Author Topic: The Military Thread (Read 14833 times)

Skaala · « **Reply #40 on:** 25-Oct-2010, 11:54:06 »

Who here has served in the Military?
Me...2003-2004
*Airforce boot camp
*Main station at NATO's Joint Warfare Center
*Secure driving and personell (VIP) security. Airforce Base Defence.
*Ended the service as Corporal

no pics, sorry, not allowed under security regulations.

Darkel · « **Reply #41 on:** 25-Oct-2010, 23:45:24 »


Extreme Chinook Helicopter Troop Extraction

Saadie · « **Reply #42 on:** 25-Oct-2010, 23:59:39 »

^ nice ... i remember seeing a rescue just like that from afghanistan .. it was a recording from an apache's flir .
to answer Skaala question ...
No i havent served int he military .. but i've seen it from a very close pov .. since dad was in the airforce

Schwalbe · « **Reply #43 on:** 26-Oct-2010, 07:43:30 »

@Darkel: HMS Astute was the joke of the week. Not really stealthy in this position !!!

Cool CH-53 Chinook extraction, it's quite scary to see Chopper blades close to the ground like this.

@Skaala: I used to work for the Canadian Ministry of Defence from 2004-2007 as a civilian under contract.
I participated to mulitple military training and excercises (Mainly Airforce).
Received many military instructions, like firing multiple assault riffles, boot camps, Leadership Officer courses, Intelligence Officer courses etc...
For sure if I wasn't an aviation broker I would be surely an Officer for the Canadian Air Force.

gucom · « **Reply #44 on:** 26-Oct-2010, 13:13:21 »

I've applied to become an air force pilot, but didn't pass one of the tests, so that was it

I wanted to join the Marine Corps after that, but to do my parents a favor I gave college a try first. I ended up really liking college, and didn't apply for the military anymore.

sentra_dude · « **Reply #45 on:** 26-Oct-2010, 16:07:17 »

No military service, I thought about applying, I really, really wanted to be a Naval Aviator and fly F-14s off carriers (my grandfather flew in the US Navy) but I never did because I also ultimately wanted to be an airline pilot, and understandably (from the Navy's perspective, since they are spending a lot of money on you) the commitment is quite long, you are never sure you'll get a pilot slot when you first join up, and I'm not sure how much I'd like military discipline. I've kind of considering joining the Air Force Reserves since now I've got jet time and that gives you a much better chance of getting a pilot slot but I've got enough going on as is so I'm not sure I want to add something else to my life! Basically, excuses, excuses...

sentra_dude · « **Reply #46 on:** 28-Oct-2010, 06:12:23 »

Abrams

Darkel · « **Reply #47 on:** 30-Oct-2010, 14:04:18 »


North Korea - Hell March - New Footage 720P

Schwalbe · « **Reply #48 on:** 08-Nov-2010, 19:01:46 »

A must see for all Merlin engine fans. 15 flyable Spitfires in action is quite impressive !!!

Cool Video + Pictures : http://www.airshows.org.uk/2010/airshows/duxford-battle-of-britain-airshow-review.html

sentra_dude · « **Reply #49 on:** 08-Nov-2010, 20:58:52 »

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A must see for all Merlin engine fans. 15 flyable Spitfires in action is quite impressive !!!

Cool Video + Pictures : http://www.airshows.org.uk/2010/airshows/duxford-battle-of-britain-airshow-review.html

Oh maaan, I wish I could go, looks like it will be amazing!

Darkel · « **Reply #50 on:** 08-Nov-2010, 21:07:51 »

A few pictures of the AMX-30 used by the French army for more than 30 years, only a handful of them are still in service, the Leclerc replaced the others

The last version :

Nuclear launcher, AMX30 Pluton, 1974-1991

Operation Daguet, January 1991 :

sentra_dude · « **Reply #51 on:** 09-Nov-2010, 03:21:29 »

Quote from: Darkel on 08-Nov-2010, 21:07:51

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Nuclear launcher, AMX30 Pluton, 1974-1991
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Nice photos, I really like the one driving through the water!

yeckmohr · « **Reply #52 on:** 09-Nov-2010, 10:33:26 »

as you all know, i was born in the GDR, in the eastern comunistic part of germany, there we had a highly trained army called NVA "Nationale Volksarmee", they had all the weapons from the SovietUnion. as a kid i was often with the school class in some of their depots and they showed us their weapons like the hitlerjugend in former times. Some say the NVA could have win against the bundeswehr in 1 week

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Panzer der NVA

tank museum munster (schwalbe and me visited this after RR)
NVA T-54

gucom · « **Reply #53 on:** 09-Nov-2010, 13:22:19 »

lol @ the triumphant music! Thanks for the vid and pics, I like the amphibious vehicles (APC's?), but the pic of the tanks in a winter landscape is certainly nice as well!

