Personally I’d love it if we folded up all of our overseas tents and let people solve their own problems.

that’s the way things should be. 😉

….and the news has it that a Russian Warship Neustrashimy is hurrying there from the Atlantic. What, nothing seaworthy closer than that? Haven’t updated their maps with the Suez Canal? Inquiring minds want to know. Or is this just a result of the major cutbacks in the Russian blue water navy?

Piracy in the area has really been out of control for years, and it takes something like this to get international attention. Shows just how well the UN works:eek:

care to explain the relation between the UN and piracy in that area?

Nah, I bet that the leading T-72 classically turned its turret round after negociating the slope in order to get its fire range clear, thus offering an unprotected target (rear part of the turret) to a striker positioned roughly 90 deg. to the road either side (upslope or down in the terrain). The “clean” blow up indicates an ATGM. A RPG would have rampaged the rear equip boxes much more and left much more pyroforic marks.

perhaps the Georgians should opt for a design where ammo is stored in the turret bustle. I think the Ukranians had some T-72 modifications that did just that.

ah so they did repaint it! it used to have a darker grey for the body and a ligher grey for the radome. It now looks more similar to the scheme used on the MiG-29. any reason for the change?

Something I’m a bit confused about here is if this is about South Ossetia why are the Russians putting warships off Poti and hitting targets in Abkhazia (sp.).

Are these two, seemingly disparate, issues related or are the Russians taking one opportunity to deal with both issues at the same time?.

perhaps that and that Abkhazia also declared war on Georgia just now.

with a population of just 70,000, I wonder how S.Ossetia will find the manpower if they had to do it alone w/o Russian support.

did they repaint the Su-30MKI’s? The radome looks darker than usual.
with Snecma being involved in the LCA engine, does this mean Rafale may be more likely to win the MMRCA?

i wonder if anyone will attempt to climb up to the pedestal and attempt to do accurate measurements on that thing since last I’ve seen, people were still in disagreement over its size.