Rakk

ça me parait bien détoner en tout cas, c'est pas de l'essence, ça claque net à l'impact. Quant à l'origine russe, ça ne veut pas forcément dire "récent".

infos sur la vidéo : The grenades used by the insurgents are russian-made thermal bombs made especially for armored vehicles as they can penetrate steel shields. c'est la première fois que j'entends parler de cette arme.

Il y a effectivement un amateurisme au debut. On voit aussi la vulnérabilité du pare-brise qui devient vraiment le talon d'achille.Le pauvre gars qui se prend les dizaines d'éclats de son pare-brise de plein fouet dans le visage...

Une vidéo beaucoup plus lisible et longue, l'engin ressemble aux grenades à main des allemands durant la WWII (mais de la taille d'une bouteille, on les voit dégoupiller ), le plus dingue, c'est l'inconscience des assaillants ! GRENADES maintenant, n'importe quel piéton va devenir une menace.

Un guncam d'un cobra pris lors de l'attaque de Tikrit. Les véhicules semblent abandonnés, du véritable tir sur cible... GUNCAM AH

Une autre attaque, et là ça semble frapper dur GRENADE

Bush et un invité "imprévu"... DCA VITE !!

C'est pour le cas où des obus de mortiers tombent sur le parking..........

Content de voir quelqu'un me rejoindre sur la conso d'essence, c'est un facteur clé. Pour le ravitaillement, je crois qu'il se fait par hélico car les routes sont trop dangereuses. Reste également les entreprises privées mandatées pour ce role. On a vu Halliburton récemment inquiété pour avoir servi de l'eau contaminée (non filtrée ) aux troupes. Un scandale rapidement étoufé Pour les plaques elles servent peut être à protéger le moteur d'éventuels éclats de mortier.

en voilà un qui a résisté MRAP mais comme le dit le commentaire, il va falloir attendre 2 ans pour recevoir les 1200 exemplaires commandés...

Pour confirmer le niveau des Russes en matière de missile: La Russie achève les essais d'un nouveau missile, le Triumph, la bête est incroyable ! "La Russie achève les essais d'une arme qui n'a pas son pareil dans le monde, appelée à conférer à l'AMB russe une dimension nouvelle, lui ouvrant la possibilité d'abattre non seulement des missiles hypersoniques mais aussi tout moyen d'attaque aérienne, existant ou à venir." Article Capable de monter à 35 km d'altitude et d'évoluer sous 20 g ! Capable d'intercepter des cibles volant à 4.8 km/s comme des ogives. Archive

C'est TROP TARD..... L'Iran est déjà allé aussi loin dans la réalisation de son programme nucléaire qu'il "n'est même plus d'actualité" aujourd'hui d'exiger qu'il suspende ses travaux d'enrichissement d'uranium, estime le directeur général de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) Mohamed El-Baradeï.... Néanmoins, d'autres calculs permettent de percevoir différemment ce problème. Les spécialistes estiment notamment que pour créer une seule bombe atomique, autrement dit pour enrichir la quantité requise d'uranium jusqu'à 80 à 90%, l'Iran aura besoin d'au moins d'une année s'il utilise 3.000 centrifugeuses et seulement de 5 à 8 semaines avec 50.000 centrifugeuses. Article Les conséquences sont énormes, soit la communauté mondiale accepte l'idée d'un Iran avec l'arme, soit les US font quelque chose....

Un témoignage venu d'Irak... SHRAPNEL ça fait froid dans le dos

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Les auteurs des attentas de Londres et Madrid menacent la France : NEWS

Une attaque au mortier détruit 1 Hélico et endomage 9 autres. Attaque ça en dit long sur la maitrise Us au sol.

sans compter que les véhicules plus lourds vont augmenter la dépendance à l'essence. Un Golan doit beaucoup plus consommer qu'un Humvee

