World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

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A wounded Chad army soldier is evcuated by helicopter on May 8, 2009 in the area of Am Dam, 130 km south of Abech�here fighting took place on May 7 against rebels who were stepping up an offensive against President Idriss Deby, with almost 250 reported dead in two days of conflict, as the UN Security Council condemned the rebel assault.

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A man holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in front of the Soviet Army Monument in central Sofia May 9, 2009. Dozens of Bulgarians gathered to celebrate the World War Two Victory Day on Saturday

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A Topol-M missile launcher is seen in Red Square in Moscow during the Victory Day parade May 9, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev warned against "military adventurism" on Saturday, saying Russia would firmly defend its interests -- just as it did during World War Two when the Soviet Union defeated fascism. Medvedev, opening the biggest and most spectacular Victory Day parade in modern Russia's history, clearly aimed his warning at post-Soviet neighbour Georgia which Russia defeated in a five-day war last August.

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Russian navy military cadets march during the annual Victory Day parade at the Moscow Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, May 9, 2009. Heavy weaponry including tanks and missiles rolled on Friday through Red Square in the annual Victory Day parade.

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Military jets fly in formation over Red Square in Moscow during Victory Day parade May 9, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev warned against "military adventurism" on Saturday, saying Russia would firmly defend its interests -- just as it did during World War Two when the Soviet Union defeated fascism. Medvedev, opening the biggest and most spectacular Victory Day parade in modern Russia's history, clearly aimed his warning at post-Soviet neighbour Georgia which Russia defeated in a five-day war last August.

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Military planes fly over Red Square in Moscow during the Victory Day celebration, May 9, 2009. President Dmitry Medvedev warned against "military adventurism" on Saturday, saying Russia would firmly defend its interests -- just as it did during World War Two when the Soviet Union defeated fascism.

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An Israeli settler clashes with an Israeli left wing activist during a demonstration against settlements in the West Bank town of Hebron on May 8, 2009. Tens of Israeli left wing activists and Palestinian land owners demonstrated against the settlers of Kharsina settlement in Hebron after they built wooden rooms on Palestinian land. Israeli settlements on occupied land are viewed as one of the main stumbling blocks in the Middle East peace process and Israel's main ally Washington has on numerous occasions spoken out against the continued expansion.

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Polish soldier crouches in front of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

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Polish soldier stands in front of UN helicopter











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Polish soldiers on patrol in Chad

Israeli soldiers clashed with Israeli and Palestinian activists during a demonstration against settlements in the town of Hebron,West Bank.

Photo: Abed Al Hashlamoun/European Pressphoto Agency

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A woman visited the grave of a Soviet Red Army soldier killed in World War II, at a military graveyard in Moscow.

Photo: Alexey Sazonov/Agence France-Presse

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A forest official counted rhinos during a census inside the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in northeast India.

Photo: European Pressphoto Agency

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Fishermen worked next to the Spanish military ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano in Havana Bay. The Spanish vessel is in Cuba for a five-day official visit.

Photo: Javier Galeano/Associated Press

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Iraq's security forces -- its Army, National Police and local police -- have improved greatly in recent years, becoming an increasing presence on the streets across Iraq. Officers from the 7th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the National Police, a paramilitary force, set out on patrol not long ago in Dora, a neighborhood in southern Baghdad that was once consumed by sectarian violence.

Maintaining Iraq's fleet of Humvees has proved vexing, though. The Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction recently found that a $682 million program to train Iraqi's Army to resupply and repair Humvees had largely stalled, in part because soldiers stopped attending a 90-day training course after not being paid. The Army is still not able to adequately maintain its fleet.

Photos: Christoph Bangert for The New York Times

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Commanders of the National Police's 7th Brigade have conducted repeated sweeps of Dora, searching block by block for suspected insurgents or criminals and weapons. The brigade displays items seized just in the last two months inside a room at their headquarters that they jokingly call the "Museum of Weapons."

Photo: Christoph Bangert for The New York Times

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 7, 2009) The Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen (F-311) moves to get in formation with the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is underway conducting Tailored Ships Training Availability and Final Evaluation Phase. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Justin M. Smelley/Released)

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Medical workers affiliated with Maoists scuffle with police during a rally in Kathmandu May 12, 2009. The medical workers were protesting against Nepali President

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's action of reinstating the army chief who was earlier sacked by the prime minister.

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Police block the entrance of the headquarters of the world's biggest steel maker ArcelorMittal in Luxembourg on May 12, 2009 as employees try force their way in during an annual general meeting of shareholders. ArcelorMittal on April 29 reported a net loss of 1.063 billion dollars (806 million euros) in the first quarter, with major write-downs due to the economic crisis and said it planned to continue cutting production in line with reduced demand and forecasted that profits would rebound in the second quarter.

