Parachute drop malfunction BMP2  BMD2

Interesting how they mounted the optics so it can recoil and survive what looks like a brutal kick.

Iranian weapons dont equal iran launched the attack ,Huthis take any help the can get but they don't take orders from Tehran., US likes to atrubute proxies as under direct control , but that is simply not the case. 

Saudi exhibit , note quite small drones and 2 yemeni Quds1 cruise missiles that differ from Iranian clones of Soviet kh-55 bought in Ukraine . Will be interesting to see radar plots as an Awacs type plane was on orbit bordering Iraq so if drones came from Iran shoudl be on radar , altough anyone can draw their radar plots they way they want.

But small size of the flying wing type drones supprts idea that they were launched inside KSA ,like it was the case with drone atack on UAE airport.

Saudi claims

Saudi spokesman says attack was “unquestionably sponsored" by Iran 

sort of like the Saudis sponsored 9/11? or bombs the Saudis Dropped on a school bus full of children are sponsored by the US.?   Sponsored just doesnt sound like Iranians didi it.

Chris Hayes added,

• 18 delta winged UAV + 7 cruise missiles fired 
• direction of flight + range indicate attacks did not originate from Yemen, but from the north; (impacts on the gas tanks were from the  west)
• sophistication of weapons included GPS guidance giving high accuracy.(nothing out of Huthi domain)

Last time we have seen > “a very compelling forensic case” that Iran did it

We had this and  world laughed at the show.

Standing in front of the remnants of the projectile, permanent representative to the UN Nikki Haley said it bore a close resemblance to an Iranian-made Qiam ballistic missile.

Point is If the drones like Quasr were used range i obviously way too short  ,so were launched from KSA soil , Huthis have proven to be able to stage attacks outside Yemen ,so  launch point inside KSA  would not be unimaginable. 

how does getty images own all these photos?

We do not know how old that pic is ,but who said cruise missile could not be used as well , but on one of the Vids you can hear propeler noise and some gunfire.

Quasir 1 or 2 was used in UAE airport attacks so was obviously launched outside of yemen, I imagine KSA borders to be quite porous and do not see problems geting the gear in.

Couple of videos i cant  realy find now had distinct propeler buzz then bang and no more propeler noise.

But this one also records the buzz prior bang.

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/RDRcl9Mc/vid_20190914_074704_544_hd.mp4

Huthis use many different drones.

I dont quite get it why people doubt drone accuracy ,Quasir done was used to assinate military brass on a UAE parade , that requires drone to strike with couple meter accuracy made even more difficoult as it used airburst warhead  so also had to explode at the right spot

Even tough this drone did not kill a lot of people it killed the highest ranking brass  ,note it exploded right on top of them very precise. Considerng the latency of radio control.

Damage looks like it was made with fairly small munitions , Quasir 1 or 2 would fit the bill , but would also need to be launched from inside Saudi Arabia.

Of course this might be just mockup with thin sheet mtal clading ,  but its Interesting that only commanders hatch has all round observation pericopes also loots of exposed roof in this design .

All is well as long as EU subsidies comprise some 2.8% of Poland GDP , we can only imagine when they start slashing development aid with Brexit , many of these projects will come to a halt.

Definetly not good for MIGs already poor standing , but not unique to it .

11 Days After Incident at RIAT When Horizontal Stabilizer Delaminated, Another F-16 flown by the Viper Demo Team Loses Panel.

“It does happen occasionally. It’s just normal operating for an F-16, or any aircraft really. Sometimes latches fail,” USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team Commander Major Garrett Schmitz, callsign “Toro”, told TheAviationist.com in an interview on Saturday at Thunder Over Michigan. “Essentially what happened yesterday was, a latch failed, and the panel came off. While it’s not common, I would say it’s not un-common. It’s nothing that we’re concerned about. It’s something that happens, it’s part of flying, we fix the jet and move on.”

