Pictures Thread

[Dandin384]

A place to post all those great pictures of your favorite platforms!

Here are a couple to start things off.

[Baloogan]

TURN YOUR KEY, SIR.









Russian EOD

[Baloogan]

Russian Decoys

[Dandin384]

[Baloogan]

4x 2000lb JDAMS.

Video of the SINKEX

[Baloogan]

[Coiler12]

My favorite oddball. Not often you get a fighter larger than most bombers.

[DeltaIV]

Being Cold War junkie, from oddball country, i have to show some oddballs aswell.

BPzV Svatava

Designed to operate deep behind the enemy lines and perform hidden reconaissance missons.

Czech recce BMP-1 variant. Classic 2A28 73mm cannon with coaxed PKT MG and classic AT3 Sagger ATGM (7 rockets),
some extra RPGs inside. Crew went down to six due additional equipment (compared to 3+11 in the original IFV variant).

Extra stuff:
Night reconaissance monocular NNP-21 (completely passive optics - able to see tank, IFV up to 1000m during normal conditions, mfg. Carl Zeiss Jena)
PSNR-5 radar (able to locate tanks, IFVs up to 10km, individual soldiers up to 4km)
Additional MSRP-4 radar (paired with PSNR-5)
TNA-3 advanced navigation system
Laser illumination detector (!)
Laser rangefinder
UV-20 water cleaning equipment (for prolonged missions behind enemy lines)
Chemical/nuclear status recce set
OS-3 anti-radiation cleaning kit
Several extra communication pieces
Aux PSU



That is my favorite piece of Czech equipment, but now, we will go really oddbal.

Tank destroyer CZK - OT-810D

Tank destroyer which evolved from the OT-810 IFV, after addition of the vz.59 recoiless gun.

Combat weight: 9 650kg
Crew:4

Main armament: recoiless 82mm cannon (effective range 1 300m), 7,62 MG

Extra: The RCL gun could be quickly dismounted from the vehicle and used in the field





Psychological warfare vehicle CZK - Boure III (Storm III)

Built on BMP-1 chassis, Storm III is psy-ops vehicle meant to envelop the battlefield in propaganda.
It is possible to raise the reproductor set to the height of nearly five meters. Acoustic range is 8km.
Also, there's possibility to immitate other sounds played from the stored tapes (eg., rolling tanks, artillery).



Mobile meat smoking set CZK - PUD

Consists of several trailers, whole set is meant to facilitate the preparation of meat and meat products in field conditions.
Several big kettles (solid fuel), meat smoking compartments, circular saws and other things included.

Capacity: 4-5 tons of meat / day



Field butchery CZK - OBR

Consists of several trailers. Can handle whole meat preparation process (using modern methods, so they say!).
Handles the breeding of animals in field conditions, also the killing of the animals, blood collection, fur collection,
segmentation, meat-quality control and other important things. Meat can be processed by the meat smoking set
afterwards!

Capacity: 24 tons per day (that's 120 grown up cows or 300 pigs)
Weight: 100 tons



Get really oddball too guys. It's needed, we all saw the ships and stuff, we're free here! Coiler gets extra points for the Fiddler though

[Triode]

meanwhile in Russia


from http://kuleshovoleg.livejournal.com/325804.html

[Coiler12]

The most adorably strange-looking warships:

CUBE:



PUFFED HAT:



GIANT MISSILES:

[SSN754]

the cube is the uss long beach. The cube were faces for a radar that never really worked right. The USS Enterprise had the radar faces also...They were taken off and replaced with a more reliable radar a few years after commissioning.

[Coiler12]

"Ok, we need missiles on this Kashin!"

"Uh, the only place to put them is in the back at an angle-cause-..."

"Great! Install them immediately!"

[bostonmyk]

These ships were assigned to shadow US Carrier groups to help guide the bombers and submarines of the Soviet strike complex in and then get an early cheap shot in. Once the war order went out. They'd relay the position and then turn and fire. Make sense now why the tubes are pointed aft?

Mike

[Coiler12]

[SSN754]

[Baloogan]

[Rongor]