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It's been posted here back in 2005, along with debunking: http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/36600.0.html Also, how did someone at military.com not spot the M243/249 SAW typo?

I think you got it!  8X8 + google image search = Pandur II 8 x 8

I thought it seemed suspicious that none of the major news services had picked it up.  It would have been big news for Europe at the very least. Hope the wounded have a speedy recovery.

Has this been verified? It doesn't seem to have come up in other news sources, and I notice that

Given the bent of the site, are you sure they don't mean exiled/expat political dissidents/Falun Gong/Tibetians/Oppressed-Group-Of-The-Day?

Looks like they still managed it:  http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/14/execution-hanging.html Hanging isn't an exactly new form of execution, and the body mass/rope length needed to avoid strangulation (drop too short)/decapitation (drop too long) should be well established, but they...

Is the PLAN *really* that big? 16 Type 051 Luda DDG's (from 1971) 2 Type 52 Luhu DDG's (from 1994) 1 Type 51B Luhai DDG (1998) 2 Type 52B Guangzhou DDG (2004) 2 Type 52C Lanzhou DDG (2004) 2 Type 51C Luzhou DDG (not yet commissioned) 4 Sovremmeny DDG's (two versions 1999, 2005) Total: 27...

I might note that the Lunar New Year is by no means exclusive to the Chinese, and that Easter is celebrated by Christians regardless of cultural background, hence you could do both.  Or you might be Eastern Orthodox and celebrate the same Christian holidays but at different days owing to the...

Don't assume.  :P Due to local dialects and moving around, only a small branch of the family uses Mandarin as a first language, and I'm not one of them. As for traditions - well... new ones come and old ones go.  Culture isn't static. I'm not sure which definition of multiculturalism but...

Because well... cultures change; I hope Canadian culture takes the best practices of whatever various immigrant groups arive, but some traditions deserve to die quiet unlamented deaths.  Blood feuds Honour Codes, foot binding, the caste system...  I can think of plenty of cultural artifacts that...

I figured this belonged in off-topic more than buy/sell/trade because it's strictly non-army related. Anyway, one of my friends is a big fan of the Age of Sail Royal Navy, and we were looking to get him a replica flintlock pistol for his birthday. I've seen many in tourist shops in Vienna, but...

Looks like the Puma http://www.psm-spz.com/en/ Wow, looking at the numbers, that thing seems to be on the heavy side for an IFV Weight, protection level A (air-transportable by A400M): 31.45 t Weight, protection level C (rail, road, sea): 41.00 t Gross vehicle weight (GVW): 43.00 t

The writer of The Economist's Charlemagne column is arguing that Spain is already catching up to Italy, and already matches Canada in terms of GDP (I checked - it was within a few billion USD as of 2005) http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8103771

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It looks like they used an entire half-shelter to protect that muzzle!

Click on the photo to enlarge, and look at the right side.  You should be able to see the driver's position.

Hey, if the mud's good enough for the Dutch...  ;D

Is the vehicle immediately behind it of the same type?  It's hard to make out with the blurriness.

Turret is too far back to be the BMP-3 Perhaps the Bulgarian BMP-23/30 family?

Um, right to a point...  You've got stats from an RPG site, there bud.  The Jaguar was likely terminated after Tiannamen in 1989, but China didn't fight the russians in the early 90's, nor did they produce a couple hundred Jags, nor was there a November Nuclear Exchange.  :P