World Armed Forces Pictures & Videos

Spain's newly crowned King Felipe VI reviews troops outside the Spanish parliament, in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Felipe's father Juan Carlos, who reigned during four decades, stepped down after signing an abdication law Wednesday so that younger royal blood can rally a country beset by economic problems, including an unemployment rate of 25 percent. (AP Photo/Emilio Naranjo, Pool)

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Spain’s King Juan Carlos, right, kisses his son, the newly crowned King Felipe VI on the balcony of the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, June 19, 2014. Spain's new King Felipe VI was proclaimed monarch at a formal ceremony in the country's Parliament on Thursday, a deliberately low-key occasion for austere times and tarnished royal reputations. (AP Photo/Javier Lizon, Pool)

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Spain’s newly crowned King Felipe VI and Spanish Queen Letizia leave the Parliament in Madrid, Spain, Thursday June 19, 2014. Felipe’s father Juan Carlos, who reigned during four decades, stepped down after signing an abdication law Wednesday so that younger royal blood can rally a country beset by economic problems, including an unemployment rate of 25 percent. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

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Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Greek Prime minister Andonis Samaras, front left, inspect a guard of honour during a welcome ceremony at the Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos, on Thursday, June 19, 2014. Li is in Greece on a three day official visit during which both sides are expected to sign bilateral agreements. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, Pool)

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Al-Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said.(AP Photo)

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An al-Qaida-inspired militant stand guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo)(AP Photo)

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A truck loaded with Kenyan security officers patrols in Mpeketoni town, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Somali border on the coast of Kenya Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Kenya's top opposition leader Raila Odinga says a statement by the country's president Uhuru Kenyatta that local political networks were responsible for two days of killings that left 60 people dead, and that they were not carried out by the Somali militant group al-Shabab, trivialized the massacre and went against the conclusions of security experts and foreign governments. (AP Photo)

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In this picture take Thursday June 12, 2014 Sombat Boonngam-anong, centre, arrives at the military court in Bangkok, Thailand. The jailed activist who helped organize protests against last month's military takeover in Thailand has some advice for his followers: The coup is done, so concentrate on keeping the junta honest.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter, left, and Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia, inspect the guard of honor during an official visit in Kehrsatz, near Bern, Switzerland, on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Alessandro della Valle)

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Pakistan army troops make their way to Bannu, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Thousands of villagers fled as Pakistani army relax a curfew in troubled North Waziristan. Pakistani jets pounded targets in the country's northwest in major offensives designed to root out safe havens in the volatile region. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

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Newly-recruited Iraqi volunteers in police uniforms attend a training session at the Ibrahimiya police camp outside the central Iraqi Shiite city of Karbala on June 19, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Sawaf)

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Argentina submarine got stranded in its own home port.

Someone please help taking this sub to some car-wash service.

Here are some pictures you will not see very often...if ever again.

During Cope Taufan 14, which is an exercise in Malaysia, on June 18, 2014, a formation of U.S. Air Force and Royal Malaysian air force aircraft formed up and flew together.

Not too often you see an F-22 Raptor, an SU-30MKM, a Mig-29N, an F-15C, a F/A-18, and a BAE Hawk flying together now is it?

Feast your eyes:

Okay This guy in the tan striped Shirt with the kufiya covering his face is packing a RPD. RPD was one of the first weapons to fire the 7.62x39mm Round it's considered the First Squad automatic weapon and came in the last days of the second World war but was only mass produced in the early half of the 50's. It's seen action in just about every war since Korea. It's rugged and widely used. Produced world wide form Russia to China (Type 56 and Type 56-1) to the US and maybe North Korea. It's belt fed the "Drum" is not a magazine feed it's for holding the belt. The Russians more or less retired there RPD's first in favor of long barreled, magazine feed AKM with a reinforced receiver called RPK. these were later partially replaced by modified RPK's chambered for the 5.45x39mm round and today those are being replaced by PKP "Pecheneg" a variant of the PK series firing the larger 7.62x54mm round

Here we see Toyota's on the other side. It really is a versatile platform. In Iraq and Afghanistan US SF used Ford trucks which proved very successful as well.

Okay not the Instructor his Uniform is Desert Tiger his cover (hat) though is British S95 Desert DPM. But Wait there's more in this Camo Collage.
The Gunner student who is wielding a PK machine gun (by the Way) He is wearing a Kuwaiti donated Blue ( police) DPM pattern. this is the same set worn on the four students visible behind the tiger instructor, and the man directly behind the gunner. but the Chubby guy on the far left he is wearing a Blue digital pattern.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

The Gunner student who is wielding a PK machine gun (by the Way) He is wearing a Kuwaiti donated Blue ( police) DPM pattern. this is the same set worn on the four students visible behind the tiger instructor, and the man directly behind the gunner. but the Chubby guy on the far left he is wearing a Blue digital pattern.

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I saw a news report on Tv recently stating young Iraqis were scouring local markets for any type of military uniform.

