A few photos Russian Soldiers and a Chechen rebel

[Dennis G]

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A soldier of Russia's 201st motorized infantry division fires a grenade launcher during routine military training near the village of Lyaur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001. Russia has about 25,000 troops stationed in Tajikistan to help guard the border with Afghanistan.

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Soldiers of Russia's 201st motorized infantry division walk wearing gas masks during routine military training near the village of Lyaur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001. Russia has about 25,000 troops stationed in Tajikistan to help guard the border with Afghanistan.

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An armored vehicle of Russia's 201st motorized infantry division churns up a cloud of dust, during routine military training near the village of Lyaur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2001. Russia has about 25,000 troops stationed in Tajikistan to help guard the border with Afghanistan.

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Salman Raduyev, leader of the Chechen rebels who held hostages at a hospital in Kizlyar, in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, is seen on the phone in this Jan. 10, 1996 file photo while negotiating with local authorities. Raduyev, whose best-known exploit was a raid in 1996, when he and his comrades took hundreds of hostages at a local hospital and used some of them as human shields, went on trial Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001, in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan on charges of terrorism.

[tony6]

Jeeez...those gas mask looks like WWI
:)

[MarineSniper8541]

Yep, lol and they are also still using Vietnam era technology in their flack jackets. Those are nylon-wraped aluminum plates in those vests.

[16 OBr SpN]

Salman Raduev (the guy on the last pic) has been dead for long time now. The bastard got a life sentence, but soon died in prison like a pig. A pig got a pig's death.

MarineSniper8541: What makes you think we use them? Have you even been in the 201st division? Just curious... ;)

[Haiw]

Yep, lol and they are also still using Vietnam era technology in their flack jackets. Those are nylon-wraped aluminum plates in those vests.
To be honest I wouldn't be so sure that right now there aren't some folks in the US armed forces in Iraq that are walking around in Vietnam-era flak jackets as well...

[LongWayToTheTop]

they use that technology because they have not alot of money but RPG-7V's still do the job for low armored tanks like M113's M2A2's or taking the tracks off them plus not a bad weapon for troops, and AK47M's still do the job a bloody nice weapon these guys could of been in the rebel orginzation for like 20-30 years so they aint some low trained bastards.

[Javehn]

Well , i guess is that becose those are trainings , ussually soldiers getting old and sometimes updated equipment on trainings .


they use that technology because they have not alot of money but RPG-7V's still do the job for low armored tanks like M113's M2A2's or taking the tracks off them plus not a bad weapon for troops, and AK47M's still do the job a bloody nice weapon these guys could of been in the rebel orginzation for like 20-30 years so they aint some low trained bastards.

Dude , that's nice **** you said . Indeed , good words !! M113 , M2A2 - didn't know those was tanks .What to say , i am learning something new every single day in here . Plus not a bad weapond for troops-wonderfull insight .. :lol:
For rebel organization for 20-30 years you must be reffering to Russian troops on pictures ? Yes , they aren't some low trained bastards after all..