Today's Pic's. - Jan. 25

[He219]

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U.S. Navy flight crew members look towards a Libyan official after flying an American Congressional delegation into Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Jan. 25, 2003. The bi-partisan delegation, which flew in on the first U.S. military plane to land in Libya since Moammar Gadhafi took power in 1969, came to strengthen ties with the once-rogue state. (AP Photo/John Moore)

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Libyan officials watch as an American Congressional delegation arrives to Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Jan. 25, 2003. The bi-partisan delegation, which flew in on the first U.S. military plane to land in Libya since Moammar Gadhafi took power in 1969, came to strengthen ties with the once-rogue state.(AP Photo/John Moore)

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Libyan official, left, watches as an American Congressional delegation arrives in Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Jan. 25, 2003.

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U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., head of the first bi-partisan American Congressional delegation to Libya speaks after the delegation's arrival to Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Jan. 25, 2003. The delegation, which flew in on the first U.S. military plane to land in Libya since Moammar Gadhafi took power in 1969, came to strengthen ties with the once-rogue state. (AP Photo/John Moore)

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American Congressional delegation leader Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., speaks with a Libyan official after the delegation's arrival in Tripoli, Libya Sunday, Jan. 25, 2003. The bi-partisan delegation, which flew in on the first U.S. military plane to land in Libya since Moammar Gadhafi took power in 1969, came to strengthen ties with the once-rogue state. Libyan official in trench coat is Abdul Latif al-Dali, Secretary of the Tripoli People's Congress. (AP Photo/John Moore)

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A soldier inspects ammunition and explosives seized at a military base in Bogota, Saturday, Jan 24, 2004. The army seized 1,500 kilograms (3,306 pounds) of explosives and ammunition from rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, west of Bogota. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

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Sergeant Carlos Santander (R), part of a group of soldiers training Salvadoran soldiers, instruct members of the Cuscatlan Battalion at the Ilopango military base, 10km west of San Salvador (news - web sites), El Salvador (news - web sites) January 24, 2004. The Cuscatlan Battalion will be deployed to Iraq (news - web sites) in February to participate in humanitarian missions. *******/Luis Galdamez

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Soldiers of the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion finish their training at the military base in Ilopango, El Salvador, some 6 miles east of San Salvador on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. The Spanish military is preparing the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion to replace Salvadoran troops in Iraq on a humanitarian aid mission in Feb. 2004. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

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Soldiers of the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion finish their training at the military base in Ilopango, El Salvador, some 6 miles east of San Salvador on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. The Spanish military is preparing the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion to replace Salvadoran troops in Iraq on a humanitarian aid mission in Feb. 2004. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

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From left to right, Spanish ambassador in El Salvador Juan Francisco Montalban, Salvadoran Minister of Defense Gen. Juan Martinez Varela, General Staff Chief Gen. Hector Gutierrez Velasquez, and Spanish Gen. Rogelio Garcia partake in the closing of the training sessions of the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion at the military base in Ilopango, El Salvador, some 6 miles east of San Salvador on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. The Spanish military is preparing the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion to replace Salvadoran troops in Iraq on a humanitarian aid mission in Feb. 2004. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

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Spanish military trainers listen to their national anthem during training at the Ilopango military base, 10km to the west of San Salvador (news - web sites), El Salvador (news - web sites) January 24, 2004. The Spanish troops are training the second contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion who are set to replace another unit of Salvadoran troops in Iraq (news - web sites). The Cuscatlan Battalion will be deployed in February to participate in humanitarian missions. *******/Luis Galdamez

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Soldiers of of the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion finish their training at the military base in Ilopango, El Salvador, some 6 miles east of San Salvador on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2004. The Spanish military is preparing the 2nd contingent of the Cuscatlan Batallion to replace Salvadoran troops in Iraq on a humanitarian aid mission in Feb. 2004. (AP Photo/Victor Ruiz Caballero)

