Picture of the Day (Other eras)

[Dukat]

A shiite member of the Imam al-Ali Brigade shooting rockets at IS emplacements, Tikrit, Iraq, 2015.

[Born2Kill 007]

Belgian-Dutch convoy consisting of Tromp, Zuiderkruis, Westdiep and what seems to me to be the Abraham van der Hulst, some time in the nineties. All the ships on this picture are no longer part of the Belgian or Dutch navy

[Dukat]

A shiite militiaman presents the banner of the Gind al-Imam Brigades, Tikrit, Iraq, 2015.

[Turkish007]

Men of the 1st Mechanised Infantry participating in Turkey-Azerbaijan Joint Exercises, Nakhcivan, May 2015

[Born2Kill 007]

An U.S. Air Force Convair F-106A Delta Dart (s/n 57-2494) of the 102nd Fighter Interceptor Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard based at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts (USA), intercepting a Soviet Tu-95 Bear D bomber aircraft off Cape Cod on 15 April 1982. The F-106A 57-2494 (c/n 8-24-77) was retired to the AMARC as FN0163 on 29 December 1987. It was converted to an unmanned QF-106A drone and shot down with a FIM-92 Stinger hand-held surface-to-air missile on 27 August 1996.

[Kalkalash]

EuroSpike anti-tank missile fired at a Finnish military exercise:


And what it looks like when it hits:


If you have Facebook, here's a whole gallery of photos (67 in total) from the latest exercise in Lapland:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.912051905484866.1073741832.888125691210821&type=1

[Leopardi]

^Don't need facebook to view the FDF galleries. Nice artillery vid there too

[Born2Kill 007]

A mock-up of the F-103 was built at the Republic factory. In this image, the pilot's capsule is shown in its lowered position.

[Dukat]

Soldiers of the Battalion 'Kyiv-1' enroute to reinforce ukrainian positions near the town of Marinka, Oblast Donezk, Ukraine, recently.

[Leopardi]

Leopard 2A4 fires.

[Redbadd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7q5oldRKi8

Syrian rebels using a German 10.5cm leFH 18.

Naisss.

[LuckyOne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7q5oldRKi8

Syrian rebels using a German 10.5cm leFH 18.

Naisss.

Where the hell did they get the ammo for it? The things some people keep in their basements (or more likely the government in their warehouses)... As horrible as it sounds, seems like ol' man Hitler just got more body count assigned to his soul. At this rate he'll be lucky if he gets out of Hell after serving his 999th eternal punishment...

[Hjaldrgud]

[Born2Kill 007]

[Captain Pyjama Shark]

200 years ago today, Napoleon did surrender (actually he didn't until July 15th, but that's why you don't trust pop songs for their historiography)