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  2. Posted

    more annoying for me is that, given the correct tools and a bit of teaching, it is just as easy to creat an explosive devices, you dont even need a high school chem. lab to do this

    What I find annoying that it has been in the news so much. It's so easy to create, no need to spread information further. Now it can be picked up by anyone, not just Iraqi insurgents but other groups as well.

    I am pretty sure not many people have ever heard of EFP's before it started to get in the news...

  4. Posted

    I was rather bored this afternoon and started work on a Cheetah for the Jehran Debate.

    Still very much a W.I.P but meh I thought I'd share it. Might be released with the go ahead from the Falklands mod team seeing as it is after all their Mirage III. (I just did what the Sout Africans did)...

    Regards Mark smile_o.gif

    Rename it to Kfir, it's the exact same thing and the Kfir is actually exported before.

  8. Posted

    Listen folks, I've been a private military contractor for 15 years now, and we get to wear whatever we want to in the field. It really depends on what the mission calls for.

    I'm looking forward to a campaign that finally brings to light the trials and tribulations that I and my fellow PMC's have gone through. More often than not, we're made to feel ashamed of our line of work. I'm happy to finally be celebrated.

    Abs

    I might have to tell this to you guys, he's just fucking around with you.

  9. Posted

    they actualy had realistic military units not some people in cobwoy hats and shorts..... rofl.gif So its not a new BIS, its still same old BIS.....

    meh, the hat looks reasonable on this chap.

    http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/853-8/img/DefenceDevelopment_0195_1.jpg

    Or maybe He's Eeben Barlow from EO? Lol wink_o.gif

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images/20001210_xnlob_surviving_m4.jpg

    Arghh...

    barlowxw9.jpg

    Here is one more:

    leiesold1xart280lf5.jpg

    Oh and if you really want some good pictures of mercenaries, watch Shadow Company, contains some great footage from Sierra Leone and modern day contractors.

  10. Posted

    This is what I am seeing so far: Great concept, poor execution. Pretty much like ARMA is. I mean the idea of having mercs fight over the island is nice, same goes for a full scale war between North and South. However what I have seen so far is just a poor execution of these great ideas.

    Maybe a bit more research on the subject would be nice, look at real-life examples of what is done ingame. Read up on the Sierra Leone situation for example. I mean after all we want it to be as realistic as possible.

  12. Posted

    I once ate 3 raw Onions,and they gave me awesome farting prowess.

    That is all

    In my book, that makes you a real man!

    Same goes for chugging a liter of beer.

  13. Posted

    Hi all...

    I come with a question:

    you know, there is a team, called CWR, that is a sort of team formed by specialists (3D modellers, animators, texturers and so on).

    Do you know how to become a member of the chalk?

    obviously only fo curiosity... I will never be a member of this almighty group! tounge2.gif

    Have you been living under a rock for the last 6 months?

  14. Posted

    Now that is stupid. Great job everyone, that's the way a team works... banghead.gif

    It's not funny at all.

    They are just some stupid kids,u cant even call them soldiers. mad_o.gif

    I would like to nominate you both for "Dumbest And Most Respectless Post Of The Week".

  16. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]Inside The Army

    March 15, 2004

    Pg. 1

    Army To Transfer Four Armored Gun Systems To 82nd Airborne Division

    The Army last week approved the transfer of four M8 Armored Gun Systems from contractor storage facilities to the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, NC, sources say, marking the first time the vehicles will be used by the service since the program was terminated in 1996.

    Proposed in the 1980s as a lightweight combat vehicle that could fit aboard a C-130, the AGS was canceled as the Army struggled to pay for other priorities. Contractor United Defense LP, which fought the cancellation decision, has five M8 AGS vehicles in stock -- four in York, PA, and one in San Jose, CA.

    The 18th Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg recently passed along an "operational needs statement" to Army Forces Command that spells out the division's need for a rapidly deployable vehicle with firepower that could be dropped from an aircraft (Inside the Army, Feb. 16, p1). The Army's operations and plans office, or "G-3," has been reviewing the requirement with Training and Doctrine Command.

    TRADOC completed its analysis on Feb. 19, and the G-3 approved the needs statement on March 8, authorizing transfer of the existing vehicles to the 82nd Airborne Division, sources say. By press time (March 11), the Army had not released a copy of the approval documents.

    According to one source, officials made it clear in the documents that the transfer in "no way should be construed as support for an AGS program." Instead, it is an attempt to meet the immediate requirement with an interim solution and allow the division to begin developing and refining tactics, techniques and procedures.

    The unit expects to receive the vehicles by the end of March, the source said.

    Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), a member of the House Armed Services Committee whose district includes Ft. Bragg, said he is pleased with the decision, but does not want the transfer to be misconstrued as a move to revive the terminated program.