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A US soldier surveys the scene of an explosion in Baghdad. Another US soldier was killed in Iraq (news - web sites), the eighth American troop fatality in a 24-hour wave of violence.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)

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US soldiers secure the site of a car bomb attack in Samarra. A third of respondents in a new poll listed sectarian violence as the most dangerous type of unrest that could befall Iraq (news - web sites)(AFP/Samarrai)

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The U.S. commander in Iraq (news - web sites), Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, said Jan. 25, 2004, there was evidence ties might be growing between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists waging a bloody insurgency in the country. Sanchez is seen in a Jan. 11, 2004, photo as he salutes a Polish honor guard during a ceremony to mark the unit's change of command in the Iraqi town of Babylon. (Alexander Demianchuk/*******)

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Rescued fishermen Aurello Marzo, second from right, and Ernesto Ramos lie inside a military helicopter after being plucked from the sea during search and rescue operations in La Union province, northern Philippines on Sunday Jan. 25, 2004. The navy and coast guard struggled against rough seas and strong wind Sunday to try to search for dozens of fishermen who were reported missing after encountering bad weather off the northwestern Philippines, officials said. (AP Photo/Str)

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Rescuers assist a fisherman, center, after he was recovered from the sea during search and rescue operations in La Union province, northern Philippines on Sunday Jan. 25, 2004. The navy and coast guard struggled against rough seas and strong wind Sunday to try to search for dozens of fishermen who were reported missing after encountering bad weather off the northwestern Philippines, officials said. (AP Photo/Vic Alhambra Jr.)

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Rescue teams carry the body of an unidentified fisherman during search operations in La Union, northern Philippines on Sunday Jan. 25, 2004. The navy and coast guard struggled against rough seas and strong wind Sunday to try to search for dozens of fishermen who were reported missing after encountering bad weather off the northwestern Philippines, officials said. (AP Photo/Vic Alhambra)

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Leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch Ilya II, left, sits with President Mikhail Saakashvili's Dutch-born wife, Sandra Roelofs, right, and their son Eduard, 8, as they look on during Saakashvili's inauguration ceremony, in Tbilisi, Georgia Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Saakashvili was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the beleaguered ex-Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, and the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell seen during inauguration ceremony, Tbilisi, Georgia Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004.

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, center, looks at soldiers marching with the new national flag , right, and military flag, left, during his inauguration ceremony in Tbilisi, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Saakashvili was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the beleaguered ex-Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili salutes during inauguration ceremony, Tbilisi, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Saakashvili was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the beleaguered ex-Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during his inauguration ceremony, Tbilisi, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Saakashvili was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the beleaguered ex-Soviet republic. The flag is new Georgian national flag. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during his inauguration ceremony, in Tbilisi, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004, with THE new national flag at left. Saakashvili was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the beleaguered ex-Soviet republic. (AP Photo/Giorgi Abdaladze )

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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, and the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell seen during their meeting in Tbilisi, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. After Sunday's meeting with Saakashvili, Powell pledged that the United States would provide US$166 million of assistance to Georgia in the current fiscal year and conveyed an invitation from President George W. Bush for Saakashvili to visit Washington on Feb. 25. (AP Photo/Giorgi Abdaladze )

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Cuban President Fidel Castro, right is seen with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Sunday Jan. 25, 2004 In Havana, Cuba, during a ceremony to inaugurate the St. Nicholas Orthodox cathedral. It was unclear why President Castro agreed to finance the church's construction, but Cuban authorities have been trying to demonstrate that the communist government respects freedom of worship. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

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Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks to nuns of St Brigid convent Sunday Jan. 25, 2004 In Havana, Cuba, just before a ceremony to inaugurate a Byzantine cathedral. Communist Cuba rolled out the red carpet for Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians who was visiting the island at the invitation of President Fidel Castro to consecrate the cathedral. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

