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  1. Beer
    This is just... bizarre...
  2. Beer
    CV90? I don't think so. In my opinion ASCOD has the highest chances.
  3. Beer
    Guys, I didn't find better thread so my apology for putting the question in this long-time dead topic. A friend of mine showed me today this device which looks and works exactly same as any common dial indicator. The only issue is that the inner range is in kilometers and since there is a Reichsadler at the back of the gauge I post it here. Any idea for what it was used? The wire at the top clearly isn't original part of the device and was most likely used only to hang it somewhere.
  4. Beer
    There are reports about SDF+SAA counter atack along the M4 highway with several villages already retaken from TFSA. Also YPG captured one Kirpi MRAP. Two Turkish soldiers confirmed to be killed by SAA artillery on Manbij frontline. Several others were wounded.
  5. Beer
    Puma is out of Czech tender. PSM decided that the redesign is not realistic in given timeframe and left the competition.
  6. Beer
    M22 Locust reborn?
  7. Beer
    Commander of the Senegal Air Force was the first foreign customer to fly the L-39NG.
  8. Beer
    This is maybe the most important day of Syrian war since 30th September 2015 (Russian intervention). All sort of things is happening right now. I wonder if one day it turns out it was all according to a master plan...
  9. Beer
    Seems that with USA out of the game the SDF finally recognized that they have to do a deal with Assad to survive. There are various reports about SAA and Russian MP deployement to number of locations in the following 48 hours such as Manbij, Kobani, Raqqa, Tabqa, the rest of Qamishli and oil fields. Meanwhile SDF is on a retreat from the border due to TFSA advance along the M4 highway. We'll see how it evolves further.
  10. Beer
    Reports that Trump (again) ordered a complete withdraval from North-Eastern Syria (possibly the order doesn't count the sand of Al Tanf). Another reports that hundreds of IS detainees managed to escape from Ayn Issa camp few hours after US troops left. Also Oleg Blokhin from Anna News has been in Manbij since yesterday. Does it mean SAA is going to take over the city?
  11. Beer
    Where was it taken? The guy running on the left doesn't look Pakistani but more Russian to me.
  12. Beer
    Great photo!
  13. Beer
    It's officially three killed TSK soldiers now.
  14. Beer
    Super weird and super lucky aircraft accident
  15. Beer
    Didn't BTR-4 have major reliability nad structural issues?
  16. Beer
    It was in fact Liwa al Quds. Anyway the IS claim of 17 dead can be very well overblown.
  17. Beer
    According to Turkish sources Hamza Division of FSA is leading the fight in Tell Abyad. This group was supported by USA for large part of the war (and it's not without curiosity that it has hundreds of Kurds in its ranks).
  18. Beer
    So it begun. Turkish air and artillery strikes have been hitting YPG positions mostly around Ras al Ayn, Tall Abyad but also on other places (some reports about bombing Mansoura dam near Raqqa as well). Two probing attacks of TFSA were reported to be repelled by SDF (one from the Turkish side of the border, one west of Manbij). So far no ground advance started, likely tomorrow morning. Also al-Jolani is reportedly still alive and voiced his support to the Turkish operation (I don't understand it myself)...
  19. Beer
    Let's agree that we disagree.
  20. Beer
    As far as I understood the issue of those several Wagner guys killed by US was that they got themselves into a local tribal struggle. In my understanding that whole incident had nothing to do with SAA or Russian mission. Local tribesmen simply paid those guys to help them take the fields without having an agreement with anybody and support from anybody. USAF acted strong and from their point of view well because it stabilised the staus quo on the Euphrates for a long period of time. Regarding the Shairat attack. Trump didn't declare the red lines. Trump simply had to act somehow. Can you imagine he would do nothing? I don't think he could afford that. Again few destroyed planes made far less in the course of the war than thousands of TOW missiles before. By the way after such a long time has anyone an idea what was the purpose of the USAF striking SAA surrounded by IS in Deir ez Zor three years a go?
  21. Beer
    105 missiles destroying one building. That was a clear example of how to try to safe face and in fact cause nothing significant. Hundreds of TOW missiles had far bigger impact on the war and caused massive casualties and material looses to SAA. That Tomahawk stunt did basically nothing. It's also not true that Obama didn't launch direct attack against SAA. Please remember that due to USAF attacks Deir-ez-Zor nearly fell. That alone would be a huge blow to the SAA way worse than anything Trump did.
  22. Beer
    Sorry but that's not true. First of all Obama started the mess (from American point of view), the supplies, funding and training for various opposition and jihadi groups and last but not least made USA allied with a group of people USA themselves declare terrorist and with whom they shared nothing except one common enemy (PKK aka YPG in Syria). The main issue with that is that the second YPG enemy was a key US ally sitting on Bosphorus. After that Obama brought US troops to Syria to guard the sand around Al Tanf. Add to that the story of the unsuccessful Turkish coup and following near split of Turkey and NATO. That was a chain of disasters which will hurt in a long time to come. Trump just inherrited what was essentially a closterfuck already and tried to dance somehow betwen his own promisses and views and the pressure from the internal and foreign partners. Whether he could safe more is questionable but it's fair to say that often he was in a loose-loose situation not by his own mistake.
  23. Beer
    They didn't learn anything from Afrin, did they? This events will only lead to temporary occupation of another mostly Kurdish areas of Syria by Turks where the unit of temporality is one eternity just like with Cyprus.
  24. Beer
    This temporary coallition of the mighty US capitalists and the poor Kurdish Marxists is a great curiosity for all the historians to come.
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