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Manic Moran

Our favourite rebel is back.

He's lost the 23mm round, but has a new hat.



Words fail me on this one.



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54X5XkBFml0

The Belt-fed, Semi-Automatic rifle (BSR – Mod 1) borrows from the original Stoner/Colt belt-fed design and utilizes modern technology to precisely machine the removable belt box and feed tray mechanism that converts a standard AR-15 style rifle into a belt-fed, semi-automatic support weapons platform.

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Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, April 8. The XM2010 is a new Army-purchased weapon being distributed to sniper teams operating in Afghanistan.

hope this isn't to old !:D

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These female solider from army special forces 862, they were completed the anti-airborne exercise mission at Chinchuangan military airport,Taichung,central Taiwan, April 14th,2011.

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Troops from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the Lebanese army take part in a land and sea military defense exercise on April 14, 2011 in the southern Lebanese coastal town of Naqura, near the border with Israel.

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Chief Warrant Officer 2 Josh Robertson, from Deming N.M., a tactical operations officer with in Task Force Attack, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, operates the Re-configurable Training Device, a flight simulator, at the Seneff
Aviation Warfighting Simulation Center, April 5.


U.S. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division return fire during a firefight with Taliban forces in Barawala Kalay Valley in Kunar province, Afghanistan, March 31, 2011.

A Coalition Special Operations soldier, assigned to Special Operations Task Force-West, patrols villages around Mirmandab, Afghanistan, April 7.

Mohamed, 10, stands guard at the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah April 13, 2011. Mohamed's rebel fighter father earlier had given him a rifle and asked him to replace him in his duties.

A canon fires on Fort Sumter by Confederate re-enactors to mark the first shot of the US Civil War 150-years ago on April 12, 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War began when confederate forces fired on the Union held Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 in Charleston harbor.

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A man looks at a machine guns displayed at the Latin America Aero and Defence (LAAD) trade show for the defence and security industry in Latin America, in Rio de Janeiro April 14, 2011.

A soldier holds a IMI Galil Sniper SA 7.62x51mm.

Manic Moran

I think that might be a case of them doing a simultaneous launch instead of a ripple launch like they should, so the two rockets are interfering with each other.

Seriously, those Qatari anti-tank missiles couldn't get there soon enough.


On the other hand, if that's what he used against the tank in the background, don't knock it if it works.

Oops?


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U.S. Army Sgt. Wallace Trahan from Baton Rouge, La., with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, oversees his soldiers security positions during Operation Charkh Restoration, Charkh, Logar province, Afghanistan, April 5.

U.S. Army 1st. Lt. Eric Hanson from Alexis, Ill., the Platoon Leader for 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, reads a map during Operation Charkh Restoration, Charkh District, Logar province, Afghanistan, April 5.

Polish soldiers wait for further instructions during a cordon and search operation in Sangar, Afghanistan, April 2, 2011.

Sangar, Afghanistan, April 2, 2011.


US Soldiers from the 234th Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas are seen inside of a plane to Afghanistan from the US transit center Manas 30kms from Bishkek on April 15, 2011.


No. 450 Squadron veteran Maurie Douglas inspects the grand old Kittyhawk as he reflects on his time with No. 450 Squadron during World War II. Seventy years ago today, members from No 450 Squadron departed Williamtown to embark on the largest convoy to leave Australia during World War II. No 450 Squadron veterans, widows and Association patrons, along with Air Force personnel currently serving at Williamtown, marked this significant occasion in Australia's war and aviation history with a Memorial Service at the Base.

A Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornet and a World War II Kittyhawk take to the sky’s over Newcastle during the No 450 Squadron 70th Anniversary celebrations.

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An AH-64D Apache helicopter lifts off from Contingency Operating Site Kalsu for a counter indirect-fire mission, April 12. Soldiers of Company B, 1st Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, 21st Cavalry Brigade, are supporting the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment by providing ground surveillance of areas around Kalsu.

U.S. Army Pfc. Joshua Tubbs from Sebring, Fla., with 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, pulls security during a patrol in the Charkh District of Logar province, Afghanistan, during Operation Charkh Restoration, April 5.

