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The Kampf Ingenieur Panzer-2 is a combat engineering vehicle built by Konigsblau Systems and derived from the SPZ-50 Samurai IFV Hull. The vehicle features a powerful excavator bucket, as well as internal and external stowage for tools. It carries 6 combat engineers, along with a driver and gunner who may also be used for extra hands if needed. The Kipz-2 are usually held in battalion engineer sections, or the brigade engineer battalion, in typical operations, the vehicles are often attached one per company from the battalion engineer section.
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
ReShade 0.12 + Master Effect Reborn
So much better than plain sweetfx. Although, I think some grain and maybe even slight vignette would have been better.
Higher resolution version here: puu.sh/eGQmL/741d1889be.jpg
Paris - LACPIXEL - 2017
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Armament:
Energy Rifle
Energy Pistols x 2
Energy Swords x 2
Composite Shield
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In the past, I've build various mecha builds before, usually four legged ones, or if bipedal, they usually had very squat and stubby proportions, but I wanted to do a pose-able "Gundam-esque" mecha with more “heroic” proportions for a long time now. This is the result, and I tried to balance aesthetics, range of motion, and overall structural strength.
I got the ab joint design from chubbybots and I repurposed it for the knees.
This is the first time I made a mech of this scale, scope, and size and I'm not 100% satisfied with it so let me know your thoughts and critiques.
This is at 600mm then cropped, so the image quality is lousy, but hey...wild caribou beating one another up!
Peregrine Aerial Combat Training Phase is always a joy to watch. Engineers have actually used some of their moves in designing fighter jets!
For the BrickArms Mystery Pack vol3.
There is one of these in each pack.
Included trans, crazy metallics, rubber, and swirls.
A Modified Wombat APC for limited combat operations. Equipped with Long Range Missile Tubes, Defensive Machine Gun Turret, Armor Plates and LowGrav Hoverdrive.
A reimagining of the old "Storm Combat Walker II", a MOC made during my Master Builder Academy tenure.
Omaha Beach, Fox Red sector, Normandy , France
Omaha Beach
Omaha was divided into ten sectors, codenamed (from west to east): Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, Easy Green, Easy Red, Fox Green and Fox Red. On june 6, 1944 -D-Day - the initial assault on Omaha was to be made by two Regimental Combat Teams (RCT), supported by two tank battalions, with two battalions of Rangers also attached. The RCT's were part of the veteran 1st Infantry division ("The Big Red One") and the untested 29th ("Blue and Grey") , a National Guard unit.
The plan was to make frontal assaults at the "draws" (valleys) in the bluffs which dominate the coast in Normandy , codenamed west to east they were called D-1, D-3, E-1, E-3 and F-1 . These draws could then be used to move inland with reserves and vehicles.
The Germans were not stupid; they knew the draws were vital and concentrated their limited resources in defending them. To this end they built "Widerstandsneste" with AT guns, mortars, MG's in Tobrul's, trenches and bunkers, manned by soldiers of the German 716th and - more recently - 352nd Infantry Division, a large portion of whom were teenagers, though they were supplemented by veterans who had fought on the Eastern Front. All in all some 1100 German soldiers defended the entire Omaha beach sector of over 5 miles.
Preliminary bombardments were almost totally ineffective and when the initial waves landed at low tide they met with fiece opposition of an enemy well dug in and prepared.
Casualties were heaviest amongst the troops landing at either end of Omaha. At Fox Green and Easy Red, scattered elements of three companies were reduced to half strength by the time they gained the relative safety of the shingle, many of them having crawled the 300 yards (270 m) of beach just ahead of the incoming tide. Casualties were especially heavy amongst the first waves of soldiers and the gap assault teams - at Omaha these were tasked with blasting channels through the beach obstacles. German gunfire from the bluffs above the beach took a heavy toll on these men. The demolition teams managed to blast only six complete gaps and three partial ones; more than half their engineers were killed in the process.
Situation at Dog Green and on Easy Red on the other end of Omaha by mid morning was so bad with nearly all the troops essentially pinned down on the beach gen. Eisenhower seriously considered to abandon the operation; in "First Wave at OMAHA Beach", S.L.A. Marshall, chief U.S. Army combat historian, called it "an epic human tragedy which in the early hours bordered on total disaster."
