21 Responses to “Marines of the Caspian Flotilla”

1. testicules says:

   June 30, 2011 at 7:26 am

   Pretty cool toys. It didn’t look like a very big deployement. Maybe only a few platoons. I wonder how many can actually be fielded.

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2. tsurugu1 says:

   June 30, 2011 at 9:22 am

   the first one! nice fotos

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3. Tjockhult i Surträsk says:

   June 30, 2011 at 9:33 am

   Thats it?
   No self hating, anti-Russian venom about how “poor” they are? “Tough Conditions”? “Bad equipment” or even bad weather? I guess PMS is still far away and spring has reached even the remote parts of your dungeon. In that case, keep up the good work girls!

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   • tsurugu1 says:

     July 1, 2011 at 1:22 am

     I’m surprised too
     B.t.w are this marines coscripts or well paid volunteers ? I’ve heard there are some “professional” units in Russian army now.

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     • Babysitter says:

       July 2, 2011 at 3:59 pm

       These are conscripts. Right now about 20% of Russian army are volunteers with plans to increase to 40% by 2014. Air forces, air defense, missile forces and full-time alert brigades are now 100% professional.

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       • testicules says:

         July 5, 2011 at 9:05 am

         That is why they are so old

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4. historian says:

   June 30, 2011 at 9:39 am

   Russian soldiers seems always relaxed, live prepared them for war

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5. Barrie says:

   June 30, 2011 at 11:33 am

   Yet more squaddies with finger on trigger third to last photo, and one chap attempting to shoot one rifle while holding a second, (put one down) not only that he hasn’t even pulled the butt into his shoulder, impossible to be on target like that, and, if it was a 303 instead of the modern pea shooters it would break his shoulder.

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   • theguy says:

     June 30, 2011 at 4:49 pm

     You’re trying to teach a soldier how to shoot? Have ever shot AK74 yourself? It practically has very low recoil.

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     • testicules says:

       July 1, 2011 at 10:38 am

       Marksmenship is universal. Anyone can send rounds down a range. A marksmen hits his target. Bad form never hits, AK or not.

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6. Unknown says:

   June 30, 2011 at 12:23 pm

   AT POUNDER READY!

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7. Song Of Beltane says:

   June 30, 2011 at 2:21 pm

   GO MARINES!

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8. Uncledoh says:

   June 30, 2011 at 3:07 pm

   not bad

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9. (r)evolutionist says:

   June 30, 2011 at 5:35 pm

   Big sky country. I’d go awol and hike to the horizon.

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10. marxistworker says:

    June 30, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Forget the militarism. I’m doing some carefree cloudspotting.

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11. tsurugu1 says:

    July 1, 2011 at 1:33 am

    This small tanks, not BTR-s. What are they ?

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    • SMERSH says:

      July 3, 2011 at 12:43 pm

      I was going to ask the same thing. Looks like a fixed turret on a BMD chassis.

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      • jamal says:

        July 4, 2011 at 4:07 am

        this is the 2s9 Nona SPG

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        • SMERSH says:

          July 4, 2011 at 12:52 pm

          Thank you!

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12. ohyeah says:

    July 1, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    What are those things on the ends of guns? Is it for blowing off your face in case you accidentally use live ammo during training?

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    • Babysitter says:

      July 2, 2011 at 4:03 pm

      These caps are needed for practice ammo to trigger rifle auto-reloading mechanism. Without these you’d have to reload manually after every practice shot.

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