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Here's some Drakens taxiing by some guy's backyard and other stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiwLxnUaeY8
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Vahakyla posted:Eh. I can personally testify that Finnish Army mech infantry does not care about height when cramming warm bodies into BMP's and the old Leopard 2a4 emergency reserve T72's did not have any height guidelines in use, either. CV90 supremacy.  Although the BMP has the advantage that the infantry will charge anything after being released so they don't have to go back into the box.
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Bacarruda posted:Wait, no Shornets? I don't know what his source is, but the Hornets won't be retired according to current plans until 2025. The final decision will be made in the early twenties, so it'll be a while before an official candidate list comes out. Barring a major foreign policy realignment, any Russian birds won't be on it.
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- excellent flight characteristics, allowing the pilot to decide when and when not to engage - LO and powerful radar combined lead to usually being the first to shoot - datalinks to other fighters mean good situational awareness - reliable BWR and WVR weaponry Is this a decent general understanding of what makes the Raptor (or hypothetical aircraft like it) a good modern air dominance fighter? Not getting into the bigger picture of air combat like AWACS support, sortie rate and what have you.
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Finnish air force aerobatics team.
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A.o.D. posted:It's lovely but it's not the worst thing you can do for example you could overdose and cook to death in a car
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I don't think any, or at least a major number, of the Tomahawks were shot down. If you look at the struck airbase on a map, it's close to the Lebanese border and far away from the airbase where the Russians have their major presence. Given that the Syrian air defences don't exactly blanket the whole country either, I'd imagine it'd have been trivial to route the missiles away from any threats. Here's an imgur album of images taken by ImageSat International. They count 44 targets, of which 15 are double aircraft shelters, so that's 59. They didn't upload all of the closeup comparion images, but there are other sources that show completely unharmed shelters and aircraft. I'd say most likely it was about 90 % hits and the Russians getting their disinformation in early because it's easy and free.
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Mazz posted:Highly depends on the vehicle and armor package, including the the T-55 itself. A basic T-55 though is just 100mm of hardened steel on the front, 200 around the turret, and 50-60mm on the side. The APDS of modern 30mm cannons can get through the sides. Any AT weapon from like 1965 forward can deal with a T-55 with a good hit. Here's some 30 mm holes in a T-55 turret where the armor is I believe 130 - 160 mm thick. It takes a good angle of impact, though. 
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Vahakyla posted:Why does russian use bad tactics with poor quality troops? I can’t imagine it’d be much harder to get decent PMCs and not have the human wave tactic as the first one? If that is the whole truth, building up a cohesive force that can employ good tactics takes time and money. If you got more recruits than you know what to do with, why not just bodies at it if it's enough to accomplish your goals? I mean, besides humane values and poo poo, but the Hitler-worshipping merc commander probably doesn't have a problem with those.
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If you're referring to the Syrian incident, those guys got hosed up by airpower which is what happens to every force caught in the open without air cover. We're going off a single source here so it's not like any of us *know* anything but from that article: quote:“What are we doing there? We go as the first wave. We direct the aircraft and artillery, push back the enemy. After us merrily go the Syrian special forces, and then Vesti-24 [a Russian state TV station] together with other Russian state television crews with cameras at the ready to interview them.” Not really human wave, hard infantry combat with lots of casualties sure. I don't claim any great insight into what actually happens when thse guys fight, just that it makes sense for a merc group operating like this not to invest too much into their basic trigger pullers.
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Just train your guys to aim for the nuts.
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Xerxes17 posted:I notice that some are wearing a big-rear end mitten on their left hand, is this for winter protection? For the LMG gunners it's probably a heat-resistant glove that's part of their kit, for barrel swapping. For others, it's probably because the handguard on the original model of the RK 62 rifle doesn't wrap around the gastube for some big brained reason, so handling it with bare hands is really annoying.
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