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Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 9:15 am
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:50 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2025 8:43 pm
by Wolfman
Lordroel wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:50 pm
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…
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:16 pm
by 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
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:44 am
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 3:34 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2025 2:47 am
by Matt Wiser
A postwar visit in the 1990s: U.S.S. Iowa (BB-61) at Gibraltar:
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:32 pm
by Bernard Woolley
HMS Ambuscade at the South Yard (HMS Malabar), Bermuda in 1988.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 5:35 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 9:49 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:51 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:15 pm
by Poohbah
Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:51 pm
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...
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:50 pm
by 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.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2025 1:52 am
by Poohbah
jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:50 pm
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?
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 8:00 am
by Bernard Woolley
Eh?
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 12:25 pm
by Belushi TD
I'd love a beer, thanks!
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 12:53 pm
by jemhouston
Belushi TD wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 12:25 pm
I'd love a beer, thanks!
Have a six pack
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 3:43 pm
by Poohbah
Just like the Federation.
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 7:15 pm
by Bernard Woolley
Belushi TD wrote: ↑Mon Oct 13, 2025 12:25 pm
I'd love a beer, thanks!
Half past six!
Re: Art & Image Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 5:01 am
by Matt Wiser
Wartime UNREP: New Jersey with the AOE Kansas City and the destroyer Buchanan, taken from a TARPS-equipped F-14, 1987