(Finland))) in Libau, summer 1917
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(http://www.tampereensuomalainenklubi.fi/kuvat/22022010_6.jpg)
^ Same Jägers on my hometowns (Vaasa) market square in February 1918 inspected by General Mannerheim
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http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/03jumpditchsmall.jpg
USMC minesweeper crossing a ditch outside Musa Qala, Afghanistan.
I wonder though, that rock is like the perfect place for a pressure triggered IED. I hope he checked it before jumping on it.
So I'm not the only one who thought about it ::)
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http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/03jumpditchsmall.jpg
USMC minesweeper crossing a ditch outside Musa Qala, Afghanistan.
I wonder though, that rock is like the perfect place for a pressure triggered IED. I hope he checked it before jumping on it.
So I'm not the only one who thought about it ::)
Only if it's a waterproof IED...
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(http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/9/23/128666769069851046.jpg)
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Abrams hit by insurgent AT rocket (RPG-7??) and on fire. (this is what the original caption said, and i know those are wrong 4 out of 5 times)
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/820/thunderrun1050403cojone.jpg)
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b250/GREEK-AIRBORNE/ENOPLES%20DYNAMEIS/A7_KAI_MIRAGE2000.jpg)
Mirage2000 Refueling from an A7 corsair
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Kinda small refueling aircraft...
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Abrams hit by insurgent AT rocket (RPG-7??) and on fire. (this is what the original caption said, and i know those are wrong 4 out of 5 times)
(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/820/thunderrun1050403cojone.jpg)
The name Cojone Eh on the tank barrel identifies this as the Abrams lost during the April 5, 2003 "Thunder Run" into Baghdad.
According to the book Thunder Run by Mark Zucchino, the Abrams was hit in the rear armor by a 90mm recoilless rifle, which started a fire in the engine block. None of the crew were injured. They tried to put out the fire (which is what you see in that picture) but the hot engine kept re-igniting dripping fuel from a ruptured line. They decided to destroy the tank and move on to prevent its capture by the Iraqis.
To destroy the tank, they threw thermite grenades down the hatches, then another Abrams shot the tank with a few 120mm rounds. Then after the crew had moved on an A-10 put a Maverick through the roof.
Here's what it ended up looking like:
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/thunder20run20220battle20cojone20eh203.jpg)
Note that it's still recognizable as an Abrams, after being hit by a 90mm round, engine fire, thermite grenades, internal ammo explosion, several 120mm rounds and a Maverick missile.
Compare this to the Iraqi Asab Babil (license built T-72), where an armor-piercing hit tended to cause an internal ammo explosion that blew off the turret. Here's an example outside Baghdad in 2003:
(http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o265/WDW_Megaraptor/abrams2.jpg)
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What is the Abrams?
An up-to-date tank
What is the asad babil?
A weaker copy of a tank designed in 1970
America is like=WE OWN OUR ABRAMS best TANK IN world. Yet they fought Cheaper less armoured chinese copy's of T-55's, T-62's and a handfull of T72's
This is a tank=Leopard 2a7
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Leo's ftw...Besides that you could ask...How much does an Abrams cost? How much does a T72 cost...
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Ye I saw theta's BIG tread about how shitty abrams is on WoT forums.
I think it's a good tank...BUT faaar from the best tank in the world!
Leopard is definetly worth of that position.
Challenger II is a great tank too (Hell yeah, it has a tea making machine ^^) and I think that the Merkava would OWN the Abrams in the desert. And the Russian T-90?
The yanks should do some updating on their armoury ;D
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I made 2 posts about the bad things about an abrams, thats not a big deal :-\ plus everyone agreed their
forgot a pic=Italian Ariete C1
(http://www.otomelara.it/EN/Common/images/photogallery/land/ariete1_b.jpg)
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I didn't mean those posts were bad! :-*
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I think that the Merkava would OWN the Abrams in the desert.
Everything else in your post was reasonable, except this.
Merkava is slow as crap because it's a massive block of armor with treads, and a hollow space for the crew.
Thing was designed with crew protection as its first goal, and mobility second. This is because Israel has a small population and therefore can't afford to take massive casualties in a war. They are also in a fundamentally defensive posture versus their neighbors so mobility wasn't as big a concern.
Merkava is probably the best tank for urban warfare due to its massive armor and defensive systems. But in the open desert? I'll give the edge to the much faster and more mobile Abrams.
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I just realized that I don't really like the looks of very many modern tanks at all. I think it's the flatness of the turret that strikes me as lame, though some of the Soviet-era tanks still look pretty fine.