Un article intéressant du New York Times sur la dure vie des strykers en irak : May 13, 2007 Stryker Losses in Iraq Raise Questions By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 10:38 p.m. ET BAGHDAD (AP) -- A string of heavy losses from powerful roadside bombs has raised new questions about the vulnerability of the Stryker, the Army's troop-carrying vehicle hailed by supporters as the key to a leaner, more mobile force. Since the Strykers went into action in violent Diyala province north of Baghdad two months ago, losses of the vehicles have been rising steadily, U.S. officials said. A single infantry company in Diyala lost five Strykers this month in less than a week, according to soldiers familiar with the losses, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to release the information. The overall number of Strykers lost recently is classified. In one of the biggest hits, six American soldiers and a journalist were killed when a huge bomb exploded beneath their Stryker on May 6. It was the biggest one-day loss for the battalion in more than two years. ''We went for several months with no losses and were very proud of that,'' a senior Army official said in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to comment publicly. ''Since then, there have been quite a few Stryker losses.'' ''They are learning how to defeat them,'' the Army official said of Iraqi insurgents. The military introduced the eight-wheeled Stryker in 1999 as the cornerstone of a ground force of the future -- hoping to create faster, more agile armored units than tank-equipped units, but with more firepower and protection than light-infantry units. The Army has ordered nearly 2,900 vehicles for its $13 billion Stryker program. But the Army and the Marines are already looking for something different that can survive big roadside bombs -- the main threat to soldiers in Iraq -- meaning the Stryker's high-profile status as the Army's ''next generation'' vehicle may be short-lived. ''It is indeed an open question if the Stryker is right for this type of warfare,'' said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior analyst with the Brookings Institution. ''I am inclined to think that the concept works better for peacekeeping. But based on data the Army has made available to date, it's hard to be sure.'' Supporters of the Strykers, which have been used in Iraq since late 2003, say the vehicles that carry two crew members and 11 infantrymen offer mobility, firepower and comfort. Lighter and faster than tracked vehicles like tanks, each Stryker can rush soldiers quickly to a fight, enabling commanders to maintain security over a wide area with relatively fewer troops. Humvees can carry only four soldiers -- and are more vulnerable to bombs even when their armor is upgraded. ''I love Strykers,'' said Spc. Christopher Hagen, based in Baqouba. ''With Strykers, you're mobile, you're fast. You can get anywhere anytime. They bring a lot of troops to the fight.'' But some analysts have long questioned the wisdom of moving away from more heavily armored tracked vehicles like tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles to wheeled transports, like the Stryker. They say that is especially true in Iraq, where powerful bombs -- not rocket-propelled grenades or small arms fire -- are the main threat. ''The Stryker vehicle was conceived at a time when the Army was more concerned about mobility and agility than it was about protection,'' said Loren Thompson, a military analyst from the Lexington Institute. ''Stryker was the answer to that need.'' The Stryker's vulnerabilities have become increasingly apparent since a battalion of about 700 soldiers and nearly 100 Stryker vehicles from the Army's 2nd Infantry Division was sent to Diyala province in March to bolster an infantry brigade struggling to restore order there. Trouble started as soon as the Strykers arrived in Baqouba, the provincial capital of Diyala. U.S. commanders ordered the vehicles into Baqouba's streets at dawn the day after they arrived. The hope was that the large, menacing vehicles -- armed with a heavy machine gun and a 105mm cannon -- would intimidate insurgents and reassure local residents. Instead, insurgents hammered the Strykers with automatic weapons fire, rocket-propelled grenades and a network of roadside bombs. By the end of that first day, one American soldier was dead, 12 were wounded and two Strykers were destroyed. A few days before the May 6 attack that killed the six soldiers and a Russian journalist, troops scrambled out of another damaged Stryker and took cover in a house while they watched the vehicle burn. Several of them were injured but none seriously. Losses have since mounted. A few days after the May 6 blast, two Strykers were hit by bombs, and one soldier was killed and another was seriously wounded. Lt. Col. Bruce Antonio, who commands a Stryker battalion in Diyala, said he and soldiers still have confidence in the Strykers and noted they had survived many bombs, which the military calls improvised explosive device or IEDs. But Antonio said some insurgents had found ''the right mix of explosives and IED positioning to inflict severe damage on the vehicle.'' He also noted that tanks had also proved vulnerable too. The insurgents also apparently are becoming better at hiding the devices -- the IED that killed the six soldiers and the journalist was believed hidden in a sewer line. To add potency, insurgents surrounded the device with cement to channel the blast force up into the tank, according to soldiers familiar with the investigation. Supporters of the Strykers say all that proves that it's the lethality of bombs in Iraq -- not the Strykers themselves -- that are the problem: The bombs are now so powerful that even Abrams main battle tanks are vulnerable to some of them. ''I'm not sure if it's any reflection on the (Stryker) but rather on how things are getting worse'' in Iraq, according to a senior Democratic congressional staffer who tracks Army programs, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. Stryker soldiers said that when they were based in Mosul in the north, roadside bombs weren't so big -- often, little more than pipe bombs. In Baqouba, the bombs are bigger and buried deeper, making them difficult to detect. ''With what we got hit with the other day, it wouldn't have mattered what we were in,'' said Spc. John Pearce, speaking of the May 6 bomb. ''We were going to take casualties, regardless.'' Either way, the Army and Marine Corps already are pushing for new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPS, whose V-shaped hulls are designed to deflect bomb blasts outward, rather than through the vehicle. The Pentagon has requested nearly 7,800 of the new vehicles at a cost of $8.4 billion and is considering ordering thousands more to give soldiers better protection. Such moves, however, serve only to reinforce the views of critics, who believe the Army opted for a vehicle that was useful in Balkan peacekeeping or other ''low threat'' missions but is inadequate in so-called ''asymmetric warfare,'' where a weaker opponent devises simple tools to exploit a strong opponent's weak points. ''As long as the Stryker-equipped light infantry was used ... against lightly armed insurgents, there was no problem,'' said retired Col. Douglas Macgregor, who writes on defense issues. ''Now, they are being tossed into the urban battle where only tracked armor can survive.'' ---- Reid reported from Baghdad and Flaherty from Washington. Associated Press reporters Todd Pitman in Diyala in Iraq and Pauline Jelinek in Washington also contributed to this report.

Effet d'optique ou pas ?

Quelques photos sur le BLACK EAGLE

2 vidéos d'un cimetière de matériel en irak vidéo insurgent video US

Les russes ont aussi la même idée de déplacer l'équipage vers la coque. De plus, ils seront dans des sortes de "sarcophage" les protégeant de la surpression de l'habitacle lors du perçage du blindage par un éventuel projectile. Le pression pouvant monter à 300 bars lors d'un impact perforant.

2 vidéos du Leclerc au Kosovo ARRIVEE AU KOSOVO ( clip 1 minute) LECLERC_in_ACTION ( clip 4.30 minutes ) ça n'a pas déjà été signalé semble-t-il

le mode opératoire semble connu, il s'agirait de munitions pour les mini-orgue de staline tir rocket 1 tir rocket 2

Une vidéo incroyable ! une attaque "classique" d'insurgents irakiens sur une position US... puis la réponse de la contre batterie filmée in situ ! Soit le type est cinglé d'être resté sur place, soit la caméra filme seule. La qualité sonore du document fait froid dans le dos ! Contre Batterie