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Really nice. The animated movie really marked me when I saw it the first time, everybody around me seemed to prefer Yuchi and its Shinden-like aircraft while I was much more interested by the "Teacher" and his kind of Westland Wyvern turned in a fighter. --- I went back to the aircraft today : One Yakovlev Yak-38U "Forger" of the Soviet Navy during a training flight is hovering close to the "Kiev" heavy aircraft carrying cruiser.

So we leave the room of the Warsaw Pact and ex-Yugoslavian vehicles for the... --- Generals and Engines Room U.S General George Smith Patton Junior Soviet Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov German Generaloberst Heinz Guderian German Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel Marshal of France Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque From left to right : French Divisional general Henri de Vernejoul and Army corps general Jean Touzet du Vigier Marshal of France Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (the Willys MB is one of his official) Panhard E.B.R. (Engin Blindé de Reconnaissance). This armoured recon car is the official one which carried the French president and Brigade general Charles de Gaulle at his state funeral of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises. Various decorations, from the left to the right : *Top - Unknow medal of the City of Amsterdam - Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) - Croix de guerre 1914–1918 avec trois palmes (France) - Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian Empire) - Order of Poland Restored (Polonia Restituta) (Poland) * Bottom - Order of the Crown pre-1932 (Romania) - National Order of the Legion of Honor (Grand Officier) (France) - Most Honorable Order of the Bath (Knight Grand Cross) (United-Kingdom) Hispano-Suiza HS-110, multi fuel 680 hp engine of the AMX-30. Wright R-975 Whirlwind, nine-cylinders radial rule 380 hp engine of the M4-M4A1 Sherman. V-55 12-cylinder 580 hp diesel engine of the T-62. It was based on the famous T-34s 500 hp V-2. Continental AV1790, 810 hp fuel engine of the M47 Patton. General Motors 6046, 2x6 cylinders 375 hp fuel engine of the M4A2 Sherman. Maybach HL230 P30, 690 hp V12 fuel engine of the Panzer VI ausf. B Tiger II. Kharkiv model V-2-34, 500 hp (38.8L) diesel V12 from a T-34. The legendary M45 Quadmount of 12.7 mm/ .50 Caliber.

I was not inspirited by aircraft today... An Independence Weaponry AKU-1X Akuma (Demon) from the 5th Ghost Regiment of the Draconis Combine engaging some dirty Clanners. This scratch inspiration is coming from an awesome draw I've seen online some weeks ago.

I (finally) replace all the pictures correctly to share them. So we were leaving the curiosity room when we get that : A pleasant way to welcome you in... --- The Warsaw Pact A legendary Trabant from the Land Forces of the National People's Army (German Democratic Republic). 2 strokes engine, bad mix and blue fumes. Just look at the typical oil leak. A dismantled Uralvagonzavod T-72 main battle tank. Really interesting to look at, but I was a bit disapointed to haven't find any completed model in the room. But a surprise was waiting for me outside... Morozov Design Bureau T-54 with a view to some other pieces : 2S1, PT-76 and a M-77. Uralvagonzavod T-55 MBT from the Iraqi Republican Guard. Uralvagonzavod T-62 of the Iraqi Army. This unit was captured by the French Army forces during the Operation Daguet (part of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm) in 1990-91. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Just like the two precedent MBTs this BMP-1 was captured during the Coallition intervention in 1990-91. Recapitulation of the Warsaw Pact global armored forces at the end of the Cold War : - Poland : 15 Divisions - 3000 Tanks - G.D.R. : 6 Divisions - 1500 Tanks - Czechoslovakia : 10 Divisons - 2600 Tanks - Hungary : 15 Divisions - 1800 Tanks - Bulgaria : 13 Divisions - 2500 Tanks - Romania : 14 Divisions - 2800 Tanks - U.S.S.R. : 220 Divisions - 55300 Tanks. Just some flags of the Eastern Republics. The Legendary T-34/85 originally conceived by Morozov Design Bureau. A BRDM-2 amphibious patrol vehicle is visible on the left while a BTR-152 armored personnel carrier is on the right. A Tovarna avtomobilov Maribor BOV-3 air-defense vehicle from the Serbian Army. Equipped of three M55 20 mm cannon this unit was captured by the French forces during their intervention in Bosnia (ex-Yugoslavia) in 1996. Just behind can be seen a Multiple Launch Rocket System M-77 Oganj (Fire) of the Serbian Army captured at the same occasion. One ex-Soviet Red Army Kharkov Tractor Plant 2S1 Gvozdika (Carnation) 122 mm self-propelled howitzer. For logical reasons it is stricly forbidden to jump on any of the museum vehicles but the pilot hatch was open... and I was not able to resist the attraction to go inside ! The picture of the pilot view is not really good but I have to jump out of here as fast as possible to not get caught A Volgograd Tractor Plant PT-76 amphibious light tank of the Soviet Navy. The Oganj is partly visible behind. I still can not understant why I didn't take any pictures of it as the MLRS are some of my favorites combat vehicle... such an idiot. Just a picture of the event of 16 - 17 June 1953 when a worker uprising in Eastern Germany led to the intervention of 16 Soviet Army armored and infantry divisions in East Berlin to repel the rebellion. This guy is trowing rocks to T34/85s. One airborn Lastkraftwagen, nicknamed Kraka (Kraftkarren). Weighting just 735 kg the vehicle was adopted by the Federal German Army as soon as it was produced in 1974. It is presented here with a driver in chemical warfare readiness, some oxygen supply bottle and what seems to be filters reload cartridges. The next room will be about some WW2 Allied vehicles and a small room dedicated to some generals.

