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♫ THERE IS A WHOLE LOT GOING ON IN AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY ♫
 

FTFY

Here's the entire demonstartion if anyone wants to take time out of your day to worship ural, your lord and savoir 

I busted another Sherman myth today, specifically the story about how Shermans were so good that the 1st Mechanized Corps threw away all of their T-34s and replaced them with Shermans before attacking Berlin. Except oops, turns out the medium tank brigades of the 1st Mechanized Corps have been composed of Shermans for months at that point, and I never actually found any record of a T-34 in that unit. 

WWI --- German submarine "U-155" (location unknown - c. 1917/1918)

 
P-61A-1 Black Widow, September 1944, Saipan

 
Waffenträger Ardelt, basically 88mm Marder

 
173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion member Larry Wayne Chaffin during the Vietnam War, Phouc Vinh airstrip in South Vietnam

 
First Flight of the Boeing 747 on February 9th, 1969 at Paine Field, Washington

 
WWI --- Crew of a British freighter abandon ship, repelling from ropes towards a lifeboat. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine.

 
WWI --- Russian battleship "Tsesarevich" in a British port. In the background is the British warship "HMS Victory", flagship of the Royal Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

 
Luftwaffe aces meet Hitler after an awards ceremony at the Berghof, April 4, 1944

 
Royal Artillerymen at a 'Z' Battery load 4-inch anti-aircraft rockets into a mobile launcher, 18th June 1941.

 
Marine Cpl. R.L. Quisenberry carries lots of beer in Korea, July 25, 1951

 
Execution of greek civilians by Nazi pigs, Massacre of Kondomari on the greek island of Crete, 2 June 1941. The Germans were such sore losers over the fact that their precious para-dropped commado's got fucking rolled over by greek peasents with pitchforks and machete's and several rifles that they massacre them when they arent actively fighting or just trying to live their lives.

 
1886: Tolstoy on the road from Moscow to Yasnaya Polyana

T-90s will be upgraded to T-90M level.

 
http://gurkhan.blogspot.ru/2015/06/blog-post_52.html
 
50 tons, 2A82 gun are part of this modernization.
 

 
Program is called "Proriv-3", i posted a Proriv-2 turret some time ago in this thread.

*The Millennium J-20 then flies in the rear cargo bay of the carrier, firing on it's reactor and escaping before the ship explodes*

WWII --- Japanese aircraft in flames, struck by anti-aircraft fire from USS Hornet (Okinawa 3-18-45). The last respites of the war did not hesitate to claim as many young men's lives as possible 

 
Elm Street in Dallas, 1945

 
Man looks over the construction of the Glomfjord power plant, Norway, cirka 1920 

 
Grigori Rasputin with Alexandra Feodorovna and her children, the Russian royal family, 1908. They look like brats

 
Navy pilots on leave dancing with their dates in Hawaii (1944).

 
Bumper V-2, the first missile launched from Cape Canaveral, lifts off. July 24, 1950.

 
 
Four MPs read about German surrender in Stars and Stripes newspaper, May 1945 

 
Concorde flying over Djibouti (circa 1988-1989), escorted by French fighter jets since President François Mitterrand was on board. 

 
Partisans operating in the forests of Belarus - WW2 (September 1943)

 
WWII --- British "Hawker Hurricane" fighter is loaded with ammunition (France c. Sep 1939 - May 1940) 

 
December 4th 1943 possible scout plane from the USS Yorktown photographs Japanese air base on Kwajalein Atoll

 
Ibo separatist guerrilla near Biafra, Nigeria

 
(Colorized) Flight in its infancy: Wilbur Wright (of the Wright Brothers) clinging to his flying machine after an unsuccessful trial, December 14, 1903

 
Apollo 16 Astronaut Charles Duke (the 10th man out of 12 to walk on the moon) placed a photograph of his family on the surface of the moon a short distance from the landing module on their last day on the moon, April 24, 1972, this toke place less than 80 years after the previous photo

I decided to get creative.
 
