Saturday, April 18, 2009

Why go through the trouble?

© REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

This is a photo of some soldiers on parade in Iran. One thing I cannot understand is why wear such elaborate ghilly suits if you are armed with AK-47 rifles with only metal sights. Seems like a waste of perfectly good camouflage.

Maybe they have more sinister plans...
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4 comments:

  1. HaikApril 18, 2009 7:16 PM

    Should be extremely uncomfortable so that after an hour pretending to be a totally useless shrub a soldier might put his hands up and give in/up.
    Maybe was a bright idea of some high ranking office genius.

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  2. Armen FiladelfiatsiApril 19, 2009 2:43 PM

    Dude, those aren't ghilly suits, those are man-chadors.

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  3. HaikApril 19, 2009 3:45 PM

    Maybe they don't want to disclose the make of Iranian army sniper rifles (?).
    Anyway, I guess it is strange to walk in a parade with a standard small arms like AKM with such an elaborate camouflage gear.

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  4. AnonymousApril 26, 2009 10:05 PM

    It's for parade only. The Iranian snipers use HS .50 as their main weapon.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_HS_.50

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