Seems like the battle elephant just release a chemical weapon made of methane and sulfur. --- Today's draft is a bit special : 19 July 1966, 05:05 local time : the Dassault Mirage IVA number 36 is returning to its base of Hao at Mach 2 after having released its 65 kt AN-11 nuclear bomb 85 km East of the atoll of Mururoa during Operation "Tamouré". Instead of making the detonation over the Ocean as it was made I placed it at the center of Mururoa's lagoon.

It seems that there is an important number of tank and armored vehicles lovers there so it makes me think to share my pictures of the Saumur tank museum where I went in 2013. That museum was particularly interesting with their operational Pz VI ausf. B and also their Schneider CA1 (now the oldest operative tank in the world as it's from 1916). My only regret now is to haven't took much more pictures of some vehicles and all the others I missed... Some of them also really are of a bad quality () as I used a 2006 small camera at the time. --- The 1918-1940 French tanks exposition. Saint-Chamond WW1 tank. Renault FT "Female" tank with its 8 mm Hotchkiss machine-gun and a "Male" 37 mm cannon exposed in front. Renault B1 Bis heavy tank. With its 75 mm anti-fortification cannon, its turret 47 mm anti-tank and an impressive armor it is still considered by many as the best tank of at the beginning of the War. Alas, its crew of 4 was unable to keep a good efficiency with its poor internal conception and a bad repartition of the task. The tank commander was alone in its turret, having to give orders, aim the cannon, fire and reload it. It's easy to imagine what a mess it quickly became. Without forgetting that only the leader tank got a radio onboard for a link to the commanding officer, the others still having to use flags and hand signs to communicate between each others. Somua S35. --- Germany and Axis 1939-45 collection. Panzerkampftwagen VI Ausf. B Tiger II a.k.a "King Tiger" (Konigstiger). This last nickname became legendary with the time but alas was never used by the Germans. The unit present here is one of the very last still operational. The museum crew is keeping it in a perfect shape for its yearly demonstration. You can even enjoy a traditional oil leak! 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1 based on an Opel Maultier ("Mule") with another 6 tube 15 cm Nebelwerfer. This vehicle variant was mostly used by Waffen-SS units. One legendary Sd.Kfz. 251 in its 251/7 Pionierpanzerwagen variant. One famous 7.5 cm Pak 40 cannon is visible just behind. Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. Shamely this is my sole picture of the Sd. Kfz. 2 Kettenkrad. Easy to see here why so many guys killed themselves while driving it at more than 80 km/h. Sd. Kfz. 135 Marder I tank destroyer. Sd. Kfz. 124 Wespe 10.5 cm self-propelled artillery vehicle. 5 cm Pak 38 (L/60). Panzerkampfwagen III ausf. H and what I could get of its turret. Panzerkampfwagen II ausf. C and its Panzer III bigger brother to compare their size. 2 cm Flugabwehrkanone 30. One of the poorest light AA cannon of the conflict in this variant of 1930. Panzerkampfwagen VI ausf. E Tiger and its Totenkopf officer model. 