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Cuban President Fidel Castro pays a tribute in front of a statue of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Sunday Jan. 25,2004 In Havana, Cuba, just before a ceremony to inaugurate a Christian Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a news conference in a mosque just south of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004 to announce details of a prisoners' exchange with Israel. ``Any positive development in the case of Ron Arad will open the way for the release of more Palestinians and Arabs,'' Nasrallah said. Arad, an air force navigator who has been missing for 17 years was shot down over Lebanon in 1986. (AP Photo/str)

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Mustaffa Dirani, right, and Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid, left, are seen as they wait at the District court in Tel Aviv in this May 29, 2000 file photo. Israel and Hezbollah will complete a prisoner swap on Thursday, Israeli defense officials said Sunday Jan. 25, 2004. The top Lebanese to be freed are Obeid and Dirani, two guerrilla leaders kidnapped by Israel from south Lebanon in 1989 and 1994. (AP Photo/Uzi Keren)

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Hassan Balhas, left, and Fatima Azzam Balhas, parents of Lebanese prisoner Ali Balhas, held in Israel for 11 years, sit in front of their house in the southern Lebanese village of Sidiqine on Sunday Jan. 25, 2004. Israel and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group reached a prisoner swap agreement in which the first stage of the German-negotiated deal involves the exchange of more than 400 Arab prisoners for an Israeli businessman and the remains of three Israeli soldiers. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Family members of Pakistani nuclear engineer Nazeer Ahmad, from left, father Muhammad Sharif, mother Hussaon Bibi, center, and her sister Naeem Akthar talks to reporters about the detention of Ahmed at their residence in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Pakistan has expanded an investigation of its top nuclear weapons laboratory, detaining up to seven scientists and administrators amid allegations sensitive technology may have spread to Iran, North Korea and Libya, officials say. (AP Photo/K.M Chaudary)

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9TH THEATER SUPPORT COMMAND & U.S. ARMY JAPAN

CAMP ASAKA, Japan -- More than 170 Marines and Sailors from III Marine Expeditionary Force arrived in this Japanese Ground Self Defense Force camp, on the outskirts of Tokyo, this week to participate in Exercise Yama Sakura 45, the largest bilateral exercise conducted in Japan.

Yama Sakura is an annual bilateral command post exercise (CPX) sponsored by U.S. Army Japan and the Japan Ground Staff Office. The purpose of the exercise is to improve U.S.-Japan interoperability through computer generated scenarios, which facilitate staff interaction. Exercise directors for Yama Sakura 45 are Lt. Gen. Edward Soriano, Commanding General, I Corps, and Lt. Gen. Hirotoshi Kan, Commanding General, Eastern Army. The exercise executive agent is MG Nick Perkins, Commanding General, United States/9th Theater Support Command.

The exercise, scheduled to begin Jan. 25, joins units from III MEF, U.S. Army Forces Japan, Army’s I Corps from Fort Lewis, Wash., various reserve units from the United States and the Japanese Eastern Army, headquartered here, in an effort to improve U.S.–Japanese interoperability while providing for the mutual defense of Japan.

Approximately 1,400 soldiers and civilians from U.S. Army Japan (USARJ), I Corps, Fort Lewis, Washington and various states, such as Virginia, Texas, Hawaii and California, will participate in Yama Sakura 45 from 25 – 31 January 2004 at Camp Asaka, Japan.


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Mission Members Celebrate Opportunity's Arrival On Mars

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First Panoramic Look at Meridiani Planum, Mars
This 360-degree panorama is one of the first images beamed back to Earth from the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shortly after it touched down at Meridiani Planum, Mars. The image was captured by the rover's navigation camera.

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NASA's Opportunity rover zipped its first pictures of Mars to Earth early Sunday, delighting and puzzling scientists just hours after the unmanned spacecraft successfully landed on the Red Planet three weeks behind its identical twin. (NASA)

Meridiani Planum in Color
This color image shows the martian landscape at Meridiani Planum, where the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity successfully landed at 9:05 p.m. PST on Saturday. This is one of the first images beamed back to Earth from the rover shortly after it touched down. The image was captured by the rover's panoramic camera.

