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Taliban seize $6 million and golden bricks from Amrullah Saleh’s residence
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Russian Army introduces new B-19 armor vehicle during Zapad-21
[MilRu] During the drawing of practical actions of troops (forces) of the main stage of the joint strategic exercise (JSE) Zapad-2021 at the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the latest B-19 infantry fighting vehicles with the Epokha combat module provided fire support to the defending units of the coalition group of troops on the main defensive line.

The armored group consisting of a BMP B-19 platoon was put into battle with the exit of the main forces of the conditional enemy to the front edge of the defense of the units of the military contingents of the armed forces of Belarus, India, Mongolia and Russia in order to increase the activity and stability of the defense during the conduct of hostilities for the retention of important borders, positions and areas.

The latest B-19 combat vehicle with the Epokha combat module is equipped with a 57-mm automatic cannon, Kornet launchers and a new Bulat guided missile system with small-sized missiles to destroy firing points and lightly armored enemy equipment.

A special feature of the information and control system of the armament of the combat module "Epokha" is the presence of a system for automated search, recognition of enemy objects, their support, preparation and issuance to the crew of the combat vehicle of proposals for the simultaneous or alternate use of two channels of fire damage.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 09/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds wonderful - does it actually work as advertised?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2021 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Send it to Syria and let's see how long it takes to break.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/14/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder if it has aluminum armor and fuel tanks in the troop compartment?

Asking for a friend
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/14/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||


Crimea: the 2017 Russian film about the Russian takeover of Crimea
This film and its trailers was very hard to find because of the translation of the title.

The way the reception by Russian audiences was described to me was outrage; that the Russian takeover was without a shot fired. Other reviews I have read was about praise for the director for keeping the film and its themes simple.

Anyway, the film is translatable, but even a Russian language review said the script was childish.

It can't be found on Amazon. I've looked.


Posted by: badanov || 09/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:


The bear roars: Vladimir Putin oversees huge military exercises within striking distance of Europe including beach invasion by the world's largest hovercraft and thousands of paratroopers
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/14/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Nasty Russkies - why can't they understand that they lost, and die quietly?!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2021 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ..cause the other Europeans are too scared to take up their own defense (against Putie or their Muslim invaders). I guess we know who's going to die quietly.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/14/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Until we secure our southern border with the failed state of Mexico, I could care less about Europe. They don't care about us.

It frustrates me that we could easily secure the border, but for whatever reason lack the political will to do so. Ole Donnie campaigned on and largely won the 2016 election on this issue...and then sat on his hands for the first two years of his admin and did nothing about it...only to chirp about it again after we lost Congress and the election season came back around.
Posted by: Tennessee || 09/14/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #3: I know you've never been fond of the man, which is of course your privilege. I hope you are reveling in the alternative.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2021 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Real world doesn't consists of binary choices, Besoeker.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  2 candidates = binary choice. Unless you furriners have an alternative. This isn't your dysfunctional knesset
Posted by: Frank G || 09/14/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Straw man argument Francis: just because somebody disapproves of Trump, doesn't mean they approve of Biden.

p.s. This isn't your dysfunctional knesset

Anybody told you that you argue like a 5 years old, Francis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2021 9:16 Comments || Top||

#8  g(r)om, g(r)om, g(r)om....:-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/14/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Draadtrekker
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/14/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Tennessee,
Trump did more than any other president to reduce illegal immigration in to the US. Having said that, he didn't do enough and what he did was too easily undone. The 2 year delay was in the federal bureaucracy delaying his efforts.
Like Frank said, revel in the alternative.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 09/14/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Then House Speaker Paul Ryan sat on his fucking hands for two years. If you're going to place blame, he's the main man.
Posted by: Raj || 09/14/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Fuck Europe.

If they were serious about being afraid of Russia, they never would have built Nordstream 2.

Obviously it doesn't concern them. So why should we care?
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 09/14/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#13  What Raj said. Trump's only mistake was underestimating how deep The Swamp is.

And I would admit one point for grom...however dysfunctional the Knesset is, our Congress can't be any better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/14/2021 12:46 Comments || Top||


#15  "World's largest hovercraft" and a hell of a fine target.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/14/2021 13:46 Comments || Top||

#16  #4 Ref #3: I know you've never been fond of the man, which is of course your privilege. I hope you are reveling in the alternative.
Posted by: Besoeker


Like G said - this is a weak straw man argument.

I bought into Trump's political pitch that he was going to secure the southern border...and he didn't. Should have been job #1 day 1...in order to mitigate a clear and present danger...

FYSA - I was with a group of border agents the night Trump won and the party that ensued was crazy. We expected him to do what he said he was going to do.

Re: clear and present danger...
B - Let me clue you in - the stunning amount of cheap fentanyl, meth, and heroin pushed into the US from Mexico has a state sponsor...this is asymmetric warfare conducted against us with intent to destabilize just like the Klingons attempted to do to China via Afghan heroin...this is payback.

And the result...the fight is now here in the hills of Tennessee...a war fought by poor white men. A fight that I am in. Not over there - here.

And to all you believers in the one true president Trump...Trump is the reason we have the idiot Biden...you revel in that alternative.


Posted by: Tennessee || 09/14/2021 21:00 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2021-09-14
  Taliban seize $6 million and golden bricks from Amrullah Saleh’s residence
Mon 2021-09-13
  Zawahiri, believed dead, appears in video on 9/11 anniversary.
Bin Laden, known dead, doesn't.
Sun 2021-09-12
  National Resistance Front of Panjshir province have retaken three areas of the province from the Taliban
Sat 2021-09-11
  Dozens of Afghan evacuees flagged by DHS as potential security threats
Fri 2021-09-10
  Taliban agreed to allow 200 foreigners to leave Afghanistan
Thu 2021-09-09
  Resistance leaders Massoud, Saleh still in Afghanistan's Panjshir, setting up parallel govt
Wed 2021-09-08
  UN Vows Full Support For The Taliban
Tue 2021-09-07
  Four Americans Leave Afghanistan by Land in First Departures Since US Pullout
Mon 2021-09-06
  Pak Taliban claims suicide blast near Afghan border that killed 4
Sun 2021-09-05
  General Milley: ‘What You Saw Unfold' with Afghanistan Evacuation Was One of the Plans'
Sat 2021-09-04
  Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead
Fri 2021-09-03
  British-born ISIS "Beatle'' due to plead guilty
Thu 2021-09-02
  Taliban confirm that the group’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada will be top authority
Wed 2021-09-01
  Six Iraqis on death row executed, three for 'terrorism': medic
Tue 2021-08-31
  Final US evacuation flights leave, ending America’s 20-year Afghanistan war, equipment left behind disabled


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