Priory_of_Sion

India has claimed it killed ~350 militants in their strike while Pakistan claims that the strikes resulted in 0 casualties. 

It is hard to decide if the Indian military is just as incompetent as they've always been or if the Pakistanis are just lying as usual. 

Horseshoe Crabs are now nested within Arachnida and therefore there must have been either A) multiple terrestrial invasions by stem arachnids or B) horseshoe crabs went back into the ocean. 

1 hour ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:

You say that like the only place the RN operated was the Med.  They had a worldwide empire. 

 

By far the most integral part of the BE was India and the path from London to Bombay ran through the Mediterranean where the Brits were probably the most vulnerable. Still, US carriers >UK carriers

I'd assume you'd want manned tanks + infantry in places where you want to hold territory and use unmanned ground vehicles to be used in high risk situations where the destruction of such a vehicle is likely even if you armor the thing heavily. Therefore, I'd think most UGVs would use the most economic chassis as possible (so things like M113s  would be great). If we are starting from scratch, I'd still think M113-like UGVs would be prefered by most nations looking at the current trend towards designing vehicles for urban and COIN warfare. Major powers may still want some faster UGVs too play a role in a conventional role and I'd think they look like a slimmed down M8 AGS/2S25 Sprut as you'd make the silhouettes smaller by getting rid of crew space . 

Why have I never known the the Saddam Fedayeen wore darth vader helmets? 

Massive boost to French naval capabilities 

Turn those puppies into some SPGs 

Found some Upper Cambrian trilobites for the folks for Christmas 

I found this amusing tank story from the Battle of Massawa(1990) during the Eritrean War of Independence :

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The insurgents (EPLA) then deployed two captured T-55s - with their turrets turned towards their own lines to make defenders (Ethiopian Army) believe their own comrades were trying to rally them - to approach the Ethiopian lines. Turning their turrets around, both tanks then opened fire at close range, inflicting severe casualties before they were both knocked out. - Ethiopian- Eritrean Wars vol. 2 by Fontanellaz & Cooper

Some French blueprints from the immediate pre-war and post-war era

ARL Char C or something like that 

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/304-1807/from-the-trenches/6691-trenches-italy-lombard-prosthetic-weapon

Groovy

On 7/15/2018 at 1:51 PM, Scolopax said:

Looks to be a 2 1/2 ton gun truck.  I'm guessing M35-base given the front fenders, but I'm not positive. I don't think it's a US design, maybe from somewhere in central America.

It probably is based of the M35, but there's little info I've been able to find about this truck except that it isn't from the Americas. 

Yugoslav M-636

Hello, that's the SU-152p, had to make sure it wasn't the SU-152g. 

56 minutes ago, Scolopax said:

The Arabic script has me thinking this is Pakistani stuff, with a further assumption being that the tank on the left is an Al-Khalid.  However, our vehicle in question does not look too similar to the Al-Zarrar outside the suspension and driver position.  I'd hazard a guess at some sort of further upgrade of the Al-Zarrar (or Pakistani Type 59/69/79) with more armor and a new turret that's not a total sham.  Looking for more details still.

 

I suspect the model might not be the most exact depiction of the vehicle

It is Arabic, which is a hint, but Pakistan doesn't use Arabic. 

1 hour ago, Collimatrix said:

Five road wheels, and a gap between the first and second.  It's clearly some sort of Type 59/T-55 upgrade package.

On the right path 

3 hours ago, Xoon said:

Finally got some internet again. So I have a hard one for you guys. 

 

What makes this Landsverk L-120 unusual? 

This one was given to Norway and fitted with a Browning M1917 and it wasn't that hard since its most of what's talked about on the L-120 wikipage 

Assassination(?) attempt on Zimbabwe’s new president 

42 minutes ago, Scolopax said:

Should be by opposition, especially since the SAA does not use TOWs to my knowledge.

I think they’ve used Iranian model TOWs before