Spc. Lewis Durant from 501st Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team “Ready First,” 1st Armored Division uses the modified kneeling position as he practices firing his M4 Rifle through one of the cutout holes on his firing position.

US Soldiers from the 234th Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas march before boarding a plane to Afghanistan from the US transit center Manas 30kms from Bishkek on April 15, 2011.

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Pilatus PC-9M -

Captain Derek Furniss & Cadet David Jevens flying PC-9M serial 265 make a low pass at the Connemara Air Show 2009. Unfortunately both crew were killed in this very aircraft when it crashed a few months later in the same rugged part of Ireland known as Connemara.

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Manic Moran

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Puding

best ranger competition held last weekend

Puding

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A security personnel keeps guard while Pakistani Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (L) arrives to inaugurate a technical training center in Gwadar in Balochistan Province April 18, 2011.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 18: Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard at the main gate of the Defence Ministry in Kabul on April 18, 2011.

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A Libyan rebel wearing a pilot's helmet fires a heavy machine gun mounted on a pick-up truck during heavy clashes with government soldiers loyal to Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli street in central of Misrata, 120 kms (75 miles) east of Tripoli, on April 18, 2011

A Libyan rebel celebrates in relief after crossing Tripoli street (R), a hub of heavy clashes .

Bundeswehr compulsory basic training.. Die vorerst letzten Wehrpflichtigen der 5.Kompanie des Panzergrenadierbataillons 371 (5./PzGrenBtl 371) Marienberg bei Ihrer Rekrutenbesichtigung. Die Rekrutenbesichtigung ist die Abschlussprüfung der Allgemeinen Grundausbildung (AGA) bei der Bundeswehr.

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Spc. Patrick D. Forsthoefel, Alpha Company, Special Troops Battalion, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Ohio National Guard

Pfc. Kaleb Peck, Charlie Company,

Pvt. Charles Shidler, Alpha Company

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U.S. Marines with 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion attached to Company L, Battalion Landing Team 3/8, Regimental Combat Team 8, provides over watch in an M1A1 Abrams Tank at a vital bridge crossing in the Green Zone near Combat Outpost Ouellette, Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 6.

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KEY WEST, Fla. (April 15, 2011) An F/A-18 Super Hornet and an F4U Corsair fly in a legacy formation during a practice flight for the Centennial of Naval Aviation Celebration at Naval Air Station Key West.
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Russian self-propelled guns

Russian tanks

Topol intercontinental ballistic missile launchers

paratroopers


Russian Naval Infantry

Spooky-Vinny

Just for larffs!

xXx

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Cpl. James N. Knudsen, a Camas, Wash., native, now a team leader with 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team surveys an area near Gerdab, Afghanistan, April 14.

Spc. Mustafa H. Valadanzouj, a San Antonio native, now an M249 machine-gunner with 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team along with other 3rd Platoon soldiers survey an area near Gerdab, Afghanistan, April 14

An Iraqi UH-1 Huey lifts off from the battle scene carrying simulated casualties during a joint demonstration near Baghdad, April 18. The exhibition was just one of several ongoing, multi-phase exercises designed to further integrate the Iraqi air force, Iraqi Army Aviation Command and Iraqi army.

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Merri Kastemae, senior detective police inspector, a member of the Estonian Politsei, mentors Afghan uniform policemen, March 29, during the Basic Patrolman Course in Spin Boldak, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan.

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An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sgt. James A. Justice, 32, of Grimes, Iowa at Dover Air Force Base, Del. , Monday, April 25, 2011. According to the Department of Defense, Justice, died April 23rd at Kapisa province, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire.

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Army Staff Sgt. Hector Hoyas and Senior Airman Matthew Phillips turn away as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter takes off with a HUMVEE sling-load April 15, 2011, as part of airdrop and sling-load training at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. Sergeant Hoyas is an aerial delivery field service instructor from Fort Lee, Va. Airman Phillips is an airborne pavements and equipment operator assigned to the 820th RED HORSE squadron.

North Korean soldiers look inside of the U.N. Command Military Armistice Commission meeting room at the border village of the Panmunjom (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 24, 2011.