As the US first waves assault forces and combat engineers landing directly opposite the "draws" were pinned down it was up to forces landing on the flanks of the strongpoints to penetrate the weaker German defences by climbing the bluffs. Doing this they had to overcome the minefields and barbed wire as well as machinegun fire from German positions but they did and they were able to attack some key strongpoints from the side and the rear, taking them out by early afternoon.
This happened on several spots at Omaha and essentially saved the day: individual acts of initiative by lower ranked officers and courage like that of First Lieutenant Jimmy Monteith, who led a group of men to take one of the key German widerstandsneste and was killed in action, succeeded where a flawed plan failed.
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Fox Red is the easternmost sector of Omaha Beach (Omaha was divided into ten sectors, codenamed (from west to east): Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, Easy Green, Easy Red, Fox Green and Fox Red) .
On june 6 troops men of the 3/16th RCT used the cliffs here as a natural protection against the relentless MG fire from the German Widerstandsnests WN-60 and WN-61 guarding the Easy-3 exit near Colleville; one of the "draws" in the terrain which would allow heavy weapons and tanks to go inland.
Some of the iconic pictures of d-day were taken here in the early hours of june 6 when the first assault waves of the 1st infantry division attacking the Colleville draw were pretty much pinned down on the beach. Check this photo.
As it was a smaller exit, code named Fox-1 near here was used to breach the german defenses and eventually take the strong WN's to the west.
Official US Army history:
"Four sections of Company L had landed and reorganized on the western end of Fox Red sector, where the bluff, merging here into a partial cliff just beyond the highwater shingle, afforded good cover. The company commander was killed as he exposed himself to direct the fire of some nearby tanks, and 1st Lt. Robert R. Cutler, Jr., took command. The sections were moved west, out of the shelter of the cliff and to a position where they were just below the strongpoint commanding F-1 draw. Two tanks were called on for fire support. As a scheme of maneuver, Lieutenant Cutler sent three sections and headquarters, 2d and 3d Sections leading, up the draw a little to the west of the strongpoint. There were no hostile prepared positions at the head or the west side of the draw. The heavy brush gave good cover from enemy small-arms fire, and the 2d and 3d Sections worked to the top in squad columns without serious losses, despite crossing enemy minefields. Here the 2d Section moved left and got in position to take the strongpoint from behind; a little to the right, the 3d and 5th Sections moved a short distance inland and organized a hasty defensive position. The three sections kept in contact with each other and with the beach." ("Omaha Beachhead", AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION official US War department series)
"Private Steve Kellman's story:
"In the pre-dawn darkness aboard the HMS Empire Anvil, 21-year-old Private Steve Kellman, a rifleman in L Company, 16th Infantry, felt the crushing weight of the moment: "In the hours before the invasion, while we were below decks, a buddy of mine, Bill Lanaghan said to me, ‘Steve, I’m scared.’ And I said, ‘I’m scared, too.’"
Then, about three or three-thirty that morning, an officer gave the order and Kellman and Lanaghan and the nearly 200 men in L Company began to climb awkwardly over the gunwales of their transport and descend the unsteady "scramble nets," just as they had done in training so many times before.
"The nets were flapping against the side of the vessel, and the little landing craft were bouncing up and down," said Kellman.
"It was critical that you tried to get into the landing craft when it was on the rise because there was a gap - the nets didn't quite reach and you had to jump down. That was something we hadn¹t practiced before. We had practiced going down the nets, but the sea was calm. This was a whole new experience."
"We circled in our landing craft for what seemed like an eternity," recalled Steve Kellman. "The battleships opened up and the bombers were going over.
Every once in a while, I looked over the side and I could see the smoke and the fire, and I thought to myself, ‘we're pounding the hell out of them and there isn¹t going to be much opposition.’
As we got in closer, we passed some yellow life rafts and I had the impression that they must have been from a plane that went down, or maybe they were from the
amphibious tanks that might have sunk; I don’t know.
These guys were floating in these rafts and, as we went by, they gave us the ‘thumbs up’ sign. We thought, ‘they don't seem very worried - what the hell do we have to be worried about?’ But, as we got in closer, we could hear the machine-gun bullets hitting the sides of the vessel and the ramp in front." "While in training, we were told of all the things that would be done in order," recalled Harley Reynolds. "But to see it all come together was mind-boggling." What Reynolds saw was a heavily fortified, enemy-held beachhead that had barely been touched by Allied bombs and shells. (..) All but five of the 32 amphibious Sherman tanks had sunk, carrying their crewmen to their deaths.