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Israeli border police officers secure Jerusalem�s Old City as

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visits Jewish and Muslim holy sites on May 12, 2009. On the second day of his Holy Land visit in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Benedict XVI is to visit Jewish and Muslim holy sites at the heart of the Middle East conflict, and celebrate mass in the valley where Christians believe God will sit in judgment at the end of time.

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Iraqi police officers evacuate a dead body from the scene of a suicide car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, May 12, 2009. A suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi police truck Tuesday, killing five policemen and three civilians in the northern oil rich city of Kirkuk, said police.

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An Afghan soldier is on alert during a joint operation with Canadian soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force for seizing drugs in Mir Bazzar in the outskirts of Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Afghan soldiers and policemen launched an operation with the cooperation of Canadian soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) seized around 200 Kgs of drugs police officials said in Kandahar province.

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Elite commandos of the Sri Lanka Air Force loaded relief supplies collected for distribution to the internally displaced persons housed in welfare centers in and around Vavuniya. With the Sri Lankan military pushing the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who are fighting for a separate state for ethnic Tamils, they have been restricted to a fraction of the one third of the island they were controlling earlier.
Photo: M.A.Pushpa Kumara/European Pressphoto Agency

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The police tried to quell Tamils at they protested outside the Parliament in London. Tamils protested against the continued violence in their homeland. The United Nations has described the situation in northern Sri Lanka as a "bloodbath" after reports of heavy civilian casualties over the weekend.
Photo: Andy Rain/European Pressphoto Agency

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JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (May 8, 2009) A member of the Brazilian Federal Police mans an M240B machine gun during training at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School. The students are attending a specialized 9-week Waterborne Instructor Course targeted at improving specific skills requested by the Brazilian government. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Joshua Rodriguez/Released)

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OHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (May 8, 2009) Members of the Brazilian Federal Police practice apprehension techniques on a Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School (NAVSCIATTS) instructor.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Joshua Rodriguez/Released)

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JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (May 8, 2009) Brazilian Federal Police agent Henrique Cesar mans an M240B machine gun on a patrol boat at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Joshua Rodriguez/Released)

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JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (May 8, 2009) Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School instructor Doug Maldonado assist Brazilian Federal Police agent Eliton Ramos mount an M240B machine gun on a patrol boat. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Joshua Rodriguez/Released)

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 4, 2009) Colombian sailors render honors to Acting Secretary of the Navy the Honorable BJ Penn as he is welcomed aboard the Colombian Navy frigate ARC Almirante Padilla (FM 51) during the 50th iteration of UNITAS Gold. UNITAS is a multinational maritime exercise with forces from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Equador, Germany, Mexico, Peru, the United States and Uruguay practicing Naval tactics in a joint forces environment. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien/Released)

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (May 04, 2009) The Brazilian ship Constituicao (F42), along with ships from other countries participating in Exercise Unitas Gold, takes part in a parade of ships just off the coast of Jacksonville. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Anthony Casullo/Released)

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Australian soldiers from the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRTF- 1), establish a cordon around an Afghan Quala (mud brick complex) prior to the area being searched for insurgent weapons and explosives.

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Lieutenant Colonel Shane Gabriel, Commanding Officer of the 1st Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force, joins his soldiers on the ground during Operation Zamarai Silawel in Oruzgan Province, southern Afghanistan.

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(Front) Corporal Jamin Nest removes an AK47 round, part of an insurgent weapons cache found during Operation Zamarai Silawel, conducted in the week following Anzac Day in Oruzgan Province.

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(Left to right) Australian explosive ordnance experts, Corporal Ryan Ireland and Sergeant David Austin inspect a cache of Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) rounds as they prepare them for destruction during Operation Zamarai Silawel in the Mirabad region of Oruzgan Province.

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Australian Army Medic Corporal Charles Stevenson checks the vital signs of an Afghan villager who approached his patrol during Operation Zamarai Silawel in the Mirabad region of Oruzgan Province.

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(Right to left) Corporal Ryan Ireland and Corporal Thomas Collins prepare an explosives robot to inspect an Improvised Explosive (IED) that had been uncovered during Operation Zamarai Silawel. The robot allows Australian Engineers to render the IED inert at as safe distance.

A police officer, only hands seen, shows materials used in making explosives allegedly confiscated from the house of suspected militant Jahidur Rahman Mizan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 15, 2009. Mizan, known as an explosive expert, reportedly belongs to outlawed Islamic militant group, Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.

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Indian police officers & paramilitary looks on as Kashmiri Muslim protesters throw stones at them during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, May 15, 2009. Police fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse protesters demanding the release of political prisoners from Indian Jails.

