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Posted: 11/28/2021 5:20:51 PM EDT
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 Supermarine Seafire 47s with very clipped wings used for steam catapult trials in the early 1950s on HMS Perseus (R51) |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 5:29:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/ea0e9Bq.gif Supermarine Seafire 47s with very clipped wings used for steam catapult trials in the early 1950s on HMS Perseus (R51) Seems like they didn't want 'em back. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 5:40:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cb4017: General Matthew Ridgway, on the right, at an airbase in Korea. My Dad took the picture. A lot of stars there. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45352/img034__Medium__jpg-2159049.JPG Why do generals in the field not wear a sidearm (guy in the middle)? Seems you’d want to at least act the part of an armed troop. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 5:58:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By writerdeluxe2006: Why do generals in the field not wear a sidearm (guy in the middle)? Seems you’d want to at least act the part of an armed troop. He has Ridgeway on his left, that is sidearm enough. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 8:25:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Brundoggie: He has Ridgeway on his left, that is sidearm enough. You mean the guy who made a show of wearing hand grenades but had wraps of tape around the spoons rendering them useless? There were only 4 or 5 US generals killed in ground combat in WWII and I can’t think of a single instance where a .45 or a hand grenade would have been tremendous use. No generals were killed in combat in Korea and I believe it was only 1 in Vietnam. Historically speaking,generals generally surrender rather than pulling out the their pistol and using them as things have gone quite bad at that point. Edit: we can debate this one as I looked it up to see how wrong I was. Maurice Rose was killed by a German tank commander with an MP-40. Rose was either attempting to surrender and unholster his pistol or use it to shoot at a tank. |
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Posted: 11/28/2021 8:26:56 PM EDT
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Last PBY Catalina is US Navy service,1957. I think it would have been neat had it been repainted in the grey and white scheme like the last reserve Corsairs of the same time.
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Posted: 11/28/2021 8:39:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: ... You mean the guy who made a show of wearing hand grenades but had wraps of tape around the spoons rendering them useless? Taping the Safety Spoons was actually fairly common to prevent any snag from unintentionally pulling the pin and the grenade then going BOOM! You just undo the wrap of tape (usually doubled over on itself at the end to make a "grab tab"). If you watch "Blackhawk Down", when prepping to go out on the mission, the Delta Guys are "tape" their grenades. BIGGER_HAMMER 
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Posted: 11/28/2021 10:53:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: Taping the Safety Spoons was actually fairly common to prevent any snag from unintentionally pulling the pin and the grenade then going BOOM! You just undo the wrap of tape (usually doubled over on itself at the end to make a "grab tab"). If you watch "Blackhawk Down", when prepping to go out on the mission, the Delta Guys are "tape" their grenades. BIGGER_HAMMER Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: Originally Posted By outofbattery: ... You mean the guy who made a show of wearing hand grenades but had wraps of tape around the spoons rendering them useless? Taping the Safety Spoons was actually fairly common to prevent any snag from unintentionally pulling the pin and the grenade then going BOOM! You just undo the wrap of tape (usually doubled over on itself at the end to make a "grab tab"). If you watch "Blackhawk Down", when prepping to go out on the mission, the Delta Guys are "tape" their grenades. BIGGER_HAMMER Yes I think Max Cleland made that mistake in Vietnam and had to live with it through the remainder of his life. |
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Posted: 11/29/2021 10:11:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: Last PBY Catalina is US Navy service,1957. I think it would have been neat had it been repainted in the grey and white scheme like the last reserve Corsairs of the same time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/0F8F79A4-3A67-4AB9-9B60-A6129F2FBF2A_jpe-2184828.JPG  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 11/29/2021 10:57:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat is a unique photo - I've never seen another one like that with a seaplane landing on a snowbank. Wheels Up Landing on snow? Is that an emergency set down or ? ? ? Thanks for the great photos!  BIGGER_HAMMER
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Posted: 11/29/2021 1:24:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Norway flew ASW Catalinas until 1961. Traded them in for the Grumman Albatross for awhile before getting Orions https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/7b3525e3d41a646358e8bb02189fe54a_jpg-2185362.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/tumblr_pctvcff2661s6qr4mo1_1280_jpg-2185363.JPG Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Originally Posted By outofbattery: Last PBY Catalina is US Navy service,1957. I think it would have been neat had it been repainted in the grey and white scheme like the last reserve Corsairs of the same time. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/0F8F79A4-3A67-4AB9-9B60-A6129F2FBF2A_jpe-2184828.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/7b3525e3d41a646358e8bb02189fe54a_jpg-2185362.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/tumblr_pctvcff2661s6qr4mo1_1280_jpg-2185363.JPG We had Catalinas post-war too. The Soviets shot one of them down.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_affair |