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But to keep an abrams going in the desert, requires a large logistic system of very vurnable soft-skinned trucks
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I just realized that I don't really like the looks of very many modern tanks at all. I think it's the flatness of the turret that strikes me as lame, though some of the Soviet-era tanks still look pretty fine.
See above T-72 image for what non-flatness does for a modern tank in combat.
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Oh I know, but I have always preferred style over practicality.
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I just realized that I don't really like the looks of very many modern tanks at all. I think it's the flatness of the turret that strikes me as lame, though some of the Soviet-era tanks still look pretty fine.
See above T-72 image for what non-flatness does for a modern tank in combat.
Has nothing to do with its shape. The reason the T-72 is so pathetically outdated is due to its steel armor rather than the composite armor seen on most modern tanks. In addition, its fire control system has much to be desired. In short, an out of date tank.
BTW, @Battlefieldfan45,
The Abrams has been updated several times, everything from its armor to its main gun (increase in caliber from 105 to 120 if my memory serves me well).
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Abrams most important upgrade was its armor. They added Depleted uranium. This intensivly increased its armor....but putted its weight at 68 tons or something
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Abrams most important upgrade was its armor. They added Depleted uranium. This intensivly increased its armor....but putted its weight at 68 tons or something
Yes, further decreasing its criminally inefficient engine. Also puts more stress on its inferior suspension system. The Challenger II is notably superior in both these categories. Indeed, the Challenger II seems to be superior in just about every aspect compared to the Abrams: more fuel efficient engine, better suspension and cross country speed, better gun, better fire control system, better armor, and, as was mentioned earlier, has a tea maker.
It is a slick lookin tank though.
(http://www.blackfive.net/photos/uncategorized/2008/07/14/tank_hires_080704m0074f024b.jpg)
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Yes, further decreasing its criminally inefficient engine. Also puts more stress on its inferior suspension system. The Challenger II is notably superior in both these categories. Indeed, the Challenger II seems to be superior in just about every aspect compared to the Abrams: more fuel efficient engine, better suspension and cross country speed, better gun, better fire control system, better armor, and, as was mentioned earlier, has a tea maker.
Indeed, I do believe the Challenger II is the best MBT out there.
During the war in Iraq only one Challenger II was destroyed in combat...by another Challenger II. Only twice was the Challenger II hull penetrated by enemy fire, once by an RPG-29 and once by a shaped charge IED. In other cases Challenger II's survived direct hits by 70 RPGs in one battle, or even direct hits from MILAN ATGMs.
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And its predecessor, the Challenger 1 scored a kill on a iraqi tank at 6.5km range. The longest shot ever.
Challenger 2 leopard 2>Abrams any day
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And its predecessor, the Challenger 1 scored a kill on a iraqi tank at 6.5km range. The longest shot ever.
Challenger 2 leopard 2>Abrams any day
I think you're all simplifying things too much. Pretty much all Western MBT's have very similar levels of protection, mobility and firepower. I think the defining factors are crew training and experience. As good as the Leopard 2 is I can't think of any tank on tank combat (as far as I know of) in which it's crews have took place in so I would have to consider the Abrams and Challenger 2 to be more formidable opponents, due to their crews. Of course this is all pure conjecture on my part....
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There's one thing to always remember about this talk of which tank is better:
"The man is the steel. The tank is just metal."--IDF tanker's saying.
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And its predecessor, the Challenger 1 scored a kill on a iraqi tank at 6.5km range. The longest shot ever.
Challenger 2 leopard 2>Abrams any day
I think you're all simplifying things too much. Pretty much all Western MBT's have very similar levels of protection, mobility and firepower. I think the defining factors are crew training and experience. As good as the Leopard 2 is I can't think of any tank on tank combat (as far as I know of) in which it's crews have took place in so I would have to consider the Abrams and Challenger 2 to be more formidable opponents, due to their crews. Of course this is all pure conjecture on my part....
Their is a huge diffrence. European tanks use Diesel engines wich are reliable, fuel efficient, multi-fuel and have very good performance
The Abrams has a gas turbine engine wich consumes 2-3 times more then a diesel engine, has only slightly better acceleration, uses jet fuel wich is extremely flammable, is an unreliable engine, infantery cannot hide behind the abrams because of the exhaust and they arent made anymore but refurbished
I dont really know much about modern tanks, but i do understand the engine problems
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There's one thing to always remember about this talk of which tank is better:
"The man is the steel. The tank is just metal."--IDF tanker's saying.