2 cm Flakvierling 38. Despite the lack of "punch" of its 20 mm round against the specialized and armored ground attack aircraft it still was a nightmare for the Allied crew at low altitude. The impressive 155 mm self-propelled artillery vehicle Sturmpanzer 43 a.k.a Stupa by the German troops. Like the "King Tiger" it is know more well know under the nickname of Brummbär (Grouch)... which again is a nickname from the Allied forces. This one got hit in 1944 by four different shot of 75/76.2 mm shells that created an intern detonation, initiating its 155 mm munitions and blowing the casemate away. Impressively it was recovered by another crew which return it to an operational status for the rest of the war. Panzerfeldhaubitze 18M auf Geschützwagen III/IV (Sf) Hummel self-propelled 155 mm howitzer. Fiat Carro Armato M15/42 from the legendary 132nd Armoured Division Ariete which fought in northern Africa. Impressive to imagine how these guys were courageous to keep on fighting in these tanks from another age. --- The Curiosity Room Colonial helmet. Rocket Propelled Grenades. Panzerfaust 30 and 60. Multiple 105 mm shell of fin stabilized kinetic energy penetrator. Stabilized shell (actually a wind tunnel model) and a U.S 106 mm recoilless round at the right. 40 mm Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot - Tracer. A belt of 20 mm rounds from one French AMX-30B2 Main Battle Tank co-axial cannon. 127 mm rounds. One 105 mm M1 High-Explosive shell. A HEAT shell is on the upper left and another rocket assisted HEAT round is on the right. Euromissile HOT 1 (Haut subsonique Optiquement Téléguidé/High Subsonic Optical Remote-Guided) anti-tank missile. Crazy configurations of Aérospatiale ENTAC (ENgin Téléguidé Anti-Char) anti-tank missiles. Leichter Ladungsträger Goliath remote controlled demolition vehicle. Humber Hornet with a dual Malkara anti-tank missile launcher. Volkswagen Typ 128 Schwimmwagen. Another APFSDS shot. Euromissile Roland surface-to-air missile. Original poster of the awesome movie The Beast (La Bete de Guerre in France). I was about to keep on posting the others pictures but just discovered that all the work I made this morning to replace them on Imgur were not saved... so I will remake it tonight and post them tomorrow. There is the Warsaw Pact room, Allied Room, French Room and the last room of other nations with some beautiful pieces (including my favorite MBT).

Renault FT with a warrior in armor?! I love the concept but this poor guy is probably regretting his horse while riding at less than 8 km/h. He should be dreaming of a BT-1/7 at the time. --- In lack of ideas today : A pair of Iraqi Mirage F1EQ-5 firing their Aérospatiale AM39 Exocet anti-ship missiles to the Iranian oil platforms positioned in the Persian Gulf.

Lucky! I never saw them and just missed another occasion... --- Otherwise I tried to make just one movie yesterday with "Wondershare Filmora" on a (crappy) Mac but the definitive result can't be without a huge watermark at the center. The pro' version cost $60 (!) and that trial version didn't have any capabilities that deserve such an enormous price. I mean it's the same price as the Adobe program we were using during our cinema studies but at least it was able of enormous capabilities. Is anybody here knew one practical free program (just to past and split multiple videos) or at least one that is worth its price?

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Just restart today with these two Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero of the Yokosuka Air Wing which trapped a lonely Vought F4U-1 Corsair out of Tulagi.

- Harrison "Stormy" Storms : chief designer of my unique love, the B-70 Valkyrie. He, alas, was on the list of the huge amount of peoples fired after the Apollo 1 disaster. - Robert Oppenheimer. - Andrei Tupolev. - Hans-Ulrich Rudel. - Mikhail Yangel : as the famous aphorism said Korolev works for the news agency Tass, Chelomei works on crap, Yangel works for us.

So lucky! I had to go back to my shop the same day... how many I could give to hear just some more T-6s instead of the idiots we got here! I haven't heard a Spit' for a long time now. The last was in 2007 or 2008... but it was powered by a Griffon instead, coupled to a contra-rotating prop.

