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A Parliamentarian battle flag, back after 350 years. This ultra-rare English Civil War battle standard, due to go on public display for the first time in three and a half centuries, was kept and preserved by 11 generations of the same English country family. It will be on permanent show at the National Army Museum in London as from this coming Thursday. (National Army Museum).

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An M551A1 with crew in Germany from 1/1 Cavalry, 1st Armored Division (Old Ironside).

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The shadow of an RAF Avro Vulcan over the wreckage of “Lady Be Good”, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber lying on the Libyan desert, having crashed in 1943.

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I always liked the way the Russian army deals with minor transgressions, for example, caught smoking?

Misplaced weapon?

Caught using a cellphone?

They just don’t fuck around!

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Slides of a US Navy TF116 crew, 1969. Found at an estate sale for Don English, who passed away in 2010.

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My aesthetic: jeep gunners going full ham

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Do RPG standoffs actually stop penitration on very lightly armored vehicles like M113s BMPs or MRAPs

Like cages and such? Yes they do, as they’re a simple, cheap and light solution to a dire problem, although they’re very vulnerable to tandem warheads.

And fun fact, since APC’s usually have a relatively thin hull, they’re completely unsuitable for reactive armor (ERA blocks), as the explosion of the block itself has the capacity of damaging, if not downright penetrating the vehicle’s armor. 

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Soviet VDV paratroopers in Afghanistan, 1987. 

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 IS-3M.

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OI U CHEEKY BASTARD STOP RIGHT THERE

DO U GOT A LOICENSE FO THAT RUBBISH?

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  Pz.Kpfw.35 S (f) of the 211st tank battalion of the Wehrmacht were victims of the Lapland war, which began between the Germans and the Finns in September 1944.

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Shermans, Fireflies and other vehicles of Guards Armoured Division passing through Fouilloy on their way to Arras, 1 September 1944.

Source   

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Soviet 152-mm self-propelled artillery SU-152 and heavy tanks is-2 and T-35, captured by the Germans at the Kummersdorf test site. The white numbers indicate the thickness of the armor in this part of the machine.

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