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Palestinian Fatah fighters is seen in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp outside the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon on March 22, 2008 following clashes the night before between Islamic militants and Fatah fighters. Quiet returned to Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp today after a ceasefire between Islamic militants of Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Damascus) and fighters of the mainstream Fatah faction ended heavy clashes. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/***** Images)

Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stand guard at their base 30 km west of Kandahar on March 22, 2008.

Protesters throw stones at riot policemen during a demonstration in the southeastern Turkish city of Van, on 22 March 2008. Tensions were high in the eastern city of Van, where riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a crowd of some 1,500 people, who set bonfires and barricades in the streets and broke the windows of shops and government buildings, reports said. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)

Turkish riot police, confront, beat & detain protesters after a clash in southeast city of Van, on March 22, 2008.

bd popeye · Mar 22, 2008

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As a friendly reminder..I do not have hi-res of any of these Ge**y PIX!!

Spanish soldiers, members of the NATO mission in Kosovo secure the perimeter around the municipal court in Northern, Serb populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo, on 22 March, 2008.

Israeli soldiers monitor a demonstration by Palestinian and foreign activists against the construction of the controversial Israeli separation barrier in the village of Umm Salamunah near the West Bank town of Bethlehem on March 21, 2008. Visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized today Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and called for an end to the Jewish state's "unacceptable" blockade of the Gaza Strip. AFP PHOTO/MUSA AL-SHAER (Photo credit should read MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/***** Images)

Tanzanian African Union (AU) troops celebrate after military training exercises in Fomboni, the capital of Comoros island of Moheli on March 22, 2008. More than 500 African Union troops arrived on Moheli today to join local forces massed for a military offensive to retake the rebel island of Anjouan. The Indian Ocean archipelago -- between Madagascar and Mozambique -- did not recognise the re-election of Anjouan leader Colonel Mohamed Bacar in June 2007 and a tense stand-off is now poised to turn into an AU-backed invasion of the island.AFP PHOTO/JOSE CENDON (Photo credit should read JOSE CENDON/AFP/***** Images)

Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stationed 30 kms west of Kandahar province on March 22, 2008.

bd popeye · Mar 23, 2008

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Pakistani regular military, paramilitary forces, equipment, aircraft parade & perform during the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2008. Embattled Musharraf said that a real democratic era had begun in his country following elections and he would give full support to the new government. Musharraf's opponents trounced his allies in February 18 general elections and the new coalition government appears set for a confrontation after vowing to reinstate judges whom the president sacked during a state of emergency in November 2007. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

bd popeye · Mar 24, 2008

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Artillery units of the Ukrainian 13th Army Corps conduct exercises in Lviv, Ukraine

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Gollevainen · Mar 24, 2008

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Well the gun in question is the 152mm 2A65 MSTA-B which is the same gun as in the 2S19 SP gun. Its the last serieproduction towed artillery piece of this range which came from the Soviet Union.

There are few interesting things in the picture.

First is that there is apparently two sights fitted. The standart angle-sight which is used when firing over-the-horizon (which we called KKP) and the straight aiming-sight which is used for anti-tank and other direct firings. What is unusal is that the both sights are fitted at the same time. To me its interesting that those sights are identical to the ones we used with D-30s so I guess the soviets used same sights with all of the their artillery pieces. Well why wouldn't they, those sights are accurate and simple as hell. If you look the last picture, where the guy aims the BM-21 Grad 122mm MRLs, you can see the same angle-sight.

Seccond interesting feature is the white string or line which is attached to the gun. Thats the "remote-tricker" eg. the string is linked to the firing nob and the gun is fired from the distance. This was standart practice when fired at the first time from your fire position. Also if you notice that there is a wooden frames over the tubes. Those are restrictors, made that the gun could be fired only to one narrow, safe direction. We didn't use that sort of restrictions but the standart restrictor which was attached to the aiming devices. We set the paramets to the restrictor and you were unable to aim the gun to wrong directions. Also unfortunetly the guys wares no earprotection...poor buggers

bd popeye · Mar 24, 2008

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Thanks golly for your insightful words. It's all great to hear from former service members with experience

bd popeye · Mar 25, 2008

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Police charge at protesting monks near the Chinese Embassy's visa section in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 25, 2008. Nepali police charged at protesting Tibetans with bamboo batons on Tuesday, injuring some monks and detaining dozens of others.
REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar

Comoran and Tanzanian African Union soldiers arrest a man suspected of collaborating with renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu, the Anjouan capital, on 25 March 2008. The Comoran army said it had located the renegade leader of the isle of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, during the operation it launched earlier March 25, 2008 with the African Union to oust him. Some 400 AND troops backed by around 1,000 soldiers from Sudan and Tanzania launched a offensive before dawn to wrest back control of the isle of Anjouan from Bacar, its self-proclaimed leader, and capture him. AFP PHOTO / JOSE CENDON (Photo credit should read JOSE CENDON/AFP/Getty Images)

Comoran army take positions during fightings against Anjouanese gendarmes in Ouani, near Mutsamudu on March 25, 2008.