I disagree strongly. During the first invasion of Iraq, American, British, even French tanks completely outclassed their Iraqi counterparts, who lacked night vision, reliable auto-loaders, effective fire control, gyro stabilized guns, and countless other problems. No matter how good the crews were trained, they still had no chance. That is why they were butchered.
The IDF is a first rate-well funded and equipped military. They have yet to face one on a par with them in recent history, So it stands to reason they are cocky.
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The IDF is a first rate-well funded and equipped military. They have yet to face one on a par with them in recent history, So it stands to reason they are cocky.
Don't forget, the IDF defeated Arab armies in 1967 and 1973 when those Arab armies had up-to-date Soviet bloc tanks and the IDF was using a hodgepodge of Centurions, AMX-13s, M48s and up-gunned Shermans. The M60 was the only modern tank in the Israeli arsenal in those wars. Also by 1973 the Syrian and Egyptians had a clear advantage in night vision (the Israelis didn't have it, the Syrians did) and ATGMs.
It wasn't until Lebanon in 1982 that Israeli tanks were clearly superior to their opposition.
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Don't forget, the IDF defeated Arab armies in 1967 and 1973 when those Arab armies had up-to-date Soviet bloc tanks and the IDF was using a hodgepodge of Centurions, AMX-13s, M48s and up-gunned Shermans. The M60 was the only modern tank in the Israeli arsenal in those wars. Also by 1973 the Syrian and Egyptians had a clear advantage in night vision (the Israelis didn't have it, the Syrians did) and ATGMs.
It wasn't until Lebanon in 1982 that Israeli tanks were clearly superior to their opposition.
Conflicts that took place 40 years ago are recent history now? Have you seen the advances in military tech since then?
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There's one thing to always remember about this talk of which tank is better:
"The man is the steel. The tank is just metal."--IDF tanker's saying.
even French tanks
I love the natural anti-French prejudice that literally everyone shows.
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Conflicts that took place 40 years ago are recent history now? Have you seen the advances in military tech since then?
My point was that crew training is important and can overcome technical inferiority. You argued that that's not the case, and training can't overcome technical inferiority.
Your example was Desert Storm which involved highly trained troops in state of the art tanks versus poorly trained troops in obsolete tanks. Plus, it was fought in the open, flat desert where technical differences are magnified.
My counter example was to point to a situation where better trained troops with inferior tanks defeated a lesser-trained force with better equipment, and why the IDF has an institutional memory of this.
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Agreed on training, I'm sorry. That was rude of me not to clarify.
However, training only gets you so far. At some point it doesn't matter how good your soldiers are if they are completely outclassed. You take the best brigade of any army of 1900 with the best general of 1900, pit it against say...Idano, an armored regiment of a mid-WW2 armored regiment with someone who is at least worth the bird on his collar. You will see the former slaughtered.
My point was it didn't matter how good or bad the Iraqi troops were, they never stood a chance due to their inability to stay alive on a modern battlefield.
So my country is even more guilty of this, as the United States hasn't fought a pitched battle against a comparable foe in quite some time. Not to say that it is a bad thing that we aren't picking fights with the big kids anymore.
@ CPS, only joking buddy. Here, a sexy Leclerc kickin up a rooster tail.
(http://www.impots-utiles.com/mt-static/FCKeditor/UserFiles/Image/char-leclerc.jpg)
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Well generally in war, if you find yourself in a pitched fight versus a comparable foe, you did something wrong.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/T-72%2C_Operation_Desert_Storm.jpg)
Caption says this is a T-72 being driven by coalition forces. Can't tell if this is an Iraqi T-72 captured intact or a T-72 used by Syrian troops.
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^^ Its probably Iraq, at least by the looks of the picture.
Leopard 2A4
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Ground%20Vehicles/egac1v.jpg)
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A well placed shell could do some damage in that moment ;D
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A well placed shell could do some damage in that moment ;D
Yeah good luck timing that shot.
In the name of more pics and less talk, before the mods get upset:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Iraqitankalqurain.jpg)
Iraqi T-55 preserved as a memorial in the Al-Qurain district of Kuwait City.
At this site, on Feb. 24, 1991, 19 members of the Kuwaiti resistance fought a 10 hour battle with a vastly superior Iraqi force before being overwhelmed. 12 of them were killed and 7 severely wounded.
This is the building they holed up in:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Alqurainmartyrsmuseum.jpg)
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Yugoslavian T-55's and soldiers.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Jna_t-55_slovenia.jpg)
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(http://94.100.115.242/999100001-999150000/999106801-999106900/999106860_6_3LPH_1.jpeg)
"Hulzen maken" ;D
As you can see it was a bussy night :P.
