Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Biiviz]

Dunno, looks like some kind of Kevlar add-on to me.

(Click for bigger picture)

[Torenico]

After the Bombing of Plaza de Mayo, 1955.

The Bombings of Plaza de Mayo tok place in the Capital City of Argentina, Buenos Aires, on June 16, 1955. The Bombings took place when a crowd of people gathered in front of the Casa Rosada supporting president Juan Domingo Perón, this action was to be the first step of a Coup d'état, wich was aborted.

Around 34 Argentine Airplanes attacked Plaza de Mayo and Casa Rosada, there were 22 North American AT-6 , 5 Beechcraft Model 18 , 3 Consolidated PBY Catalina and 4 Gloster Meteor .

364 Civilians died and many more (Some say over 700) were injured.

It is unkown how many Airplanes were shot down that day, but some sources claim that 3 Airplanes were shot down by AA Guns in the City, and a North American AT-6 was shot down by a Loyal pilot flying a Gloster Meteor over Rio de la Plata.

[hOMEr_jAy]

Is that just a military grade scarf or is that some kind of kevlar neck protection?

It´s a Kevlar extension for the body armour that protects the upper arms and as you correctly said, the neck and throat, mainly against shrapnell.

Austrian Peacekeeper patrols the Golan heights.

[:| Hi]

That is a really cool photo.

[Tolga<3]

A Marksman and a soldier keeping an eye on the entrance of a cave with terrorists in it, turned out to be some sort of HQ.

[Tankbuster]

The scope is almost as big as the gun

[Tolga<3]

Actually that rifle itself is small, thats its specialty. You must not have seen the thermals yet

This is what a scope the size of a rifle looks like
http://www.dha.com.tr/fotogaleri/orj/19361_35_10022012_12.jpg

[Torenico]

Green helmets, red stuff in his gloves in a snowy place?

Camo?? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??

[Eat Uranium]

More importantly, is the end of his scope frosted up?

[Tolga<3]

Yep yep and yep. We don't cover our helmets with any sort of camo and his gloves are his own personal bought gloves not issued. Camo isn't really important at all, the frost however on his scope can't really explain that one away.

Here's another perspective, up to the right corner you can see the area which they're keeping an eye on
http://www.dha.com.tr/fotogaleri/orj/19361_4283_10022012_1.jpg

They're also first responders, which might explain why they look like a rag tagged bunch.

[Rawhide]

The French Campaign, 1814 by Jean Meissonier (1815-1891)

[hOMEr_jAy]

Not really military-related, but cool, anyway:

German SEK from the state of NRW raiding a MC-owned brothel in Leverkusen, February 9th 2012.

[Rawhide]

"Battle of Karnal" paining by Adel Adili (1987)

The Battle of Karnal (February 13, 1739), was a decisive victory for Nader Shah the emperor of Persia during his invasion of India. Shah's forces defeated the army of Muhammad Shah, the Mughal emperor in little more than three hours thus paving the way for the Persian sack of Delhi. The battle took place at Karnal, 110 kilometres (68 mi) north of Delhi, India

[Tankbuster]

What people don't know is that the Mughal emperor invited Nadir Shah to invade India so that his position would be strengthened. Guess it kinda backfired

[Rawhide]

Portuguese soldiers in Angola

The South African Border War, commonly referred to as the Angolan Bush War in South Africa, was a conflict that took place from 1966 to 1989 in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Angola between South Africa and its allied forces (mainly UNITA) on the one side and the Angolan government, South-West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), and their allies (mainly Cuba) on the other. It was closely intertwined with the Angolan Civil War and the Namibian War of Independence.