Today was a great occasion to leave the boredom of the Tampa Bay for the Lakeland's SUN 'n Fun air show with the French national demonstration team present for their 2017 US tour, celebrating the century of the country engagement in the First World War. It's also the first time for them to fly over the US land for more than 31 years, as they already came in 1986 to celebrate the century of the Statue of Liberty. t It was the 8th time for me to see my birthland national team and I have to say that this year's team has changed some things and the result now is way more punchy, vigorous, reflecting what still can be done with this little pearl that is the Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet. I discovered with suprise that their support aircraft now was an Airbus A400M Grizzly, replacing the good old Transall C-160 which was ensuring the role for more than 30 years. The guys onboard were really nice, inviting us to came onboard the transport aircraft for some minutes while the team members were at the breifing. It also was the first time to me to go inside an A400M and one thing can be compared with the C-160 for sure : the paras/troopers seats still are as comfy as rocks... One pretty cool demonstration of about 20 minutes that they completed with the famous "éclaté". Thank you for this awesome time! I was just extremely disapointed to be arrived too late and to leave way too soon... one beautiful B-25 Mitchell made an awesome demo... ... while a T-33 Shooting Star was turning all around in a melodious noise : I'm not sure but suppose it was much more a Canadair CT-133 Silver Star as I looked under it some minutes before its display and it got a lot of marks of different Canadian teams (Snow Birds etc...) and its engine noise sounds different than the J33 to me. As the Canadian placed a license-built Rolls Royce Nene in their training jet that could be the explanation. I will try to upload the videos tomorrow but still have to work a bit on them (34 gb of film...).

I am so disappointed by the drawing I made today... it started pretty well, then I just miss the rest fast after ... 4 May 1982, 11:04 local time : the Dassault Super-Etendard 3-A-202 and 3-A-203 from the Argentinian Navy (Armada Argentina) release their Aérospatiale AM39 Exocet missiles to the Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield, patrolling East-South-East of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas.

Strangely two teachers only understood me, one of History with who I was talking a lot about military technology and industrial potential and the other one of... English --- Today I realized that there was a lot of Red Stars in the last topic pages but I never made one to this day, so... The Sukhoi Su-17M3 "Fitter-H" 04-Red of the 886 ORAP going back home after a strike over the mujahidines positions in the Panjshir Valley. I was about to draw the road and paths under sooner but after having traced them I decided to don't. The good news of the day to me was that I found a pencil in my old case at work.

Awesome. Its chassis and legs remembers me the Mad Dog/Vulture base with the torso of the great Longbow from the Battletech universe. Thank you. I got blamed so many times in class by drawing instead of "listening carefully" that I kept it in minds all the time. The worst is that I was listening and taking notes but it was not possible for most of these "human mass converters" of teachers to imagine that you could do many things at the same time.

Indeed, I actually forget the "t" while typing or maybe the spelling-corrector made it too as he transform the "Snakeye" name of the kitted 500 lb bomb into "Snaky" . If it was not impossible I would have love to place a sound of "silence-rounds impacts-BRRRRRT-turbofans melody the TF34". Not a problem, I even think that my "level" is far from being good. ------------ Back to the topic theme with today's scrawl with an F-14B Tomcat from the wonderful Grim Reapers :

Perfect way to summarize. Kings really marks me as a kid with its Maximum Overdrive. Cheap prod', Emilio "Cocaine" Estevez and AC/DC soundtrack. Impossible to forget.