There was not so much as a single bomb crater on the beach in which to hide, and the German gunners were all alert and zeroed in on the narrow strip of beach, five miles long, code-named "Omaha."
(The Battle for Easy Red, Fox Green By Flint Whitlock)
The viewpoint is from roughly the centre of fox Red looking towards the east. Shot with a Nikon D7000 and Tokina AT-X Pro SD 12-24mm F4 lens, august 2012. Tonemapped using three differently exposed (handheld) shots.
See my other Omaha beach photo's for more viewpoints, panorama shots and notes on the fighting
For a map of the eastern part of Omaha click here. The German WN's are marked as well as the Draws and beach sections.
This is a new design that will be in my store soon along with the new airborne designs.
The face decal is a wip, I wanted to get some feedback on it.
A day out in the Cotswolds at the end of November 2024 on the look out for Short-eared Owls.
Every now and then two or three of the Short-eared Owls would come together and fly a short of Aerial Combat without actually hitting each other. They would then fly off to different parts of the fields to continue hunting.
Short-eared Owls are medium sized Owls with mottled brown bodies, pale under-wings and yellow eyes. They are often seen hunting during the day. In winter, there's an influx of continental birds from Scandinavia, Russia, Iceland to the UK.
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The Combat Shotgun, colloquially known as the "Boomstick" by Kohlan troops, is a 12 gauge shotgun designed for breaching doors. Firing a heavy weight load to cleave through locks and hinges, it can reduce the sturdiest door to Swiss cheese in two shots. In a pinch, it can be used as an anti personnel weapon, but the 4+1 magazine capacity puts the operator at a disadvantage.
Manufacturer: Kohl State Technologies
Caliber: 12g
Range: 35m
Weight: 4.2kg
Length: 620mm
System of operation: Pump, lever locking bolt
First shotgun ever, woop!
Marines assigned to Marine Light Helicopter Attack Squadron (HMLA) 169 conduct preflight preparations on Camp Bastion, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2013. HMLA-169 is deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alejandro Pena)
The Kampf Ingenieur Panzer-2 is a combat engineering vehicle built by Konigsblau Systems and derived from the SPZ-50 Samurai IFV Hull. The vehicle features a powerful excavator bucket, as well as internal and external stowage for tools. It carries 6 combat engineers, along with a driver and gunner who may also be used for extra hands if needed. The Kipz-2 are usually held in battalion engineer sections, or the brigade engineer battalion, in typical operations, the vehicles are often attached one per company from the battalion engineer section.
Navy Combat / Heft-Reihe
Torpedo Taylor
cover: Bill Everett
- Torpedo Taylor / Prepare to Dive!
(art: Don Heck)
- Wolf Pack
(art: Gene Colan)
- Shot Down in Flames!
(art: Bob Forgione)
- Troopship
(art: Angelo Torres)
- Our Fighting Fleet / The Doomed Convoy!
(art: George Woodbridge)
Editor: Stan Lee
Marvel (Atlas); Manvis Publications, Inc. / USA 1957
[Last issue with Atlas globe colophon on cover.]
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
Le Combat de Carnaval et Carême est un tableau peint à l'huile par Pieter Brueghel l'Ancien en 1559, qui représente une lutte (festive et symbolique) traditionnelle de l'époque, où deux chars et deux personnages étaient chargés d'incarner le contraste entre deux thèmes : le mardi gras (= Carnaval, c'est-à-dire étymologiquement « adieu à la viande ») et le mercredi des Cendres (= Carême, où seule la consommation de poisson était autorisée). Ces deux défilés rivaux devaient finalement s'affronter : le tableau dépeint le moment où ils vont croiser leurs lances respectives, sur une place du marché très animée.
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Rivalité entre une hyène tachetée et des lycaon. Delta de l'Okavango.
(Crocuta crocuta - Lycaon pictus)
SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 20, 2020) Naval Aircrewman 1st Class Amber Barlow, assigned to the "Wildcards" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23, prepares to conduct an in-flight training exercise in an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, March 20, 2020. HSC-23 is embarked abroad the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10). Gabrielle Giffords, part of Destroyer Squadron Seven, is on a rotational deployment, operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force.(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brenton Poyser/Released)