Post WW2 and Modern Warfare Pics

just found this thread... gold!



Canadians on patrol.



Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.



Canadian soldiers participate in advanced amphibious training from the Shearwater Jetty in Halifax on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. The soldiers are working to qualify as Patrol Pathfinders, specialists in deploying in hostile environments.



pretty cool Joint Task Force 2 promo.

rangers lead the way!



ACU camo DOES work on all environment. . . . . .

ATO , 11-02-2015

one of the greatest interceptors never made.

Some may be interested in this film on the South African Border War, which is little known or discussed in the West, despite lasting from 1966 to 1989, and featuring the largest tank battle in the southern hemisphere. This is essentially a South African propaganda piece aimed at a foreign, primarily American, audience, but considering how little information on the war is to be had it is a fairly good place to start.

The Last Domino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXAytmglYY

That Graph is a bit incomplete regarding the French Armed forces deployed there. It's the second largest contributor behind the US Armed Forces.

9 Rafale multi-role jet fighters, 1 Breguet Br 1150 Atlantic Maritme Scout Plane, 1 Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker in-flight refuelling plane and finally 1 E-3F (airborne early warning and control) AWACS plane at the Al-Dafrah French airbase in Abu Dhabi.

6 Mirage 2000D multi-role jet fighters in Jordan (Hosted in a Jordanian Air base apparently).

12 Rafale Marine multi-role jet fighters, 9 Super-étendart strike fighter, 2 Grumman E-2 Hawkeye AWACS plane and 6 assorted transport helicopters on-board the Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle.

The Aircraft Carrier is escorted by the Jean Bart anti-air frigate, 1 anti-submarine frigate, a nuclear powered attack submarine and an oil tanker to supply the frigates.

So 36 Attack aircraft, 1 scout plane, 3 command and control planes (AWACS) and 1 refuelling plane. 41 military air-planes in total.

Source: http://www.defense.gouv.fr/operations/irak/actualites Sorry it's only available in French as it is a ministerial website.

Cusk (SSG-348) firing a KGW-1 Loon (V-1) missile, 1951.

Iran-Iraq War:

Sad pictures of Iranian boy-soldiers:





Elderly soldiers:





Iranian journalists exit by jumping from a Havanirooz(Iran Army Aviation) Bell 214 in West front (Kermanshah Province and neighbor provinces) of Iran-Iraq War.



Iranian troops with gasmasks to help protect against possible Iraqi chemical weapons attacks:





Iranian CH-47 Chinook deploying troops:



Iranian troops:











In trenches:



Iraqi pilots pre-flight briefing:



Iraqi T-72s:



Teenage Iranian solider with Iraqi PoWs:



Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) T-69:



IRGC (ex Iraqi) T-72M:



Iranian Chieftains:





Iranian BM-21 Grad:



Iranian F-14 Tomcats armed with both Phoenix and modified Hawk missiles, circa 1986-87; usually tasked with defending Kharg Island oil facilities:



Attack formation of six Iranian F-4 Phantoms during the airstrike on Iraqi Kirkuk Refinery:



Iranian F4 Phantom Pilots:



Iraqi Mirage EQs:




Iraqi F1EQ tailing an Iranian F14:


Iraqi Su-24 Fencer


Brig. General Jalil Zandi, Iranian F14 ace with 11 confirmed victories against 4 MiG-23s, 2 Su-22s, 2 MiG 21s and 3 Mirage F1s.



Iranian Northrop F-5E Tiger IIs:





Iranian F-5 pilots prepare:


Major Yadollah Javadpour, an Iranian F-5 ace. His greatest fame came on August 6, 1983 when he claimed (later to be reliably confirmed) to have shot down an Iraqi MiG-25. This was a significant achievement for an F-5 pilot as the MiG-25 is a much bigger and faster aircraft with a substantial altitude advantage.



Iranian F-14As:







F-14 with F4 Phantom:

This war also saw the only confirmed air-to-air helicopter battles in history with the Iraqi Mi-25s flying against Iranian AH-1J SeaCobras on several separate occasions. Not long after Iraq's initial invasion of Iran, in November 1980 two Iranian SeaCobras crept up on two Mi-25s and hit them with TOW wire-guided antitank missiles. One Mi-25 went down immediately, the other was badly damaged and crashed before reaching base. The Iranians pulled off a repeat performance on 24 April 1981, destroying two Mi-25s without incurring losses to themselves.

The Iraqis hit back, claiming the destruction of a SeaCobra on 14 September 1983 (with YaKB machine gun), then three SeaCobras on 5 February 1984 and three more on 25 February 1984 (two with Falanga missiles, one with S-5 rockets). After a lull in helicopter losses, each side lost a gunship on 13 February 1986. Later, a Mi-25 claimed a SeaCobra shot down with YaKB gun on 16 February, and a SeaCobra claimed a Mi-25 shot down with rockets on 18 February. The last engagement between the two types was on 22 May 1986, when Mi-25s shot down a SeaCobra.

The results of these engagements are disputed. One document cited that Iranian AH-1Js took on Iraqi Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters. Other sources report that the Iranian AH-1 pilots achieved a 10:1 kill ratio over the Iraqi helicopter pilots during these engagements (1:5). Additionally, Iranian AH-1 and Iraqi fixed-wing aircraft engagements also occurred. One source states that 10 Iranian AH-1Js were lost in combat, compared to six Iraqi Mi-24s during the eight-year war. The skirmishes are described as fairly evenly matched in another source. Iranian AH-1Js destroyed hundreds of Iraqi armored vehicles and other targets in the war. AGM-65 Maverick missiles were used in some operations.

The relatively small numbers and the inevitable disputes over actual kill numbers makes it unclear if one gunship had a real technical superiority over the other.

great pictures , but you should choose just the ones you think are good so that the thread becomes good in quality and not in quantity : )

Kurdish YPG During Assault On Tal Hamis , diferent equipment , HD

Kurdish YPG During Assault On Tal Hamis , diferent equipment , HD

Oh my god the turkeys in the last moments, when the guy is shooting his SVD(?). gooble gooble.

great pictures , but you should choose just the ones you think are good so that the thread becomes good in quality and not in quantity : )

lol I can see your point, i'll do a bit of editing. Sadly there really aren't good resources for photos from this conflict so I had to take what I could find lol.

outdated 1 month or 2 .

Brazilian Army paratroopers.

U.S. Air Force airmen from the 720th STG jumping out of a C-130J Hercules aircraft during water rescue training in the Florida panhandle

Members of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry, Fort Richardson, Alaska, United States

Since the F14 Tomcat is by far my favourite aircraft, and I'm quite the aviation nerd, I absolutely love the Iranian F14 pictures here since they're relatively rare
thanks !