Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Torenico]

Im almost sure that it is a MAS-36

[VonMudra]

Yes, it's a MAS 36

[siben]

It is a Mas 36/51 to be precise.

[Rawhide]

General Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot, 11 December 1917

The Battle of Jerusalem (officially named the "Jerusalem Operations" by the British) developed from 17 November with fighting continuing until 30 December 1917 during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I. Before the capture of Jerusalem was secured, two battles were recognised by the British as being fought in the Judean Hills to the north and east of the Hebron–Junction Station line. These were the Battle of Nebi Samwil from 17 to 24 November and the Defence of Jerusalem from 26 to 30 December 1917. They also recognised within the Jerusalem Operations, the Battle of Jaffa from 21 to 22 December 1917 fought between the Tul Keram–Junction Station–Jaffa railway and the sea, as a subsidiary battle.

German soldiers in Jerusalem in 1914

[hOMEr_jAy]

A wounded French soldier with the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is pictured at the site of a powerful bomb that struck a peacekeeping patrol in the Lebanese coastal town of Tyre on December 9, 2011 wounding five French soldiers and two civilians.

[THeTA0123]

Ford T utility with a .303 vickers of the Desert mountain corps, jeruzalem operations, world war 1

[Tolga<3]

Special Forces in Vietnam during the "Son Tay raid"

[Rawhide]

Italian artillery in Ethiopia in 1936

The Second Italo–Abyssinian War (also referred to as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War or just the Ethiopian War, Italian: Guerra d'Etiopia) was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia). The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa (Africa Orientale Italiana, or AOI)

[Tolga<3]

Rule #69 of COIN: Don't get caught with your pants down.

[hOMEr_jAy]

^Reminds me of a story a buddy told me. During his deployment to Kosovo his task was to observe "donkey paths" drug and weapon smugglers use. It seems like a high-power night-vision device is a nice tool to spy on people. ^^

Anyway, to revive this thread again:

A German soldier with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard at the scene where a German military armored vehicle was hit by road side bomb in Baghlan north of Kabul, Nov. 29, 2011. Two German soldiers were wounded after their vehicle was hit. (Javid Basharat/Associated Press)

Lucky soldiers...

[Kading]

Lucky soldiers and a damn well designed vehicle.

[Krätzer]

Lets build a fast Tank. Beginning of BT Series.

[hOMEr_jAy]

German Transall activating flares as AA rocket countermeassures.

[IrishReloaded]

porno o.O

[Rawhide]

That picture is trippin'