tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post781568467058546001..comments2023-10-05T04:00:39.089-05:00Comments on Kingdom of Chaos: Russia and GeorgiaEl Jefe Maximohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-26098949400061426342008-08-08T14:11:00.000-05:002008-08-08T14:11:00.000-05:00Those appear to be Russian T-80 tanks fitted with ...Those appear to be Russian T-80 tanks fitted with Kontakt-5 reactive armor blocks attached (the things explode to detonate APFSDS (armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot) shells and other armor penetrators.<BR/><BR/>It carries a 125mm gun (smoothbore) (slightly larger than that carried by the M1A2. The secondary armament varies depending on the specific mark (T-80A, T-80M(U), etc, but includes machine guns, anti tank missiles and has a speed of about 45 mph.<BR/><BR/>As for the Cossacks, the Don host was (I think) a little further north, the Zaporozhian Cossacks in the Ukraine. The Persians and the Ottoman Turks fought over Georgia forever. Russia got Georgia in the 1780's by a "protection" treaty, it was fully incorporated in the Russian Empire in the 1800's sometime. Independent from 1917-21 or so, and again after the fall of the Soviet Union.El Jefe Maximohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661511063910659377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-22781409241992540942008-08-08T13:28:00.000-05:002008-08-08T13:28:00.000-05:00i don't know if this will work or not. i will chec...i don't know if this will work or not. i will check to see if pasting will work.<BR/><BR/>http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WMpSC7nK3os/SJx4NyDaJeI/AAAAAAAAB2g/7pCil6nF0wY/s400/georgia_600<BR/><BR/>it worked for me.<BR/>this is a picture taken by a georgian tv station.<BR/>look like tanks to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8632546.post-78520109261384622652008-08-08T13:18:00.000-05:002008-08-08T13:18:00.000-05:00as i am not familiar with any region outside of so...as i am not familiar with any region outside of southeastern oklahoma, please correct me if i'm wrong.<BR/>has not this fighting been going on for about 500 years now?<BR/>is this not the region that produced the original cosacks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com