I used to live for 15 years in the Caribbean Island of St-Martin, from 92 to 07 and experienced many of them, the destruction they engendered and the loss of peoples we used to know. - Luis, Cat4, October-September 1995. I was to young to keep enough memories of it, apart that my parents were washing me in a basin and the smell of rot that came from ponds of stagnant water all around. Hopefully we got common water restored after 2 weeks and full electricity after a months for everybody. My dad gives me a lot of picture from this time, he actually was a rescue-diver of the French National Gendarmerie (we did not have Coast Guards equivalents here) and was sent to multiple ships trapped and sinking out of the island. He also took shots of the U.S logistic intervention. They sent Lockheed C-130s from Florida and Puerto-Rico air bases ASAP to carry medicines and foods and even one of the McDonnell Douglas C-17 prototypes (the aircraft entered in service the same year) two times. It probably was an occasion to test it in a particular condition. France used their Transall C-160F based in Guadeloupe and the Gendarmerie's Aerospatiale Alouette III and Ecureuil helicopter to reach the parts of the island without any practicable roads. One of the picture also depicted an RAF BAe Nimrod. I don't know what it was doing here precisely, furthermore the Commonwealth islands of St-Kitts/Nevis and Antigua/Barbuda were also struck and required help. The French National Telecommunications service also chartered a lot of repair vehicles onboard an Ilyushin Il-78 and one Antonov An-124 : We can see the damages to the trees on this picture. - Jose, Cat2, October 1999. I remember it for the flood mull we got all around. It used to block most of the road and destroy a lot of electricity and communications lines. - Lenny, Cat4, November 1999. By far the worst in my memory... the b*stard formed in the Caribbean Sea. Nearly all of the depressions sticking us used to form out of the Western African coast but not here, it just arrived from the East this time and jump from the Category 1 to 4 in less than two days. Its proximity gives way less time to the islands to prepare themselves. Also the weather estimations of the time (from the U.S NOAA like the French National Service) were all erroneous, and it took years for them to admit their failures. But the worst probably was that Lenny, instead of keeping on its way to the West, like any other depression would have done, just slowed down once over Saba/Anguilla, St-Martin/Maarten/St-Barths islands and started to depict a full circle over them. We stayed under rains and winds of 200 km/h (120-25 mph) during a day, 866,6 mm (approx 34.11 inches) were recorded at the Gendarmerie office of Marigot... we never get more than this since. The loop it made also trapped a lot of peoples navigating at this time. Most of them used to leave the island main bay and go northern to protect their boats as usual but Lenny was so different that it got them way before... more personally we lost a man and most of its crew when they we were struck by the hurricane. Their boat simply was destructed and they disappeared north of the island, near the British and U.S Virgin Islands. The only survivor of the crew was found three days after while he was drifting on a piece of wood coming from the hull. It's actually a British Nimrod crew which patrolled over purely by chance who found him and who guided a ship towards. These really are the most important we ever have since (without forgetting Hugo). Many others struck us since, but what I remember the most is that, just like for all the others natural disaster the scales used for them still can't reflect their destructive potential. Most of the time the deadliest for us were from Category 3 and 4. The 5 are too fast to stay over us enough, while the Cat 3 use to be the worst being slower and less powerful we could imagine that it will not be as destructive than the 5, but being slower is its main weapon... it will stay over you more longer and drop a more important quantity of water at the same occasion. When we are on the land their winds gust are not the deadliest, but their rain and the flood or landslides they are creating.

The last doodle of the Operation Desert Storm just gave me the envy to make something else tonight. In a total lack of imagination I choose to call it Brrrrrrrrr. Thunderbolt II roaring over the desert sand. Alas I totally miss made the ordnance Maverick, Snaky and Sidewinder... @NSEP I just join the website for the group but it seems impossible to be accepted in.

Negative, "New Wave" is just so delicious. For my part I was rocked as a child by this track : We used to play it back when I was the small drummer of our children group (terrible to hear).

Actually it remembres me : Could it be ?

I didn't know what to do at today's launch... by his drawings @Spacetraindriver inspired me to do that : One T-62 from the Republican Guards keep on consuming, its turret having been expelled by an inner deflagration, while two U.S.M.C. AH-1W SuperCobra are flying over the Kuwaiti land, firing their wire-guided TOW anti-tank missiles to other targets.

Ooooh come on Usu', 4 engines, glass cockpit in multi displays, sidesticks, it's so easy, you are in an Airbus A400M Atlas/Grizzly.

So much beauties here since I left a month ago. I just made something yesterday around 9 pm, just before the closure but it took me some time to "complete" it this morning : I actually remembered the day my father and I went to look for Sierra-Charlie (the one which crashed) at Brest airport, it was less than a week before the fatal date in 2000... I will never forget the sight of this beauty, the sound and the smell. She just rose like a swan in the typical cloudy weather of Brittany in a thunder-like cracking melody, leaving this yellow fumes from her afterburner and smelling kerosene like nothing I have breath before. About this scribbling I am really sorry if there is a lot of errors, as usual I made it only on memory... this is why the engines 1-2 nacelle is totally missed and the Olympus re-heat not well axed.