Azriel Aidid

-Just random guy who enjoy his life -Temporary aviation artist -military history fan

[Subhan Javed 786 @SubhanJaved911]

Afghanistan’s forgotten ballistic blitz 🚀 ...

Between april 1989 and nov 1990, Afghan 🇦🇫 99th missile brigade from Darulaman base, Kabul launched 17 Scud-B ballistic missiles on Pakistan !

In all 35+ Pakistani civilians got killed and 50+ were injured.

2 landed in Attock district of Punjab & 2 in Hazara region by crossing indus river. 🇵🇰 had no answer to mach 5 projectile as air defence was meant for vital areas only with Crotale, SA-2/HQ-2B surface to air missiles!

Scud B was a single stage liquid fuel SRBM with 300 km range and CEP of 450 metres. It was used as an area bombing weapon and its effect was psychological as well as physical.

Between 1988-92 🇦🇫 experienced the heaviest ballistic missile campaign since World War II. The Soviet backed Kabul regime fired 1,700 to 2,000 Scud-B missiles to survive from Mujahideen after the Red Army's exit.

During battle of Jalalabad in the spring of 1989 alone, 400+ B.M were launched and in a single strike on Assadabad town in Kunnar province, 300 people got killed. Overall thousands of casualties occured (killed and wounded) during afghan civil war.

What do you think of this forgotten and less known 1st ever B.M combat use in south asia. How it changed the regional dynamics & can Pakistan afford to neglect the Russian warm up with IEA regime to supply "medicines" ⁉️⁉️

[Csaba Tóth 🇸🇴 @tothcsabatibor]

For me, there was a literal, single moment of the film series capturing the exact second, where it all ends: a point of no return, where "Yugoslavia" become the hell on earth we know from the 1990's. Masterful audiovisual storytelling.

[Kaz 🇵🇰 @kozamli]

Flight Commander of a PAF Dassault Mirage 5PA2 from #5 Sqn leaving for a practice bombing mission on a clearance sign by ground crew.
[📸: Syed Zohaib Zaidi]

[jeffholy @jeffbearholy]

Artwork: “GAZA” full video #gaza #GazaStarving #Israel #Palestine

[Chris Bolton @CcibChris]

Handley Page Victor tanker accompanied by a pair of Desert Pink Jaguars. Who doesn't love the overwing Sidewinder pylons!
credit Aviation Titan

[f@iz🇺🇦 @MFCHANNEL19]

Glory to cronyism
Glory to atjomok
LCS batch 2 guna lah Atjomok atau beli terus istif class
Stupid Fuck boomers will said “fuck those French ship design” we will pick Turkish rat

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Postcards depicting TV towers in the former USSR, 1980s.

[Azriel Aidid @AzrielAidid]

FIRST COMMISSIONED ART

MiG-29SD of the Royal Malaysian Air Force
Media: Procreate

A export variant of the Soviet-designed MiG-29SD (9.12SD) fighter jet designated as the MiG-29N. Malaysia purchased 18 of these in 1994

#fyp #digitalart #aviation

[Azriel Aidid @AzrielAidid]

Please let this piece blew up again

[Piotr Zbies @Zbiesu]

#Tak

[Foxtrot Tango @foxtrotalpha95]

Mirage VPA3 at Masroor.

[B-AREV @trip_to_valkiri]

Mi-35 attack helicopter of the Afghan Democratic Republic Air Force seen in 1988.

[Azriel Aidid @AzrielAidid]

Also I liked the early RMAF service dress which was based directly from RAF with ranks on sleeves

Images of YDPA Agong (Raja Perlis) on his state visit to Thailand in 1966 (source: FINAS)

[kucingmilitari @kucenmilitarimy]

Again reminder that the issue here is not One China policy, but he unknowingly played into a trap. It is supposed to be ambiguous(!!)

By relativising Beijing's goals with Malaysia's security, he implied alignment to Beijing's view.
This is seen as a shift from Tun Razak era.

[Azriel Aidid @AzrielAidid]

Also I liked the early RMAF service dress which was based directly from RAF with ranks on sleeves

Images of YDPA Agong (Raja Perlis) on his state visit to Thailand in 1966 (source: FINAS)

[Keane Rara @GardaAramis]

RMAF pilots ala RAF

[Fact Or Farb @FactOrFarb]

Bulgaria was probably the least-known country to have provided military aid to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. This was partly due to its small military industry, meaning that outside of hardcore collectors, most people are unfamiliar with its weapons.

[ZSD63 @zsd63]

In the 1980s, North Korea used shell companies to purchase 80+ American MD 500E military helicopters, and smuggled into the country them via a network of ghost ships. Below, one of the aircraft is seen at an airbase in the 2000s.

[Just An Ordinary Vietnamese Militia Soldier @Milita1935]

A pair of Mig-21s in service with the VNPAF in the mid 80s, the leading Mig seems to have a 3 tone camouflage apply

[Azriel Aidid @AzrielAidid]

@EVostox @righttakurou @IssekiNagae Besides, their terror goes way beyond this (ww2)