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Those guys crack me up

[memphiz]

Great pics He woot
damn thats alot of ammo
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[Javehn]

Great pictures , He219 !!

This guy ? He is Jew ... We are controlling the world .

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[He219]

Great pictures , He219 !!

This guy ? He is Jew ... We are controlling the world .

Thanks Javehn!
:D

But I don't understand.... Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is not Georgian Orthodox Christian?

[Javehn]

Shvili in Georgia is a common family ending for jews . Saak means Isaak , or Itshak ... So ;)
Why he does portray himself that way , i will leave that to your imagination . As long as he doesn't forgets where his roots from , he is ok ...

[He219]

I see. So you just took over Georgia!
;)

More pic's:

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Colonel Masahisa Sato, commander of Japanese advance troops, is surrounded by shcoolboys in Samawa, southern Iraq (news - web sites) January 25, 2004. Japanese troops will take part in activities such as the purification and distribution of water and rebuilding schools. *******/Kimimasa Mayama

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U.S. Army soldiers survey the scene January 25, 2004 where a car bomb exploded the day before at the entrance to an American military base in the Iraqi town of Khaldiya, killing three soldiers and wounding six, hours after separate blasts elsewhere left two servicemen and at least four Iraqis dead. Witnesses said they saw a car ram a checkpoint outside the base in Khaldiya, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, and explode as a number of soldiers were getting out of a vehicle. *******/Faleh Kheiber

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U.S. Army soldiers seal off a bridge January 25, 2004 where a car bomb exploded the day before at the entrance to an American military base in the Iraqi town of Khaldiya, killing three soldiers and wounding six, hours after separate blasts elsewhere left two servicemen and at least four Iraqis dead. Witnesses said they saw a car ram a checkpoint outside the base in Khaldiya, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, and explode as a number of soldiers were getting out of a vehicle. *******/Faleh Kheiber

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An Iraqi oil worker walks through Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside of Kirkuk Saturday Jan. 24, 2004. With security guards now deployed along Iraq's export pipeline to the Mediterranean, crude from one of the country's biggest oil fields could start flowing to overseas markets "in a matter of days," a senior Iraqi oil official says. The long-anticipated resumption of oil shipments from Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan will put Iraq on course to surpass its prewar production of 2.5 million barrels a day. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside of Kirkuk Saturday Jan. 24, 2004. With security guards now deployed along Iraq's export pipeline to the Mediterranean, crude from one of the country's biggest oil fields could start flowing to overseas markets "in a matter of days," a senior Iraqi oil official says. The long-anticipated resumption of oil shipments from Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan will put Iraq on course to surpass its prewar production of 2.5 million barrels a day. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, right, the Army chief of staff, talks with a member of the 30th Brigade Combat Team from the North Carolina National Guard in the Tactical Operations Center while on Misson Readiness Exercises at Ft. Polk, La., Monday, Jan. 19, 2004. To the 4,800 National Guardsmen training at Ft. Polk, preparing for a postwar tour of duty in Iraq is unlike anything they have done before. (AP Photo/Tia Owens-Powers)


Biathlon World Cup men's 15k mass start race, Anterselva, Italy

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Competitors shoot during the Biathlon World Cup men's 15 Km mass start in Anterselva, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. (AP Photo/Mirko Guarriello)

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France's Raphael Poiree shoots during the Biathlon World Cup men's 15k mass start race in Anterselva, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004. Poiree was the only athlete who hit all of his targets and won the race. (AP Photo/Franco Debernardi)

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[Skullknight]

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Apache Longbow Helicopters line an airfield in Iraq.

[Ratamacue]

Nice pic, but those aren't Longbows. Longbows have mast-mounted radars above the rotor.

[Haiw]

Aren't those regular Apaches? I mean, to my knowledge, the Longbows have that uber-expensive superduper radar dome on the rotor...

[Skullknight]

I didn't even look. That's just what it said on Centcom's main page.

