Sgt.Squarehead

Anyone have anything on the Georgian T-72SIM-1?  What was it before the upgrade, it looks kind of like a T-72AV to me, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who knows?

3 hours ago, Walter_Sobchak said:

 

Prove it.

Well, I can't do that, but I think I've already provided links to an evidence trail that is a lot more convincing than anything we've seen from the 'Dog & Pony Show'.

3 hours ago, Meplat said:

Why would Russia (or any other nation ) NOT try and influence  US elections?  (By hook or by crook?)

Well I suppose if you count a few hundred thousand spent on FB ads etc. I suppose I must concede that they did, just a little bit, but the whole 'Russian Hackers' thing is a crock and it's connected directly to several other crocks, as I've demonstrated elsewhere.

Russia did not try to influence your elections, it was a cabal within your & our intelligence services, as we both know perfectly well.....Why waste time commenting on what is quite obviously a 'Dog & Pony Show' for the benefit of the unthinking masses, isn't this place just a bit better than that? 

It seems we're not the only ones with rogue elements of our intelligence agencies operating to an agenda of their own:  https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/05/cia-undermines-north-korea-summit-by-leaking-report-to-media-asset/

17 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

"We have to stop London before it destroys us!"

 

Hear that, @Sgt.Squarehead? HEAR THAT?

I've been telling you that for over a year now! 

17 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

Also, I unapologetic ally love this trailer and think this movie will be dumb as all hell and I still want to watch it.

16 hours ago, Belesarius said:

Ok, gonna need a 6 pack of beer and a couple of grams of weed first to suspend disbelief, but it looks like it might be a fun ride after that.

I felt the same way about the Mortal Engines books.....My cousins bought them for me and TBH I was a bit skecptical at first, but I read them anyway (I'll read anything if I'm bored enough) and thoroughly enjoyed them. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-d-day-america-germany-strong-relationship-state-department-spokeswoman-heather-nauert-a8387221.html

'You have six months to educate Heather Nauert on the history and significance of Pearl Harbor before she cites it as an example of strong US-Japan relations'

Where do you keep finding these dumb broads.....And why do you want them as your spokespersons?

Does anyone else find this a bit worrying?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/05/yes-trump-can-pardon-himself-and-lefts-endless-quest-for-magic-bullets-to-stop-him-wont-work.html

Might work OK with fluffy clubbers, probably not so well with hardcore drinkers.....At least the vomit would be colourful I suppose. 

On ‎9‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 9:45 PM, LoooSeR said:

That thing saw combat? (Or, better to say "was presented at battlefield")

On ‎9‎/‎12‎/‎2015 at 9:47 PM, Mohamed A said:

 

Yes. T-55 Enigma. Iraqi upgrade for T-55/T-55A. It has ceramic spaced armor (no idea if this is better than normal spaced armor). The idea might not seem impressive to you, but it's actually very good vs Iran because at the time the Enigma was made, Iran was doing nothing but spamming HEAT shells.

Pretty sure the add-on armour was just steel & rubber, no ceramics to be seen on this one.

Was hoping there might be more info on (& pictures of) the Enigma.....I'm just gathering references for a build (1/72 as usual).

Here's some decent pics from Wiki of the Bovington example:

Close up of Turret 'NERA':

Sometimes, you see a kit and you just have to have it:

I'd like to see both TBH, but the poor T-64 could probably use some love the most.

Looks like Giuliani has finally lost his remaining marbles:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44348991

& there's more:

https://therealnews.com/stories/max-blumenthal-reveals-surveillance-program-in-yemen-run-by-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-scl-group

https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/23/scl-group-yemen-surveillance-cambridge-analytica/

https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/30/internal-cambridge-analytica-documents-reveal-private-intelligence-links-to-mass-surveillance-program/

Looks like these people have been in bed with our mutual elites for some time.....They are IMHO, the very definition of a non-state intelligence agency, deniable but oh so conveniently connected.

More 'interesting things', the ties between Cambridge Analytica, British Intelligence & the UK 'Deep State':  https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/20/scl-a-very-british-coup/

Dig in, it's juicy! 

He's making a pain of himself over here again:  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/01/roadmap-to-avoid-brexit-to-be-sent-to-mps-and-peers

7 hours ago, Bronezhilet said:

I guess the 'rebels' really want to die?

Please, oblige them. 

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

The Russians may have hacked our elections

Nope, that was probably us.....Probably working on your behalf, but definitely no Russians (unless they live in the US & work for the DNC). 

If Tommy dominated the British coverage of events, I certainly didn't notice him.....Not that I watched much of it TBH, only what couldn't otherwise be avoided.

Donald Trump says his letter from Kim Jong-un was “a very nice letter”.

Eight minutes later, he says he hasn’t opened it yet.

It was a very big letter.....So surely it has to be nice? 

As things currently stand I'm starting to wonder if the EU is going to be around long enough for this to become an issue.....We're out already, Italy could go at just one more wrong call from Germany, Spain is fracturing, Greece has been looted.....Basically the EU is fucked!

So really we are in fact coming at exactly the same thing from opposite sides (I to the left, you to the right), but our mutual ire is far more focussed on the liberal establishment than on each other.....Interesting times, eh compadre? 

Cheers.....So it turns out we aren't thinking very differently about his election at all.  My thoughts match your own very closely:

6 minutes ago, Sturgeon said:

Prior to this, I did not think the Cathedral could be defeated. I felt that it was impossible for real changes to happen in my country because the coalition of powerful interests would simply block it from happening, while sending up plausible-seeming justifications. But that isn't so, apparently, in the Billionaire Age. Azathoth is too old and weak, and still a blind idiot while increasingly no longer a god. Trump, despite how much Azathoth hated him and did not want him to win, took power anyway.

But how do you guys feel about the man himself.....I'd kinda feel safer if it had been Bernie. 

Meh!  Call that a hill.....200+ meters taller! 

Could you quantify that for me? 

It's quite difficult to grasp the US perspective on all this for me as an outsider.

9 hours ago, Xoon said:

What counts as a machine gun in the UK?

I believe this is a witness description rather than an authoritative statement.....As I said above, it is entirely possible that it was a SMG, it wouldn't be the first time, here's a 2016 story: 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/21/gun-running-gang-convicted-after-largest-seizure-of-automatic-we/

Another from 2008, slightly different MO:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2634223/Guns-converted-using-basic-tools-bought-on-eBay.html

& the granddaddy from back in 1999:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/firearms-dealer-linked-to-130-crimes-1075264.html

IIRC the weapons from this one turned up in all manner of interesting places. 

I kind of wondered that myself TBH, but he's just collating facts, the research has been done by many others, with vastly more convincing backgrounds.