Also the Serbian Krajina Express - [url]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=http://oklop2.tripod.com/voz/krajina_ekspres.HTM&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkrajina%2Bexpress%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D800%26bih%3D403[/url] ([url]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sr&u=http://oklop2.tripod.com/voz/krajina_ekspres.HTM&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dkrajina%2Bexpress%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D800%26bih%3D403[/url])
photos are not linked but are still on the internet host.
this must be the first example of a missile fired from a train?,now being considered again i believe?
([url]http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg575/duckgilchrist/0032-6_zps6ed3dd93.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s1244.photobucket.com/user/duckgilchrist/media/0032-6_zps6ed3dd93.jpg.html[/url])
cheers Don
What would you do for a modern 21st century armoured train?
I like your thinking. Maybe have good Air defence systems on board...maybe something like the Pantsir-S1 (see below) on one "module" or even a VLS SAM system?
([url]http://www.ausairpower.net/PVO-S/96K6E-Pantsir-S1E-UAE-2S.jpg[/url])
Weav, UAV's would be your best rail-line defense, these days, (arm them with airburst anti-personnel missiles) under most circumstances but nothing is going to provide perfect coverage. High winds, storms, fog... They'll all play a part in letting the insurgents set remote detonated explosive devices... or, even, pressure-switch devices (my father told me about the Czech resistance occasionally using pressure switches set x metres ahead of their explosives, near the end of WW2, so they blew up the engine, rather than the rock-filled flat-car ahead of the train).
Still, intensive patrolling of, & the use of special forces troops around the line could limit even those opportunities (but that's still a win for the insurgents, removing troops from the "front lines").
:)
Guy
The location of the track is fixed and known
this must be the first example of a missile fired from a train?,now being considered again i believe?
([url]http://i1244.photobucket.com/albums/gg575/duckgilchrist/0032-6_zps6ed3dd93.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://s1244.photobucket.com/user/duckgilchrist/media/0032-6_zps6ed3dd93.jpg.html[/url])
cheers Don
I like your thinking. Maybe have good Air defence systems on board...maybe something like the Pantsir-S1 (see below) on one "module" or even a VLS SAM system?
([url]http://www.ausairpower.net/PVO-S/96K6E-Pantsir-S1E-UAE-2S.jpg[/url])
Love this, really!!!
The guy looks a bit awkward there: just posing on the double 23mm gun.
Quite likely the gun is old. It looks like it is quite functional, despite the hideous paint of the mount. ZU-23 isn't a bad gun. It can be quite effective against soft ground targets, even with very basic sights, and with upgraded targeting equipment it will do against slow moving aircraft.The guy looks a bit awkward there: just posing on the double 23mm gun.
The gun is probably older than him.
We had a 14.5 KPV twin on our FOB that was abandoned by the IAF and I, being the Good Idea Fairy, Jedi mind tricked the boss into mounting it on top of a concrete "SCUD Bunker" block and sandbagged. It faced the main gate, t'was our little Potemkin Gun.True story.