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Posted: 11/29/2021 6:09:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bigger_Hammer: That is a unique photo - I've never seen another one like that with a seaplane landing on a snowbank. Wheels Up Landing on snow? Is that an emergency set down or ? ? ? Thanks for the great photos! BIGGER_HAMMER The Albatross was marketed as "triphibian" and could be equipped with skis for safe landings on ice or snow of greater than 6" depth. All Canadian and some US Albatross had the kit, presumably the Norwegians did too. Small outrigger skis:  Attached File Attached FilePair of fuselage skis fitted:  Attached FileCatalina wheels up landing and take off from ice/snow - rescue of B-17E "My Gal Sal" crew on the Greenland ice cap, June 1942  Attached File Attached File Attached FileMy Gal Sal was recovered in 1995 and is hanging in the National WWII Museum: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/visit/museum-campus/us-freedom-pavilion/warbirds/b-17e-flying-fortress |
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Posted: 12/1/2021 5:10:24 PM EDT
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 2nd LT from Swedistan. 
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Posted: 12/2/2021 11:21:41 AM EDT
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 Trilateral Experimental Vehicle (TVT) prototype based on Leopard 1 armed with PARS 3 LR missiles |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 12:12:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/2/2021 12:37:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhen was that photo taken I wonder? Seems like that has on it some of the "stealthy" features we heard about the blackhawks used in the bin-laden raid. |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 12:47:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/2/2021 12:47:53 PM EDT
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Ejército Cubano soldiers on the move while battling M-26-7, 1958
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Posted: 12/2/2021 1:19:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryFound this by doing Google reverse image search. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35342/this-is-the-first-image-ever-of-a-stealthy-black-hawk-helicopter |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 1:25:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWomen like that will keep you warm in the foxhole.  Too bad she's an Air Force weenie and I'll never see her in my foxhole. 
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Posted: 12/2/2021 5:04:17 PM EDT
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 Leopard 2 turret production |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 5:10:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By swede1986: Women like that will keep you warm in the foxhole. Too bad she's an Air Force weenie and I'll never see her in my foxhole. Sometimes, the air force has its perks |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 5:48:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stoner01: Sometimes, the air force has its perks But when you see the Air Force in a foxhole, you know the war is lost.      From BTR-4 to BTR-4MV1 in 2 easy steps.  Ukraine |
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Posted: 12/2/2021 6:24:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/2/2021 6:28:10 PM EDT
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   Fairchild XC-120 |
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Posted: 12/3/2021 11:33:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/OPqtJh2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/pdQO0Ap.jpg https://i.imgur.com/N2TGVVZ.jpg Fairchild XC-120
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Posted: 12/8/2021 2:46:18 PM EDT
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Panther used at Aberdeen in 1950 to test M20 recoilless and super bazooka
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Posted: 12/8/2021 6:59:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Panther used at Aberdeen in 1950 to test M20 recoilless and super bazookahttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ABERDEEN_1950_PANTHER4_jpg-2196589.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ABERDEEN_M20_PANTHER_1950_jpg-2196592.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ABERDEEN_M20_PANTHER_1950_2_jpg-2196594.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ABERDEEN_M20_PANTHER_1950_3_jpg-2196596.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/172926/ABERDEEN_M20_PANTHER_1950_4_jpg-2196598.JPG
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Posted: 12/9/2021 4:54:28 PM EDT
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 AMX30B2 with BRENUS upgrade kit  UDES03 testbed, Sweden  Pz. 68 (Panzer 68 - Tank 68), Switzerland  A Valentine Tank with a jet engine mounted to it in order to test how effective this would be against minefields, tests conducted after WW2 |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 7:42:14 PM EDT
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 GAU-19/A .50 cal Gatling Gun on a Columbian AC-47T "Fantasma" fixed wing gunship firing   Combat Boat X-18 / CB X-18, or by it's nickname "tankboat", Indonesia  Indonesian Navy frigate KRI Oswald Siahaan launching a Russian antiship missile P-800 Yakhont |
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Posted: 12/9/2021 8:13:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/10/2021 1:54:19 PM EDT
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Spanish Troops engaged in combat during the Ifni-Sáhara War in 1958.
