I love these guys and their funny clown camo. Post Belgians, can be either historical or present day.
belgian pawa
I love that chapter of the Belgian air force where they switched to flecktarn for some 10-15 years
Their modern gear is generic and gay
>>64233557Have a high res version
>>64233271Didn't those doggos tow machine guns if I recall correctly?>>64233549Well they do share a border with the Dutch?
>>64237506Nvg for a europoor military in the 90s was a big deal. Surprised to see it here.
>>64237699Belgium was balling in the 90s
>>64234336I bet it sucks riding that but im not gonna pretend like that doesnt look fucking sick
>>64233180Why Belgium even exist? Couldn't Napoleon fuck them up in a day ? Heck even today's France could take it in a day. They are pathetic compared to similar "countries" like Switzerland. Idk why France is so gay and doesn't take all the french speaking countries around
>>64238030Considering the Belgian army is a branch of the French army in all but name nowadays. A day would be long.
>>64233180
>>64233509there's a lot going on in this picture and I love it.RIP to the Belgian Air Force
>>64238030>Why Belgium even existThat whole region exists because French and Germans cant stop hatefucking eachother and creating confused hybrid cultures.
>>64239245fpbp
>>64238030>>64239245>>64239272Its a product of the Spanish Hapsburg's and exists as its own separate entity because its Catholic while the rest of the low countries are largely Protestant. It has almost nothing to do with the Germans.
How did they get themselves invaded not once, but TWICE?
>>64239245So why isn't Wallonia a province of Frogland and the flems a Catholic minority of Clogland?
>>64239380the brits wouldn't let the dutch retake the south so they gave the french the okay to counter invade. but also told the french not to take any land.the new "belgian" royal house was a german princ widower of an english princes and a french princes.it was the "everyone but the dutch" affair. all because the great powers saw that a united low countries would be to strong.
>>64239380https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution. Note that the term "liberals" in that article means "industrial tycoons", not American liberals.Also read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna.Another issue is Belgium's strategic and fortunate economical position throughout European history, which caused a lot of happy looting, glorious war and centuries of oppression. Belgians aren't particularly fond of (foreign) authority.
>>64239404Tl:dr: Belgium exists because otherwise the Netherlands would dominate too hard. Without Belgium, Europe is fucked and without Europe, the world is fucked
>>64239611>>64238030It was a Catholic part of the Netherlands which at the time was trying to suppress Catholicism, which is why it's a weird mix of Frogs and Clogs. Flemish are Catholic Dutch and Walloons are basically another type of French. They had a bloodless revolt and claimed independence in like 1830, and the Dutch appealed to the UK, France and Germany to not recognize Belgian's independence (because UK was battling Irish independence, Germany with the Poles, France with its regions etc) and they all said "fuck you this is a real country now, get rekt faggot"
as a side-note, Wallonia used to be the armoury of Europe. Before the FN, wallonia invented the Mosin-Nagant, the first Machine Gun (the Montigny gun), and even before the Mons Meg (the medieval canon, mostly used in Scotland) , and basically build the artillery of the Spanish Empire (through Jean Curtius).
>>64240051correct
Didn't the Flems and the Walloons nearly have a religious civil war in the 20th Century?
>>64240244no? why that
>>64233509...a boar?
>>64240539>Awelawelawel! Een zwijnske! Komt ge maar efkes mee naart bureau!>En denk moar nie datet Parket in uwen geknor trapt he!
>>64240599Knowing English and German, and then reading dutch feels like an abuse of pattern recognition
>>64240878Is Dutch just German with funny writing?
>>64241015Dutch is like if a Frenchman was writing in English using German letters while completely wasted.
>>64240599koek
>>64233557'nother pic from Operation Dragon Rouge. You can clearly see the Belgians are wearing a mix of WWII-era Denison smocks and newer Jigsaw uniforms.
>>64233180Annex! ANNEX!!t. Dutch.
>>64233271Dogcarts and tophats. God I hate Belgium. We should have won in 1830. A country personified by Poirot. A French mockery of Dutch industriousness.
