Settling in for a long flight... (somewhere in Iraq) -
This chopper means business (it can be a Decepticon, for all we know) -
(image via)
Here is how that flush toilet ended up in the middle of the desert:
(a full story is here)
Much needed equipment:
(image via)
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"A hard drill makes an easy battle" (General A. Suvorov)
This looks painful....
Question in his eyes -
Chinese paramilitary police, photo by REUTERS/Stringer (China)
Confidence training in Finland:
(image via)
Strange rituals:
New Zealand military learn from the warrior dances of Maori (see video, this time it's a 'Powhiri' welcome dance) -
(Photo by Corporal Chris Moore)
Elements of yoga:
Knights of the New Crusade? No, Chinese' paramilitary police method of improving posture:
image credit: REUTERS/Stringer (China)
Sleepy classes...
(image credit: Reuters)
There are better days:
In the end - sheer triumph!
(image credit: Reuters)
"In all seriousness" (these guys are unimpressed) -
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il poses with the soldiers of People's Army, photo AP
Propaganda never slumbers, nor sleeps:
See more cool posters here
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Who Will Rise to Defend the Motherland?
The answer is everybody, of course! - anybody who can hold a gun, that is:
(images via 1, 2)
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Problems? Challenges!
Military equipment gets wrecked, twisted, burned and generally mistreated in these - appalling! - photographs. Here are two Russian fighter jets, fighting over a runway:
(image via)
We know how birds are a huge problem for airplanes, but apparently bees are not welcome on F404s, either:
(images via)
I can almost feel the pain of getting this wire mess off...
"A Georgian Port Authority employee passes in front of a Russian rocket on August 11, 2008 in Poti, Georgia. The rocket landed on the Georgian Military Police car..." -
(Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
Compare it with the size of WWII bomb:
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Outrageous Ammunition and Weaponry
If you guessed that anything can be converted, or serve as a weapon, you guessed right.
India also has some security force (Corps of Border) riding camels, more info.
Guess what this is... looks like a normal truck, but look closely - this is DIY rocket launcher!!! (made in Iraq, of course) -
The strangest tank... bike... something... that we'd ever seen (any info?)
Photoshop section: Here is how the myths about Russian Army super-weapons get born:
This one, however, appears to be legit:
Why not?
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Watching the Girls Go By
Not just watching...
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Good Crowds
Some vintage photographs... they don't make them like that any more:
(click to enlarge, obviously)
This is a fragment of much larger picture (see here)
Life-Guards The Emperor of Austria's Kexholm Regiment. [L.-Gv. Keksgol'mskii Imperatora Avstriiskago polk.] 3rd Guards Infantry Division. Warsaw. 1903
Truly a landship - British Mark IV tank, 1916 -
(image via)
Imperial Japanese Armada at Nagato, 1929:
(image via)
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Militia, Police, Security - they need to have fun, too
Jumping & running around:
Weight lifting:
Dealing with some unique characters:
Helmets are appreciated:
(images via ArtLebedev, Exler)
