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  1. Re:Flights in 2013; astronaut Leroy Chiao is VP by moosesocks · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights

    The USSR's later experiments in space-based weapons were even crazier, and looked incredibly badass when mounted on the rocket.

    Fortunately, a software glitch (probably intentional) prevented the spacecraft from making orbit.

  2. F.A.B. by MisterClever · · Score: 1 · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published
    Love this picture from the site:

    http://www.army.lv/photos/3996.jpg

    Looks like something from The Thunderbirds!

  3. Re:any ideas why this on the Latvian army site? by bumperbanana · · Score: -1 · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    http://www.army.lv/photos/3788.jpg/

  4. Re:Wow by SuperBanana · · Score: 1 · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    Dunno about that, but this reminds me of Bill Cosby's skit, "200MPH", where he jokes about Carol Shelby.

    Shelby catches Cosby driving "one of them ferrin cars", and swears he's going to build Cosby a custom Cobra, the best that ever was. "Its gonna have du-al exhaust, du-al sup'chargers, du-al steerin' wheels, du-al fire extinguishers...du-al everything. I dunno how it's gonna work but goddangit everything gonna be DUAL".

    Don't anybody show Shelby that picture :-)

  5. Re:any ideas why this on the Latvian army site? by iezhy · · Score: 3, Informative · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    http://www.army.lv/ isn't a Latvian army site. It's just an amateur site about Russian military forces, and has nothing to do with official Latvian army or inteligence.

  6. Re:any ideas why this on the Latvian army site? by glebd · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    If you look at the home page http://www.army.lv/, you'll see that this is a Russian Army fan site dedicated to Russian soldiers. Latvia is a former USSR republic, and the percentage of Russians there is (or was until recently, not sure about now) larger than the native Latvians. So no big surprise here, and this is not a Latvian Army site, as the URL would suggest.

  7. Re:Yep, number increment by antime · · Score: 2, Informative · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    Yikes!
    Nuclear space mines, self-defense cannon!

  8. EVIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    Watch this, nice one here (thunberbird drum music not included):

    http://www.army.lv/photos/3990.jpg

    It even has a LASER, coool, what a EVIL instrument is this!.

    EVIL!!!!!

  9. Yep, number increment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    Wel, yes please, just increment the number ;).

    http://www.army.lv/photos/3987.jpg

    Jeez,

  10. Wow by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published

    I especially like this picture, which seems to almost be a spy shot froma James Bond movie, or as one of the posters commented, "Looks very Thunderbirds-ish."

  11. Well here is Soviet one ... by broadcast_255 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on US Army Scraps Comanche Helicopter

    Well here is Soviet one - here ... Page is in russian, but you sure can watch some videos/pictures. Its AKULA(Shark) chopper. No chances for RPG, it got very thick armor(thicker than any humvee) and first of all - it has catapult, so no human losses. And it is waaaay faster than any apache :) Just look at characteristics.