On a sidenote: I always liked the 214. Hands down the slickest, coolest looking sub in existence. Whenever I see it I always instinctively think "Nautilus" :enjoy:
Found this on MPnet, Shooting competition between Russian FSB Alpha (in Multicam suits) and Belarusian KGB Alpha (in green suits):
I found the choice of weapons interesting:
Russian FSB Alpha: 9mm AK (Vityaz submachine gun??) with Aimpoint + Glock pistols
Belarusian KGB Alpha: HK MP5 with...
lol yeah...that's a pretty good test.
Putin's daughter lives in Netherlands, Lavrov's daughter studies at Columbia University and doesn't intend to go back to Russia etc
The Western Choice of the Russian Government | EUROMAIDAN PRESS | News and Opinion from Across Ukraine
Nominal GDP = kind of like a person's bank statement, except that it is for a country.
PPP GDP = take your bank statement, and modify it by saying to yourself "I may only have 1000 USD but I live in a 2nd/3rd world coutnry where goods and services are damn cheap….so i can buy more stuff with my...
It's not just the Swedish Gotland class. It's also the German U 206 class, German U 212 class and Dutch Walrus class :partay:
USS Enterprise through the periscope of a U 206 during JTFEX in 2001.
USS George Washington through the periscope of a U 206 I think.
USS Theodore Roosevelt...
Why into the United States, why not into the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ?
Jewish Autonomous Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Btw the Jewish Autonomous Oblast was established in 1934, 14 years before Israel and is almost twice as big (36 thousand square kms vs Israels 20k).
Very true...
Worth noting is that these Max Max style armored vehicles have also existed in other wars namely the Balkan wars and the current war in Ukraine:
Balkans:
Ukraine:
I like the sand tipper truck above. A truck such as this, by definition, is made for carrying very heavy loads; probably...
I don't know if it's true, but I've heard on a talk on YouTube (by a Stratfor analyst) that the consistency of Venezuelas crude oil is like toothpaste....which is obviously a big disadvantage and could explain, at least in part, why they import oil.
Better pictures:
BAE Sytems
General Atomics
Also, General Atomics has developed another, smaller and less powerful railgun called the Blitzer:
In the front: 32 mj, in the back 3 mj "Blitzer"
On a sidenote, I'm a little surprised that Germany and France aren't developing rail guns...
Hmmm the official American numbers do not support this:
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html
Trade between USA and Russia Jan-Aug 2014:
Exports: 7.539 billion USD
Imports: 17.059 billion USD
Total: 24.598 billion USD
Trade between USA and Russia Jan-Aug 2013:
Exports...
Btw this video reminds of something:
A few years ago I was in Philadelphia. Since I had never been to Philadelphia (afterall one of the most famous American cities) and hadn't been in the US for a long time before I thought: "Why not take a sightseeing bus?" (Philadelphia has these pretty...
What I find funny is that it happened in Russia of all places. In Moscow even...
Russia has some of the biggest, most powerful secret services in the world, according to wiki there is 1 FSB agent per 700 Russians (and that's just the FSB).
Furthermore they have SORM, which makes PRISM look...
Airwolf
Once a Thief
Mission Impossible
Miami Vice
Magnum
MacGyver
A Team
Remington Steele
Hunter
Knight Rider
Highlander
Sliders
Babylon 5
Stargate
Nash Bridges
Seaquest DSV
X Files
MANTIS
Viper
etc
Bring back the 80s and 90s already!!!
:(
From what I've seen/read, the Japanese also love German food.
There are several German butcheries in Japan, run by Japanese.
Here:
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