Just ran into the Viper Demo guys — looks like it was a spontaneous delamination of the composite. Freak occurrence apparently, as the jet did not appear to have hit anything that could have caused it

Using civilian planes to move men and equipment

Jihadis would be proud of such contraption

Some sort of Indian BMP & truck chimera.

Quite heavily armed for such a small unmaned boat

The boat is 15 meters in lenght, has a top speed of 42 knots and a range of autonomous navigation of 500 nautical miles. JARI USV is equipped with an electro-optical sensor on the top of the superstructure, a phased array radar, and a sonar. 

Depending on the combat mission, the boat can be armed with a vertical launch unit with eight cells, twin torpedos and a remotely-controlled combat module with a 30-mm automatic gun and guided missile launcher
 

Huthis ,showing showing of Feter 1 SAM missiles ,(looks like Cube system) + shootdown of a UAV  . 

IF Germans pay for it Poland is all In

7 hours ago, Beer said:

Can somebody explain to me what the Turks want to achieve by having couple of hundred soldiers surrounded at Morek? They had weeks to prevent that situation but for some reason they decided to wait for SAA to surround them. Why? I can imagine plenty of upcoming scenarios but I can't find one which brings any benefit to Turkey. 

Turkey clearly aims to anex some of Syrian territory akin to what israel has done in Golan and SAA will never be in position to realy challenge them  once they settle . Best do it now before temporary becomes permanent. Syria will remain weak for forseable future. Best hope is that Kurds and Turks go at eachother  weaklening eachother and US parthners workign both sides

Marvel BMP aka Hydra Tank

On 8/8/2019 at 9:45 PM, LoooSeR said:

   Strange thing shown in China during Army 2019 competitions.

 

This are called walking excavators and they have extreme terrain capability , particulary steep slope work.

 fattso like ATACMS

BRDM 2Mobility is actualy not that bad even tough it has a weak engine. When  our military was testing patria 8x8 and Pandur 8x8  ,BRDM 2 was the mobility benchmark and in most regimes  the modern 8x8 couldn't match it. . These upgraded russian versions have an upgraded engine so only real issue could be loss of amphibious capability.

Like ia said armor plate is cheap and should have been cut into more segments for better coverage like the one on the pic above. Only areas that is curved are just above the front vender and hull side where the observation blocks lie. Like said partculary lazy atempt at up armoring in all respects. 

4 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Some internals are visible here:

   Not too terrible, but at some places it looks strange. Addon armor looks like 2 types of plates randomly placed on top of original body. Vehicle have thermal imager, which is good.

That has to count as one of the slopiest uparmoring  jobs with lots of holes in coverage  , it looks like someone tried to use same panel on multiple places. Why? , armor plate is not expensive as is not cuting it on water jet.

When ever you have such thick layers of substrate they are inherently fragile  and the nose is more thermaly stressed than most of the fuselage. F22 coatings are stil old gen  much thicker than those seen on F35 , planes will likely become maintenace hogs as they age or compromiseese will be made to keep them airworthy at cost of some stealth.

And you see some blistering and cracking on F35 paint as well

5 hours ago, Toxn said:

But the left-wing media wants to silence reports of Islamic terror on US soil because {inaudible}.

 

More seriously, I get the impression that both sides of the US's all-encompassing red/blue conflict are waiting for signs that the irredeemable asshole who did this can be pinned as a member of the other team. In the not-unlikely event that he turns out to be a hard-to-place whackaloon, then the story will lose its legs.

 

For everyone outside of the US, of course, none of this is very interesting or relevant.

Its not islamic terror , its likely just some disturbed incel.

Germans could more easily claim it for their ''push you under the train terror'' that is hitting them in spate of attacks by imigrants pushing people under the train on train stations

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

Looks like the shooter is Iranian. 

 

Story has already been buried.

Or Italian or whatever he claimed to be in his instagram , in any case not realy relevant 

I know they have you all hyped up on Iran these days .largest sponsor of terror and all that BS.

But sunnis (Sauds and co) pretty ,much own the terror bussines  and are all US allies.