Art & Image Thread

[Lordroel]

Photo: Invincible-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R07) returning to port after having taken part in The Battle of the Baltic Exits (1987). The Sea Lynx seen flying is carrying 2 Sea Skua and an AN/ALQ-167 ‘Yellow Veil’ ECM pod. 1987.

[Lordroel]

Photo: a Lockheed SR-71A is refueled by a KC-135Q/T after having completed a overflight of the Rump Soviet Union, the two planes are over the Far Eastern Republic with both of them operating from Japan, 1996.

[Wolfman]

Photo: a Lockheed SR-71A is refueled by a KC-135Q/T after having completed a overflight of the Rump Soviet Union, the two planes are over the Far Eastern Republic with both of them operating from Japan, 1996.

The CFM-56 (F-108) engines mark the Stratotanker as a KC-135T…

[Lordroel]

Photo: Mikhail Kalashnikov, with the outbreak of the Second Russian Civil War he and his family fled, ending up in South Africa where he was hired by Denel and became a South African citizen, here seen on a hunting trip in South Africa in 1997

[Matt Wiser]

The firearm that Guru carries when on base (though he has an AKMS and an AK-74 on his office wall): the Heckler-and-Koch HK-53. Essentially an MP-5, but chambered for 5.56-mm NATO. It's been used by SWAT Teams and both SOF/OGA use where deniability is a concern can't be ruled out. Chief Ross got some meant for Army rotorheads and diverted the lot to the 335th.

[Bernard Woolley]

The HK-53 was popular amongst UKSF. It was also used by RMP Close Protection teams, 14 Intelligence Company, Close Observation Platoons (COP) and Royal Marines Police Troop, amongst others. We designated it the L101A1. Unofficially it was used by RAF and AAC helicopter crews. Was replaced by C8 variants a few years back.

[Matt Wiser]

A postwar visit in the 1990s: U.S.S. Iowa (BB-61) at Gibraltar:

[Bernard Woolley]

HMS Ambuscade at the South Yard (HMS Malabar), Bermuda in 1988.

[Bernard Woolley]

Challenger 1 and Chieftain turrets on the same production line at ROF Leeds circa 1986. The Chieftain turrets were there for upgrades, including having Stillbrew armour fitted.

[Matt Wiser]

DOD shipped one of the first captured T-72s to the UK so they could test the Stillbrew against the 125-mm main gun fitted to not just the T-72, but the T-64 and the T-80.

[Bernard Woolley]

The British Army found that Stillbrew was very effective from those tests. Even at virtually point blank range it could take two to three hits before failing. Funny thing the armour was not anything special. It was standard armoured steel, with rubber mats underneath and a scrim of concrete on top. For quite a while the Soviets were convinced it was some sort of Chobham type armour.

[Poohbah]

The British Army found that Stillbrew was very effective from those tests. Even at virtually point blank range it could take two to three hits before failing. Funny thing the armour was not anything special. It was standard armoured steel, with rubber mats underneath and a scrim of concrete on top. For quite a while the Soviets were convinced it was some sort of Chobham type armour.

Talked to a BAIC guy who said that taking a turret hit gave him a notion of what it would be like to be inside Big Ben when it struck the hour...

[jemhouston]

Just out of curiosity, what percent of combat vets have hearing loss? I mean enough to get a check from the VA or equivalent.

[Poohbah]

Just out of curiosity, what percent of combat vets have hearing loss? I mean enough to get a check from the VA or equivalent.

WHAT?

[Bernard Woolley]

Eh?

[Belushi TD]

I'd love a beer, thanks!

[jemhouston]

I'd love a beer, thanks!

Have a six pack

[Poohbah]

Just like the Federation.

[Bernard Woolley]

I'd love a beer, thanks!

Half past six!

[Matt Wiser]

Wartime UNREP: New Jersey with the AOE Kansas City and the destroyer Buchanan, taken from a TARPS-equipped F-14, 1987