Military Photo Thread (Discussion)

whydave · 11-12-2010 8:53pm

andy_g wrote: »

Dave did one of the italian soldiers have a styer in the back of the ch47 pic

Looks like one to me

andy_g · 11-12-2010 10:13pm

Lovely stuff new loadout on the way for me so.

Poccington · 12-12-2010 12:07pm

Just on the topic of the International Sniper Competition since there was pics up, the Irish DF's team came 7th overall out of 32 teams and won the Best Foreign Team category.

The sniper pair came from the 28th Bn.

StevieGriff · 12-12-2010 4:45pm

Poccington wrote: »

Just on the topic of the International Sniper Competition since there was pics up, the Irish DF's team came 7th overall out of 32 teams and won the Best Foreign Team category.

The sniper pair came from the 28th Bn.

Mind if I ask how did you find out? The results from these competitions just seem to float around the net with no definete source, I've always wondered how people foundout?:D

Poccington · 12-12-2010 5:02pm

StevieGriff wrote: »

Mind if I ask how did you find out? The results from these competitions just seem to float around the net with no definete source, I've always wondered how people foundout?:D

Although I've yet to get a crack at the sniper course, it helps to know people that are part of the community.

Incidentally, we won Best Foreign Team in 2007 too. The team that year won two events which they had never done before, a .50 Shoot and Heli Sniping.

whydave · 14-12-2010 11:28pm

that fella needs new tyres on his bike !!:D

Lemming · 14-12-2010 11:57pm

whydave wrote: »

that fella needs new tyres on his bike !!:D

I wonder if the police will dare pull the bike over

flashinbluelite · 15-12-2010 12:42am

whydave wrote: »

that fella needs new tyres on his bike !!:D

Clearly this is the motorbike equalivant to "riding shotgun" the "ballistic backer" my god do you people know nothing

hrta · 15-12-2010 2:29am

StevieGriff wrote: »

Mind if I ask how did you find out? The results from these competitions just seem to float around the net with no definete source, I've always wondered how people foundout?:D

Here you go, live results service.
http://results.sius.com/Championships.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

whydave · 15-12-2010 10:42am

This is not my hilux !!!!

whydave · 15-12-2010 6:50pm

spot the german love child !

swiftblade · 15-12-2010 7:46pm

You might want to link to that photo of the guy with no leg, Dave. It's a bit graphic

Holybejaysus · 15-12-2010 7:47pm

Looks like someone screwed up the toys for guns programme again...

Manic Moran · 15-12-2010 8:57pm

swiftblade wrote: »

You might want to link to that photo of the guy with no leg, Dave. It's a bit graphic

It's a training event, it's not real blood.

Unless they take their training really, really seriously.

NTM

swiftblade · 15-12-2010 9:05pm

Manic Moran wrote: »

It's a training event, it's not real blood.

Unless they take their training really, really seriously.

NTM

Haha, fair enough. Just saw the picture. Looked pretty real

Manic Moran · 15-12-2010 10:03pm

The US military brings in amputees to play the role of recently seriously wounded in training evolutions. It adds a little bit of realism when the guy screaming away in front of you really doesn't have a leg, combined with fake blood spurting out from a bladder.

NTM

Lemming · 15-12-2010 10:06pm

Manic Moran wrote: »

The US military brings in amputees to play the role of recently seriously wounded in training evolutions. It adds a little bit of realism when the guy screaming away in front of you really doesn't have a leg, combined with fake blood spurting out from a bladder.

NTM

UK Forces have been using this practice in recent times as well. Whilst it may seem controversial to some, the few seconds that it takes "you" to get over the shock of seeing someone sans-limb and in a bad way and starting applying triage may be the few seconds needed to give that person a chance of surviving.

OzCam · 15-12-2010 10:20pm

whydave wrote: »

spot the german love child !

Second generation Russian love child, more likely?

swiftblade · 15-12-2010 10:32pm

OzCam wrote: »

Second generation Russian love child, more likely?

It's Iraq though, not Afganistan.....

OzCam · 15-12-2010 10:36pm

So it is. Oops.

JonnyTwoCombs · 15-12-2010 10:55pm

OzCam wrote: »

Second generation Russian love child, more likely?

swiftblade wrote: »

It's Iraq though, not Afganistan.....

Didn't somebody lose a legion over there a long time ago? (can't remember the name) But the Brits have a long assocation with IRACK

too

jeawan · 16-12-2010 11:58am

JonnyTwoCombs wrote: »

Didn't somebody lose a legion over there a long time ago? (can't remember the name) But the Brits have a long assocation with IRACK too

aye i think it was world war one they lost allot of soldiers over in that area

JonnyTwoCombs · 16-12-2010 12:51pm

The Allies lost a lot of manpower in that region during both world wars and before. But I was thinking a little earlier than that, more Roman :eek:

But I might be going a little :rolleyes: of topic.

ED E · 16-12-2010 10:41pm

Whats with the AK in that last one?

Lemming · 16-12-2010 11:31pm

whydave wrote: »

This M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle, along with 83 others, was delivered last Friday to Marine Corps Base Hawaii, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment armorers. Since then, M27 IAR gunners and armorers have received training on operating and maintaining the weapon system from Marine Corps Systems Command and gun makers Heckler and Koch.