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A tank can be easily killed when you have the proper tools
But god help you if you dont have any of them
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Australian_Centurion_Operation_Overlord_1971_(AWM_FOD710305VN).jpg)
Aussie Centurion in 1971 during operation overlord. Centurions wherent the fassest tanks, but like the churchill tanks, they could drive trough the harshest, shittiest, muddiest and hilliest terrain
yes those words are spelled wrong, get stuffed
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(http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9063/armyphotos8.jpg)
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Finnish?
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Look like Germans.
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Finnish?
Uniform says its German :D
And Invincible, you know we got the exact same looking vests here not too long ago, except for different pattern ofc, but the neck protection and everything is the same, I'll post a pic of it later :)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/POOPJOH.jpg)
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That reminds me of BF2 for some reason /\
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/South_Belfast_1981.jpg)
British troops on patrol, South Belfast, 1981.
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AT mine hit.
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4077/1278520149206.jpg)
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(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/POOPJOH.jpg)
Yustax likes surprise SVD Dragunov attack.
By the way Tolga, you have pics of a turkish JNG-90 Bora?
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Cleaning up an IED
(http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5906/albumlarge3816212.jpg)
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(http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9063/armyphotos8.jpg)
blarg Öttinger beer
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(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs114.ash2/39023_123560001024011_100001100356639_123293_131909_n.jpg)
Wow....Just Wow...
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(http://www.terramedia.co.uk/media/film/Battle_of_the_Somme_2.gif)
Going over the top at the Somme
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(http://www.terramedia.co.uk/media/film/Battle_of_the_Somme_2.gif)
Going over the top at the Somme
Almost looks to me like that guy on the right is smiling :o
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He might be, they thought that the bombardment had killed most of the Germans when it didnt
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(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss133/Arisaka99/Hello.jpg)
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Vickers tank with Recoilless rifles and a .50 cal?
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DFW C.V (Aviatik) 5845/16 banking in early morning sunlight. Note the Aviatik trademark on strut; flares in holder behind observer's cockpit; and fully-armed LMG 14 "Parabellum" machine gun. Pilot and squadron unknown.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/DFW_C.V_%28Av%29_banking.jpg/776px-DFW_C.V_%28Av%29_banking.jpg)
(high res.:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/DFW_C.V_%28Av%29_banking.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/DFW_C.V_%28Av%29_banking.jpg))
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Vickers tank with Recoilless rifles and a .50 cal?
ONTOS in Viernam that is.
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I do not know if this is real or not, but i seriously doubt that everything went to plan here. I mean, those people in the back seem a tad to close to that rather big explosion.
(http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1810/1278529711504.jpg)
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Vickers tank with Recoilless rifles and a .50 cal?
ONTOS in Viernam that is.
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I do not know if this is real or not, but i seriously doubt that everything went to plan here. I mean, those people in the back seem a tad to close to that rather big explosion.
(http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1810/1278529711504.jpg)
It's real alright and you're very right about things not going to plan.
During Operation Granby a Centurion AVRE was said to have caught fire which then spread to the munitions, resulting in the massive blast you see here. The fact that it caught fire meant that people were able to try and escape and as a result there were, amazingly, only 4 minor injuries from the blast.
A rumour was that the crew were cooking breakfast on the engine deck. Not a great way to start your day if that's true!
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British crews have been doing that since WW2. Hell, the tanks where modified so they could cook food on the engine deck.
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PXyHIUJFYWs/TElv-d3j01I/AAAAAAAAFWo/K1Q0935DVd8/s1600/793px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148,_Westfront,_deutscher_Soldat.jpg)
Young German soldier during the later stage of WW1.
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Vickers tank with Recoilless rifles and a .50 cal?
ONTOS in Viernam that is.
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I do not know if this is real or not, but i seriously doubt that everything went to plan here. I mean, those people in the back seem a tad to close to that rather big explosion.
(http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1810/1278529711504.jpg)
It's real alright and you're very right about things not going to plan.
During Operation Granby a Centurion AVRE was said to have caught fire which then spread to the munitions, resulting in the massive blast you see here. The fact that it caught fire meant that people were able to try and escape and as a result there were, amazingly, only 4 minor injuries from the blast.
A rumour was that the crew were cooking breakfast on the engine deck. Not a great way to start your day if that's true!
where is this?
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Vickers tank with Recoilless rifles and a .50 cal?
ONTOS in Viernam that is.
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I do not know if this is real or not, but i seriously doubt that everything went to plan here. I mean, those people in the back seem a tad to close to that rather big explosion.
It's real alright and you're very right about things not going to plan.
