Cooliest/Uglest Weapons v10 - FAL Pride World Wide
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begone ghost page!
the power of Browning compels you!
speaking of Brownings:
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John M. Browning's son Lt. Val Browning field testing the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
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Captured Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar used by the Indonesians in the War of Independence. Note the early roundel version.
After the Japanese announced their surrender at the end of WWII, Indonesian nationalist leader Sukarno declared Indonesian Independence on 17 August 1945. Several days later, Indonesian People’s Security Force (Badan Keamanan Rakyat) was formed to undertake security duties. The Air Division of this force was also formed, using ex-Japanese planes scattered everywhere, especially in the island of Java, including Bugis Air Base in Malang (Established on 18 September 1945). The most numerous of these aeroplanes were the Yokosuka K5Y1 Willow (Cureng) trainers, which were hastily used to train newly recruited cadets. At the time of the founding, there was only one Indonesian holding a multi-engine pilot license from the pre-war Dutch Flying School, Agustinus Adisucipto (but did not have an opportunity to fly during the 3.5-year Japanese occupation). He was assisted by a few Japanese pilots who decided to stay in the newly born country. The new roundel was created simply by painting white on the lower part of the Japanese Hinomaru, reflecting the red and white of the Indonesian flag. The People’s Security Force was then re-organized to form a formal armed force. This marked the birth of the Indonesian Air Force on 9 April 1946. However, tensions rose as the Dutch tried to re-claim their former colony and launched an assault on 21 July 1947, destroying most of the planes on the ground. Some planes survived though and were hidden in remote bases.
29 July 1947 was date of the first air operation by the newborn air force as three surviving aircraft, comprising two Yokosuka K5Y1 Willow (Cureng) and a Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia (the fourth aircraft, a Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar (Hayabusa) flown by Air Cadet Bambang Saptoadji, should also have been involved in the raid as an escort, but as of when it was launched, the aircraft was not airworthy due to engine troubles)conducted air raids at dawn on the Dutch Army barracks in Semarang, Salatiga and Ambarawa, dropping incendiary bombs. Tactically, these raids did not have any effect on the Dutch positions, but psychologically, it was a great success as it proved that the Indonesian Air Force still existed. The Dutch had previously claimed the destruction of Indonesian Air Force in their assault before and they never expected any attack from the sky. Dutch Curtiss P-40E Warhawks tried to find all the guerrillas’ planes, but they were too late to find those “ghost” aircraft which landed quickly in Maguwo Air Base, near Yogyakarta (now, Adisucipto International Airport). Indonesian pro-independence guerrillas tried to save captured aircraft in a number of remote areas, including examples of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen “Zeke”, Aichi D3A “Val”, and Mitsubishi G4M “Betty”.
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T-15 with 57mm autocannon
It looked surprisingly modern
To me, it looks like an old tank cosplaying as a modern tank. You can still see hints of frying-pan turret-shape under the boxy additions, and the hull-shape is still very much T-55-esque.
Seems to be, but the thin, ribbed fenders and fuel tanks atop the sandshields were first seen on T-54-55 series tanks, as far as I recall. So while the model it's based on is newer, it has the visual impression of being older.
The T-72 was outdated the day the first one rolled off the production line, and has been ever since. The tank wasn't even designed to be very good, it was a second-rate tank to bulk out numbers and take on other outdated designs, while the more modern, well-designed T-80 took on tanks.
Any tank is capable if it's the only tank around. However, the T-72 eats dirt the moment it's faced with any current or last-gen design or even some IFVs, and it is also pretty vulnerable to medium and heavy infantry AT weapons. I reckon most of the situations where a T-72 is effective, a Sherman-tank would be about the same use, because it's mostly in situations where there's no credible threat to tanks at all.
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M109 is pretty cool
I once hurt my head on one. Can confirm, it's a highly powerful armoured vehicle.
The lower half of the T-72 - the running gear and the engine are still quite capable.
To be fair to the Chinese, they have two massive frontiers, so they need to keep a massive standing army over the long term, along two large frontiers. They need something rough and ready that will be cheap and easy to train and maintain over decades. If you keep the basic lower half of a T-72 to same and turn the top half into a whole bunch of incrementally improved tanks, then you can strive to put the latest systems into a tank every few years while slowly taking your old stock out of service and cannibalising them.
Here's some tanks learning how to board a train.
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The Chinese apply this concept in a similar way with the cheaper Type 96 making up the bulk of their armored forces and the Type 99 being reserved for "elite" units.
Type 96B
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Type 99A2
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As you can see, they've continued to stack more shit on top of that turret
Fuck you ghost page
gotta love them explosive tiles. I hope I can have them up in my home
Here's an interesting and frankly rather silly one:
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The Komatsu Type 60 self-propelled recoilless gun, a Japanese tank destroyer from the 1960s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/JGSDF_Type60_RR%28SP%29.jpg
Similar to the American M50 Ontos, this thing is basically just a lightly armored tracked carrier for a set of M40 106mm recoilless rifles
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Type60rear.jpg/1920px-Type60rear.jpg
Said rifles are mounted fully externally, and thus are manually reloaded from the back.
Lovely C7's
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Beeldbank Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie
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Beeldbank Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie
at least the current diemaco we're using aint so bad either
cant beat the minime tho
I think I kind of prefer the C7's and C8's with the older Afghanistan upgrade package you see in those photo's, tbh. Also, I wonder why we ditched the Elcan scopes for them? Now we're just using aimpoints with magnifiers.
Denmark upgraded theirs around the same time as we did and I personally think it looks a bit nicer:
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VS this:
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true, the elcan is just so iconic and i love how simple it looks
it just fits so good on a solid stock c7, yknow?
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Cooliest/Uglest Weapons v10 - FAL Pride World Wide
