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Romanian Iron Guard founder and Captain Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and his wife Elena wearing swastika crowns.
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Nocerfelius said:
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Soviet MI-24 in the War in Afghanistan
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I listened to a interview with a Soviet Era resistance fighter (who was also a anti taliban fighter) who said "Where where never scared of the Russians, they where just men like you or I, but there Helicopters where feared" they had a stupidly long range and where and are considered flying tanks those things could carry a Decent troop compliment, and so much ordinance they could cause serious trouble for any unit they decided to engage and hang around in the area long enough to support the ground troops it dropped off and then pick them back up.

About the only thing that could deal with them are the Sholder Mounted Stingers the CIA gave them but they could never get enough of them to make a difference, the way they tried to deal with them was hit and miss and depended on if they where landing, they tried mortar fire and that was hit and miss but they also tried massive Barrel bombs buried under there likely landing location and just as they where about to land say 6ft off the ground they would blow it up and hope it cause enough damage it couldn't land or kill the troops inside or enough of them to make them wave off the landing.
 
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The Bayeux Tapestry: a 70 metre long tapestry depicting William the Conqueror earning his namesake. It was completed only a few years after the battle of Hastings in 1066 where William's men slew the last Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson on the slopes of Senlac hill. The Norman victory that day is widely thought of as the founding of England as a nation, though their Norman conquerors are far from lionised.

Pictured below is the death of King Harold Godwinson
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The Bayeux Tapestry is also interesting because it is the first known depiction of Halley's Comet in any media, which helps date the events portrayed in the tapestry to 1066. No word if William the Conqueror suffered -1 stability because of it.

Attached is the comet section, way too big to post in-line.
 

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Phalanges Mycologist said:
I listened to a interview with a Soviet Era resistance fighter (who was also a anti taliban fighter) who said "Where where never scared of the Russians, they where just men like you or I, but there Helicopters where feared" they had a stupidly long range and where and are considered flying tanks those things could carry a Decent troop compliment, and so much ordinance they could cause serious trouble for any unit they decided to engage and hang around in the area long enough to support the ground troops it dropped off and then pick them back up.

About the only thing that could deal with them are the Sholder Mounted Stingers the CIA gave them but they could never get enough of them to make a difference, the way they tried to deal with them was hit and miss and depended on if they where landing, they tried mortar fire and that was hit and miss but they also tried massive Barrel bombs buried under there likely landing location and just as they where about to land say 6ft off the ground they would blow it up and hope it cause enough damage it couldn't land or kill the troops inside or enough of them to make them wave off the landing.
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Hinds getting fucked up by stingers/red eyes/SA-7s were the main reason the Apache's longbow configuration got demanded by the Army. They realized the most survivable gunship design against an insurgent population would need to engage at night from 3-5 miles away to provide optimum constant CAS. During GWOT they almost completely gave up on Hydras and other FFARs because in order to use them effectively you have to be close in and traveling towards it, which both create a good engagement envelope for MANPADS while hellfires can fire from a distance and the 30mm autocannon can be incredibly accurate from 2 miles out under FLIR . Before that, the Apache's entire doctrine was to be used in either two ship hunter teams with Kiowas to hide behind terrain to take potshots at T-72s or fly around like WW2 era CAS birds strafing targets. Eventually it got pushed on to the Cobra as well with the H-1 program
 
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