Afghanistan - Germany's contingent (56k be gone) !!!

[kayaker]

Linky to information regarding the event? Or a name of the operation please. Awesome effort by the German soldiers!

[variable]

Good Friday Ambush. Here you go:


http://soldiersangelsgermany.blogspo...s-awarded.html

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...ll-Their-Story

[kayaker]

thanks, most interesting.

[variable]

Browsing the 10th Mountain's Facebook picture albums, one can find alot of Bundeswehr stuff

[img]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2315/16574748121369893529747.jpg[/img]

http://www.facebook.com/pages/1-87-I...V/297474443935

[Wargasm]

Kunduz... winter 2011

[variable]

Thanks alot wargasm! Finally some fresh pics

I pity the doggie

[JCR]

Texas flag.. LOL
And I thought bavarians were the only southerners who have to show their own flag around

[variable]

CH 53 für ISAF Einsatz

Auf dem militärischen Teil des Flughafens Tegel wird ein für den Afghanistan-Einsatz bestimmter Transporthubschrauber CH 53 in ein russisches Frachtflugzeug Antonov AH-124-100 verladen.©Bundeswehr/S. Wilke.Aufnahmedatum:19.01.2011

I wonder if those are the new CH 53 GA?

[Navor]

Apparently the CH53GA wont have external fuel tanks but extra internal ones.

[JCR]

85+04 is the GA prototype, so maybe 85+05 is a GA as well.
That was all Google could tell me.

[variable]

Apparently the CH53GA wont have external fuel tanks but extra internal ones.

Yeah, thought about that, too. But maybe they just added external ones to extend the range even more?

[JCR]

Yeah, thought about that, too. But maybe they just added external ones to extend the range even more?

It makes no sense to remove the provisions for the external tanks. So I guess while the GA has more internal fuel, it retains the hardpoints for the external tanks.

85+05 could also be a -GE model, which are the six Gs not modified into GAs, which get a modest upgrade.
But apparenly the 85+ serials are for GS and GA only, original CH-53Gs have/had 84+ serials.

[variable]

I just read that 85+05 and 85+01 are the newest CH53s we've got, built after the crashes of 85+09 and 84+08 in the years 2000 and 2002.

Source: http://www.homburger.de/files/14957/1608225.pdf

[Veto11]

Anyone who knows where the 85+05 is based at? I wonder why he is loaded into the AN in Tegel.

[variable]

OMG, this is so embarassing:

Scharfschütze des Objektschutzregiments Friesland im Nachtsichtgerät (Quelle: Luftwaffe)

Source: www.bundeswehr.de

Then again, what would the air force know about snipers?