    "To be clear, I am not endorsing one system over another," Hayes told ITA in a March 12 statement. "I simply believe that, if these existing AGS are combat-worthy, then they should be fully utilized while we await the future technologies that are already in production.

    "My priority on this matter is simple -- what can we do to help our soldiers in the field the fastest?" he added. "If our soldiers can utilize these existing systems, then I want these systems in Baghdad rather than in a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania."

    Hayes asked the Army last December to provide him information on the matter, including how much the transfer would cost and whether spare parts are available to maintain the gun systems. Last week, a spokesman for Hayes said the congressman was told government and contractor costs are estimated at approximately $1 million for one year of support for AGS.

    The funding, however, is not as much of a concern to the Army as the availability of parts for a system that was terminated eight years ago. Sources say UDLP can sustain the systems for a limited amount of time, but many of its components are now obsolete or unavailable. Supporting the system beyond one year poses high risk, sources said.

    Herb Muktarian, a spokesman for UDLP's ground systems division in York, said the systems are ready to go.

    "We have not received any official requests from the Army regarding AGS, but the four AGS vehicles stored in York remain in excellent condition and we're ready to provide support if asked to do so," Muktarian said.

    Maj. Rich Patterson, a spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps, said officials at Ft. Bragg have been notified and are assembling the necessary manning documents, additional equipment and training plans, "with the intent to integrate the AGS into division operations as soon as possible."

    The vehicles will go to the 1st Battalion of the division's 17th Cavalry Squadron, Patterson said. AGS will provide its assault teams "mobility, firepower and shock effects" within the "drop zone," he added.

    "It gives us a capability we could deploy if we need it," Patterson said.

    AGS features a 105 mm cannon, an ammunition autoloader and options for armor protection.

    The division's requirement for an air-droppable platform has existed at least since the 1990s, when the division disbanded one of its battalions -- the 3rd Battalion of the 73rd Armored Regiment, which was equipped with an aging armored reconnaissance vehicle called the Sheridan. At the time, service officials thought other capabilities would become available to the paratroopers once the M551 Sheridan was retired.

    When the division deactivated the armored battalion in 1997, however, then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dennis Reimer had already terminated AGS, which had been regarded as the Sheridan's replacement. Eliminating AGS freed more than $1 billion over the service's outyear funding plan -- money that was badly needed for other cash-strapped programs, officials said at the time.

    Two years after the program was canceled, service officials said they continued to review options for all light forces that wanted more firepower. Vehicles reviewed included AGS, the Marine Corps' Light Armored Vehicle, the Pandur lightweight vehicles used by the Kuwait National Guard and a variant of the M113 armored personnel carrier (ITA, Oct. 4, 1999, p1; Sept. 27, 1999, p1).

    That effort, however, went nowhere, and the 82nd Airborne Division resubmitted its request for such a vehicle, eventually attracting Hayes' attention.

    "Let's find out as soon as possible if AGS can serve effectively as a short-term solution for an immediate operational need," Hayes told ITA last week.

    -- Anne Plummer

  18. Posted

    A cannon bigger than that on a Sherman tank, and no it is not a recoilless gun, so no massive back-blast. You could fire one of these in a room from the window with no worry of cooking and squashing yourself and your buddies in the room.

    As far as I understand it, it works like a recoilless rifle, but instead it "catches" the energy in the shellcasing which it ejects from the back.

    I could be wrong though...

  22. Posted

    guys try not to get too much hollywood here, a .50 cal wont rip off a body(human or not) at range, it would, however, creat a huge hole on target, the only time that you will see target get tear off is like what you see in new rambo teaser: rapid fire at zero distance

    edit: oh and it wont blow up just like the body in the teaser too, but the out come is nasty enought

    actually saw some vids of US snipers in afganistan sniping with m82, and the dudes just blew up in the air, with allkinda shit flying everywhere(muscles, bones, blood, not a pretty sight)

    Ill try to find the vid later on.

    Depends on the type of round that is used.

  24. Posted

    "So it seems, only gypsies and shinto oppose organ transplantation."

    in gypsies "culture" thre is not only this, stealing is also good if you not steal from gypsie, if you steal from gypsie you can be killed

    just like mariage, gypsie can mary 13 years old, but when gypsie girl love white, than she is out of their family

    for me this is sick

    gypsies are in my country known mostly as beggars, thiefs, iullegal imigrants from Romania, Bulgaria, that do not respect local law, just their own clan law

    they are not integrating, not sending children to public schools

    althought not working, wearing a lot of gold and jevelery

    Police and prison system has a lot of work with them :/

    and now their statement do not surprises me at all

    Yes, everybody hates gypsies but what does this has to do with the topic?

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