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Godholio posted:If she had kids, they were probably murdered in front of her. Her baby made it. The father didn't. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/04/new-offensive-frees-captives-from-boko-haram-exposes-group-bloodlust/?intcmp=latestnews quote:As many as 10 girls were stoned to death last week as rescuers closed in on the terrorist group's stronghold in the Sambisa forest in the northern Borno state. Survivors told of their harrowing escape from the terror group, which claims to be aligned with ISIS. Also, Boko Haram militants often wear sandals for some reason. I bet they stub their toes a lot. 
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William Bear posted:Also, Boko Haram militants often wear sandals for some reason. I bet they stub their toes a lot. Sandals and flip-flops are really common in Africa, mainly because they're extremely easy and cheap to make compared to full on shoes or combat boots. There's been a lot of efforts to make and send very cheap sandals to Africa due to the sheer lack of shoes in developing nations.
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Brown Moses posted:The second TOW kill in this video is pretty impressive So much snackbar
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May 5, 2015 08:35
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Look at the feet of the guy on the far right. Burn them all.
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IDK man if all I owned was sandals and a pair of socks I wouldn't be picky either
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Brown Moses posted:The second TOW kill in this video is pretty impressive That was pretty good. ~3k meters away according to the comments. Are they shooting Syrians?
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May 5, 2015 13:53
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Iraqi EOD best EOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAFizySXJwk
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I sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the oilfields dropping hot sticky loads on disgusting foreigners. People say to me that a person being a helicopter is Impossible and I'm loving retarded but I don't care, I'm beautiful. I'm having a plastic surgeon install rotary blades, 30 mm cannons and AMG-114 Hellfire missiles on my body. From now on I want you guys to call me "Apache" and respect my right to kill from above and kill needlessly. If you can't accept me you're a heliphobe and need to check your vehicle privilege. Thank you for being so understanding.
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Brown Moses posted:The second TOW kill in this video is pretty impressive Risket fucked around with this message at 16:26 on May 5, 2015 |
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Risket posted:These are the older TOW 1's because the warhead isn't firing from above the tank into the turret, right? Where are they getting these? Egypt? They aren't the TOW-2Bs, which are the missile variant that does the top down attack. It's also not an ITAS system, you can see that it doesn't have the PADS that the ITAS does, which means it's one of the older systems they're rocking. As for where they're getting the equipment  . Undoubtedly somebody else knows a bit more than I do on that, I just know the ITAS, having the great fortune of being in a heavy weapons company for four years and never seeing one fired.
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Pesticide20 posted:As for where they're getting the equipment 
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Risket posted:These are the older TOW 1's because the warhead isn't firing from above the tank into the turret, right? Where are they getting these? Egypt? Yeah, older TOW , likely came through Libya, prior to the fall of the Gaddafi.
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Pesticide20 posted:I just know the ITAS, having the great fortune of being in a heavy weapons company for four years and never seeing one fired. sorry breh 
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Back to tank-talk. Is there really any benefit in armour vs. armour combat with going above 120mm or so? I was under the impression that modern tanks now days were pretty much going to get penned no matter where they are hit given the size and speed of the tank shells being used for the past 40 years or so. I can see how going up to 152mm would be beneficial when using HE against soft targets like buildings and APCs, but are Russian 120mm's really not enough to take on M1A's and Leos?
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Speaking of easily penetrated vehicles. They are using T-34s and Su-100s in the current Yemeni civil war. 
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125mm, and, possibly, no. I think it was already mentioned but penetrator length has been physically limited by the carousel autoloader system on Soviet/Russian tanks. Also, composite armor has alledgedly gotten a lot better since the Cold War ended. New laminates and material combinations, aided by ever better computer design, means that kinetic protection in the frontal areas at least has gotten pretty monstrous.
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Richard Bong posted:Speaking of easily penetrated vehicles. They are using T-34s and Su-100s in the current Yemeni civil war. It continually blows my loving MIND that those 70 year old AFVs get driven off of plinths and used in active loving combat zones after an oil change Where the christ are they getting ammo for that SU100?
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It uses the same shells as a T-54 iirc so it can't be that hard to get a hold of. The 85mm on the T-34 would/should be the rare poo poo
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New Call Of Duty levels lookin good: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/middleeast/syria-kobani-rising-from-ashes/index.html
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MA-Horus posted:It continually blows my loving MIND that those 70 year old AFVs get driven off of plinths and used in active loving combat zones after an oil change I know that when they resurrected an IS-3 in Ukraine, it was just used as a remote machine gun platform. 
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I thought I wandered into the war thunder thread for a second
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Bolow posted:It uses the same shells as a T-54 iirc so it can't be that hard to get a hold of. The 85mm on the T-34 would/should be the rare poo poo I bet North Korea makes ammo for it. And most likely sold some to them.
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Next question is whether that would be better or worse than WWII surplus.
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I would buy those with that flag, the US flag, an EGA or even better, the Civil Air Patrol emblem
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I want one of these with an American flag for my desk at work. The AF wings logo would work too.
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 The new russian t-14 tank. That turret is an abomination.
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gunner sabot tank fire and adjust
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Brown Moses posted:The second TOW kill in this video is pretty impressive Was that second one a kill? Didn't see the cookoff like on the first one.
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If nothing else they probably cooked off in their pants.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Was that second one a kill? Didn't see the cookoff like on the first one. If it penetrated at all, the guys inside are probably dead or close to it even if the ammo and fuel miraculously didn't cook off.
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Would spalling be a thing in a situation like that? I remember watching a video on that at the Bovington tank museum and it was loving terrifying
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Bernard McFacknutah posted:Would spalling be a thing in a situation like that? lovely soviet era export tank? probably so
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How comparable to current model western tanks is that new soviet tank?
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Richard Bong posted:How comparable to current model western tanks is that new soviet tank?
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Richard Bong posted:How comparable to current model western tanks is that new soviet tank? supposedly weighs 48 tons which is light as poo poo for a mbt and theoretical top speed of 50mph also the turret isnt manned, its all remote control and its suppose to have had more thought put into crew comfort and survivability than previous russkie poo poo who actually knows anything about its real capabilities and whether russia will be able to afford enough of them 
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iyaayas01 posted:
Hope it's ok if I share a little of my family history. My great grandfather was at Gallipoli and was wounded three times, once a gunshot wound to the face and once in each arm in three seperate incidents. Guy was either unlucky as hell or crazy stupid heroic. Would also like to share (I'm sure a lot of you have seen this before but it bears reposting) the NZ Army welcoming home one of our honoured dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI6TRTBZUMM
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I've never seen that, and it's loving cool. We can barely get a bugler for funerals.
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