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  1. Beer
    Regarding the turn rate/climb rate question... I tried to find some info about bi-planes becase before WW2 those were generally rated to have high-climb rate combined with great turning abilities. I found following numbers (without guarantee): Fiat CR.32 (1934) 9,2 m/s; Gloster Gladiator (1937) 11,5 m/s; Fiat CR.42 (1938) 11,7 m/s; Grumman F-3F (1936) 14 m/s; Polikarpov I-15 (1934) 14,3 m/s; Polikarpov I-153 (1939) 15 m/s; Avia B-534-IV (1937) 15 m/s; Avia B-634 (1936) 16 m/s (not produced aerodynamically cleaned version but still with fixed gear).
  2. Beer
    Azerbaijan also released updated numbers.
  3. Beer
    IRGC using Krasnopol laser guided rounds in Syria. They use D20 howitzers to fire them.
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    Sorry for being late to the party but I found it interesting that the to my knowledge not a single serial vehicle, prototype or concept coming from ČKD (BMM) or Škoda during the war had interleaved wheels (not even any paper project). In the end only one of those designed during the war made it to serial production - the Pz.38(t) n.A. chassis used on Panzerjäger 38(t) Hetzer (albeit the design was somewhat affected by the deliberate effort of ČKD chief designer Aleksey Surin to sabotage it, especially the early vehicles). It's notable that the companies had German management installed to oversee any development, yet they still insisted on not to use the interleaved wheels. In light of what you wrote it is also possible that Pz.38(t) n.A. lost to Pz.II Ausf.L Luchs for this reason because otherwise it was arguably the better machine for its task.
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    10 Tu-160 and 12 Tu-95 seen on this satellite photo of the Engels airbase.
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    If I understand right, it's 1972 preliminary test fire result, i.e. many years before the final specification of the tank was set, right?
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    Another batch of trips from last fall. Labe (Elbe river) near Terezín fortress (and WW2 concentration camp) after heavy rains. On the horizont on the left side there's Házmburk castle. Jince town with military training grounds in the forests behind as seen from Plešivec hill. Brdy highland, central Bohemia. Křivoklát highland near Beroun, south-west of Prague. Morning mist loosing the fight with the sun over the Labe (Elbe) river near Děčín city. Buková hora mountain with TV tower is visible on the horizont. View from Blansko castle ruins near Ústí nad Labem city towards Krušné hory mountain ridge which creates a natural border with Germany. České středohoří mountains.
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    Bash the Pak-Fa thread

    Beer replied to Tied's topic in Aviation

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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    UAV thread

    Beer replied to Toxn's topic in Aviation

    Something new from Iran
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    On the 3D model it looks like something of 20 mm calibre or so, definitely not 35 or 40 mm. For the larger calibre IMHO the ammo capacity is a big and real problem. TBH I don't think it's a good idea at all to place a medium calibre coax on a tank.
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    This thing could go into the JDB thread as well...
  12. Beer
    4x4 BTR...
  13. Beer
    I can hear some IS-3 disagreement.
  14. Beer
    Not only medium/long range. Even our RBS-70/70NG VSHORADS are networked with a data aquisition Retia ReVISOR radar which can be placed up to 20 km from the launcher, in this case basically a MANPADS on steroids.
  15. Beer
    Some historical curiosity, probably not known to you guys. After WW2 Czechoslovak army had a wild mix of tanks of Soviet, German, British, American and own origins. The western machinery didn't have a long service due to a lack of spares after the communist power takeover however some Cromwells ended being rebuilt as electric excavators in mines (with cables instead of batteries) and serving for another decades in this role. To this day some 5-6 such chassis exist owned by various museums or collectors and some of them are being rebuilt back to the tank form (Smržovka muzeum piece at least, the one was once probably a Centaur). This is how the strange excavator looked like. The photos are roughly 20 years old when it was still posasible to find the vehicles in some mines (unserviceable). https://www.valka.cz/CZK-THV-01-tankovy-haldovy-vykopnik-t84828
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    Allegedly an Azeri Mi-17 equipped with Spike-NLOS. Source: https://vk.com/wall-121289356_119998
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    Armenian Tor in action (the photo at the end of the video is irrelevant).
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    Azerbaijan officially admitted that Armenia indeed shot down a Su-25 over Jabrayil on 4th October. The pilot died. Azeri Su-25 allegedly did over 600 combat sorties.
  19. Beer
    VBIED in Nashville, US... Keep rolling the thread up for more information.
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    This UAV could have been shot down by that strange new subsonic Iranian turbojet SAM. On the video the missile seems to be relatively large, pretty slow and with no trail.
  21. Beer
    Found near Ain Issa, Syria on the front line between SDF and TFSA. Hard to say what they were fired on. SDF has close to no armor.
  22. Beer
    Those guys on the photos could have been regular soldiers. I guess these two Mi-8 are not intended for PMC.
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    Su-30SM with nuclear training bomb IAB-500.
  24. Beer
    More T-34 in action
  25. Beer
    That's some heavily overweight stock SUV/pick up chassis, look at the disc brakes and aluminium 5-screw rims.
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