Pride of Kharkov:

 
Remove Fascist:

 
 
Oh my.
 
Caption?

Four Polish pilots walk past Polish Air Force Su-7BKLs on the ramp of Polish Air Force base. The Fitter-A in the center has a three digit tactical number, while the others have two digit tactical numbers. The Fitter in the foreground has the gun blast panel covered with powder streaks from a recent gun firing.

 
Unit insignia, such as these markings carried on a Polish MiG-23MF, were rarely seen on Warsaw Pact aircraft. 28th Fighter Regiment, Redzikowo Air Base near Slupsk.
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Moar migs
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four Polish pilots walk past Polish Air Force Su-7BKLs on the ramp of Polish Air Force base. The Fitter-A in the center has a three digit tactical number, while the others have two digit tactical numbers. The Fitter in the foreground has the gun blast panel covered with powder streaks from a recent gun firing.

 
Unit insignia, such as these markings carried on a Polish MiG-23MF, were rarely seen on Warsaw Pact aircraft. 28th Fighter Regiment, Redzikowo Air Base near Slupsk.
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Moar migs
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a lot of words, none of which support your thesis that there is a correlation between unit unrest and invasions of the Ukraine. You have not linked to "well researched vettable strong paper". You are trying to form a correlation based on one data point. You need more. A lot more. You claimed to have them, where are they?

I think you're confused, Gavins fly

RELEVANT
 

how accurate is this report?

I will say it before and i will say it again
 
the weekness and inepitude of parts of the Russian and Fraternal Eastern European people lost the cold war
 
the generation that broke down the Berlin wall was not nealy as strong as the generation who bit the bullet and laid the concrete. Knowing that they couldnt just run away from their problems and that their own country brought this on themselves.
 
The generation who stood with that drunken shill of a man known as Yeltsin was not nearly as strong as the generation who managed to turn a broken a bleed nation, who had 1/16 of its population in the grave, another 1/10 of it in the hopsital, and another 1/8 of it hundreds of kilometers west or east of thier original homes and somehow, managed to turn their nation into a nuclear power.
 
Our children lacked the patience of their fathers, who could live in a shack for their entire life, pick up a rifle almost as old as them, and beat what seemed at the time as the only unbeatable land army in Europe.
 
and their children were more than willing to burn down a apartment block that toke 8 years to build, or a tank factory that had kept them safe from the terrors of the west since the 40s, for a pair of Levis' from china.
 
What patience did it take to line the streets, kicking and screaming for more freedoms huh?
 
what did those kids build?
 
what nations did they forge?
 
what battles did they win?
 
which army's did they maintain?
 
Some of us didnt get to parade around like idiots in Moscow demanding change, some of us had to spend our youth fixing pontoon bridges in east Germany or watching a particular bit of forest in Czechoslovakia for our youth
 
Some of us had to spend countless nights studying, to grow up to harness the power the atom, only to see their hard work signed away for destruction at appeaest treaties
 
some of us had to spend countless days toiling in the fields of Ukraine only to grow old enough to see their goverment sell away generations of their family's work to the EU, just im time for their penson's to be cut and to starve to death.
 
the will of the weak cut down the destiny's of the willing and patient

I'll say it before and i'll say it again
 
democracy dosent work
 
that isnt a joke, as unpopular as it might be i still believe it 

The Ukrainian Army is gaining fuck all. They announced their sixth wave of mobilization by this point, even before the (already over time) fifth wave is not over yet. Conscription standards are a thing of the past, they are already grabbing students and cripples off the street. The fancy equipment that is advertised on state-run channels is either obsolete garbage donated by Western countries that can't be bothered to recycle it or one-off improvisations cobbled together at half-abandoned Soviet era factories. The Americans are training a negligible percentage of the military, yes, but the vast majority are unskilled and uninterested in fighting. 
 