[Fox2]

AH-64D's don't have to have the millimetre-wave radar on the rotor mast to be considered "Longbows".

The Army is going through the process of switching every AH-64A over to the AH-64D standard, which in short means new cockpit instruments and avionics. The D model cockpit adds Multi-Function Displays (MFDs) and some other things like datalink technology, as well as making the fore fuselage a bit wider.

The idea is to have a every Apache up to AH-64D standard, and then you can just attach the radar to 1 out of every 10 or so. When they execute a mission, they can all datalink to each other and share targets. So the one with the radar gets the targets on his scope, and sends those targets to the other apaches. When they're ready, they bob up and release their radar-guided Hellfires, all guided or at least given target information by that single radar.

So, in short, yes, those could indeed be AH-64Ds :)



Oh, and thanks for the pictures, He219!

I was just thinking, sometime in the future, it would be really cool to put all of these pages together into a website or a book! Make a little money for MPhotos.net! :D

Hey, I got a title... "A Year in the Life: Military Photos 200X"

Whaddya think? You can use the idea as long as you give me 20% of the profits! :lol:

[He219]

That's a great idea, Fox2
:D

The trouble is that most images are linked to news servers and have a limited shelf-life. To profit requires royalties paid to them. Maintaining access to them on a server also requires lots of memory - but a fantastic idea. Hood?
;)

Nice pic, Skullknight. That particular image is a 'crop' of an image I posted previously. Here it is:

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Apache Longbow Helicopters line an airfield in Iraq, Jan. 7, 2004. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Jenkins, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

You can see the Radar Domes on top of the Longbows in the back next to the Kiowas..
:D

[Skullknight]

Wow, now that's a picture.

[DE_Six]

Shvili in Georgia is a common family ending for jews . Saak means Isaak , or Itshak ... So ;)
Why he does portray himself that way , i will leave that to your imagination . As long as he doesn't forgets where his roots from , he is ok ...

Stalin was Jewish then? His real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili.
He sure didn't act like he liked the Jews, anyway.

Great pics as usual, He219 :)

[Fox2]

That's a great idea, Fox2
:D

The trouble is that most images are linked to news servers and have a limited shelf-life. To profit requires royalties paid to them. Maintaining access to them on a server also requires lots of memory - but a fantastic idea. Hood?
;)

You can see the Radar Domes on top of the Longbows in the back next to the Kiowas..
:D

Hm, you have a point about the royalties. :| Well, it was just an idea. I see all these great pictures everyday from various news sources, and they're all interspersed throughout the different topics. I just thought it would be nice to have a sort of "calendar" in pictures.

Oh, and yes, that was indeed a great picture of Apaches :D

As far as I know, the radar can actually be taken off and put on, just like the weapons, by the weapons handlers. So, for a given mission, one or two Apaches will be assigned the radar, and will datalink with all others. It's quite deadly because they can hide under a hill or forest, and all in unison pitch back, release the hellfires, and the missiles will all hit their targets without exposing the choppers.

[Haiw]

It's quite deadly because they can hide under a hill or forest, and all in unison pitch back, release the hellfires, and the missiles will all hit their targets without exposing the choppers.
Too bad you're up **** creek when there aren't any hills or trees to hide behind. ;)

[Fox2]

It's quite deadly because they can hide under a hill or forest, and all in unison pitch back, release the hellfires, and the missiles will all hit their targets without exposing the choppers.
Too bad you're up **** creek when there aren't any hills or trees to hide behind. ;)

rofl

Indeed! Although I wouldn't say that you're "up **** creek" with an assortment of weapons and massive armor plating! :D

Of course, my previous example wasn't really taking into account the environment they are currently operating in. The desert does not have very much cover. Of course there is the occasional dune or river bed. But I'm guessing they prefer most strike missions to be at night, and otherwise are used as flank protection for ground forces.

[defunct]

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040125/i/r2953990339.jpg

can anyone id the vehicle on the right?

