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The Great Wall
   The Great wall is a politically-filled movie about 20 years old mexican trying to escape his personal nightmare of labor for local drug cartel's production of drugs to buy a medicine for his dying mother. But cartel refused to pay money and mother dies in a bed with our main hero holding her hand. He had enough! Now he must plot a way to leave cartel and cross the Trump wall!
   He managed to find a Hillary-supporter amongst Trump Wall securities, a young feminist who was drafted in Trump's America Defense Forces. They will make a plan to sneak a Mexican through the Wall, and by this our conscripted feminist will have her personal revenge against Donald Trump. But their plan failed before they could complete it as ADF extensive surveillance system cought them in a process. ADF took our heroes in secret Trump jail in Wyoming, where ADF collect all immigrants and force them to work for The Great America, a shocking revelation for our protagonists. 
   Will our heroes find a way out of this? They know that the only way is to defeat Trump's elite ADF "America First" unit and the dictator in exoskeleton himself, but they don't know that the real fight will be done far away from White House... that the final battle will take place in a old buildings surrounded by Red Walls against real master of Trump...
 
Guardians
   Guardians - another political-filled movie, only now it is a Russian film by highly respected Russian-Armenian director Sarik "Product Placement Whore" Andreasyan, a movie that was made in cooperation with The Great Wall makers, and tells an opposite story to The Great Wall.
   Hillary won elections and Trump is forced to leave a country, but he managed to take his wealth with him. Donald knows that the only place to go is Russia, to his real master, but Hillary is afraid that Trump will not leave this story for historians. US President knows that Trump will use his wealth to undermine her power over America and she decide to make her move - to declare a Trump as Most Wanted criminal and neo-nazi terrorist in a hope that political pressure will push Putin to send Donald back to US hands. But Russia refused. Hillary announced a limited military-police operation by a joint US-Saudi Arabia "Al-Americi" divisions to find a Trump in Russia, and CIA found him somwhere in St.Peterburg, a snowy and cold city hundreds of killometers north of Moscow. 
   US-Saudi army invades St.Peterburg through Estonia and Finland, trying to find a Trump in a big Russian city, a move that will destroy a city and anger many people of the City, amongst which we will find our main hero and cast of 7 grim realistic Russians partizans. Each of them lost their families to Saudi-US soldiers that now control streets of old city, driving Abrams tanks and constantly chanting "Hillariwi Akbar!" during church burnings and mass decapitation of Russians declared as Allakh-insulters, misogynists and gay rights deniers.  
   Our ragtag team of Russian partizans carry number of attacks on USaudi forces, earning a reputation of great fighters, destroying gear and mercilessly killing disgusting invaders. During one of their operation they found a clue where Donald is and join him as his personall Guardians, a move that in their view will be ultimate insult to Radical Wahabist Democrat invaders. But they know that this will be not enough... 
   They know that to end a great suffering of the city they must get to Hillary, and defeat giant Spider-tank driving US president in a battle in a secret bunkers under White House, and our heroes know that they have only a one way ticket in this suicidal missions against elite US-Saudi units, experimental democracy-spreading battle machines know as "Shai-SJW-Hulud" and plethora of even crazier creations of Abu Al-Clintoni Foundation scientists.

Thank you for your identification. So this must be the T-72M we traded from Romania:

(this is the only confirmed photo of this T-72M for many years, it was official called as "Type64 tank" for security reasons)
It seems you may didn't know about Chinese T-72B's story before: yes, technically, T-72B has never been exported, but, in the early 1990s, Russian army is busy on selling almost everything to feed themself, official or unofficial, legal or illegal. And there are rumors so we smuggled some T-80U and T-72B from your far eastern military district. Now, I don't know if the T-72B part is true (some of my friends said it is true), I never saw its confirmed photos, but the T-80U part is real for sure, here is the photo:

(and we found T-80U is completely immune to all our anti-tank weapons in the 1993 live fire test, this shocked PLA)
Now, back to the photo of plant 617's testing groud, I know you are far more professional on Russian tank than me, you said it should be a T72M (or T72A), do you mean you found some T72M's  features in the photo, or do you mean it is too hard to check out the specific type of this T72 in the photo but you believe it should be a T72M because there shouldn't be any T72B outside Russia?

"Poland to launch its own space programme"
 

Syrian thread and spamming other more popular threads eat all my free time dedicated to interwebz. Hmm. Maybe i will do it differently - instead of making a 1 big post just make small articles in that post covering one tank model and build a 1 big post from them? 

Been a while, but any thoughts or plans on the T-64 and T-72 sections here still?