>>64240599>maar Gertje ik wil helemaal niet naar het kantboar
>>64243057>ik moest knorren want de bel deed het niet
>>64239838>bloodlessthere was quite a bit of fighting in 1830including a lot of Flemings that volunteered for the Dutch army (the Dutch king being more popular in Flanders then the Netherlands certainly didn't hurt).But the French intervened and stopped the reconquest with the approval of the bongs.
>>64243034>Annex! ANNEX!!You fuckers already have one
>>64243071>ten eerste is het albertooooooooooooooo>ten tweede ik ben het (mijn koekjes) vergeten
>>64243049t. sour dutchfag
>>64243072>the Dutch king being more popular in Flanders then the Netherlands certainly didn't hurtThe truly hilarious part is that the French king Napoleon installed was more popular in the Netherlands than William I.
>>64243201yea, William I was a bit of a dick and had lived most of his life abroad.it didn't help that nearly all of his minsters where deeply resented and he personally had a grudge against the Dutch constitution.2/3 of the 1830 revolt succeeding is on him the other 1/3 is French meddling (such as setting up the whole revolt)
>>64243229> lived most of his life abroad.So did Louis, but he at least tried.I'll never forgive the Bourbons for robbing us of our rabbit (and being Spanish).Between Willem and not being allowed to go back to being a republic, we really got the short end of the stick politically, huh.
>>64243273could be worse, you could have a half blood jew lover that dyes his hair to look blond rule the place
>>64243282...I'm gonna need some context on that one
>>64243308Wilders is a half blood, his mother is indonesia and he loves jew cumhe dyes his hair because due to being a half blood he can't have his daddies blond hair
>>64243337Ah, him.I was still thinking of 19th century monarchs.He wasn't really in charge though, it seems he's at least smart enough to realize he's only good for pointing out problems, not actually fixing them.
>>64243229Our constitution is gay. Who are you, NSC?
>>64243368heel holland is homode enige fout die Alba heeft gemaakt was verliezen
>>64239293Are the Dutch speaking Belgians Catholic too?
>>64243940Yeah.The general trend was that below the Rhine delta was majority Catholic, and above was Protestant (though nowadays the Catholics are the biggest Christian group in the Netherlands in general).
>>64243072>the Dutch king being more popular in Flanders then the Netherlands certainly didn't hurtI think you made that up
>>64243201what's also funny is that the Dutch king was a francophone with dodgy dutch and his wife was walloon
>>64243076I don't get it
Anyone got any info on these PASGT knockoffs the Belgians wearing in the 90s?
>>64250276>PASGT knockoffsMore like M1s
>>64250285I mean the vests. Here's a pic of them from behind.
>>64250276I have the Smarties (local version of Flecktarn, >>64233509) versionI can take more pics if you want
>>64250587>I can take more pics if you wantDon't let me stop you
Any interesting tidbits about this? Got the vest for cheap without pouches.
>>64252435>>64253130sorry for taking so long Anons, I forgot about this threadanyway, here goeshere's the front and back of the flak vest
>>64256274and here are the rest of the pouches >>64253130, but not the holster since Ive yet to find onethis along with the bottle pouch are the most common
>>64256281
>>64256288then there's this general purpose pouch/ bread bag (?)
pistol magazine pouches, this along with >>64256296 arent very common, mine are the only one's Ive found so far and I havent seen any pop up since
>>64256301forgot pic
>>64256305size comparisonI had to compress this quite a bit to get 4 chan to accept it, quality might suffer
>>64256315and the elusive holster pictured here, not minemade to fit a Browning Hi-Power
>>64256274>>64256281>>64256288>>64256296>>64256305>>64256315>>64256323Next you want one of my Riesen's?How many pouches per man and where might those be placed?
>>64256288one more thing I should mentionthe bottle I have in it is an ABL model, which slightly smaller than the American pattern of kidney bottleAmerican bottles will fit them, but its a tighter squeeze
>>64256342from what little Ive managed to find on this topictwo magazine pouches per man, usually place to the left and right of the buckle on the webbingand one water bottle pouch, placed wherever comfortableI speculate the holster and accompanying pistol magazine pouches were reserved for officersthe bread bag I honestly dont know
>>64256376You've earned it, anon.
