Belesarius

The Kaliya program, which birthed the Eitan in 2014 before separating from it, is supposed to create a whole family of vehicles, but they don't necessarily have to be the vehicle you see in this video. It may definitely include an MBT as well.
The Carmel is a feasibility test, and anywhere between early 2020 and late 2027, the IDF should bunch up all the technologies they want for this program, and decide how to design the next family, or families, of vehicles. 
A tank to replace the Merkava 4 Barack will eventually be made. Whether it's going to be some form of evolution of the existing concept of Merkava tanks or a design that is radically different, is not yet known. Only that it will exist, and that it will incorporate Kaliya technologies.
 
What you're seeing in this video is basically just a Wiesel-tier vehicle with all the latest and greatest situational awareness gadgets. This is a vehicle type for which the IDF does not have a doctrine, and likely does not plan to develop one for.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-revolutionary-guard-bombing-1.5017567?fbclid=IwAR3hzlYobBnKoPkuH4r3JSXuVM9dZ65iO9LjU07MQ1Kckyu2VKAyFDnDNUA
 
20 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard killed in a suicide bombing in Iran. Al Q being blamed.
 

80s AFAIK

 
Today:
 

USS New Mexico with Mount Fuji in the background.
 

Oh wow.  This is a fucking cool shot from above the wreck of the Hornet. Note how intact the wreck is, with the island largely intact.  Some of the stern is missing, or crumpled in the sonar shadow.  But man, for a ship that took such a beating she looks largely intact.  @Collimatrix, @A. T. Mahan,
 

Uh, wat?
 

USS New Mexico with Mount Fuji in the background.
 

Oh wow.  This is a fucking cool shot from above the wreck of the Hornet. Note how intact the wreck is, with the island largely intact.  Some of the stern is missing, or crumpled in the sonar shadow.  But man, for a ship that took such a beating she looks largely intact.  @Collimatrix, @A. T. Mahan,
 

Oh wow.  This is a fucking cool shot from above the wreck of the Hornet. Note how intact the wreck is, with the island largely intact.  Some of the stern is missing, or crumpled in the sonar shadow.  But man, for a ship that took such a beating she looks largely intact.  @Collimatrix, @A. T. Mahan,
 

Your  are both retard idiots. Haters and provacators, 
 

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting that you have one.

@Andrei_bt just for this shitfit you decided to throw, I am making @LoooSeR moderator as well.

Ones who's mothers allow them to swear on the Internet, for starters. 
 
Toe the line or ride a dick to the door.

Oh wow.  This is a fucking cool shot from above the wreck of the Hornet. Note how intact the wreck is, with the island largely intact.  Some of the stern is missing, or crumpled in the sonar shadow.  But man, for a ship that took such a beating she looks largely intact.  @Collimatrix, @A. T. Mahan,
 

Hey all! T___A  here,

 
You may, or may not be acquainted with me. In case you don't I mostly post in the Soviet Tank thread here in MW. I do read most of the content on the rest forum however. To be frank with you all: I have been disappointed with the quality of this forum. So has @Sturgeon. So our glorious leader in a fit of drunken anger has appointed me the Reich Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Four Plan of the Final Solution of the shitpoasting question.
 
Seriously:
Dumbass slap fighting in the wrong thread will no longer be tolerated Neither will anime avatars. This is a rule that not even OG Alter Kämpfers are exempt from. You know who you are and I will be sending a PM to you. As always SH's most important rule applies: referte avt morimini  
In video form:
 

Oh wow.  This is a fucking cool shot from above the wreck of the Hornet. Note how intact the wreck is, with the island largely intact.  Some of the stern is missing, or crumpled in the sonar shadow.  But man, for a ship that took such a beating she looks largely intact.  @Collimatrix, @A. T. Mahan,
 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-hornet-wreckage-world-war-two-warship-discovered/
 
 
 

"Bistryi" destroyer

Wasn't sure if to put these here or in the aerospace pics thread. Figured this thread could use some love.
 
Hindenberg interior photos, color.
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

The Imperial-era Russians had an odd habit of showing up wherever the other imperial powers were kicking shit in and being generally bro-tier.
 
A bunch showed up for the second Boer war and apparenrly liked the local flavour enough to sing sarie marais a few decades later:
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-01-18-why-soviet-troops-fought-nazi-forces-to-boer-war-tunes/

As you know, the Russians have this weird cultural tic where they see themselves as the official defenders of Orthodox Christianity.  Through most of history since the Great Schism, Russia has been the only Orthodox state that is powerful.  Most other Orthodox populations were subjects of either the Ottoman Empire (Sunni) or the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Catholic), so at various times and places, the Russians have felt like they need to be the "big brother" and look out for Orthodox populations (and especially Slavic Orthodox populations).  This is a very sweet and touching belief and it also fucking caused the First World War.  Also, with the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999 it came alarmingly close to causing the Third World War.
 
In at least a few cases, the Russian state has tried to help Ethiopia for similar reasons.  Ethiopia is Orthodox...ish, and it is the only generally Christian in a predominantly Muslim part of the world.  The Russians don't like it when Muslims pick on their Orthodox bros, and they like it way even less when the uppity Catholics pick on their bros with their Western imperialism and their Filioque Clause.
 
The actual level of support Russia has been able to offer Ethiopia has historically been limited because they're really far away from each other, but the Russians did supply the Ethiopians with several rifles and some artillery for the Battle of Adwa in 1896, and according to some sources small numbers of Russian troops fought there as well.  As the Battle of Adwa was a crushing defeat for the Italians, there's a lot of art commemorating this event, and I could swear I've seen one that shows Russian troops standing shoulder to shoulder with their Ethiopian bros as they stick it to the Italians.

As much as I like it, I think the Thompson is pretty overrated.  That fucker is pretty heavy for a SMG.