Raaven:


for the syrian ambassor speech , its clearly a sarcasm . about a syrian opposition, rebels , armed and modified by US to destroy syria

Nakhimov and Pyotr Veiliky point defense SAM[2]
40 × OSA-MA (SA-N-4 Gecko) PD SAM. Not on Pyotr Velikiy
Guns:
1 × twin AK-130 130 mm/L70 dual purpose gun (2 × AK-100 100 mm/L60 DP guns in Ushakov)
8 × AK-630 six-barreled Gatling 30 mm/L60 PD guns (Ushakov, Lazarev)
6 × CADS-N-1 Kortik gun/missile system (Nakhimov, Pyotr Velikiy[2])
Torpedoes and others:
2 × 10 RBU-1000 305 mm ASW rocket launchers
1 × 6 RBU-12000 (Udav-1) 254 mm ASW rocket launchers
10 × 533 mm ASW/ASuW torpedo tubes, Type 53 torpedo or RPK-2 Vyuga (SS-N-15) ASW missile
Armour:
76 mm plating around reactor compartment, light splinter protection
Aircraft carried:
3 helicopters
Aviation facilities:
Below-deck hangar

Raaven:
houthi in yemen shot down a CH4 UAV , we can see that saudi air force try to bomb the remains of the uav



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fS9NUO04V4

Lurker4Long:

Saudi incompetence knows no bounds!

Xbee007:

Perhaps "Saudi incompetence" is just a myth. Nothing anyone could do against that missile.

Lurker4Long:


When you fight a losing war with guys in scandals and your drone gets downed; you send a fighter plane to bomb the wreckage and you miss; perhaps gross incompetence is too mild a term.

Raaven:
terminators

Raaven:
in a small village in pakistan . they produce artisanal rifles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzrIL5p16U

Raaven:
in a small village in pakistan . they produce artisanal rifles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzrIL5p16U

Xbee007:

They are quiet common in Pakistan and Afghanistan and they are unregulated. Anybody could buy any sort of weapon, no string attached.

kikuyu1:
The first Russian tank, the 170 ton Armoured Land Cruiser designed a 100 years ago by the son of the inventor of the periodic table no less!?

It was a wonderful concept vehicle originally meant to be fired on rail tracks. When the idea was nixed he went ahead to give it a gas suspension SYSTEM along with a 120mm naval gun and a petrol sub engine: MIND YOU THIS WAS 1915!?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC2r3Fl8x2M/url]

It was meant to serve as a bunker when at a standstill. The WW1 Eastern Front would've been way different had they had a mere squadron of these beasts to field against the Germans.

GabrielYulaw:


Way different because of this? My apologies but I don't think so at all. Such a vehicle would be too slow as to be a death trap and not very reliable. At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa the Germans had almost complete command of the air. They merely had a to send a single Stuka to damage such a mobile bunker so severly it would had to stop and then use either heavy artillery or Flak 88 to turn in into scrap metal.

kikuyu1:


This was 30 years before WW2.

Here's What You Need To Remember: McDonnell Douglas had been duped into shipping nearly a hundred scout helicopters to a country that still considered itself at war with the United States. However, the Semler brothers were let off with light sentences in exchange for guilty pleas, claiming they had been misled by Behrens as to the destination of the helicopters. They paid fines far below the value of the money they had received for shipping the helicopters. Behrens rather dubiously claimed the MD 500s did not fall under the export ban because they were not military types.


On July 27, 2013, as a column of armored personnel carriers and tanks rumbled before the stand of Kim Jong-un to commemorate the end of a bloody war with the United States sixty years earlier, four small American-made MD 500E helicopters buzzed low overhead. You can see it occur at 3:13 in the this video. If you look closely, you can see they have been wired with antitank missiles on racks slung on the sides.

In fact, this was the first confirmation that Pyongyang has maintained the fleet of 87 U.S.-built helicopters it smuggled into the country more than a quarter century ago.

The MD 500 is a civilian version of the distinctive Army OH-6 Cayuse light observation helicopter, which entered U.S. military service back in the 1960s. The no-frills design has been nicknamed the “Flying Egg” due to its compact, ovoid fuselage. It was widely employed to evacuate casualties, escort friendly transport helicopters, scout for enemy forces up close, and provide light fire support to troops on the ground with miniguns and rocket pods. Exceptionally cheap—selling for $20,000 each in 1962!—they were agile and small enough to land in places other helicopters couldn’t.


However, they were also highly exposed to enemy fire: 842 of the initial 1,400 OH-6As were lost in action in Vietnam. Evolved MH-6 and AH-6 “Little Bird” special operations and mini gunship variants continue to see action with the U.S. military today in Africa and the Middle East.

Back in the 1980s, McDonnell Douglas received an order for 102 helicopters from the Delta-Avia Fluggerate, an export firm registered in West Germany under businessman Kurt Behrens. Between 1983 and 1985, the U.S. company Associated Industries transferred eighty-six MD 500D and -E helicopters and one Hughes 300 (an even smaller two-man type) via six shipments for export by Delta Avia to Japan, Nigeria, Portugal and Spain.

However, in February 1985, the U.S. Commerce Department revealed it had discovered some hair-raising anomalies in the company’s operations—and some fraudulent claims about the shipments’ destination. For example, fifteen helicopters unloaded at Rotterdam, ostensibly for special fitting, were then transported overland to the Soviet freighter Prorokov. The Prorokov then unloaded the helicopters in North Korea. Similarly, a freighter docked in Japan transferred two helicopters to a North Korean freighter in Hong Kong, with similar results. Furthermore, it turned out the Semler brothers running Associated Industries were secretly majority owners of Delta Avia.

Though eighty-seven helicopters had already been delivered, the remaining fifteen MD 500s were seized and the Semlers were tried in 1987 for violating a law forbidding export of nearly anything to North Korea. It was alleged that Fluggeratte was simply a front company to ship the aircraft to North Korea, and that it had been promised a profit of $10 million for completing the deal. It was also revealed that a London insurer was in the know, and that payments had been laundered through Swiss bank accounts.

McDonnell Douglas had been duped into shipping nearly a hundred scout helicopters to a country that still considered itself at war with the United States

Raaven:
North korean , US made MD 500 Helicopters



How North Korea Got It's Hands On 87 U.S. MD 500 Helicopters




source and the rest of article : https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/north-korea-got-hands-87-090000711.html

mysticwarrior:
fighting a war with someone who has nothing to loose is a dangerous motive, they will keep embarrassing you and make you look stupid, that is what the mujahedeens did against the USSR, the North Vietnamese against the USA, Boko haram against the Nigerian army and now Houti against Saudi Arabia.

Nemesis2you:
How you guys doing

Wondering if the ceramics guy is still around

Xbee007:

Nemesis8u, this you?

Nemesis2you:
How you guys doing

Wondering if the ceramics guy is still around

kabe1:


Uncle Nemesis, why did you do us like this?

Nemesis2you:


Grandpa kabe1 becz of a few reasons , most importantly when people start ignoring scientific and technical points there is no longer a basis left make a point.

And actually I am pressed for time too , I will around for a week only before I go awol again.

Nemesis2you:
DRDO SMART is the world's longest range land based anti submarine missile system .

It can target submarines at a range of 650 km .