Pakistani army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (L) arrives for the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected Prime Minister at the President Palace in Islamabad on March 25, 2008.

An Afghan police officer passes through a poppy field, as an Afghan man uses a tractor to destroy poppy crops, right, during poppy eradication in Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Afghanistan last year produced 93 percent of the world's opium, the main ingredient in heroin, and Helmand produced more than 50 percent of the country's opium. More than 80 percent of the province's farmers are involved in the opium trade. (AP Photo)

Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces take part in a training session in the West Bank town of Jenin, Tuesday, March, 25, 2008. Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday said he would soon allow 600 foreign-trained Palestinian police to take up positions in the volatile West Bank town of Jenin in a gesture aimed at helping the moderate Palestinian government restore law and order. (AP Photo Mohammed Ballas)

Israeli military paramedics and rescue soldiers wearing protective gear stand in a bus stop during an exercise simulating a chemical attack in a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Police officers confront, beat and detain Tibetan monks as Tibetans protest against Chinese rule in Tibet, outside the Chinese Embassy's visa office in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, March 25, 2008. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

A National Army of Development (AND) soldier is seen after firing at soldiers loyal to Col. Mohammed Bacar, north of the Anjouan capital of Mutsamudu, after Tanzanian African Union troops and Comoros government soldiers arrived by sea and took control of the port and surrounding areas in Anjouan, Comoros, Tuesday, March 25, 2008. The Comoros government captured the capital of the rebel-held island of Anjouan on Tuesday, just hours after an African Union-backed military operation got under way to oust a renegade colonel who took power in May, a defense official said. However, about a dozen armed men, who identified themselves as loyalists to renegade Col. Mohamed Bacar, appeared in control just over a mile outside the capital, Mutsamudu, and awaiting an attack. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

soldier loyal to Col. Mohammed Bacar mans a position in the village of Mirontsy, north of the Anjouan capital of Mutsamudu, after Tanzanian African Union troops and Comoros government soldiers arrived by sea and took control of the port and surrounding areas in Anjouan, Comoros, Tuesday, March 25, 2008.

An Iraqi police officer mans a checkpoint in Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Iraqi forces clashed with Shiite militias in the southern oil port of Basra on Tuesday as a security plan to clamp down on violence between rival militia factions in the region began. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

bd popeye · Mar 25, 2008

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Afghan policemen stand next to a captured Taliban fighter after a gun battle near the village of Shajoy in Zabol province March 22, 2008. Afghan police backed by U.S. troops killed three Taliban fighters and captured three more in a 40-minute gun battle in southern Afghanistan on Saturday. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (AFGHANISTAN)
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

A Palestinian Fatah fighter stops journalists from entering an alley at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp after night clashes between rival Palestinian groups in the camp at Sidon city in southern Lebanon March 22, 2008.
REUTERS/Ali Hashisho

Members of the Palestine Liberation Organization's "Armed Struggle" unit that is in charge of security in the Palestinian camps, pass next to Palestinians women buying oranges, as they deploy three days after clashes between rival Palestinian factions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday March 24, 2008. Several people were wounded in the clashes.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatarir)

Dozens of Egyptian anti-riot soldiers take their positions, outside Cairo university, Egypt, Monday, March 24, 2008. Hundreds of students, mostly followers of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrated against the government's campaign to try 40 of the group's leaders and financiers in front of a military court on charges of money laundering and terrorism a day before their verdict. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Nepalese policemen arrest female Tibetan protesters in exile during an anti-Chinese demonstration at MaitiGhar in Kathmandu on March 24, 2008. At least 245 Tibetans were detained in Nepal after police baton-charged a pro-Tibet rally near a United Nations office in Kathmandu, police and an eyewitness said. AFP PHOTO /Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/***** Images)

Tibetans are beaten up while protesting against Chinese rule in Tibet, outside the U.N. office in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday March 24, 2008. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)

Turkish riot policemen beat a protester during a clash in Van, on March 24, 2008. Unrest in the Kurdish region of southeast Turkey on Sunday left two people dead and two police officers injured, officials and witnesses said Sunday. Violence erupted when celebrations to mark March 21 -- Newroz Day, or the Kurdish new year -- degenerated into protests in favour of separatist Kurdish rebels, and the authorities banned gatherings in some cities.

