hostile apostle posted:

M1A1 drift

https://gfycat.com/NeatJitteryFrogmouth

Nuclear Tourist posted:

That flag on top of the conning tower looks a lot like Hungary's flag.

Hungary is a land locked country, which would explain the picture.

666 posted:

here, have some more recent IT consultants.

Phil Moscowitz posted:

PS the music they are “marching” to is one of the best marches ever.

Le boudin


Tiens, voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin
Pour les Alsaciens, les Suisses et les Lorrains.
Pour les Belges y en a plus.
Pour les Belges y en a plus.
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.
Pour les Belges y en a plus.
Pour les Belges y en a plus.
Ce sont des tireurs au cul.

Nous sommes des dégourdis,
Nous sommes des lascars
Des types pas ordinaires.
Nous avons souvent notre cafard,
Nous sommes des légionnaires.
Au Tonkin, la Légion immortelle
À Tuyen-Quang illustra notre drapeau,
Héros de Camerone et frères modèles
Dormez en paix dans vos tombeaux.
Nos anciens ont su mourir
Pour la gloire de la Légion.
Nous saurons bien tous périr
Suivant la tradition.
Au cours de nos campagnes lointaines,
Affrontant la fièvre et le feu,
Oublions avec nos peines,
La mort qui nous oublie si peu.
Nous la Légion.



Here, some blood sausage, here's some blood sausage, here's some blood sausage
For the Alsacians, the Swiss, the Lorrains.
The Belgians get none, the Belgians get none...
They're rear end-draggers (as in they don't carry their fair weight)
The Belgians get none, the Belgians get none...
They're rear end-draggers

We're clever, we're rogues
We aren't ordinary blokes
We often get the blues
But we're legionnaires

At Tonkin, the immortal Legion
A Tuyen-Quang showed our colors
Heros of the Camaron and model brothers
Sleep in peace in your tombs

Our elders knew well enough to die
For the glory of the legion
We all, too, know to perish
As is our tradition

During our campaigns in distant lands
Confronting fever and fire
Let us forget, along with our pains,
Death--who never forgets us
We, the Legion

EBB posted:

DoktorLoken posted:

That's awesome, backstory?

Handsome Ralph posted:

Looked like some P-51's with some T-6 trainers and then a C-47, a Lockheed Electra and a DC-8.

Not gonna lie, the droning noise was loving rad as hell.

fickle poofterist posted:

Is the Guardian a publication that I should be paying to support?

Handsome Ralph posted:

Pretttty much.

It's weird in that the M4 and T-34's kicked all kinds of rear end where German tanks...their reps are massively overblown. Like the Tiger, that thing was pound for pound, a massive loving waste and a piece of poo poo depending on if it was adequately supplied or not.

Gonna chalk it up to that one guys book who propagated the British referring to Sherman's as the Ronson while treating German tanks like they were all god tier. Can't remember the name of it at the moment.

Blind Rasputin posted:

Are they just really bad shots? It always surprised me how many times an automatic weapon is fired at someone and they just keep running.

Scratch Monkey posted:

https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fake-town-shughart-gordon-urban-warfare-training-facility/view/google/

Marshal Prolapse posted:

God the cultural/political/military artifacts that the British Empire left in all the countries that they used to rule is just so weird sometimes. Another good example of this would be cricket and lawyers at least a few years ago in Kenya still wearing wigs.

Like going back to cricket I can’t think of a more snobbish and colonial sport short of maybe High School Lacrosse, though the later is more douchey then colonial, you’d think it would go out of style when the British left, but no it’s still hugely popular.

evil_bunnY posted:

IIRC that's from 2014