That package looks right at home in an airsoft shop :eek:

Manic Moran · 17-12-2010 5:17pm

Well, how did you expect them to come packaged? Ribbons?

NTM

Lemming · 17-12-2010 6:29pm

Manic Moran wrote: »

Well, how did you expect them to come packaged? Ribbons?

No little pink bows even?

Truth be told I had always just imagined bulk deliveries in crates or the like rather than something that you'd see as off-the-shelf packaging. I dunno, I'm not overly surprised when I think about it, but the imge did make me double-take all the same.

Manic Moran · 17-12-2010 7:07pm

Lemming wrote: »

No little pink bows even?

Truth be told I had always just imagined bulk deliveries in crates or the like rather than something that you'd see as off-the-shelf packaging. I dunno, I'm not overly surprised when I think about it, but the imge did make me double-take all the same.

I don't know if I photographed the vehicle itself, but when we received a batch of M4s (in pretty much the same sort of packaging), they were delivered by a white Ford Ranger pick-up with a bed cover.

NTM

OzCam · 30-12-2010 10:58pm

Orange is not the most tactical colour for gloves

swiftblade · 30-12-2010 11:05pm

Russia no! :eek: Multicam!?

MerryDespot · 30-12-2010 11:37pm

My respect for the camo choice of the Russian armed forces has just allowed them to go up several floors in the building of esteem.

swiftblade · 01-01-2011 3:07pm

You don't happen to have a high res picture of that Apache, Puding?

Puding · 01-01-2011 3:28pm

swiftblade wrote: »

You don't happen to have a high res picture of that Apache, Puding?

im afraid not, that is the largest you can get for free, if you really want a hi res you can try contacting the owner of the collection http://www.pbase.com/xnir/iaf160

MerryDespot · 02-01-2011 1:57pm

Good find on that pic of the Galil MG Puding ... I smell a project coming on!

whydave · 02-01-2011 3:51pm

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/01/02/gunman-kills-deputy.html?sid=101

whydave · 04-01-2011 11:43pm

JonnyTwoCombs · 05-01-2011 8:40am

Its good to see, even the party of god enjoy a little gun bling

Spooky-Vinny · 13-01-2011 11:13pm

whydave wrote: »

Who are these guys?
xXx

Beez · 14-01-2011 9:13am

Spooky-Vinny wrote: »

Who are these guys?
xXx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

whydave · 14-01-2011 11:32am

Spooky-Vinny wrote: »

Who are these guys?
xXx

Beez wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

computer says no !

whydave wrote: »

Palestinian Fatah fighters parade during a rally marking the 46th anniversary of the secular movement's creation in the refugee camp of Ain Al-Helweh in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on December 31, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah

Beez · 14-01-2011 3:12pm

I stand corrected

Captain Chaos · 17-01-2011 9:29pm

New flash suppressors being used on the SA80s now, look similar to the old G36K style but they seem to be a unique design. Don't know why they just didn't opt for the Vortex style ones seeing as they were moving away from the bird cage shape as they are more effective again.

Actually just rechecking the pics, think they are actually Vortex flash suppressors.

Puding · 17-01-2011 9:37pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

New flash suppressors being used on the SA80s now, look similar to the old G36K style but they seem to be a unique design. Don't know why they just didn't opt for the Vortex style ones seeing as they were moving away from the bird cage shape as they are more effective again.

Actually just rechecking the pics, think they are actually Vortex flash suppressors.

vortex flash hiders as far as im aware, seems to have had a good response with greater performance than the older bird cage design

whydave · 24-01-2011 11:32am

whydave wrote: »

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bullets · 24-01-2011 11:44am

whydave took the very words from my mouth!

Never seen something like that, what does it do ?

~B

McGilla · 24-01-2011 12:26pm

bullets wrote: »

whydave took the very words from my mouth!

Never seen something like that, what does it do ?

~B

I would swap my unborn child for one...and I dont even know what it is!

Puding · 24-01-2011 12:41pm

It is the xm25, is a smart proramable airburst weapon, currently being trIaled in afganistan

whydave · 24-01-2011 12:55pm

Puding wrote: »

It is the xm25, is a smart proramable airburst weapon, currently being trIaled in afganistan

Legend !!! thanks man ......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25
http://world.guns.ru/grenade/usa/xm25-e.html

tonyj_mc · 24-01-2011 8:51pm

anyone else noticing that a lot of the US army pcs have what look like AG36 mounted on the RIS rails of their M4s rather than the 'ol 203s. Has theer been a change in policy or are some unit trailing them at the min?

Captain Chaos · 24-01-2011 9:55pm

tonyj_mc wrote: »

anyone else noticing that a lot of the US army pcs have what look like AG36 mounted on the RIS rails of their M4s rather than the 'ol 203s. Has theer been a change in policy or are some unit trailing them at the min?

The M203s are being phased out for the XM320s. There have been pics of them in use in very limited numbers going back a few years now. Only officially in use a year or two. They are still mounted to the barrel like the M203. The AG416 version can mount to the RIS rail of the HK416 and 417 because of the stronger construction of those rifles.

Norway had a version of the AG-C that mounted to a special lower handguard of their C7s and C8s.

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