 Spanish Soldier on watch during the war.  Spanish Heavy MG team setting up to hit enemy troops.  Spanish Paratrooper armed with a FAO M1951 in Africa during the war.  Spanish Foreign Legion during the war. Only the Legion really had CETMEs at this point, the regular army still had the M1916 and M1943 Mausers   Spanish Troops during the war.  |
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Posted: 12/10/2021 2:45:31 PM EDT
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Guerra do Ultramar (Portuguese War in Africa)
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Posted: 12/10/2021 3:58:35 PM EDT
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Great pictures.
   Aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky at the controls of an R-5 helicopter, ca.1945  USAAF B-29 with a RAF Grand Slam earthquake bomb.  Dornier Do 29 - A West German experimental STOL aircraft built in the 1950s |
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Posted: 12/12/2021 1:50:16 PM EDT
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Allison T38 turboprop B-17 testbed, 1947
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Posted: 12/12/2021 7:50:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: Edit: we can debate this one as I looked it up to see how wrong I was. Maurice Rose was killed by a German tank commander with an MP-40. Rose was either attempting to surrender and unholster his pistol or use it to shoot at a tank. There is a Rose medical center in Denver. Was there about two years ago. They have a shrine to him hidden in a corner, nobody seems aware if it. Gen. Rose was Jewish (though not observant, CO National Guard which is why this is in Denver) and highest ranking Americans officer killed in WWII. If you go to their website, nothing about Gen. Rose. It's sad. https://healthonecares.com/locations/rose/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Rose The son and grandson of rabbis from Poland, Rose was at the time the highest ranking Jew in the U.S. Army, though he was not especially religious, did not publicize his faith, and claimed in his Army records to be Protestant. He was also the highest-ranking American killed by enemy fire in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Rose was married twice and had two sons. |
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Posted: 12/12/2021 10:31:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/B9V68ka.jpg GAU-19/A .50 cal Gatling Gun on a Columbian AC-47T "Fantasma" fixed wing gunship firing https://i.imgur.com/aU6UlYo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0XXpS9j.jpg Combat Boat X-18 / CB X-18, or by it's nickname "tankboat", Indonesia https://i.imgur.com/496xrxw.jpg Indonesian Navy frigate KRI Oswald Siahaan launching a Russian antiship missile P-800 Yakhont I like that patrol boat, would like to know more about it. Edit to add, and now I do - the top picture is a rendering of the original mockup, which had a 105mm cannon, and the other is the single boat currently undergoing trials with a 30mm autocannon. A missile firing version is in the works, but not yet developed. I'd like to see the 105 version developed further, but it can only carry 20 troops to the 30mm carrying 60. Interesting catamaran design. |
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Posted: 12/12/2021 11:16:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By armoredman: I like that patrol boat, would like to know more about it. Edit to add, and now I do - the top picture is a rendering of the original mockup, which had a 105mm cannon, and the other is the single boat currently undergoing trials with a 30mm autocannon. A missile firing version is in the works, but not yet developed. I'd like to see the 105 version developed further, but it can only carry 20 troops to the 30mm carrying 60. Interesting catamaran design. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By armoredman: Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/B9V68ka.jpg GAU-19/A .50 cal Gatling Gun on a Columbian AC-47T "Fantasma" fixed wing gunship firing https://i.imgur.com/aU6UlYo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0XXpS9j.jpg Combat Boat X-18 / CB X-18, or by it's nickname "tankboat", Indonesia https://i.imgur.com/496xrxw.jpg Indonesian Navy frigate KRI Oswald Siahaan launching a Russian antiship missile P-800 Yakhont I like that patrol boat, would like to know more about it. Edit to add, and now I do - the top picture is a rendering of the original mockup, which had a 105mm cannon, and the other is the single boat currently undergoing trials with a 30mm autocannon. A missile firing version is in the works, but not yet developed. I'd like to see the 105 version developed further, but it can only carry 20 troops to the 30mm carrying 60. Interesting catamaran design. How about a Finnish Jurmo with 120mm mortar? 
