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Tell one person you're going fishing and everybody wants in. Think I need a bigger boat!

"The Fuzos en route to action in any war scene." Fuzos are equivalent to Marines

 

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rocket grenade launcher
Inventory No.
CTOE00012
Description
Rocket grenade launcher (LGF), Model SNEB, caliber 37mm. There were three models used by the Armed Forces in the War in Africa (1961-1974): the SNEB model (French), the Armada 69 model and the OGMA model. In common, the three models had the inconvenience of the grenade sometimes bursting in the back of the barrel, next to the breech, causing some personal accidents.
Designation
rocket grenade launcher
Title
Rocket grenade launcher (LGF), Model SNEB, caliber 37mm

https://patrimonioweb-exercito-pt.t...l=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.operacional.pt/lanca-foguetes-de-37mm-para-tropas-terrestres/

 

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[grelmar]

Its not stupid if it works!

About as good as those armored cars we sent.

Grizz

Absolutely right. It would be nice if everybody had state of the art equipment but if all you have is something from WW1 that still works, why not. I can consistently hit a 24" gong @400 yards with my Mosin sniper. I can do the same with my VZ24 @ 300 yards, so if it works and that is all you have, why not.

Oh I absolutely agree. I probably came off a bit more tongue and cheek than I intended. To be perfectly honest, I've been consistently amazed by the "Git er' done!" ingenuity and grit of Ukrainians during this conflict and that Technical is just another example. By the time the conflict is done, countless tomes will be written about an intensely proud and brave nation that stood tall and said "Not today."

 

[fingers284]

Its not stupid if it works!

In this case I dont think it is so much "if it works" as to how much propaganda can be garnered in the next "Ukraine assistance" budgeting talks worldwide including Canada...."hey look how under equipped we are compared to the armored vehicles we're fighting against"!!

 

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Somewhere in an anhara(Angola, savanna (tropical grassland with scattered trees) in eastern angola.

 

[bearhunter]

Yeah, waterholes are few and far between in that area but you don't have to dig far to find it.

I remember seeing waterholes dug by wild animals and even domestic animals. Green forage up to their bellies, fat as hogs.

It was HOT there and the humidity could be cut with a knife.

 

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Troops making Christmas messages to families.

Links to the filmed messages:
https://arquivos.rtp.pt/colecoes/mensagens-de-natal-mocambique/

 

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Let’s talk about the windows of the Blackbirds. One and 1/4 inch solid quartz were ultrasonically fused to the titanium hull to make The safest and quietest cockpit that they could make. It could hold up to temperatures of 600°F and more.

The integrity of the double quartz camera window demanded special attention because optical distortion caused by the effect of great heat (550 degrees F.) on the outside of the window and a much lower temperature (150 degrees F.) on the inside could keep the cameras from taking usable photographs. Three years and $2 million later, Corning Glass Works came up with a solution: the window was fused to its metal frame by a novel process using high-frequency sound waves. This was breakthrough technology for the early 1960s.
Linda Sheffield Miller
Photo~Curt Mason

 

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Just Nuisance, was the only dog ever to be officially enlisted in the Royal Navy. He died in 1944 and was buried with full military honours....
"Just Nuisance", was born in April 1937 in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town and as a puppy he was bought by Benjamin Chaney who then moved to Simonstown in the southern peninsula of Cape Town to run the United Services Institute (USI).
Simonstown’s Naval Base was one of the Royal Navy's most strategic naval stations, with control over the South Atlantic and Cape Hope route... Simonstown's sailors spent a lot of time at the USI. The friendly pup grew up in this very sociable environment where the sailors made a great fuss of him, taking him for walks and treating him to a variety of tasty treats and beer.
He took a great liking to the sailors whose presence meant treats and fun times and soon recognised them by their wide bell-bottom trousers and square blue-trimmed collars.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

A Storch the RAF "requisitioned" during the war and subsequently kept on until 1955:

Some info about this aircraft specifically:

c/n 475081

Built 1944 by Mraz in Czechoslovakia.

Surrendered by German forces at Flensburg, Germany at the end of the war. Flown to RAF Farnborough in September 1945 and used for technical evaluations, demonstrations and as a glider tug. In April 1946 it was allocated British military serial VP546 and continued flying on RAE business until 1955 when she was retired and offered for disposal.

In October 1956 she was allocated to the Air Historical Branch (AHB) and was stored at several locations, ending up at RAF Coltishall. While at Coltishall, the resident Battle of Britain Memorial Flight considered returning her to flight, but sadly did not have the manpower to do so.

She moved to RAF StAthan in 1973 and a long restoration began in 1976. This was completed in the mid 1980’s and in April 1989 she moved to Cosford where she remains on display, currently in the ‘War in the Air’ hangar.

As she sits today:

Great little birds. Just the thing for lifting fat Italians off of mountaintops.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Not many people know that the B29 wasn't so much "built" as "bred".

Here, the female of the species (very much "in season") is prepared for mounting by the male, being kept off camera to your left. Aviation Veteranarians attend to be sure insemination goes well.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Odd stablemates:

 

[Ganderite]

Looks like a pug-nosed pregnant Mossie and a ???

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

ME410. That aircraft is now at Cosford, next to the Storch from a couple posts ago.

 

[HuskyDude]

Great Pic ! Looks like an early N.F. (Night Fighter) version. Notice the two horizontal antennas on the wing tips.
Think I'll keep it as my "Back Ground" for awhile.

Thx

 

[ipscgraz]

For some reason I haven't been in this thread in a long time. And then I find this, which brings reality back front and centre.

[video]https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ramdnsEdBF1ug2juh.mp4[/video]

 

[HuskyDude]

Early Mk Vb...? Clipped wing.

 

[XRCD011]

Odd stablemates:

In 2019 I was given two books Test Pilots of A.V.Roe, by John Falk each one was was about Bill Thorn and Roland Falk. "Roly" Falk was the pilot who barrel rolled the Vulcan bomber and I was very impressed by his test flying times and the HUGE number of types he flew. Captured AC of every sort, little or nothing in the way of info on type, maybe "safe" to fly (or not) single engine, two/three/four engine/first jets, even a Komet that they towed to altitude.