During Operation Granby a Centurion AVRE was said to have caught fire which then spread to the munitions, resulting in the massive blast you see here. The fact that it caught fire meant that people were able to try and escape and as a result there were, amazingly, only 4 minor injuries from the blast.
A rumour was that the crew were cooking breakfast on the engine deck. Not a great way to start your day if that's true!
It has been confirmed it was the last....
The crew was indeed cooking food and the fuel valve was open.................
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where is this?
First Gulf War.
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2 centurion AVRE's have exploded like that during its long carreer.
One exploded when appearntly the loader dropped a HESH shell and it detonated
the second one in the gulf war as you see above...........died in the most stupid way.
Such a shame to die this way
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/German_Navy_P8_Pistol.jpg/800px-German_Navy_P8_Pistol.jpg)
German naval soldier provides cover for his team, which is boarding a local cargo dhow to search it.
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Yustax likes surprise SVD Dragunov attack.
By the way Tolga, you have pics of a turkish JNG-90 Bora?
Sorry, I dont have any at least from a personal collection. But there are some pics on certain military forums.
And something new from me, not a country well known for its military but I think these guys just look plain badass. Mexican Police/Military Force.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/44dae1ab.jpg)
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Yustax likes surprise SVD Dragunov attack.
By the way Tolga, you have pics of a turkish JNG-90 Bora?
Sorry, I dont have any at least from a personal collection. But there are some pics on certain military forums.
And something new from me, not a country well known for its military but I think these guys just look plain badass. Mexican Police/Military Force.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/44dae1ab.jpg)
hk33? AG3 with bipod and witout mag?
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That is an HK21. The HK33 is a small 5.56 rifle and the G3 has no such stock :)
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That is an HK21. The HK33 is a small 5.56 rifle and the G3 has no such stock :)
ahh i forgott that it was the hk21 that was the mg ;D
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Afghanistan.
(http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4681/39658422515928605242181.jpg)
Serious Business. :|
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You think his machine gun raises alot of dust? ;)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/4843462668_97b7b666e3_b.jpg)
Finally, German PzH2000 in action in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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^ Maus Ausf H
Thats an incredible machine!
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It looks sweet ;D
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(http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/3479/albumlarge3816223.jpg)
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What got blown up?
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What got blown up?
I do not know, i am guessing a dingo but it is unlikely. It is in Afghanistan, that is all i know for sure.
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Definetley is a PPV. I recognise it but cant remember the name.
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reminds me of an IVECO LMV or the british Panther CLV:
PR Model:
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2652/pantherexttex07.jpg)
(http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/3259/pantherdesert10.jpg)
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Yeh thats what I thought it was at first.
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Is the Panzer 2000 fired by pulling a rope????? ???
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Is the Panzer 2000 fired by pulling a rope????? ???
Most cannons are. BTW, it is called a lanyard.
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Prob is, its self propelled arty, its fired by the crew within the turret o.=.O
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PzH 2000... A sick son of a bitch :)
EDIT: A more interesting pic instead
Night firing, a 3 hour firefight broke after the artillery firing 6 dead on the friendly side 13 on the PKK side.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Poopnightfire.jpg)
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Is the Panzer 2000 fired by pulling a rope????? ???
Dunno why they are using it. Never seen it in use like that by Dutch forces in Afghanistan.
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Problem with the PzH2000 in Afghanistan are the temperatures. For example, inside our Marder IFVs temperatures can easily reach 80 degrees Celcius (!) and I think it won´t be cooler inside a PzH and also you´ve got the loader inside it, no need to put another person inside it. Thus that guy is in the outside, where it´s relatively cool, compared to the cramped interior..
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A-H army, WWI, dont know where
(http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3582/ahinfantryww12.jpg)
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Is the Panzer 2000 fired by pulling a rope????? ???
maybe because the noise and dust. i sure would rather pull a rope from 20 m instead of sitting inside.
so i think the rope is optional and preffered in non "intense" moments
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(http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/afghan_07_30_10/a07_24470189.jpg)
Staff Sgt. Brenden Patterson, a Pararescueman, or "PJ," of the 58th Rescue Squadron, of Las Vegas, scans for threats while sitting in the open doorway, with the door-gunner visible in the background, on a rescue mission aboard a Pavehawk CASEVAC helicopter in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan on Wednesday July 28, 2010.
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In this post I want to honor the anniversary of the Operation "Oluja" (Storm) in which most of the occupied Croatia was liberated from the great-serbian aggresion.
(http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Portals/0/images/2008-08-04/Novosti/Oluja01.jpg)
First Croatian presidend, dr. Franjo Tuđman with soldiers after the liberation of Knin
Bonus: Map of the operation!
