Internet Video Thread

[Piorun]

Air-to-Air session over Hel Peninsula

Lineup: F-16 ( ), JAS 39 (), MiG-29 ()

 

[Graham2001]

 

[Graham2001]

 

[Piorun]

 

[Piorun]

Borsuk:

Leopard 2PL:

K2GF Black Panther:

 

[Urwumpe]

Ah, the Franken-Leopard 2, old 2A4 updated to a technical standard between 2A5 and 2A6.

 

[Piorun]

That’s right - an Ex-Bundeswehr’s 2A4 in the second life — maybe not the youngest player, but still capable of winning in games:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1918965146954748370

The 2A5 can cope too:

+ some facelift:

 

[Piorun]

On this day, 105 years ago the Honorable Polish Army mercilessly defeated immense Bolshevik Russian hordes of barbarians from the East, commonly known as the “Red Army” in the Battle of Warsaw — one of the most magnificent and significant battles of the 20th century, as well as the turning point of the Russo-Polish War of 1919-1921.

Wherever the Russian Bolsheviks appeared, innocent people died, and looting and debauchery unknown to civilized nations of the world appeared (sound familiar?). Finally, in August 1920 the invasive forces stood at the gates of the Polish Capital, Warsaw. Marshall Józef Piłsudski and General Tadeusz Rozwadowski, while being enlightened by their strategic genius, had led the brave Soldiers to the successful fight on the outskirts of the Capital against the incoming legions of Bolsheviks commanded by the Soviet generals Semyon Budyonny and Mikhail “Red Napoleon” Tukhachevsky (the more intelligent of the two, who eventually was sent to death by Stalin in the Great Purge).

The Polish victory forced Vladimir Lenin — the infamous communist dictator of the Soviet Russia — to withdraw from his plan of Europe’s conquest, which was envisaging to turn our continent (including the Western European countries too) into the largest open-air prison of nations in the world. Flaming torches of the marching all-European communist revolution were torn from Bolsheviks’ claws by The Heroic Polish Soldier and extinguished in the Vistula river for good. Europe, recently devastated by World War I, was brilliantly saved from Russian imperialism and gained nearly 20 years of respite.





The magnificent victory has been commemorating as the Armed Forces Day since then, the most prominent part of which is the traditional great military parade in Warsaw. This day was not exception.

The marching soldiers were welcomed by The President — as The Chief Commander of The Armed Forces.

As The President said today:
“Every year, August 15 awakens in us a great spirit of freedom and victory, and August itself is a very special month in our national memory, because in 1920 we defeated the Soviet Bolshevik anti-civilization. It was a victory for Poland, for Europe, and for the world.”

And:
“The victory over the Bolsheviks in 1920 taught us an important lesson. It taught us that today's neo-imperial Russia, any Russia—because today’s Russia isn’t much different from its Soviet predecessor—is not undefeatable. That’s what the heroes of 1920 tell us. And I want our officers and soldiers today to hear it. Russia is not undefeatable.”
https://tvpworld.com/88347488/polis...s-russia-not-invincible-says-polish-president

Not only the military parade next to the Vistula has become an annual tradition, but also eruptions of hysterical reactions by Russian and Belorussian state propagandists of the twilight stage of the Putinism-Lukashenkism era, full of psychological projections, historical revisionism, revenge-minded threats against peace-loving nations and shameful disrespect toward the real, eternal Heroes of that triumphant day.

Today, overall 4000 soldiers representing all types of the Armed Forces took part in the military parade, carrying 88 war banners.

Vehicles such as the following could not be missing:

• Leopard 2PLM1, K2GF Black Panther and M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks;
• Regina artillery compound (with the battle-tested Krab howitzers and the WD/WDSz command vehicles), as well as the K9A1 howitzers;
• Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles with the ZSSW-30 turrets;
• Components of the Wisła (Patriot PAC-3) medium range anti-aircraft defence system;
• Pilica and Poprad V/SHORAD system;
• Homar-A (M142 HIMARS) and Homar-K (K239 Chunmoo) rocket artillery launchers;
• NSM anti-ship missile launchers;
• WR-40 Langusta rocket launchers;
• M120K Rak mortars;
• Rosomak wheeled armored transporters (both versions with the Hitfist-30P and the more modern ZSSW-30 turrets);
• Rosomak-AWD command vehicles for company fire modules;
• Rosomak-S anti-aircraft crew transporters;
• Rosomak-WEM medical evacuation vehicles;
• MS-20 Daglezja bridges;
• Waran tactical armored multi-purpose vehicle;
• HMMWV, Legwan 4x4, Aero 4x4, M1240A1 MATV and Żmija vehicles.

The ground component of the parade was actively attended by the honourable guest soldiers from France (honor guards), Romania (honor guards and the Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard AA-tanks), the United Kingdom (the Jackal vehicles) and the United States (honor guards, the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks and the M2A4 Bradley IFV vehicles).

The aerial component of the parade consisted of:

• Lockheed Martin F-16 C/D Block 52+ and KAI FA-50GF Block 10 fighters;
• AgustaWestland AW149, Mil Mi-17 and Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopters (the latter ones for the first time in the Polish service);
• Lockheed C-130 Hercules, CASA C-295 and PZL M28 Skytruck transport aircraft;
• PZL-130 Orlik and Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master trainer aircraft.

Furthermore, the aerial part was adorned by the presence of allied aircraft from French (Dassault Raphale), German (Eurofighter Typhoon), New Zealand’s (Boeing E-7A Wedgetail) and Swedish (SAAB JAS-39 Gripen) Air Forces.

For the first time, a separate naval component of the Armed Forces Day was organized: simultaneously with the central celebrations in the Capital, the Navy conducted combined naval and aerial parade in the city of Gdynia.

Happy Victory Day to everyone!

 

[Matias Saibene]

 

[N_Molson]

 

[Urwumpe]

At the same time, one third of all German companies have adopted AI in one way or the other. The AI bubble might be bursting, but AI is here to stay....

 

[N_Molson]

Well, yes, when you massively overinvested into something, you're not likely to move it all to the trash...

 

[Urwumpe]

I really wish there was a software that can produce cut plans in that style for spacecraft....

 

[Thunder Chicken]

 

[N_Molson]

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe interesting for some people here as well, this video shows well how R&D and manufacturing were like before computers became common place.

 

[Frilock]

 

[N_Molson]

 

[Urwumpe]

 

[Urwumpe]

Real vikings vs fake Hollywood vikings. Which one do you prefer?