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Posted: 12/13/2021 8:50:50 AM EDT
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More photos from the Guerra Ifni-Sáhara.
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Posted: 12/13/2021 8:57:01 AM EDT
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 Leopard 2 tanks on NATO exercise "Fränkischer Schild 86", West Germany, September 23rd 1986. Today every officer of this unit would be expelled from the Bundeswehr for using or tolerating the Ghost insignia of the 11th Panzer Division from the Wehrmacht. |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 11:34:49 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/13/2021 11:46:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/DepBWZb.jpg Leopard 2 tanks on NATO exercise "Frnkischer Schild 86", West Germany, September 23rd 1986. Today every officer of this unit would be expelled from the Bundeswehr for using or tolerating the Ghost insignia of the 11th Panzer Division from the Wehrmacht. |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 11:52:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/220C4484-D18F-4E5A-96DF-AF0433AA6A49_jpe-2202340.JPG Piggybacking on JBT's pics,the last combat use of the He-111 in 1958. More photos from the Guerra Ifni-Sáhara.  :format(jpg)/f.elconfidencial.com%2Foriginal%2F796%2Ffce%2F670%2F796fce6705f4d486f6e87165987419c6.jpg) :format(jpg)/f.elconfidencial.com%2Foriginal%2Fd9e%2F70e%2F325%2Fd9e70e325e39af5f8a585f45359b3255.jpg)  |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 1:34:37 PM EDT
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 MCLC from a Halftrack and a Magach 7, Israel   Rare view of a Merkava Mk4M with the turret face armour and side skirts off. Gives some idea of how massive the armour on the turret is, and the very rare use of coil spring suspension on a contemporary AFV  Leclerc, UAE |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 1:49:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By outofbattery: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/220C4484-D18F-4E5A-96DF-AF0433AA6A49_jpe-2202340.JPG Piggybacking on JBT’s pics,the last combat use of the He-111 in 1958. Great, I always liked the HE-111, but I think this is not a Heinkel, it's a CASA 2.111. |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 2:22:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Great, I always liked the HE-111, but I think this is not a Heinkel, it's a CASA 2.111. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By outofbattery: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/56204/220C4484-D18F-4E5A-96DF-AF0433AA6A49_jpe-2202340.JPG Piggybacking on JBT’s pics,the last combat use of the He-111 in 1958. Great, I always liked the HE-111, but I think this is not a Heinkel, it's a CASA 2.111. The Merlin engines are a dead giveaway. |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 2:38:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: But when you see the Air Force in a foxhole, you know the war is lost. https://i.imgur.com/h2KvkMu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/oKOG1JG.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xmPgbcD.jpg https://i.imgur.com/LCU4uck.jpg From BTR-4 to BTR-4MV1 in 2 easy steps. Ukraine 
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Posted: 12/13/2021 4:18:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/13/2021 7:27:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Miami_JBT: More photos from the Guerra Ifni-Sáhara. Is that a Merlin powered 109? |
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Posted: 12/13/2021 11:01:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: Is that a Merlin powered 109? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jblomenberg16: Originally Posted By Miami_JBT: More photos from the Guerra Ifni-Shara. https://i2.wp.com/www.archivoshistoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/junker-espa%C3%B1ol-guerra-ifni.gif?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1 Is that a Merlin powered 109? |
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