Showing posts with label Parades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Parades. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 February 2018

Military parade in North Korea to celebrate 70° anniversary of it's Army

North Korea has celebrated the  70° anniversary of it's Army with an imposing military parade in Pyongyang. The latest ICMBS were shown, together with other novelties, such as the Bulsae-3 AT missile integrated in the Seon'Gun tank. According to some analists, the Bulsae-3 is a copy of the Russian AT missile Kornet, but it does look smaller in size.

One big novelty was the new SRBM, with a similar shape to the Russian Iskander.
SLBM KN-1 (I was not able to see it in the videos).

New SRBM missile (1).

New SRBM missile followed by Pukguksong-2 . 

 Hwasong-12.

Hwasong-14

  Hwasong-15.
 
 Hwasong-15 (2).

Trucks with canisters for missile transportation -never seen before-.

Seon'Gun tank with AT missiles.

Chonma tank.

122 mm self propelled gun M1991.

120mm MLRS.

240mm MLRS.

Soldiers carrying AK-74 with cylindrical magazines. Note nightsights.

170mm Kolsan self propelled gun.

Main view of the ceremony.

An-2 (or Chinese Y-9) using flares during parade.


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Sunday, 6 November 2016

Military parade in Turkmenistan to celebrate 25° aniversary of independence

Last 27th October Turkmenistan celebrated 25 years of independence. Maybe you find surprising that certain republics celebrate their day in August and others later on. This is explained by the August 1991 coup in Moscow. Some republics like Ukraine proclaimed independence soon after, others waited a few months. 

A parade celebrating the event was organised in Ashgabat, the capital. It was possible to see much of the equipment that the Armed Forces deploy. Nowadays an interesting combination of Western, Russian Ukrainian, Turkish and Chinese systems are used. Soldiers used Berettas ARX160, which do not match very well with the classic uniforms. A video of the ceremony can be found in youtube (link). 


Specially adapted Mercedes, similar to the Popemobile

Army members.
  
Air Force members.
 
Sailors.

  Ajban-440A.

PMV Survivor II 4x4. 

IsraelĂ­ Combat Guard vehicle, it reminds me of a Batmobile

 T-72UMG. 

T-90SA.

BMP-1M, upgraded with Ukrainian module Shkval.

BTR-80A.

BTR-80M upgraded with Ukrainian module Grom.

SAM FM-90, originally based on Crotale.

 Kirpi vehicle.

BM-21A "Grad-1A".

RM-70 rocket launcher (Czech Republic).

Smerch rockets mounted on a Tata chassis.

Lavochkin La-17.

UAV Orbiter-2.

S-125-2M Pechora-2M. 

S-200 Vega.

WJ-600AD.

Mi-24P 

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