(http://greatersurbiton.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/oluja.jpg)
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(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9161/94273066.jpg)
HK G3 used by German forces as DMR in Afghanistan. Notice the costumized shoulder stock.
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That krout shops for his stocks at the same place as me. ;D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/Jeremiahthor/SANY0174.jpg)
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^^ How much those mags cost you?
The North Iraq Op, obviously. Weapon is an HK33 and the camo is not standard.
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/OpGunes2008.jpg)
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You Turks seem to like German stuff, right? ^^
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Yupp, we sleep with our German equipment, wouldnt prefer any other. MOST of our foreign equipment comes from German companies so eh. :O
EDIT another pic. Same spot.
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/GunesOperasyon.jpg
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Looking at the care he is getting he is probably shot below the right elbow.
(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8701/albumlarge3816304.jpg)
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Very famous picture, was visible everywhere when it was shot.
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^^ How much those mags cost you?
I am told $15. Love'em I would pick them over any other brand of magazine.
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Yaaay, party time now! :-\
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Captain John Doig with the Canadian Army's 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group, walks through a field of marijuana plants during a patrol near the village of Salavat, in the Panjway district west of Kandahar August 4, 2010.
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guess what this thing is and what it was used for ...
i will reveal in 2 hours
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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
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this was posted somewhere else a while ago iirc.
Mineclearing?
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ahh damit drew
thats right
Progvev-T was a mine clearing tank on a T-54 chassis with a Mig-15 turbine mounted on the turret. the air-stream would uncover mines and the heat would make them explode ...
sound silly but if it works ...
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It was sold as a vacuum cleaner for house use in Soviet Russia after the end of ww2.Unfortunatelly after many accidents with kids,cats,dogs,houses being stuffed in or blown away it was decided to be put in military use . This machine blows ;D
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Heh :D
http://everyravlik.blogspot.com/2009/01/top10-of-most-crazy-tanks-of-all-times.html
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ahh damit drew
thats right
Progvev-T was a mine clearing tank on a T-54 chassis with a Mig-15 turbine mounted on the turret. the air-stream would uncover mines and the heat would make them explode ...
sound silly but if it works ...
Dont be a liar, that machine serve as purpose to scratch backs at Match 4.
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ahh damit drew
thats right
Progvev-T was a mine clearing tank on a T-54 chassis with a Mig-15 turbine mounted on the turret. the air-stream would uncover mines and the heat would make them explode ...
sound silly but if it works ...
Dont be a liar, that machine serve as purpose to scratch backs at Match 4.
It's a leaf blower, they use it to clean up the leaves of the trees when it is fall. It's just a larger version of the ones you have at home to clean up your lawn.
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Everyone is wrong, it is a giant harpoon gun. Notice the harpoon located above the barrel.
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Wrong again, it's a jet propelled grapple gun for going to the moon. It shoots a cable to the moon, and you attach a small elevator to it.
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German soldiers with a captured British Mark IV series tank at an unknown location.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Captured_Mark_I_series_tank.jpg)
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Nice picture Graf.
Arriving at the hospital after what i think stepping on a AP mine.
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Caucasus front
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Ottoman third army with winter equipment 1914
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Nothing better than a fun ski trip ;D
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Nice picture Graf.
Arriving at the hospital after what i think stepping on a AP mine.
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First thing I noticed here: the doctors are wearing camo hospital scrubs. Gotta love the Army. Fun side note, the Marines are issued olive drab undershirts and underwear, so you can hide yourself when you are not wearing pants, I guess.
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It's all about uniformity. Uniforms = everyone dressed the same = thinking you're part of a team, not an individual.
It's one of the purposes of military uniforms throughout history.
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Caucasus front
Ottoman third army with winter equipment 1914
Modern day 3rd Army also patrols the Caucasus areas :)
Fun side note, the Marines are issued olive drab undershirts and underwear, so you can hide yourself when you are not wearing pants, I guess.
Us too, but not the cheap stuff. Some smooth/soft material :D
This is an ex-Turkish Army guy I know that works for a private contractor firm in Afghanistan.
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Corporal of the Bermuda Regiment looking badass:
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British stronghold
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found an early version of the maus
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big suprise: its French
Tank: Char 2C
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Sorta well known here :P Though that belongs in the WW2 POTD thread ;)
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But it was a WWI era tank.
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But it was a WWI era tank.
but it was used(/tried to use) in ww2 too.