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Israeli border police officers stand guard near the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during the visit of Pope Benedict May 15, 2009. Pope Benedict preached a message of hope for all mankind on Friday at one of the holiest sites in Christendom, telling his audience at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre that "love is stronger than death". It was Benedict's first visit as pope to the place where Christ was crucified, died, was buried and then rose from the dead, according to the Christian faith.

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Nepalese police officers are seen with a communist flag waved by Maoist supporters during a protest in front of Nepalese President

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's office in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 15, 2009. Protests have been taking place on a near daily basis demanding the resignation of the president whose refusal to dismiss the army chief has pushed the Himalayan nation into a new political crisis.

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An Afghan police officer stands guard in a prison after a gunbattle in Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 15, 2009. Insurgents attacked the prison before dawn Friday, sparking a gunbattle with guards during which one prisoner was killed and another escaped, police said.

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A member of special police forces leaves the scene after a bank robbery in Budapest May 14, 2009. A man who took a hostage during an attempted bank robbery had been detained and the hostage had been freed, police said on Thursday.

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Spanish riot police kick a tear gas can towards the building of the private shipbuilding company Naval Gijon during a protest of former shipyard workers who have taken early retirement in Gijon, northern Spain, May 14, 2009. The protesters have occupied the shipyard's buildings demanding assurances of their salaries after the closure of the company scheduled for May 31, 2009.

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Spanish riot police arrest a man during a protest in support of former shipyard workers who have taken early retirement in Gijon, northern Spain, May 14, 2009. Former workers who have taken early retirement from the private shipbuilding company Naval Gijon have occupied the shipyard's buildings demanding assurances of their salaries after the closure of the company scheduled for May 31, 2009.

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A Myanmar refugee shouts slogan as riot police look on during a prostest near the Myanmar embassy in Kuala Lumpur on May 15, 2009. About 50 Myanmar reguees gathered to support democracy arrising in Myanmar and demanding the release of detain oppostion leader

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A student dressed as a clown, faces French riot police during a demonstration in Paris, Thursday, May 14, 2009. Student protesters have blocked or disrupted classes at universities nationwide in recent weeks over a reform championed by the conservative President Sarkozy.

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Kenyan police detain a woman who was protesting the sentence of Thomas Cholmondeley, the scion of the country's foremost family of white settlers, after a judge sentenced him for shooting dead a black poacher on May 14, 2009 in Nairobi. A Kenyan court today sentenced Cholmondeley to eight months in prison. The Eton-educated aristocrat had been convicted of manslaughter over the death of Robert Njoya in May 2006 but Cholmondeley has only admitted to shooting dogs on his 22,250-hectare (55,000-acre) Rift Valley ranch.

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An Iraqi national policeman, center, picks up a weapon seized by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 14, 2009. The Iraqi National Police displayed various weapons seized during recent operations in southwest Baghdad's Sadiyah neighborhood on Thursday.

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German riot police stand in front of German milk farmers as they block a road during a protest against pricing policy of milk products near the Chancellery in Berlin, May 15, 2009. About 200 hundred milk farmers spent overnight at the German governmental area and blocked a road temporarily on Friday.

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Islamist teenage fighters ran a checkpoint at a road in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, as insurgents continued their campaign to seize power.
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Yeah, this is an aircraft's engine. But can anyone tell what engine and which aircraft is it used?

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Belarussian honour guards perform during a show opening an international arms exhibition in Minsk, Belarus, May 19, 2009. Several countries from the former Soviet Union took part in the "Milex-2009" arms and defence technology exhibition that opened on Tuesday. (Reuters)


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Belarussian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky (L), son of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Viktor Lukashenko (C) and Belarussian Defence Minister Leonid Maltsev (R) watch the proceedings in Minsk, Belarus, on May 19, 2009 during the country's annual military expo and arms fair.


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Belarussian rockets stand on display in Minsk, Belarus, on May 19, 2009 at the country's annual military expo and arms fair.


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Representatives of the Sudanese military inspect a rocket system during the opening of an international arms exhibition in Minsk, Belarus, May 19, 2009. Several countries from the former Soviet Union took part in the "Milex-2009" arms and defence technology exhibition that opened on Tuesday. Reuters/Vasily Fedosenko. (Reuters)


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Unnamed representatives of Ethiopia's defense ministry look at a Belarussian machine gun in Minsk, Belarus, on May 19, 2009 during the country's annual military expo and arms fair.

I guess Belarus is where nasty African governments go to buy their weapons...

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Yeah, this is an aircraft's engine. But can anyone tell what engine and which aircraft is it used?

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It looks like a turbojet not a turbofan so it is pretty old type.