BANG!
BANG!
Over the last year I had few opportunities to visit Polish Air force Training Centre in Ustka
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- capercaillie
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Fantastic shots and fascinating photos but where are the aircraft?
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capercaillie wrote:...but where are the aircraft?
Usually they shoot to remotely controlled drones - you can see remains of the unlucky drone
in the last photograph, other times they shoot to kind of rocket propelled target.
But no, there are no aircraft involved in this kind of excercise...
Edit.
...ahhh, but I posted this topic in the 'Off Topic' thread...
I'm not sure what happened...
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Thanks for sharing something a little different!
What's being fired in the first couple of photos, I'm curious as to the change in colour during the trajectory?
What's being fired in the first couple of photos, I'm curious as to the change in colour during the trajectory?
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Jeez, I can smell the cordite from here. So what if they are not pics of aircraft, it's at least loosely aviation related. I've tried to get mortars, MLRS, and artillery in the past, and it aint easy, so well done on getting those Leszek.
"Nice pics mate" comments only! No criticism please.
Equipment: Camera, Lens, Goretex Y fronts.
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jalfrezi wrote:Thanks for sharing something a little different!
What's being fired in the first couple of photos, I'm curious as to the change in colour during the trajectory?
Possibly it is just some type of tracer bullet type round, and that's them falling back to earth as they run out of steam. It's hard to get a sense of scale in darkness.
"Nice pics mate" comments only! No criticism please.
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toom317 wrote:jalfrezi wrote:Thanks for sharing something a little different!
What's being fired in the first couple of photos, I'm curious as to the change in colour during the trajectory?
Possibly it is just some type of tracer bullet type round, and that's them falling back to earth as they run out of steam. It's hard to get a sense of scale in darkness.
Exactly, this is tracer round.
I've asked about the change in colour people from the unit that uses ZUR-23-2. They weren't sure, but most likely it's due to temperature of the tracer right
after leaving the barrel and the fact that the phosphorus in the tracer initially burns with the remains of the propellant ('gun powder') from the round.
But, as I mentioned, they weren't sure. Tt's just the theory...
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lmk wrote:toom317 wrote:jalfrezi wrote:Thanks for sharing something a little different!
What's being fired in the first couple of photos, I'm curious as to the change in colour during the trajectory?
Possibly it is just some type of tracer bullet type round, and that's them falling back to earth as they run out of steam. It's hard to get a sense of scale in darkness.
Exactly, this is tracer round.
I've asked about the change in colour people from the unit that uses ZUR-23-2. They weren't sure, but most likely it's due to temperature of the tracer right
after leaving the barrel and the fact that the phosphorus in the tracer initially burns with the remains of the propellant ('gun powder') from the round.
But, as I mentioned, they weren't sure. Tt's just the theory...
Thanks for the explanation, I guess that also explains the steep fall off in trajectory as the round burns off mass in flight.
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Wow! Very impressive images and many very good long exposures
For us Westerners who aren't so firm in Russian military army hardware it would be helpful to have a few words of explanation on the types of equipment, or maybe the NATO reporting names of these, just to give us an idea of what you are showing there
And, yes, I also miss a few aircraft in the set.
Thanks for sharing these very rare impressions
For us Westerners who aren't so firm in Russian military army hardware it would be helpful to have a few words of explanation on the types of equipment, or maybe the NATO reporting names of these, just to give us an idea of what you are showing there
And, yes, I also miss a few aircraft in the set.
Thanks for sharing these very rare impressions
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BigClick67 wrote: For us Westerners who aren't so firm in Russian military army hardware it would be helpful
to have a few words of explanation on the types of equipment, or maybe the NATO reporting names of these,
just to give us an idea of what you are showing there
You're right, I should have thought about it earlier...
So here it goes:
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23 mm anti-aircraft twin-barreled autocannon/missle system ZUR-23-2KG.
It's polish modification of ZU-23-2 cannon with added electro-optical sight, electromechanic
gun turn system and twin launcher for "Grom" missiles which is fired on image number 3 .
Number 7-10
SA-6 "Gainful" - mobile surface-to-air missile system, we know it as 2K12 "Kub".
Number 11-14
57 mm AZP S-60 - Automatic anti-aircraft cannon S-60.
Towed, road-transportable, short- to medium-range, single-barrel anti-aircraft cannon from the 1950s.
Number 15-17
Grom (Thunder) - man-portable anti-aircraft missile produced in Poland.
Number 18-21
SA-8 "Gecko" - mobile, amphibious, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air missile system, for us 9K33 "Osa"
Number 22-27
ZSU-23-4MP "Biała" - self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. It's polish modernisation of ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" with
digital electro-optical targeting system and launcher for 4 "Grom" missiles, fired on image 23.
Number 28-30
S-125 Newa SC - surface-to-air missile, NATO code SA-3 "Goa".
It's polish modernisation of S-125 with digital fire control and mobile missile launcher and radar.
Hope this helps!
BigClick67 wrote: And, yes, I also miss a few aircraft in the set.
Aircraft are rarely to be seen in Ustka., When they take part in live fire excercise
they are usually very far, beyond visual range, because of the safety regulations.
Sometimes, when you're really lucky you can catch something like this:
Sorry for the quality, but it was 3-5 kilometers away.
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Certainly something different, thanks for posting and for the explanations.
That Fitter is pretty good going. Once saw munitions being dropped on Cape Wrath they were a long way out and very difficult to photograph. Interesting the time lag between flash (speed of light) and bang (speed of sound)!
That Fitter is pretty good going. Once saw munitions being dropped on Cape Wrath they were a long way out and very difficult to photograph. Interesting the time lag between flash (speed of light) and bang (speed of sound)!
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Without doubt one of the most interesting sets to have been seen on UKAR in my opinion of course. Fantastic thank you for sharing.
I was thinking of taking advantage of the kindness and benevolence of Mr O Leary and accepting his offer of £30 return to Poland in the coming weeks, having seen these pics I might settle for a trip to Wales in the car.
I was thinking of taking advantage of the kindness and benevolence of Mr O Leary and accepting his offer of £30 return to Poland in the coming weeks, having seen these pics I might settle for a trip to Wales in the car.