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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5745 on: 31-01-2013, 12:01:50 »
The weapon appears to be the Carl Gustav m/45
That´s correct. The soldier is from the Latvian National Guard. Kinda odd that they still use it, while they usually field modern equipment.
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5746 on: 31-01-2013, 12:01:46 »
Well when it comes to shooting 9mm fast there is not much difference between an MP5 and a Carl Gustav.

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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5747 on: 31-01-2013, 23:01:27 »

"Testing of the Peacekeeper reentry vehicles, all eight (ten capable) fired from only one missile. Each line represents the path of a warhead which, if it were live, would detonate with the explosive power of twenty-five Hiroshima-style weapons"

Wanted to post this one for a long time, but couldn't find it, now i had the time to search a bit :)
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5748 on: 01-02-2013, 02:02:51 »
Iraq

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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5749 on: 01-02-2013, 03:02:12 »
Am I an unprecedented n00b, or does he have a STG44?

Nice MIRV picture too.
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5750 on: 01-02-2013, 05:02:36 »
Am I an unprecedented n00b, or does he have a STG44?

Nice MIRV picture too.
Yep, about 400-500,000 STG variants were produced during the war. The soviets gathered most of them up and distributed them to nations like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as various irregular groups in parts of Africa and the Middle East. To this day, you will see militia groups in Iraq with STGs.
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5751 on: 01-02-2013, 06:02:22 »


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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5752 on: 01-02-2013, 07:02:04 »
And when those countries get "liberated" by NATO (read: USA) those StGs will most likely get squished under a tank.  :-\
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5753 on: 01-02-2013, 07:02:10 »
Friend of me and Kading is currently a Major, was a Captain during the Iraq war.  In a warehouse in Iraq, they found crates of MP40s and MG42s.  He was put in charge of rigging them with explosives and det cord and destroying the lot.  He was not happy with those orders :(

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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5754 on: 01-02-2013, 09:02:38 »
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5755 on: 01-02-2013, 11:02:56 »
Chadian army?

Nice mod on the AK.

Anyway, good luck with those Sukhois Venezuela... we are used to 22,000 hours service life of P&W F100, but with that Saturn AL-31F only lasted 8,000 to 11,000 at best. Sometimes, political deviance do come at a cost, which cannot be easily spotted from the outside.

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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5756 on: 01-02-2013, 20:02:58 »
« Last Edit: 01-02-2013, 20:02:42 by Born2Kill 007 »
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5758 on: 02-02-2013, 03:02:22 »

Tracks under the B-36

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDCgMlomhvM

What? Do you know more about this? Or do I have to find out for myself?
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Re: Picture of the Day (Other eras)
« Reply #5759 on: 02-02-2013, 18:02:28 »
Can't tell you more than wat you can easily find on internet, secretly hoped to hear more about it by posting it here
For what i get from it, it's just an experiment to divide the pressure when landing so lighter airfields could also handle them

Quote from: wikipedia
The XB-36 featured a single-wheel main landing gear whose tires were the largest ever manufactured up to that time, 9 ft 2 in (2.7 m) tall, 3 ft (1 m) wide, and weighing 1,320 lb (600 kg), with enough rubber for 60 automobile tires.[3] These tires placed so much weight per unit area on runways, the XB-36 was restricted to the Fort Worth airfield adjacent to the plant of manufacture, and to a mere two USAF bases beyond that. At the suggestion of General Henry H. Arnold, the single-wheel gear was soon replaced by a four-wheel bogie.[27] At one point a tank-like tracked landing gear was also tried on the XB-36, but proved heavy and noisy and was quickly abandoned.[3]
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