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  1. Beer
    A simultanious paradrop of 2000+ soldiers and 200 vehicles from 71 Il-76 and a brigade-size heliborn assault during Tsentr 2019.
  2. Beer
    Can Osa fire while afloat?
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    In 1945 a five years old tank was hopelessly obsolete. Today a tank from 1980' being around 35 years old is still good enough for 95% of tank use and a tank from 1950' is still ok for at least half of the tank work happening around the globe. Funilly enough even T-34-85 considered obsolete by USSR in 1945 is still in limited use till today... just saying.
  4. Beer
    Who is right?
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    That was far smaller attack if we compare what is factually comparable, i.e. the damage visible from satellite pictures. I am not comparing the values given by the speaker because in that case this time Houthi speaker performed pretty badly because he stated they used 10 drones in the attack while there are 15-19 hits in the Saudi facilities. But ok, in the end it doesn't matter that much where it came from.
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    I know that it was not the first attack but there is big difference to launch one or two missiles or a salvo of twenty aiming on twenty different targets. That's far more difficult from all points of view.
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    A map of Saudi AD missile network in the area. For this type of attack crucial short-range systems are not on the map. There was some unsuccessful AA gun fire heard in the videos from the attack. Anyway attack from the west with low flying missiles or drones seems to be a logical way for the attacker.
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    Was it published where the remnants of the crashed missile were located? Also the bird hunter's video from Kuwait suggest that something came from Iraq. Either way if it came from Iraq or from Yemen it would still mean a confirmaton that Iran is capable of launching large scale longe range attack from a third country's territory. It's not one or two missiles this time. Twenty missiles or so at once and with a high success rate is a pretty big deal.
  9. Beer
    No stabilisers for a SPH on a wheeled platform? Huh...
  10. Beer
    Is the Rheinmetall L55 going to replace the rifled gun in British Challengers (finally) or is it just a demonstrator?
  11. Beer
    I bet they use those 9M33 as artillery rockets.
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    One of those left by Wehrmacht in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovak export of weapons in the Middle East after WW2 is a downright crazy piece of history. Maybe I'll write a bit more about it one day (members of the Communist party smuggling weapons to newborn Izrael with the help of US freelance pilots through Greek airfields etc.).
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    There is one flying MiG-15UTI also here in Czechia. That one is special by the fact that it was produced in Aero Vodochody as Aero CS-102 Ser. No. 242266 in 1955. The plane was produced for Polish airforce and was actively used till 1990! Later in 90' it was moved to Estrella Warbird Museum of Paso Robles, USA, and in 2013 it returned to Czechia. The photos are from https://www.planes.cz
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    Do You know which engine powers the Il-2M? Is that Allison V-1710 like in the Sturmovik from Flying Heritage?
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    AFAIK the rear fuselage, the cargo ramp, all cabin door and fixed wing leading edges are being produced by Aero Vodochody here in Czechia. To be honest I find it quite crazy to transport those part over half of the Globe for assembly in Brazil but if they can still make money of it, why not...
  16. Beer
    Thank You. I have actually never read such detailed description of what actually happened. That was a very sickening read. May all the victims and the fallen soldiers rest in peace. And may it never happen again (I know that such wish is most likely utopian...).
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    Thanks but I meant if such big cargo capacity is actually needed for a Mi-17 successor? Mi-17 is IMHO already too large for many operations which it is being used for because there is no suitable smaller thing (maybe the new Ka-62 can take this role in the future).
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    That Mi-38 looks huge side by side with the Mi-17. I guess it has been discussed a lot already but was it supposed to be a successor of Mi-17 when it was started? If so why it's so much bigger?
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    Don't know if that's some sort of humor which I don't understand but I spent part of my childhood trying to sweep those damn oceans from them...
  20. Beer
    Of course Some of us still remember...
  21. Beer
    I know it's SOHR but still interesting at least in one thing. According to the SORH breakdown of casulties in August 67% of all killed rebels and jihadist were of non-Syrian origin (502 of 748). According to the same report the number of non-Syrian fallen among the pro-government forces is 4% (21 of 521). More and more it's clear that those who fight the long lost battle in Idlib are mostly foreign jihadist who have no other choice than fighting to death. http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=139262
  22. Beer
    IMHO these are same old Mi-24 wings (the size and aerodynamic shape) only the ATGM pylons are replaced with self-defence containers. The Mi-35M wings are much shorter.
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    I suppose that it's meant to be a modernisation program, right? I can see it has the long wings of the legacy Mi-24, the old 3-blade rear rotor and retractable gear.
  24. Beer
    I guess it was more likely an SAA artillery strike. Anyway from this video we can't say.
  25. Beer

    Bash the Pak-Fa thread

    Beer replied to Tied's topic in Aviation

    Spectacular short landing from MAKS preparations. Parashutes deployed while still in the air! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGyL_NJhCWU
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