The claim that the only reason the separatists are still around is because of Russian regular forces is nonsense. Poroshenko isn't interested in winning. When you're the richest man in the country and you're pulling all the strings, war is insanely profitable.
 
"Corruption is a bigger threat to #Ukraine than #Russian tanks" @GeoffPyatt at #WGF15 @WGForum @AtlanticCouncil #Russia #ACUkraine

That's because capitalism is stronger than socialism.
 
As an American, I don't have warm and fuzzy feelings about the KGB.  To Americans, the KGB were the villains funding many a terrorist group, and trying to install tyrannical dictators in countries that already had perfectly good tyrannical dictatorships.  Certainly the CIA also funded terrorism, although they mostly left that to the State Department.
 
But the time for American views to become popular in Russia is over.  Russians will not, by and large, take an objective look at their miserable history and decide that they have been ruled by a series of unstable, alcoholic dickbags for the past... three hundred years, give or take, and try something more American.  There was a time when such sentiments were popular, and where such a thing was possible.  The American government blew it.
 
This should come as no surprise; the American government has been developing incompetence to a high art form since the mid 1970s.  The US only won the Cold War because of capitalism.  Capitalism is stronger than socialism; it was the same lesson learned from the American Civil War.  Benjamin Franklin had pointed out that slavery made no economic sense way back in 1751, to which Southerners retorted that slavery was a form of paternalist socialism, to which the North retorted by burning down their cities because they had a crushing advantage in industrialization.
 
The American god is a severe, faithless edifice of pure commerce.  He is not like Moloch, who can be quieted by sacrifice.  The American God becomes hungrier the more you feed him.  He is of transcontinental railroads, broken contracts, sixty hour work weeks and sexless hydrogen.  The American God is unstoppable and all who do not worship him will die.  All who worship him will also die.  But he will lead his followers to victory over the faithless, for his brutality is both sufficient and efficient.
 
At some point, Americans lost faith in their god.  They thought that putting their faith away would make them kinder, but it only made them stupid.  By the mid 1970s they were noticeably weaker than they had been a generation ago, and by the early 1990s they were shamelessly coasting on past glory.  Fat Elvis.  But they had a huge pile of skulls to coast on, so they managed to win the Cold War by default.
 
But by then, Americans had forgotten how to win any sort of war, or any sort of peace.  They didn't try to re-start the Cold War; it just sort of happened because nobody was trying anymore.  Nobody was trying to smooth things over when NATO bombed Serbia and the Russians weren't even kept in the loop.  Nobody was there to accept Putin's offers of international solidarity after 9/11.  Nobody was watching the Harvard advisers who helped rape and pillage the Russian industrial base.  Nobody cared that the Georgian government was filled with dangerous yahoos who would start WWIII if they thought it sounded nice because the Georgian lobbyists in DC were slick and well-funded.  Americans did pay attention to some punk rock band that wasn't even that good that desecrated a church and was sensibly thrown in prison because church desecration is a black metal thing and not a punk thing.
 
So it's too late for Americans to have opinions about the Soviet Union.  Nobody in Russia is listening.

Yes
 
i personally support it, by finding the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky greatly improved state scurrility both inside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and abroad (their jurisdiction was only domestic, but they kept the internationally influential people safe at night)   a dedicated defender of both the Revolution and all the Soviet peoples     what do you think of this news?

Yes
 
i personally support it, by finding the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky greatly improved state scurrility both inside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and abroad (their jurisdiction was only domestic, but they kept the internationally influential people safe at night)   a dedicated defender of both the Revolution and all the Soviet peoples     what do you think of this news?

When your uniform says China
 
Your AT rifle says North Korea
 
But your small arms say Vietnam
 
#justIslamicLiberationFrontthings

Soviet 20th Guard Fighter-Bomber Regiment at Templin-Groß Dölln (GDR) in the mid 1980s.