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Anyone know if the Georgian army has Humvees or other distinctively American hardware?
by Gag Halfrunt on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 02:08:33 PM EST
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Wikipedia claims it's mostly ex-Soviet stuff, thought the Israelis have been selling them something or the other.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sat Aug 9th, 2008 at 02:33:48 PM EST
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They haven't, though they have Turkish armored cars, Czech rocket artillery, Slovak tube artillery and the rest is pretty much Soviet gear.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Mon Aug 11th, 2008 at 08:40:30 PM EST
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Yesterday on the news I saw a clip of a Russian APC towing a khaki Humvee that had presumably been abandoned by Georgian soldiers.
by Gag Halfrunt on Wed Aug 20th, 2008 at 06:41:47 AM EST
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