Fearsome Buratino
There is a quite exotic weapon in Russian army – a heavy flame-throwing system HFS-1 Buratino. According to the data provided by the Russian arms company, its barrage destroys everything that lives within a radius of 3 kilometers around its target. Its ammunition contains mixture of liquids (propyl nitrate type) and light metals (magnesium powder). During the flight of such ammunition the mixture is being interfused with internal device in order to gain uniformity.
One Fake’s Story
By a broken Soviet helicopter. Ashmar, province Khunar, 18 January, 1980.
This photo with this cutline appeared in a well-known to many comrades famous Russian Live Journal about two years ago. And it won’t be a kind of surprise if it appears again, because an anniversary date (30 years) is on the doorstep.
Ballpoint Afghanistan
This Russian soldier, he was on a few wars, in Afghanistan in Tajikistan and then in Chechnya.
He got in real battles and lost many of his friends in action, that’s a true story true soldier. Everywhere he went he took one thing with him that helped him to cope with all that. It was a simple ballpoint pen that he used to draw the most touching memories on the paper.
Get the Coin
Guess what this boy is doing?
One to a Billion
Those are two bullets, French and Russian collided in the air, back at 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula. People say that a probability odds for this to happen is one to a billion, and to find such 150 years laters was also a great luck.
Georgian President’s Tie
As you can see from this short video footage from BBC, Mr. Saakashvili, President of Georgia, is fond of his tie.
Russian Jet Fighters in Afghanistan
These are photos from private archives of Russian SU-25 jet fighters in Afghanistan War at 1980s.
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