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Men from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, and Afghan Army soldiers step it out toward a helicopter crash during the first day of Operation Thresher in Trek Nawa, Afghanistan, July 23. The men were the first group on foot to make it to the crash site, which was more than three miles away. India Company Marines and Afghan Army soldiers conducted the clearing mission to remove weapons caches, disrupt Taliban activity and interact with the local populace. During the first day of the operation a helicopter crash caused the Marines to temporarily shift their mission and pause the operation. India Company resumed days later and completed the operation July 27.
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But it was a WWI era tank.
but it was used(/tried to use) in ww2 too.
More like Interwar.
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As it is Sunday, time for a lulz photo :)
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9836/armyphotos15.jpg)
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But it was a WWI era tank.
Nope, it was WW2.
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well i call it WWI and interwar. Designed in 1917 but not built until 1921. I put this in other eras because it was not built right before WWII during the rearming decade.
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As it is Sunday, time for a lulz photo :)
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9836/armyphotos15.jpg)
I'm almost positive this is a repost O:
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^^ It's definitley a repost on some MPN threads but I dont think it is here.
North Iraq.
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Hoth troopers?
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Yeah, but with PKM's :)
Another. Both are from the same Operation Sun
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When did Turkey adopt the PKM?
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When did Turkey adopt the PKM?
When they decided that the MG3 was too heavy and long to be carried up in the mountains. This was right around the time the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia owed us money so they had to give us a bunch of weapons and vehicles for free.
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As a ex-Belgian machine gunner once said to me=Get either=
FN MAG
MG3
PK
or if possible, all 3 of them
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rather old pic of mine.
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Old baby put too new use. ;D
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German MG nest.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MG-Nest2_retouched.jpg)
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Espionage pigeons.
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German MG nest.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/MG-Nest2_retouched.jpg)
From left to right=
-Was is?
--Mein gott!
---Nein! Das cannot be!
----Guess its true
-----Yep....Those australians are having a barbie..... Out of their trenches....
Espionage pigeons.
OOOH MIJNEN blauwe geschelpte!
GY zet ME lievingsduif!!!
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Espionage pigeons.
LOL
Does it exist a bomber version ? XD
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You just remembered me to Worms: world party ;D
Those homing pigeons were a blast :D
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I love that game, I just re-downloaded it. So awesome, part of my childhood.
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^Very sad image....
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A Dingo provides cover while a Panzerhaubitze 2000 is being transported to Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan.
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^^ How many of those Pzh's in A-stan.
Here's 2 pics for you Homer, 2 pics of your helicopter in an exercise.
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Tolga's boots of victory.
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Jolly green giants!<3
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M67 "Zippo's" in vietnam. This Zippo is firing at tall grass. They where one of the best (and sometimes only way) to prevent an ambush
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Jolly green giants!<3
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M67 "Zippo's" in vietnam. This Zippo is firing at tall grass. They where one of the best (and sometimes only way) to prevent an ambush
holy crap that a long distance! :o
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Aaaah, the CH-53, codename "Nazgul". Nice photos Tolga!
Germany currently has 3 PzH2000 in Afghanistan. One is in Kunduz field camp but I´m not sure where the other two are. In Kunduz, too, I guess.
Oh, and what I just found:
Another six PzH 2000s are being equipped for what the Bundeswehr refers to as "Afghan climatic conditions" and will be ready for deployment in the first half of 2011.
I hope they will be put to good use...
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Jolly green giants!<3
(http://www.glogster.com/media/2/6/6/9/6060943.gif)
M67 "Zippo's" in vietnam. This Zippo is firing at tall grass. They where one of the best (and sometimes only way) to prevent an ambush
holy crap that a long distance! :o
Ye the M67 had a pretty long range for a flametank.
IIRC the North Vietnamese hated 2 US vehicles to the bone=The Zippo and the M42 Duster. As both of them where very effective in tackling their preffered way of attacks
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An undercover special police operative stands next to a horse pulled cart loaded with smuggled cigarettes near Jamu Mare, western Romania, on the border with Serbia, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Authorities in Romania say seven people, including a local official, have been detained and accused of smuggling cigarettes from neighboring Serbia by horse and cart. Cigarette smuggling sharply increased in Romania since the government levied extra taxes on tobacco last year.Tobacco companies claim one in three cigarettes is counterfeit or smuggled.
Can the police break the Geneva Convention, too? :P
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German Police SF in Romania? But ciggarette smuggling is huge trouble, we get alot of trouble form the same guys here.
