Not a communist.

Army,History,/pol/ and shitposting. feel free to talk to me,im a nice goy.

[history-and-stuff-and-things]

[bantarleton]

A Parliamentarian battle flag, back after 350 years. This ultra-rare English Civil War battle standard, due to go on public display for the first time in three and a half centuries, was kept and preserved by 11 generations of the same English country family. It will be on permanent show at the National Army Museum in London as from this coming Thursday. (National Army Museum).

[confusedbyinterface]

Parliamentarian Battle Flag:St George’s cross, stars.

Royalist Battle Flag:

Sir Horatio Cary’s Regiment of Horse

Cary’s own troop’s cornet was red with a creature in a barrel and the motto ‘come out you cuckold’ (Illustration 1) referring to the Earl of Essex’s notorious marital problems. The creature might be a ‘fox in a barrel’ or perhaps a stag or reindeer without his antlers.

The major’s cornet simply bore the motto ‘cuckolds we come’ (Illustration 2).

[volcels-of-fire]

So there’s actually a 400 year old tradition of reactionary shitheads calling their opponents cucks?

[brassers-deactivated20181223]

Are you fucking serious

[ecarretsamcp-deactivated2017112]

War never changes

[main-battle-tank]

An M551A1 with crew in Germany from 1/1 Cavalry, 1st Armored Division (Old Ironside).

[enrique262]

The shadow of an RAF Avro Vulcan over the wreckage of “Lady Be Good”, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber lying on the Libyan desert, having crashed in 1943.

[enrique262]

I always liked the way the Russian army deals with minor transgressions, for example, caught smoking?

Misplaced weapon?

Caught using a cellphone?

They just don’t fuck around!

[vietnamwarera]

Slides of a US Navy TF116 crew, 1969. Found at an estate sale for Don English, who passed away in 2010.

[totalharmonycycle]

Never get out of the boat!

[sapper-in-the-wire-old]

My aesthetic: jeep gunners going full ham

[enrique262]

Do RPG standoffs actually stop penitration on very lightly armored vehicles like M113s BMPs or MRAPs

Like cages and such? Yes they do, as they’re a simple, cheap and light solution to a dire problem, although they’re very vulnerable to tandem warheads.

And fun fact, since APC’s usually have a relatively thin hull, they’re completely unsuitable for reactive armor (ERA blocks), as the explosion of the block itself has the capacity of damaging, if not downright penetrating the vehicle’s armor. 

[qsy-complains-a-lot]

How does reactive armor deal with tandem warheads ?

[enrique262]

Tandem warheads are specifically designed to defeat ERA, as the first warhead detonates the block, enabling the second to reach the hull and penetrate with the jet stream of molten metal that basically melts its way into the tank, and really, besides heavily redesigned blocks that use modules that make them detonate more than once, which aren’t that effective due to the sheer speed in which all of this happens, the best way to ensure that tandem RPG doesn’t kill you tank is to equip an active protection system like ARENA for further redundancy, like the Russians and Israelis do.

[elpatron56]

Some types of RPG cages have the added side effect of shorting the fuze:

[enrique262]

Any cage has that potential really, but that’s mostly luck!

[captain-price-official]

The biggest problem with stand-off armor and ERA in particular is that you can’t have friendly infantry in the vicinity.

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[tiffanarchy]

tfw my boss won’t force me to sit in a cage all day :(

[enrique262]

Soviet VDV paratroopers in Afghanistan, 1987. 

[racistspiderman]

[princessofthestoners]

omg the first two women my gay ass can’t take this

[racistspiderman]

Watch it take these bullets

[bmashine-deactivated20240516]

 IS-3M.

[surfcommiesmustdie-deactivated2]

OI U CHEEKY BASTARD STOP RIGHT THERE

DO U GOT A LOICENSE FO THAT RUBBISH?

[bmashine-deactivated20240516]

  Pz.Kpfw.35 S (f) of the 211st tank battalion of the Wehrmacht were victims of the Lapland war, which began between the Germans and the Finns in September 1944.

[hms-exeter]

Shermans, Fireflies and other vehicles of Guards Armoured Division passing through Fouilloy on their way to Arras, 1 September 1944.

Source   

[bmashine-deactivated20240516]

Soviet 152-mm self-propelled artillery SU-152 and heavy tanks is-2 and T-35, captured by the Germans at the Kummersdorf test site. The white numbers indicate the thickness of the armor in this part of the machine.

[srsfunny]

[unclewhisky-deactivated20150726]

“We’re gonna die in a fucking gulag, but man, it’ll be worth it.”

[emotions-oper9r-deactivated2021]

Is that Steven Segal