They're back!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69L9l_InWpE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8M4Nn4K5eY&feature=related
You guys should recognize this song, that about sums it up.

Ivan may still come rolling into Germany with more T80's, Hind's, Mig's, and men than we can imagin...

"They're"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxh_hArY-dk&feature=related

2008 version. Notice the T72's that arn't the POS export version, they have a lot of neat toys on them...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s24d4KcPrEs&feature=related
Here are some of the big boys, nuke's, and SA90's.

Its nice that they are back, 007 movies should get a lot better.:D

I wonder if I should be telling a "moderator" this . . . but I believe there's a forum just for videos like YouTube? :rolleyes:

Red Alert, I love it :cool:

Time for some more awesome hardware

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3387/jas58551ym4.jpg

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6...508p021os5.jpg

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9...0hokum1oe0.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1972/1230509qa4.jpg

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1286/t8011gi0.jpg

is it time to call rambo? ...underdog? please. we call this saber rattling. my dad can beat up your dad.

The Russians Are Coming
 

Market Authoritarianism
By STEPHEN KOTKIN

The renewal of war in the Caucasus came as a shock to Americans because of profound self-delusions about the post-cold-war international order. Throughout China's continuing rise and Russia's resurgence, scholars, pundits, and government officials prattled on about a new "unipolar" era.

But today's Russia, with a gross domestic product of more than $1.3-trillion in 2008 (compared with a low of $200-billion under Boris N. Yeltsin) has barged back into the ranks of the world's 10 largest economies; in purchasing power, it is closing in on Britain, at No. 6. Most analysts dismissively attribute the rise to high oil prices, but Russia started its ascent years before they began to spike, in 2004. And few other petrostates can match the consumer demand of Russia's new 35-million-strong middle class.

At the same time, however, while oil and gas prices account for just 20 percent of Russia's gross domestic product, they make up 60 percent of its export earnings. When oil contributes one-third or more of export revenues, no country in history has ever made an enduring transition to genuine democracy. (Norway was a democracy before it discovered its hydrocarbon reserves.) Until alternatives to fossil fuels are introduced globally on a mass scale, Russia will mostly continue to be what it is: an autocracy.

A strong centralized state, many Russians believe, fits the country's tradition and enables it not only to resist foreign meddling — the humiliating experience of the 1990s — but also to extend Russia's influence abroad. Analysts who claim that Russia's elites are just out for the money are mistaken. Autocracy, no less than democracy, can be lucrative to the well connected, but autocracy, too, is a powerful belief system, linked to international power and prestige.

This is not the old Soviet system, however. Like China, Russia combines an authoritarian ruling system with a relatively open market economy integrated into the global economy. Forget about a feared axis of authoritarian regimes — Russia and China are rivals, with many clashing interests — but note that free trade and globalization are making autocrats richer and stronger, as happened during the last period of globalization, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

more at: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=4hdWbs8VystvgH2ztrmysPtmspqBPcfJ

T80s are badass tanks. Hey Hat did you every try the game Operation Flashpoint? Kind of a wargame simulation kind of thing. Crazy hard compared to the run and gun crap of today but very fun and rewarding to play. Came out maybe 5 years ago? THey made a remake called ARMA if you want to check it out though you need some heavy computer hardware.

Flashpoint-fantastic in every way. I have it plus the addons, the remake (Or rather upgrade) is call Armed assault. Operation Flashpoint has a much better ring to it though doesn't it? Its a good game to teach you that all this Rambo nonsense is just that, nonsense.

Yeah. The Resistance addon was very cool!

I wasn't a huge fan of Arma but there is a proper Operation Flashpoint sequel coming out next year I believe.

My one big beef with the game was the sometimes ridiculous AI. Sometimes you could be crawling around 600 meters away in some bushes and lo and behold, you get popped in the head by an AK74 by a robot, er Russian. Other times you could be 50 meters away and they couldn't see you.

Hmm, I didn't really have that problem. I think that the only thing that needed improving was combat inside buildings...you could occasionally fall through walls :rolleyes:


Here you go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint_2:_Dragon_Rising

Really? I didn't know that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RITbQHLLhU&feature=related
Another cool toy we don't have that they do. Thanks for killing the Comanche!:rolleyes:

Our stuff may be better, but as the Germans found out quantity has a quality all to itself.

Speaking of German equipment.....

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9...ideviewgd7.jpg

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/7...uwitserwc4.png

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/157...z870941zm8.jpg


http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/1300/jas55091up7.jpg
And of course the jointly developed Tornado