Polis Özel Harekat (Police Special Forces)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/POH-2.jpg)
EDIT: This is our urban styled loadout.
http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww31/thanamestolga/Infantry/Gearshow.jpg
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Haha, no, German police doesn´t work in Romania. It´s most likely a Romanian police officer who likes Flecktarn. But the funny thing is he has the German flag on his arm and the rank of a "Schütze" (=private), thus my comment about violating the Geneva Convention. ;)
Nice loadout. Is the black vest a balistic vest?
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and he has a double barrel shotgun ?
wtf !
i guess the shotgun was taken from the smugglers because i cant imagine special ops police force using such an awkward weapon.
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Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and Count Friedrich von Beck-Rzyikowsky 1830-1920 colonel general (chief of staff of the Imperial and Royal Army of Austria-Hungary 1881-1906), supervising army manoeuvres in Bystřice pod Hostýnem (German Bistritz am Hostein)
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Haha, no, German police doesn´t work in Romania. It´s most likely a Romanian police officer who likes Flecktarn. But the funny thing is he has the German flag on his arm and the rank of a "Schütze" (=private), thus my comment about violating the Geneva Convention. ;)
Nice loadout. Is the black vest a balistic vest?
See thats what I asked, seems kind of disrespectful to the Germans, for me at least. A Romanian guy wearing a German uniform, forget the camo im only talking about the flag. And the vest is a light one, so its only ballistic protection is up front :) Thats a step for me though, before it was a light vest strictly for carrying ammo.
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awch
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A brand new BTR-T takes on the first trails. These are one of the 2 new vehicles to be used in Urban warfare
BTR-T will be a heavy APC
BMPT will be a dedicated anti-personell combat vehicle
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I think this thread just might contain every single Abrams every destroyed or mobility-killed in combat, from several different angles.
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
When has a green-camo-ed Abrams ever been lost in combat?
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
When has a green-camo-ed Abrams ever been lost in combat?
I bet marine corps have used them quite long in desert..
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
When has a green-camo-ed Abrams ever been lost in combat?
During the initial invasion of Iraq, not all of our equipment had been repainted in desert tan. In addition to that, ALL our chemical suits were woodland camo.
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Civilian casualty in Afganistan. Don't click the link if you have a weak stomach.
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/3015/albumlarge3816217.jpg
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
When has a green-camo-ed Abrams ever been lost in combat?
During the initial invasion of Iraq, not all of our equipment had been repainted in desert tan. In addition to that, ALL our chemical suits were woodland camo.
Yep. Somebody done goof'd.
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No, still have some in nice green camo :)
When has a green-camo-ed Abrams ever been lost in combat?
During the initial invasion of Iraq, not all of our equipment had been repainted in desert tan. In addition to that, ALL our chemical suits were woodland camo.
Yep. Somebody done goof'd.
To reply on this, i bet the Chemical suits are one of the few things the troops would not have minded getting winter gear in the desert :p
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Quite the opposite, Siben. Chemical suits were, are, and always will be hated by soldiers for a number of reasons. They are made of air-tight material, so they have no ventilation, a terrible feature to have in the hot Mesopotamian sands. On top of that, they were the wrong camo and extremely bulky.
(http://www.inthenews.co.uk/photo/pentagon-planning-for-invasion-of-iraq-on-presumption-of-uk-support-inquiry-into-war-hears-$12052$300.jpg)
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No, i am just saying a white chemical suit is still better then a dark green one in the desert :p
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Pink is the best in a desert.
i am not kidding
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Quite the opposite, Siben. Chemical suits were, are, and always will be hated by soldiers for a number of reasons. They are made of air-tight material, so they have no ventilation, a terrible feature to have in the hot Mesopotamian sands. On top of that, they were the wrong camo and extremely bulky.
Plus they are rough and prickly on the inside, so freeballing it isn't a real option for dealing with the heat.
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An US Marine relaxes after the Battle of Hue. And so is his M50 Ontos
Another vehicle that was LOVED by its crews, but hated by the general staff. And got phased out very fast despite being an excellent vehicle
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/M50-ontos-vietnam.gif)
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OK CHYOU ALL PAY ATTENTION
LOADER GO LEFT
COMMANDER ME go RIGHT!
REST OF CREW RESERVE
TANK FLIP UPSIDE DOWN AND SNEAK UP TO ENEMY VIA TREES
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One more of those not funny jokes and I will ban you and lock this thread.
- Flippy
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Oh yeah? Try it!
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Damn BF2 engine!
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One more of those not funny jokes and I will ban you and lock this thread.
- Flippy
+1
"Highway of Death" 1st Gulf War, the Iraqi Army was retreating from Kuwait in large numbers of looted civilian vehicles. Coalition air power stopped them.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2268/2194145023_12d5e405ec.jpg)