Reply With QuoteOne simple question: what's the meaning of the "МС" of the Russian peacekeepers?
Thanks in advance.
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One simple question: what's the meaning of the "МС" of the Russian peacekeepers?
Thanks in advance.
Миротворческие силы = МС = peacekeepers (in russian language)
"peacemaking forces" if translated word for word
the meaning is peacekeepers though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7559796.stm
^ tunguska @ 00:17
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I would just add that this came from experience in Chechnya where tanks were blown up by land mines and after a while the troops decided it was safer to be on top of the tank instead of inside. There was a great documentary (BBC), shot entirely by a Ru soldier in Chechnya which explains this habit by their soldiers.
As for the night vision goggles see post #9304 (hehehe)
It would appear this Russian soldier has captured the first Georgian M-4 carbine?
Wow, Sharp eye - I think you are right...
Spasibo
Powerful photos !
I wish I would be there to take some as well.
The pics on that link dont work for me, I just see the "bandwith exceeded" image.
Tanks!"peacemaking forces" if translated word for word
the meaning is peacekeepers though.
what on earth is with all these, russian's hotting Manpads/using anti-aircraft weapons about?
I dont think. I have seen a single picture of a gerogian aircraft.
Now I know they "did" have aircraft at the begining but I think its safe to say russia has all of the airspace no?
Hahahaha... if you wanted to apply war convention on WWII good luck. Hitlers claim was that the Soviet Union never signed those agreements so Germany could do what it liked in the Soviet Union... that works both ways. The Soviets didn't rape and pillage all of Germany for 4 years and kill 20 million Germans.Looting and pillaging is not allowed by Geneva convention -> it is war crime.
But Soviet forces never committed war crimes, thus there can not be two watches.
Russian troops delivered food and supplies to the Georgian city of Gori because the administration of the town was abandoned when the soldiers and officals ran away and left the people stranded.Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, smashing an EU-brokered truce designed to end the six-day conflict that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the Georgian landscape.
Whereas the well equipped properly uniformed US equipped and trained Georgians probably felt they had a moral victory because they looked so much smarter than those forces they were running away from. Their G-36s and other western rifles were particularly shiny.From many of the pictures I have viewed over the past few days in regards to Russia and its intervention into Georgia, why does the Russian military seem to look somewhat ragtag and lesser equipped then their western and Nato counterparts?
When not in direct combat with the enemy the greatest threat to the vehicle and the soldiers it carries is from mines. Sitting on top means a better chance of surviving a mine.Alot of my Russian friends say that they ride on top for fear of their APC exploding. I kind of understand it, I mean I'd rather jump off instead of being baked alive.
You want something to make you laugh? The reason no one except Russia had signed the CFE agreement was because all of NATO and the EU that had to sign the CFE wanted the Russians to pull their peacekeeping troops out of... you guessed it... Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia. Imagine if the Russians had folded on that? After a week of claiming Russian aggression and saying for them violence is not an option Georgia attacks SO during the opening ceremony of the Olympic games in a well planned attack. The problem for them however is that they needed a couple of days to subdue the population and put into power a puppet government. The Russians moved almost immediately and stopped them. In Abkhazia the Abkhazians pushed the Georgians out of Abkhazian territory from a gorge they had been occupying without Russian help.have had too many lies (from many directions too), too much propaganda, and too much suffering for couple of days. I feel sorry for ordinary Ossetians and Georgians in the thick of it. I also wish Shakasvili is not the Joker and Putin not Hitler, because if they are, we all are in ****.
I guess I will have to try and lighten up a bit.
The US and the west has pretty much condemned Russia for RE-acting to this attack and now they want to send in EU monitors. How impartial are they going to be... you can bet they will come from totally impartial EU states like Poland, and the Baltic states...
Yes... I am having problems lightening up, but rather than cartoons showing Georgia doing wrong and getting punnished for it (which is what actually happened) what annoys me is where the west tries to portray the Russians as somehow creating this situation so it can invade Georgia. If that was the real Russia Tiblisi would have been Russian by now and they would have some troops cleaning up and sent the rest to the Crimea...
Looks like one of the ACRVs that are command vehicles based on MTLB chassis but with a higher roof.What kind of vehicle is this one (below):
Actually Russian troops did it in Afghanistan and even WWII. Western forces also do it sometimes, like US in Vietnam etc.I would just add that this came from experience in Chechnya where tanks were blown up by land mines and after a while the troops decided it was safer to be on top of the tank instead of inside.
No.what on earth is with all these, russian's hotting Manpads/using anti-aircraft weapons about?
I dont think. I have seen a single picture of a gerogian aircraft.
Now I know they "did" have aircraft at the begining but I think its safe to say russia has all of the airspace no?
Have seen report recently stating that Georgian UAV was shot down over the capital of Southern Ossetia. I saw on the Russia Today news an Igla being fired from a built up area at an aerial target. (could not see if it hit or what it was fired at.)
Most of those truck mounted ZU-23s are not being used as anti aircraft systems BTW, they are for protection from ambush or attack for convoys and bases. If someone drives up with a truck bomb you need to be able to hit it hard...
It is the first that appeared on photos posted here
acording to Russian PK (peacekeepers) there is a lot of weapon that was captured. As i know if it only one carbine then it wouldnt be on the solder back.
BTW There are many georgian soldiers "which have lost the way or have lagged behind the divisions" .. so there is no one captured becouse this operation "on compulsion to peace" not war (C) Nagovitsin
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