Darkel · « **Reply #54 on:** 10-Nov-2010, 22:36:14 »

Something I learned recently : the British made Mark IV tank was the most used tank by the Germans in WWI

They specialized in retrieving them on the battlefield and fixed them in dedicated factories

More than 100 Mk IVs (edit : also read 40 some place else, still a lot) were apparently in use by German forces by the end of 1917

And here are pictures of the A7V, a failed attempt at a German made tank, 20 to 23 tanks were built

The only remaining one :


German Sturmpanzerwagen A7V Tank

gucom · « **Reply #55 on:** 11-Nov-2010, 00:06:25 »

it's easy to see why many authors and other artists (and probably lots of regular people as well) had such a bleak view of the future after WWI in terms of the influence of technology...
as much as WWII and later military technology is functional and effective in killing masses of people, those WWI era machines just had something very sinister about them...

interesting fact about the German use of British tanks though, never would've thought that!

Schwalbe · « **Reply #56 on:** 11-Nov-2010, 06:02:45 »

@sentra_dude: Very impressive M1 Abrams pix. I very like the first one, you can actually see the shell in the air of one of the tank. The last pic is funny when the crew tank just ignore the car in their path. I like to see the green camo version of the M1 tank, we are so used to see it in desert camo.

@Darkel: Thanks man for your AMX-30 pix. My favorite picture is the one with all the equipment that you can put onboard the tank, hard to beleive they are able to put all those 105mm shells inside the tank. I saw with Yeckmohr a replica of the impressive WW1 German tank A7V at Münster museum, it was quite impressive !

@Yeckmohr: Cool GDR post dude. It's a chance there was no war in Europe during the 80' era at the top of the Cold war, the communist bloc was superior in quantity in term of conventional armaments. Could you imagine the ferocious combat between many NATO M-60 & M1 Abrams vs Soviet T-72 tanks...A-10 Thunderbolts & Cobras tank buster against Russian tanks and Mi-24 Hinds & Su-25 Frogfoot against NATO tanks...that's why the hypothetical battle had an higher risk to be nuclear to counterbalance the Russian power. We talk about a WW3 shit !
BTW, thanks for the video and pix from Münster.

yeckmohr · « **Reply #57 on:** 11-Nov-2010, 08:49:34 »

Quote from: Darkel on 10-Nov-2010, 22:36:14

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cool, schwalbe and me saw "Wotan" at Muntser, but i think it is a copy of a real one, so we have to see this "mephisto" someday, which museum is it?

Darkel · « **Reply #58 on:** 11-Nov-2010, 09:29:44 »

Yep Wotan is a replica, Mephisto is on display at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. It was captured by Australian troops.

Quote from: Schwalbe on 11-Nov-2010, 06:02:45

@Yeckmohr: Cool GDR post dude. It's a chance there was no war in Europe during the 80' era at the top of the Cold war, the communist bloc was superior in quantity in term of conventional armaments. Could you imagine the ferocious combat between many NATO M-60 & M1 Abrams vs Soviet T-72 tanks...A-10 Thunderbolts & Cobras tank buster against Russian tanks and Mi-24 Hinds & Su-25 Frogfoot against NATO tanks...that's why the hypothetical battle had an higher risk to be nuclear to counterbalance the Russian power. We talk about a WW3 shit !

It reminds me of Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy, one of my favorite books

Maybe we would've seen the Davy Crockett portable nuclear launcher being used

Skaala · « **Reply #59 on:** 11-Nov-2010, 10:11:55 »

Quote from: sentra_dude on 28-Oct-2010, 06:12:23

Abrams

The M1 Abrams is by far recognized as one of the best tanks available.....but IMHO it still has one major flaw, and it's a biggie....It has a super thirsty Honeywell Jet engine! If you want to run at full capacity(power) from the engine you need an insane logistics network around it with convoys of jet fuel. Driving a tanker with jet fuel is not something you want to do close to the battlefield.

I personally (from first hand experience from military exercise) prefer the Leopard 2 tank.....MTU twin turbo V12 diesel.