Yeah, it effectively created a new class of infantry vehicle.
Yes, the Rhodesians actually pioneered the use of the V-hull design which many MRAP vehicles now use. The second vehicle in that post was an utter failure however.
According to Trevor Davies Engineering, manufacturer of the Pookie,
"...of the 76 vehicles built between 1976 and 1980 none ever detonated a
mine, though 12 were lost and two drivers were killed."[1] Remotely detonated mines were responsible for the loss of the 12 vehicles and one of the fatalities, though it is not clear[to whom?] if the remaining fatality, caused by an RPG, also resulted in the loss of vehicle and if that loss was included in the previous count.
The Aranui 5, a ship that is 50% freighter, 50% cruise liner.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1195/56fffe88-3b24-41c2-882c-30009e8c9d9e/PPTARA-Ship-2000x1200_33786.jpg
Business in the front, party in the back.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1195/59e99565-d43e-4f01-9583-706e5af18af9/PPTARA-Fatu-Hiva-Ship-2000x1200_33786.jpg
It regularly operates around the Marquesas Islands (a rather isolated part of French Polynesia), bringing in fuel and supplies, leaving with local fruits and fish, while carrying along 250 passengers on a two week cruise.
That's some pretty clever multi-tasking business.
A similar ship, the Royal Mail Ship St.Helena.
155 passengers, hybrid cargo/tanker to supply the south Atlantic British Overseas Territories.
Now working as a floating armoury to supply security personnel to ships travelling through high risk pirate areas.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223974/663a9498-6a5c-460a-a4db-f97bdb235f6d/646f18e48aa44eebaa6639d0b6dbf184.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223974/d0881732-959c-4b40-b2db-6700df0d888b/RMS_St_Helena.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/223974/6c8d7779-cdce-4583-8649-c8188e66e988/RMS-St-Helena.jpg
Not nearly as impressive, but when I was a kid it was the only way to get things from the rest of the world - so it was like christmas every time it showed up.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/30212689934_3c3f5b54db_b_d.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8581/27593210703_d8d7d9b3fb_b_d.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1608/25843891543_f8d56e9683_b_d.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/694/31918437635_036e7626c3_b_d.jpg
dude recolours old photos:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/105862585@N04/
https://youtu.be/QsdcU7xbzp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHiihPD7bLM
The restoration job on this footage is amazing.
I always thought that was just a plot device in MGS3. Having a mobile nuclear weapon that can be carried and fired by infantry troops sounds like a game changer, but also like it could have easily escalated the war if fired accidentally.
Not really. They already had 155mm nuclear artillery shells that could be fired from any 155mm howitzer. In fact, that's why the got rid of them. They weren't really necessary.
This channel has some really incredible stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvxJnqZUM-Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-wygPvkvg
What a time to be alive.
Guy in Agbogbloshie, Accra, capital of Ghana, where 250000 Tons of electronic waste get shipped each year
https://imgur.com/3j4AiUI
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/21bb3787-5d19-43d4-b7a1-dfd50edd6535/image.png
The Shanghai Bund in the 1930s
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/e5a37648-99e8-49d2-8ec8-ad2555d8f2ff/image.png
"Honduran soldiers, first troops of Inter-American peace force, arrive to assume peace-keeping duties and to render emergency aid in revolt-torn country, 1965"
The Inter-American Peace Force was established, by the Organization of American States, on 23 May 1965, after United States's intervention in the Dominican Republic. It largely consisted of over 42,600 United States military personnel, plus the following troops were sent by each country; Brazil 1130, Honduras 250, Paraguay 184, Nicaragua 160, Costa Rica 21 military police, and El Salvador 3 staff officers. Brazil eventually took over from the United States in 1966 and the IAPF was disbanded in 1967. The photo was most probably taken at the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo.
On the topic of restoration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxpbDmykD4&ab_channel=ImperialWarMuseums
http://time.com/3638523/behind-the-picture-marines-blow-up-a-blockhouse-iwo-jima-1945/
A very surreal image of fighting on the island. Doesn't even look like it was taken on this planet.
"Day Trips from Tokyo 1932"
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1750/e76631cb-af75-4533-acaa-e855f56e6841/image.png
AEF and French soldiers meet in front of a road sign near the Ardennes, March 1918.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225353/8012755e-53e8-466d-a874-8ce266b1bb37/AEF.jpg
Never thought I would see a picture of soldiers smiling that late into the war.
i imagine it's because the French saw the Americans as the saving grace. at this point the french and british armies were absolutely ravaged by the war, so when the American Expeditionary Force came over, the French especially breathed a collective sigh of relief
You forget how fucking long bayonets were back then, holy shoot.
My 1918 SMLE with its full length bayonet affixed was ridiculously long, impossible to maneuver indoors. Rifles then were huge enough without sword bayonets.
I might be wrong but I think it's a left over thing where they'd use bayoneted rifles like spears in formation against cavalry. Doctrines were slow to change. The previous 100 years had seen cavalry being super effective (even as late as franco prussian war) and peeps assumed it'd be more of the same I think.
Oh yeah, Aum stuff.
https://i.imgur.com/ySEfxJK.jpg
Australian Federal Police investigate a landfill on Banjawarn Station in Western Australia following the subway attacks.
https://i.imgur.com/p3pc949.jpg
Sheep bones believed to be that of sheep used to test Sarin.
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