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  1. Beer
    Few more pics from my hiking. Only one or two from each. It would be way too many of them... Vltava river, south of Prague Sázava river, just few kilometers away Pastviny dam, eastern Bohemia A tourist path over the Lužnice river near Tábor, south Bohemia. Once there was one of the main Hussite fortresses near this tunnel but close to nothing is left of it (Příběnice), it's some 10 km from the Hussite capital city Tábor. Countryside near Česká Lípa, Northern Bohemia Now something cultural, Kutná Hora without the crowds of tourists. This city was once one of the richest in Europe thanks to its silver mines which were the deepest medieaval mines in the world (around 450 meters under the ground at the end of 15th century). This fantastic place is also famous for its bone church which is decorated by bones of 40 thousand victims of plague and Hussite wars (and which is by some funny coincidence lcated just next to a factory of Philip Morris). Jizera mountains, north-eastern Bohemia, view towards Liberec city (hidden behind the hills) and its Ještěd mountain with a tower which won the 1969 Prix Auguste Perret architectural prize as the only building in our country. A very local rain shower at the Sedlo mountain, northern Bohemia View towards the German Saxony border, Lužice mountains, northern Bohemia (the boxy cliffs at the far distance are already in Saxony).
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    This monstrosity in the middle is possibly the biggest mortar ever built. It was built in 1917 by Brno factory Ignaz Storek, tested by both Austro-Hungarian and German army but never adopted. The calibre of this thing is 500 mm and the mine was 270 kg heavy. The range was 2000 meters. Sorry for low quality photo but you can't do miracles with the phone in not ideal lighting conditions. The only piece is located in Lešany muzeum near Prague.
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    UAV thread

    Beer replied to Toxn's topic in Aviation

    Iran-built UCAV downed by IS in Iraq.
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    Two Mi-8AMTSh crashed recently. The video of the Chukotka crash looks like a failure of the tail rotor transmission.
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    Hey, first ever Yak-130 combat footage! Filmed by Myanmar rebels trying to shoot them down with HMGs.
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    The first LauncherOne crashed shortly after the launch from the plane.
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    Some footage of the only LT vz.35 tank in running condition. In fact it's Pz.35(t) - naturally - as can be seen from the fact that it has four men crew instead of original three (the German modification of original Czechoslovak tanks added fourth crew member) including some shooting. You can see a lot of machine gun scars on the tank. It was originally captured by US Army and displayed in Aberdeen before getting back to Czechia some ten years ago or so. More of LT-35 driving. Here preserved and running original LT-38. Praga AH-IV tankette driving, this tankette was exported to Sweden, Iran and other countries before WW2. It was never used by Czechoslovak army. You can see that it was pretty fast and nimble machine (although its engine is a bit more powerful today when it runs on modern petrol). Nicely done replica of tankette vz.33 running. This rather useless thing (modification of Carden Lloyed Mk.VI tankette) was actually fielded with the border units and even saw some combat with Sudettendeutsche Freikorps before the WW2. In this reanectment event you can see running an armoured car Austin from Czechoslovak legion (1919), replica of Renault FT, original LT-38, replica of tankette vz.33, replica of armoured car vz.30. A running LTP tank. Despite it being in Czechoslovak camo it is in fact an export predecessor of the LT-38. This particular one served in the army of Peru and fought against Equador. It served well in the high mountains for some 30-40 years.
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    Turkish soldier was killed yesterday in Idlib. Russians claim he was killed by TIP IED, some other sources claim he died together with some TIP fighters in first Russian airstrike since months. Two buildings flattened by the strike. Probably a TAI Anka wing found in the areas newly secured by SAA along the M5 highway. Likely one of the drones which were shot down over territory not controlled by SAA. There some extra antena on it.
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    From which numbers did you get the 0,85 value (not percent)? Did you count KIA and MIA (letter M?) together divided by number of tanks (171+59)/274? Not saying it's wrong, just asking. Anyway I clearly read the table wrong at first, sorry.
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    Sorry for nitpicking but your statement is mathematically incorrect. The tables state average percentage for each crewmember occupation loss (the average value of all crew position values is 25,3% for T-34-76 and 24,6% for Sherman) but like you said such comparison doesn't take into account the number of crew members. If I count right it tells that for killing one hundred crewmen you needed to destroy in average 99 T-34-76 tanks or 81 Shermans.
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    This article quotes a lot of books and reports about Panther and I dare to say that basically all content doesn't agree with you. Please take into account that maximum means something different than average and that one sample is worthless for any meaningful statistics. https://tankandafvnews.com/2015/02/08/from-the-editor-panther-reliability/
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    120 mm mortar used in CTO isn't an often seen thing.
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    UBIM engineering vehicle photos and basic characteristics
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    Allegedly another Bayraktar downed by Pantsir near Tarhuna. After that LNA shot down again (!) its own Wing Loong 2 (winglets and turboprop engine on the photos). GNA seized a body of alleged Wagner PMC fighter. And a lot of mines left after LNA in south Tripoli. MON-50, MON-90, MON-100, TM-62 and OZM-72. Click on the twitter link to see all photos.
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    It seems to have way too long wheelbase for its ride height. Doesn't look like something I would like to drive over some bulge.
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    Don't know if it's real. Babak claims they are ex-Belarussian 9-13 bought by UAE. I don't believe in that tweet about Russian Sukhois being sent to Lybia.
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    Footage of the tragic accident of Canadian Snowbirds display team. It looks to me like if the engine lost thrust after the take-off and pilots tried to gain as much altitude as possible with the remaining speed but nevertheless ejected too low. The old CT-114 clearly doesn't have 0/0 ejecting seats.
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    Also one Mi-24 in the airbase was captured (likely not operational).
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    Big. GNA captured Al Watyah airbase. Inside you can see also a burned Pantsir which was hit right after it was delivered to the base by drone strike. It looks to be this one. Meanwhile Turkish frigate shot down a WingLoong. And another WingLoong was shot down by LNA in another friendly fire incident.
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    UVZ or military transport? Is White Eagle still purely export thing?
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    Is that some radar on the turret side?
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    Is it to ballance the weight of the Trophy APS, right?
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    Did You know that Iranian F-14 were at some point armed also with an AGM made of Hawk AA missile and an M117 bomb? https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33456/iran-equipped-its-f-14s-with-modified-hawk-sams-that-had-bombs-attached-to-their-noses
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    Probably another Bayraktar downed in Lybia.
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    From Vietnam, source: https://twitter.com/AnnQuann/status/1260277402829074432
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