Kurdish boy runs away during a clash with riot police in Van, on March 24, 2008. Unrest in the Kurdish region of southeast Turkey on Sunday left two people dead and two police officers injured, officials and witnesses said Sunday. Violence erupted when celebrations to mark March 21 -- Newroz Day, or the Kurdish new year

OLYMPIA, GREECE - MARCH 24: A protestor for "free Tibet" is lead away by a security guard as the President of the Organising Committee for the Beijing Olympics Mr Liu Qi (L) makes his speech, in the Ancient Stadium during the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia on March 24, 2008 in Olympia, Greece. (Photo by Michael Steele/***** Images)

bd popeye · Mar 25, 2008

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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, top left, looks out from the turret of a tank at a training ground with its crew during his visit to the 8th army corps, located in Honcharivske village, 151 km (91 miles) western from Kiev, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008 file photo. Ukrainian officials will showcase these and other reforms at that NATO summit in Bucharest next week, hoping to get an initial invitation for this ex-Soviet republic to join the Western military alliance and cement its place in the European community. (AP Photo/Mykola Lazarenko)

A Comoran soldier take positions during fightings against Anjouanese gendarmes in Ouani, near Mutsamudu on March 25, 2008. African Union and Comoran troops are still fighting for control of the rebel island of Anjouan, where they are searching for renegade leader Mohamed Bacar, the defence minister said on March 25, 2008. AFP PHOTO / JOSE CENDON (Photo credit should read JOSE CENDON/AFP/Getty Images)

A Tanzanian African Union soldier shoots a rocket to the positions of supporters of renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu the capital Anjouan on 25 March 2008.

A Comorian soldier (L) shoots at the positions of supporters of renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu, the Anjouan capital, on 25 March 2008

bd popeye · Mar 26, 2008

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Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces take part in a training session in the West Bank town of Jenin, Wednesday, March, 26, 2008. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has agreed to transfer police cars, rubber-coated steel bullets and night-vision equipment to Palestinian security forces, but remains opposed to removing army checkpoints that hamper Palestinian travel in the West Bank, officials said Wednesday.(AP Photo Mohammed Ballas)

An armed uniformed Myanmar soldier takes position amid the crowd during the opening ceremony of the newly opened Zoological Garden in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyitaw, Myanmar Wednesday March 26, 2008. (AP Photo)

AU soldiers stand in front of thousands of people who have taken to the streets near the port after hearing yet another rumor of the capture of Bacar, in Anjouan, Comoros, Wednesday, March 26 2008. Most of the capital of the rebel-held island off the southeast coast of Africa was calm on Wednesday, a day after the Comoros government seized control of it, as troops continued to search for the renegade colonel who has been seeking the island's independence. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha, left and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan inspect an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony in Tirana Wednesday March 26, 2008. Erdogan is on a one day visit to Albania. Turkey will be a strong supporter of Albania's efforts to join NATO at the alliance's summit in Bucharest, Romania, next week, Erdogan said .(AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

A Shanghai police officer photographs North Korea fans during of a World Cup soccer qualifying match between two Koreas, Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at Hongkou Football Stadium in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Turkish Armed Forces Chief of Staff Yasar Buyukanit, left, salutes before meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, unseen, in Turkish occupied area of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Buyukanit, who is on an official visit to the north, pledged that Turkish troops would remain on the island as long as takes to reach a reunification agreement. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Palestinian stone-throwers run during clashes with Israeli troops in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus March 25, 2008.
REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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HAIFA NAVAL BASE, Israel (March 24, 2008) Sailors aboard the Eilat-class corvette INS Lavhav (SAAR 502) perform line-handling duties as the ship moors pierside Naval Base Haifa. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien (Released)

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HAIFA NAVAL BASE, Israel (March 24, 2008) Israeli Sailors paint the hull of a SAAR 5 Corvette during a visit by Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter. Winter is on a three-day visit to Israel in support of the strong relationship and collaboration between the Israel and U.S. naval forces. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien (Released)

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HAIFA NAVAL BASE, Israel (March 24, 2008) Sailors aboard the Eilat-class corvette INS Lavhav (SAAR 502) perform line-handling duties as the ship moors pierside Naval Base Haifa. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien (Released)

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HAIFA NAVAL BASE, Israel (March 24, 2008) Sailors from the Israeli Navy render honors to Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter prior to getting underway with Eilat-class corvette INS Lavhav (SAAR 502).

An Afghan policeman searches a house for weapons in a village near the town of Qalat, in Zabul province, Afghanistan, March 25, 2008.
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