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The difference in size is funny. 

Great gallery taken in May 1945 around a place where I was born. German planes on Vysoké Mýto and Skuteč airfield, some destroyed (by retreating troops), two Bf-109 were even captured functional and flown by partisan commander, soviet captain Ivanov. Pity the Me-323 Giants were destroyed later

https://www.idnes.cz/pardubice/zpravy/konec-valka-letiste-vysoke-myto-kveten-1945-skutec-letadla-wehrmacht-luftwaffe.A200507_101913_pardubice-zpravy_lati/foto/nahledy#LAT833568_DD02T2.jpg

Another photos related to the Giants of Skuteč (6 were there in May 1945 out of 11 total in Czechoslovakia). Check photo No.8 and further. A Me-323 wing structure preserved till today serving as a bell tower

https://pardubice.rozhlas.cz/po-stopach-valecnych-gigantu-kusy-obrich-letadel-jsou-na-skutecsku-dodnes-6029544#&gid=1&pid=1

I believe Skuteč and Chrudim airfields could have been the last German ones to handle combat missions in the WW2. I think that planes from there were bombing Prague till 7th May. 

Iranian navy hit its own missile boat with an ASM in a training accident. 19 sailors died and 15 were injured. 

11-12th May 1945 near Příbram, Czechoslovakia. 

I guess it's little known event but in fact it was a real battle in terms of scale. While the German capitulation was signed already on 8th May the war continued in Czechoslovakia for coupple more days. Fighting in Prague ceased finally on 9th May but the German units didn't want to surrender to the Red Army and intended to fight their way to the Americans. Quite a strong group of them found themseves south-east of Příbram. Roughly 6-7 thousand soldiers from various SS and Wehrmacht units, mainly remains of SS Kampfgruppe Wallenstein, commanded by the SS chief commander in Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren Carl von Pückler-Burghauss tried to negotiate with the US Army but without success. Meanwhile his men started to fortify themselves hoping to find an agreement with the Americans. The German units were frustrated and murdered several civilians around the area. Due to that several partisan and so called Revolution guard units engaged in the figting with them but those were too weak (not more than few hundred men). In one occassion SS used waving a white flag to lure the partisan out of a cover and kill them. On May 11 Red Army engaged in the fighting and so did some elements of the US army serving as the imaginary wall behind the back. On 12th May early morning von Pückler-Burghauss finally handed his capitulation to the hands of Soviet general Seryogin from 104th Guard Rifle Division and American colonel Allison from 4th Tank Division. Some six thousands of German troops were takken prisoners by the Soviets while hundreds of soldiers and around two dozens of partisans died on the battlefield (the last one - armed local was killed two hours after the capitulation was signed). SS-Gruppenführer Pückler-Burghauss shot himself in the head shortly after he signed the capitulation. 

There is a monument built on the place as You can see here.

https://mapy.cz/s/dejatoheza

Usually they hold a small memorial event on the battlefield but this year it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemy. Nevertheless here is some footage from 2018.

In my opinion (just a opinion) the main benefit of fiberglass is that it consumes a lot of energy for the delamination of it's layers while it is cheap to produce. 

22 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   One of few restored MiG-3s. Was shot down in October of 1941 and recovered few years ago.

 

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A short video of it flying

https://t.me/aviadispet4er/27923

A Mi-35M crash-landed in Crimea. One pilot allegedly died. 

An absolutely brutal bird strike on Spanish A400M (allegedly vulture)

And few pics of airliners hit on Tripoli Mitiga airport by LNA shelling. At least the A320 looks like it was operational before. 

Spectacular boom of an ammo dump in Misrata airbase. LNA claimed it to be result of their airstrike but you never know. 

That looks like modified rollcage and light ramp from the Dakar KaMAZ truck. 

It's the same one reported some time back.

Rarely can someone meet something more bizarre than the so called "US invasion of Venezuela" which actually somewhat happened. 

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/05/the-invasion-of-venezuela-brought-to-you-by-silvercorp-usa/

Even the full contract was revealed by Washington Post. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/read-the-attachments-to-the-general-services-agreement-between-the-venezuelan-opposition-and-silvercorp/e67f401f-8730-4f66-af53-6a9549b88f94/?no_nav=true&p9w22b2p=b2p22p9w00098

Another Bayraktar down.

From https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1256976815152758784

From https://twitter.com/Saturnax1/status/1256581718754177025

Kirov before launch, 1977

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Azerbaijan, right? 

Unexploded Chinese GP-1 guided artillery round in Tripoli.

US MQ-1C Grey Eagle crashed in Niger.

French Foreign Legion soldier (Ukrainean by the name?) succumbed injuries he received in an IED atack in Mali.

Not a hot news since it happened already in February but anyway... 

Former Prague imam Samer Shehadeh (Lebanese-Palestinian; in the past several times attended some Czech TV shows talking about islam there) was sentenced to 10 years in jail for joining and supporting a terror organization. Together with him his brother and his wife (Czech who converted to Islam in Finland) were sentenced to 11 and 6 years for the same thing but the pair's wherebouts are not known at the moment. Shehadeh helped his brother and his wife to travel to Syria, to join Jabhat al Nusra and together with them he sent also around 24 thousand Euro he collected as a support for the organization. Shehadeh managed to escape Czechia but was later arrested in Jordan and extradicted to Czechia. The sentence is not final because of appeal. 

https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/samer-shehadeh-byvaly-prazsky-imam-rozsudek-soud_2005020600_dok

A spectacular dashcam video of an autogyro crash near Vyškov, CZ. The pilot, who crashed onto the motorway during a failed take-off from nearby airfield, was lucky. He survived with multiple injuries. The cause of the crash is not yet clear but since the unpaved runway is parallel to the motorway, the autogyro clearly changed direction during the take-off most likely due to torque inballance.  

https://www.novinky.cz/krimi/clanek/desivy-zaber-u-vyskova-se-zritil-virnik-primo-na-dalnici-ridic-ktery-tesne-uhnul-to-natocil-40322393#seq_no=1&dop_ab_variant=345701&dop_source_zone_name=novinky.web.hp&dop_req_id=4dJajCb3FN8-202004301224&source=clanky-home

By the way this is the part of the motorway which itself is a spare airfield for the army (hence why only the wire barriers in the middle). 

https://mapy.cz/zakladni?x=17.0233476&y=49.3003674&z=15

Is there any risk of reducing/cancelling the program due to COVID budget cuts? 

Canadian CH-148 from HMCS Fredericton crashed yesterday into Ionian sea during NATO Reassurance mission. Greek sources reported first body of six missing found. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/helicopter-crash-canadian-navy-fredericton-1.5549654

16 hours ago, Wiedzmin said:

https://lostarmour.info/turkey/item.php?id=16852

 

is it really KO by 12.7 ? hit area is only 50mm thick, but...

Anyone can still find that video to see if there was some explosion on impact? On the screencaps it doesn't look like that. I remember I have seen it long time ago.