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Hungary signed a letter of intent with USA for purchase of NASAMS system. Most likely four batteries and 180 missiles. Source in Czech: https://www.armadninoviny.cz/madarsko-koupi-systemy-protivzdusne-obrany-nasams.html
Czech Republic will buy four batteries soon as well but it hasn't been yet decided of which system. I think that the other option is Spyder. One of the advantages of NASAMS is that AMRAAM is already used by our airforce while the advantage of Spyder is that it's already integrated on Tatra chassis which will be definitely one of the MOD requirements.
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MiG-31 emergency landing in Perm. Likely with blown tyre.
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I have also one great one from 1962. Pretty long but worth watching I would say
The police chasing is like from the movies with Gilles de Funes but it's actually older 
The car is one of the best ones ever built in Czechoslovakia, the Tatra 603 (this is the second series car, the first from 1958 had three headlights). For its time very advanced aluminium air-cooled 2.5 V8 with 105 Hp output. The top speed was around 170 km/h mainly thanks to very low drag coefficient (0,35).
By the way the super cool race variant from 1967 is on this video (check at least the fantastic sound @ 5:00). This car was very successful in endurance racing. It has 175 Hp and 1320 kg. The top speed is around 200 km/h.
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Interesting photo of a captured Bren carrier armed with triple Panzerschreck and two Panzerfausts.
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The wreckage left in Pakistan looks different though.
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1 minute ago, LoooSeR said:
Unknown, i didn't saw anything about what will happen with T-80Us in service currently in 4th guards. T-80U would have been better vehicle to be "BVM'ed", better base armor.
The reason could be that upgrading the T-80U currently in service would take them away from active first-tier unit, i.e. they may be upgraded later when they are replaced with the BVM and not needed for the service.
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96L6E and possibly S-300 launcher allegedly near Ras Lanuf, Libya.
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Militants released a drone view of the SVBIED attack on the Russian-Turkish patrol few weeks a go. I have to say I would expect the BTR and its crew to end a lot worse than they did after seeing this.
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Absolutely lovely view of the same event.
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Allegedly 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate seized from a broken ship (of a bankrupted owner) six years ago and just left stored in an empty building the port. Now the place, though which most of Lebanese and Syrian foreign trade goes through, is destroyed and most of the Lebanese grain supplies are destroyed too. Likely hundreds are of dead and many thousands injured. Many ships destroyed too.
This photo seems to be legit based on the pre-explosion footage.
From isi an image of a capsized passenger ship Orient Queen (roughly 7500 tonns).
Our USAR team of 36 specialists and 5 dogs joined the rescued effort as well.
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Three days ago a USMC AAV sunk on the sea near San Clemente island, California. It looks like eight marines and one sailor died in the accident with several others being injured (two are said to be in critical condition). So far only one body of those missing was found.
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How about ammo stowage of that concept? It looks to have a relatively small rear portion of the turret which seems to be occupied on top by the APS, wind sensor etc. (no blow-off panels anymore?). It doesn't look like it could take a large portion of ammo anyway but if the TC and gunner sit at the bottom of the basket there is no space for any other autoloader option.
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Did the side aplique armor just burn? It looks like mats from glassfibre or something similar are the only thing left of the sandwich. In the first picture there are white small titles between textile layers visible on an opened unburnt plate. I guess it's some ceramic titles but how come they burned?
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Whose was it?
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Going a little bit into Looser's territory but I just stumbled upon these interesting things.
Il-112V prototype first time in paint.
Source with five pictures: https://vk.com/il_112?z=photo-98624581_457240244%2Fwall-98624581_7588
Il-20MS with new antenas, maybe different APS, added MAWS and flare dispensers. Don't know if its photos were already posted here.
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From Egypt, very unusual view!
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4 hours ago, Ramlaen said:
For me I wonder if the 31 round count reported earlier was for the 130mm gun instead of the 120mm.