During the Civil war in the USA 150+ years ago it was common for troops on both sides of the conflict to wear all sorts of uniforms. Including homemade.

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The two sides are often referred to by the color of their official uniforms, blue for the Union, gray for the Confederates.

Uniforms at the beginning of the Civil War, however, showed greater variety than would be true later in the conflict. Many men wore whatever they brought from home. Local militia units that had their own uniforms wore them as they came to join the Union or Confederate armies. Some Union units wore gray, while some Confederates were attired in blue. Some groups, influenced by French Zouaves of North Africa, arrived decked out in baggy trousers—usually bright red or striped—and fez hats or turbans.

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The Zouaves now there is a trip. They wore the most colorful of Uniforms.
There was supposedly one battle Where two units of Zouaves faced off against each other. it was really confusing though as they had both chosen the same color sets for there Dress.

This is a Painting by Winslow Homer called The Brierwood Pipe Depicting the 17th New York

TerraN_EmpirE, you just gave me an idea.. perhaps we can start a military uniform thread. i think that would be interesting. We could go back as far as anyone desired ..and right up to modern times.

Just a thought.

I like it Pops We will have do some research, Sure But I think it cool be fun.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

I like it Pops We will have do some research, Sure But I think it cool be fun.

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I just started the thread...

http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/wor...worlds-military-uniforms-6926.html#post293462

I'll copy some of your post and put them there!

An honor guard carries the casket bearing U.S. Army Pvt. Aaron Toppen, during funeral services at Parkview Christian Church Tuesday June 24, 2014, in Orland Park, Ill. The 19-year-old soldier from suburban Chicago who was killed in Afghanistan was laid to rest Tuesday after hundreds of mourners attended his funeral. Toppen was one of five American service members killed this month when a U.S. airstrike was called to help defend against a Taliban ambush. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Parkview Christian Church,Scott Josephs)

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An honor guard surrounds the casket bearing U.S. Army Pvt. Aaron Toppen, during funeral services at Parkview Christian Church Tuesday June 24, 2014, in Orland Park, Ill.

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Police officers remove the barricades placed to control the Japanese soccer fans to gather after the group C World Cup soccer match between Japan and Colombia near a public viewing venue in Tokyo, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Colombia won 4-1. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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Police officers control Japanese soccer fans gathering after the Group C World Cup soccer match between Japan and Colombia at Tokyo's Shibuya shopping district, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Colombia won 4-1. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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A Pakistani police officer stands guard near Peshawar airport which is cordon off, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 in Pakistan. Authorities in Pakistan were looking for a gunman who opened fire at a plane Tuesday evening just as it was landing in the volatile northwest, killing one person and wounding two others, officials said, casting fresh doubts about security at the country's airports. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Washington state Patrol Chief John Batiste speaks to the media about public awareness and safety efforts the state is making in advance of the start of retail sales of recreational marijuana, on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 in Olympia, Wash. Batiste says troopers are trained to recognize stoned drivers. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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A member of an Iraqi volunteer force holds a weapon during training in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Iraq's top Kurdish leader warned visiting Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday that a rapid Sunni insurgent advance has already created "a new reality and a new Iraq," signaling that the U.S. faces major difficulties in its efforts to promote unity among the country's divided factions. The U.N., meanwhile, said more than 1,000 people, most civilians, have been killed in Iraq so far this month, the highest death toll since the U.S. military withdrew from the country in December 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)

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Members of the National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA) and young farmers struggle with CRS riot police as they burn rice straws to protest against their conditions and tax increases in front of the National Assembly in Paris, June 24, 2014.

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Authorities work the scene where at least two people were killed and multiple others wounded following a shooting early Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood. Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonso said the dead include a 20-year-old man and a teenage girl. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Walter Michot)

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Lebanese army and citizens gather at the site of a car bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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A Forensic inspector and Lebanese army soldiers work at a site of explosion that occured on Monday night in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut June 24, 2014. A suicide bomber blew up his car in Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing a security officer and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. Security forces have been on high alert since a suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 37 near the Syrian border on Friday in an attack that narrowly missed Major General Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon's General Security department.

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A woman looks at damage at a site of an explosion that occured on Monday night in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut June 24, 2014. A suicide bomber blew up his car in Beirut on Monday night near an army checkpoint, killing a security officer and wounding several people watching the soccer World Cup in a nearby cafe. Security forces have been on high alert since a suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 37 near the Syrian border on Friday in an attack that narrowly missed Major General Abbas Ibrahim, head of Lebanon's General Security department.

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An Israeli soldier is seen during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers in the West Bank city of Ramallah June 22, 2014. Israeli troops killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, as Israel continued its crackdown on Islamist group Hamas, blamed for abducting three Israeli youths. Hamas, which refuses to recognise Israel's existence, has neither claimed nor denied responsibility for the disappearance of the youths, who went missing near an Israeli settlement on June 13.

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Russian Vladimir Putin, second right, takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 22, 2014, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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