[Javehn]

I think it's one of the APC's loaned to U.S. army by IDF . It's a Sherman based APC , ingenires or recovery vehicle (you take a pic ) . But i can be wrong on that matter .

http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/tanks/sherman/drivers_trainig/drivers_trainig.gif

About the Stalin , hmm , history says he have some "roots" in him :( .

[Ghostwolf]

can anyone id the vehicle on the right?
M88A2 Hercules Armored Recovery Vehicle
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m88a2-test.jpg

[salt6]

Just a older model of the M88.

[soma]

I noticed in the picture of apaches, few of them have the radar dome. Is this normal?

[cut]

This guy ? He is Jew ... We are controlling the world .



hmmm only ever heard one person say that before

[Haiw]

He's married to a Dutch wife, and since it's often said the wife controls the man it's actually the Dutch that control the world. p-)

[Fox2]

I noticed in the picture of apaches, few of them have the radar dome. Is this normal?

Yes.

Basically, the radar is much to expensive to equip each and every helicopter with them.

But, what happens is, they have a couple of the Apaches assigned to carry the radar, and then they "datalink" with all the others. Meaning the onboard computers and electronics share information.

What will happen is, you have a bunch of Apaches sans radars at a concealed (ideally) firing position. The Apaches with the radar then get to a point where they can put the radar to use and can get pings on the targets (usually armor).

Their onboard computers then send that target information to all the other Apaches targeting computers, and targets are assigned by the commander of the flight.

At go time, they all release their ordnance (radar-guided Hellfires), hopefully still from cover. The hellfires rise to the apex altitude, then the missile's own radar locks onto the target and rides it in.

So, in the end, from the enemy armor's perspective, all is well and good until suddenly you and the rest of your group explode.

[Haiw]

Geez looks like you were really paying attention to that Longbow documentary on Discovery Channel... :lol:

[Fox2]

I recorded it on my TiVo. :P

And I have the transcript.

And I dated the secretary of the brother in law of the director.




Or, hey, I could just read a lot.



Naaaaaaaaaah

[Chris196]

I think it's one of the APC's loaned to U.S. army by IDF . It's a Sherman based APC , ingenires or recovery vehicle (you take a pic ) . But i can be wrong on that matter .



Your basic M88 Recovery Vehicle, in use since the Vietnam-era, and based on the M48 tank chassis.

http://usarmygermany.com/Gallery/Page%20Six/Reforger%2084%20-%20M88.jpg

[gilgoul]

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040125/i/r2953990339.jpg

can anyone id the vehicle on the right?
אהלן
It s a M88 A2 Hercules, the recovery vehicule for the M1.
Its an old M88 taken appart, with new design and engine, plus a crane and other accesories.
:)

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[Sorbas2000]

Great pictures , He219 !!

This guy ? He is Jew ... We are controlling the world .

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=527061

You forgot, that jews is just a religion, not a nation! it's like we would say: He is christ...we are controlling the world! This is just a stupid definition of israeli politicians, to lobby all around the world! First you have a nationality, second you have a religion! There is no jews nation, there is only a israeli nation and there is a jews religion!

[Javehn]

Ahhh ... Better stick to things you know .
From all the forum , you managed to pool 2 weeks old thread , and from all things , that is your post ????
But i aprreciate you trying to explain me about the Jews , thank you . rofl

[ExtraT]

There is no jews nation, there is only a israeli nation and there is a jews religion!

Stupid idiot. rofl

[Sorbas2000]

Ahhh ... Better stick to things you know .
From all the forum , you managed to pool 2 weeks old thread , and from all things , that is your post ????
But i aprreciate you trying to explain me about the Jews , thank you . rofl

Is it illegal to post a 2 week thread? I have allready explained it: Nations are defined about a country, not about a religion. This is not stupid, this is how it is! There are some great religions around the world. One of them is jews. Why your country is called Israel and not Republic of Jews? It is maybe, because you can't name your country as a religion.

[ExtraT]

I wasn't mistaken - you really are an idiot, aren't you? :)