Author Topic: Awesome pic! (Read 1909 times)

Pooh21 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 27, 2006, 01:49:10 AM »

Just seems odd one can't ID soviet hardware on sight, they taught us that in school almost. So I am guessing he was born after 1988 at least.

cav58d · « **Reply #16 on:** June 27, 2006, 01:56:55 AM »

You went through grade school being taught how to identify soviet aircraft?????? Where can I find this, and how do I sign up my future children!

Pooh21 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 27, 2006, 01:59:16 AM »

My dad was in the Air Force, in 87 I was in 3rd grade on the George AFB elementary school the teacher had the cieling filled with models, and would usually talk about them in the closing moments of class

midnight Target · « **Reply #18 on:** June 27, 2006, 09:02:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Pooh21
in 87 I was in 3rd grade

And you're calling someone "kid"?

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 27, 2006, 10:01:32 AM »

My hind pic

Its not easy to get them crisp and clear with an 70-300 4-5,6 lens
on a grey day.

Gettting a good shot is something i pretty underestimated

icemaw · « **Reply #20 on:** June 27, 2006, 02:56:20 PM »

could you imagine how it would feel hiding in some foxhole and have that world of hurt roll in on you

Bronk · « **Reply #21 on:** June 27, 2006, 03:09:15 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
And you're calling someone "kid"?

Bronk

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 27, 2006, 03:25:31 PM »

I guess they have the stuka effect they look terrifying but they are big and noisy.

Not as sneaky as a Apache.

ramzey · « **Reply #23 on:** June 27, 2006, 04:45:44 PM »

4 of them flying 20 meters above my car make me duck in a seat during parking manuvers ;-)

Boroda · « **Reply #24 on:** June 27, 2006, 07:29:02 PM »

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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
I guess they have the stuka effect they look terrifying but they are big and noisy.

Not as sneaky as a Apache.

We had an aerobatic team flying Su-25 shturmoviks back in the 90s. What scared me was that they literaly turn on their tails and dance like i don;t know what, imagining this beasts ironong me when i sit in a trench or ride some armour is really frightening. And they are almost silent when they approach...

Mi-24s are not too noisy. They are faster then Apache and probably are more "sneaky". And they don't fall down like leaves in autumn being shot by a grandfather with a 100 years old K98

Neubob · « **Reply #25 on:** June 27, 2006, 07:46:49 PM »

Beard, don't you guys have these now:

and these:

I thought the Hinds were old news... Or is this still, in fact, the late 70s???

ramzey · « **Reply #26 on:** June 27, 2006, 07:48:44 PM »

Pavel never belive your own propaganda

They are noisy, when you gat a chance let them hoover over you ;P

here are som hi res pictures of Polish Hinds
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M1337W6Q

and here som videos
http://www.patricksaviation.com/aviation_videos/547/Hind_Dance
http://www.patricksaviation.com/aviation_videos/549/Bat-Man
http://www.patricksaviation.com/aviation_videos/552/Reload

Boroda · « **Reply #27 on:** June 27, 2006, 08:09:52 PM »

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Originally posted by ramzey
Pavel never belive your own propaganda
They are noisy, when you gat a chance let them hoover over you ;P

Hehe I believe my own ears

They are not super-silent, but not more noisy then other choppers. Prop blades always make noise, they produce small "sonic booms", at least when the chopper moves at some significant speed.

It's no use to hang silently over the battlefield. Hit and run, so the guys with stingers will not have time to aim. Anyway Mi-24 was quite effective so far.

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Originally posted by ramzey
here are som hi res pictures of Polish Hinds

Great that you guys didn't scrap this beautiful machines. I hope you have the guts to refuse from adopting "NATO standard weapons" and keep making your own stuff.

To Neubob: Mi-28 and Ka-50 are in minimal numbers now. We have several thousand Mi-24s and maybe a dozen of new choppers. I hope that in cae of war our industry will start making new models, like they did with T-34s in 1941, but I don't want to witness it. Did you see an "Osobo vazhnoye zadaniye" film? "Frontline needs IL-2 like bread, like air!..."

Neubob · « **Reply #28 on:** June 27, 2006, 08:15:22 PM »

What time is it where you are, Beard?? Why are you still up?

Boroda · « **Reply #29 on:** June 27, 2006, 08:36:49 PM »

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What time is it where you are, Beard?? Why are you still up?

It's 05:30. It's why I don't have I-net at home. Now I am at my Father's place. It's ironic: I live 20min away from his job, he lives 20min from mine, both of us spend about an hour to get to work.

Both our flats have no hot water now (bastards do their best to turn it off simultaneously at all the places where my relatives and friends live), but here, at the University district, cold water is warm enough to wash without screaming. I live in the North, Rechnoy Vokzal, and it's almost impossible to wash hands in cold water without getting frozen. Main water intakes are not far from my flat

OK, finishing a last cigarette and going to bed. See you!