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ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:17 AM UTC
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:23 AM UTC
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:25 AM UTC
I wonder what we will see next ......
Maybe something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgL4IvoR7tw
/ Robin
Maybe something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgL4IvoR7tw
/ Robin
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:34 AM UTC
PzDave
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:46 AM UTC
How is a tire and a sandbag going to stop a TOW 2
Hisham
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 02:39 AM UTC
That huge truck right after the "Achzarit Late" is actually a car bomb. The Arabic caption says the guy pictured in front of it is the "hero" suicide bomber (scum) who has it rigged with 8 tons, they say, and drove it into some road block
Hisham
Hisham
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 02:59 AM UTC
Thanks, Hisham. What about the very first picture on this page?
Hisham
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 03:27 AM UTC
On the top plate, that word on top is "Handassa" = Engineering
On the lower plate, it says "spoils of war by Hussein..." then it's not clear
On the back plate, it says "Danger"
Nothing that makes much sense
Hisham
On the lower plate, it says "spoils of war by Hussein..." then it's not clear
On the back plate, it says "Danger"
Nothing that makes much sense
Hisham
jasegreene
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 03:35 AM UTC
Quoted Text
That huge truck right after the "Achzarit Late" is actually a car bomb. The Arabic caption says the guy pictured in front of it is the "hero" suicide bomber (scum) who has it rigged with 8 tons, they say, and drove it into some road block
Hisham
I think read somewhere that the explosion was so powerful that the magnitude level was very high.
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 08:40 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 08:46 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:10 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:22 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:26 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:34 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:42 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:47 PM UTC
HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:50 PM UTC
It is a Russian TOS-A1 MRL.
Available from Trumpeter in 1/35.
Available from Trumpeter in 1/35.
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:53 PM UTC
Yes Sir, that's the one. Is that post-Saddam purchase?
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 09:57 PM UTC
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:12 PM UTC
HeavyArty
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:14 PM UTC
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Is that post-Saddam purchase?
Definitely...
"The TOS-1 was shown for the first time in public in 1999 in Omsk.
They were prominently used in the Battle of Grozny in 1999 by the Russian Army.
TOS-1As were first used in combat in Iraq in the recapture of Jurf Al Sakhar on October 24, 2014 from ISIL forces.
TOS-1 was used in Syria on October 10, 2015 by Syrian Army forces against rebel forces in Hama."
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:18 PM UTC
Thanks, Gino. Is it just me, or the second one in the background does seem to be a different variant?
Sgt_Pickle
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:24 PM UTC
That's the resupply vehicle
ReluctantRenegade
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Posted: Monday, November 14, 2016 - 10:26 PM UTC
Thanks.