"Poland to launch its own space programme"
 

"Poland to launch its own space programme"
 

"Poland to launch its own space programme"
 

"Poland to launch its own space programme"
 

Actually those are chieftains, finally we have solid proof that non-isolated ammo is a death trap!

Gone

The spillway itself seems heavily damaged.  Erosion is serious business.

Former view of lower spillway from Google Maps

Damage to the emergency spillway at the Oroville Dam;

 

It's an older video but worth to watch.
 
I will describe situation with our heavy armor a bit later, but now also very important topic, artillery.
 
Let's start with new 155mm self propelled howitzers. There are two projects, wheeled and tracked, let's start with the later one.
 
155mm AHS Krab is a tracked self propelled howitzer based on modified british AS90/52 turret and south korean K9 chassis, initially desire was to use domestically designed and produced UPG chassis, but because it was based on T-72 tank components that were designed for vehicle weighting below 50 metric tons, and Krab weighted 55 metric tons, it's performance was rather poor. Also quality of that chassis didn't meet army requirements so decision was made to use foreign chassis in the end. Only 8 AHS Krab vehicles on older UPG chassis were made, and are currently used for crews training.
This is old Krab on UPG chassis.
And this is new Krab on K9 chassis.
Currently AHS Krab passed all factory and state trails and is mass produced at the moment with first units being inducted in to service. Hulls are now made in South Korea, but production of these hulls will be moved to Poland. The good thing is we purchased full license, which means we can also modify these hulls design and use for other applications, as well as reexport them. Also if Norway or other European countries would purchase South Korean K9 Thunder, it's possible that these would have made hulls in Poland, and Poland would become service center for them.
 
AHS Krab will replace 122mm AHS 2S1 Gvozdika and partially 152mm AHS Dana.
Here you can watch production capabilities of the HSW factory.
Another project, directly to replace AHS Dana is AHS Kryl.
AHS Kryl is designed as lightweight and very mobile system to supplement heavier AHS Krab. While Krab is intended to support heavy formations like Armored and Armored Cavalry Brigades, Kryl will support mainly medium formations builded around family of wheeled combat vehicles Rosomak. Kryl uses Israeli ATMOS 2000 howitzer based on new model of Jelcz truck.
 
To supplement these, there is also developed universal turret module with 120mm mortar Rak with autoloader, there will be two variants, wheeled SMK 120 Rak-K, and tracked SMG 120 Rak-G. Right now there are performed final preparations for starting mass production of SMK 120 Rak-K based on Rosomak chassis.
As I mentioned, turret module is universal, so can be installed on wheeled and tracked platforms, but also on static platforms/fortifications or navy vessels.
 
Now about rocket artillery.
 
The primary MLRS currently used is WR-40 Langusta, which is modrnized BM-21 Grad, wich increased range, crew protection, mobility, communications etc.
There was also project of WR-40 Langusta-2 which had additional missile rack with autoloader for rapid reload.

It was however not purchased yet by Polish Army, it might happen when more WR-40's will be ordered to replace last BM-21's and RM-70's.
 
The last project is WR-300 Homar, right now the prefered offer is polonized US M142 HIMARS system.

This is how it can look more or less, using the same Jelcz truck model as 155mm AHS Kryl.
 
Additional double purpose system are NSM missiles used in Coastal Missile Squadron (currently one in service, second on order), besides capability to attack enemy vessels, it have also secondary mode, that gives it capability to attack and destroy ground targets.

LeBeouf dream is kill
"Museum Shuts Down Shia LeBeouf's Protest Project Over 'Safety Hazards'"

I thought that was Ted Cruz for a second.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2017/01/24/why-is-the-media-smearing-new-fcc-chair-ajit-pai-as-the-enemy-of-net-neutrality/#749203c34c7f

Yep.  Defensive armament tested as a result of experience in Afghanistan I believe.  Designation Mi-24VD.
http://files.ruslet.webnode.cz/200006845-bbab2bca3e/Mi-24VD_06.jpg

 
 

Yep.  Defensive armament tested as a result of experience in Afghanistan I believe.  Designation Mi-24VD.
http://files.ruslet.webnode.cz/200006845-bbab2bca3e/Mi-24VD_06.jpg

 
 

From 0:42 to 3:00 pretty impressive vehicle by "Motor" Design Bureau to move heavy equipment (like rockets parts) in extreme conditions. Wheels with build-in engines, rear wheels are following trajectory of first wheels to help with turns. Automatic fire extinguishers, APU, temperature control for cargo, and so on. Weight of cargo - up to 200 tons.