It was stated that the number is for unitary rounds. 130 mm unitary round is too heavy and large for human loader so it has to be stored in an autoloader but I think that there is not enough space in the bustle for 31x 130 mm autoloader. So let's say that there is less than that but storing a portion of those massive unitary 130 mm rounds somewhere in the hull doesn't sound right either. Also the original tweet posted on the last page explicitely named L55A1 and that is 120 mm gun. Therefore I think that the number was indeed valid for the 120 mm.
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On 7/14/2020 at 8:39 PM, Beer said:
Slovak MOD released the final statement regarding the investigation of the accident of one of the few operational MiG-29 from last year. The report basically confirms what was circulating around already at the time of the accident. The plane simply run out of fuel due to a rapid change of weather and subsequent inability to land on Sliač airbase. Instead the pilot tried to reach Bratislava airport but he didn't have enough fuel for that.
https://spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok/557181-pricinou-nehody-mig-29-bol-nedostatok-paliva/
Slovak MOD declassified another investigation report. This time from the worst air accident in the history of independent Slovakia. In 2006 an An-24 carrying KFOR soldiers from Pristina, Kosovo, crashed into a hill near Košice airport. 42 died, one soldier surived. According to the report the most probable reason for the accident was an error of the crew which resulted into a controlled flight into the terrain. They executed the landing in purely visual manner without paying enough attention to the instruments which according to the report worked well.
https://www.mosr.sk/sprava-o-vysetreni-leteckej-nehody-vojenskeho-lietadla-an-24/
The police chasing is like from the movies with Gilles de Funes but it's actually older 
Anti-air thread: Everything that goes up must come down, and we'll help you go down
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Sure the drones have tough life if the opponent has proper AA network BUT lack of the "proper AA coverage" is a very real thing which exists far more often than it doesn't. In fact it's rare when the "proper AA coverage" exists. Even most of the US bases in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have little to no defence against drones.
Drones are extremely effective tools especially considering their cost compared to the manned aircraft and much longer time they can spend in the air. Also since many drone types are cheap and disposable they can be easily sent to a suicide mission where shooting down the manned aircraft would create political problems. Often it's enough if such drone finds the enemy, it doesn't need to get back home. The rest is job of the artillery or airforce or whomever else. Exchanging a wrecked quadrocopter or small drones like Orlan-M for anihiliating a howitzer battery or an infantry company is a pretty good deal for me and that's what happens over and over again in all current wars. Not speaking at all about the use of strategic assests like MQ-4/RQ-4.
Just for the record.
- Iranian suicide drones (combined with several cruise missiles) managed to take out the largest oil rafinery in the world defended by two batteries of Patriot and three batteries of older SAMs and made it out of order for two months. Aside of that they scored a lot of other spectacular hits against the Saudi, Emirati, Sudanese or Hadi's army killing several generals or destroying aircraft on the ground.
- Turkish drones scored dozens of AFV kills on Syrian army in Idlib and by that virtually stopped the offensive of SAA; in doing so they also managed to take out plenty of artillery pieces and even anti-aircraft asests including several Pantsirs-S1 (arguably most of them were not in ready to fire mode but anyway).
- Turkish drones completely wrecked Haftar's attempt to take Tripoli and played a key role in the counteroffensive in which GNA took al Watiyah airbase and other large areas. Again the drones managed to take out several Pantsirs-S1 in the process (most of them again not in ready-to-fire mode but that doesn't really matter).
- US drones took out endless number of various militia and terror group commanders in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia or elsewhere.
- Russian drones are responsible for thousands of killed men in Ukraine, Syria or Lybia by assisting the artillery and airforce, especially in combination with guided artillery ammo they have been deadly. And it's absolutely not negligible when your entire batallion goes to hell in a matter of minutes (not a division but it was anyway a massive disaster for the UA army - just google pictures for Zelenopolye).
- Iranian UCAVs scored many hits on IS targets in Iraq and Syria.
- French drones helped to kill the leader of AQ in Maghreb.
- Azeri and Armenian drones are responsible for most of the killing in Nagorno Karabakh border by spotting the targets for the artillery.
- Even IS improvized drones managed to take out ammo dumps, AFVs including one Abrams (by direct hit into an opened hatch), artillery pieces or troops.