Not sure what are they doing exactly

Having never seen a coconut, they're hoping they just found a whole box full of them.

Reminiscent of the Bugs Bunny episode in which the gremlin is tapping on the ends of bombs with a hammer in order to "test" them. Bugs walks over and says "Hey Doc, let me have a whack at it."

By the way, the axe that is shown on the picture, is extremely nice and can be used for just about everything: pounding nails, felling trees, splitting wood, and carpentry.

I have one just like that.

i

Whatever it is, it looks like there's no future to it...

We would call that a broadaxe, which was used for squaring logs and timbers, and for notching. A smaller version would be a carpenter's hatchet.

And look at the guy in the middle. He closed his eyes just in case this artillery shell explodes.

Here's "the future", right from the same newspaper, though in a different region.

This story talks about a large military ordnance warehouse that caught fire today. A 10km area is evacuated.

I would call this the "Russian style" approach to safety.

i

My translation

WARGAMES OF A SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY BRIGADE.

Artillerymen who won a prize in a district wide military competition, will take part in the final army wide part of it. It will be traditionally held in the Luzhsk artillery range in the Western military district, in July.

Provided they survive until July, of course.

i

Considering graphics exploits that have affected windoze machines, I'm not about to go to a .ru site.

Wes

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Looks rather stupid to me, I wonder if there is some mundane explanation.

I resized the image above by 2x, by the way, just to make it easier to see what is going on.

i

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Oh, they are just setting a slightly stuck fuse dial, but the guy with the eyes closed has had problems before with this method, check out the bandaids on his fingers.

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Maybe he had problems with something else, this is the army, they always have bruised everything and scratches.

i

knife as a drift punch to try and un-screw it. ...lew...

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That's a sweet little axe.

I wonder if this is one of those Russian versions of mote posters. Y'know, like these:

ironic sense of humor makes me adore those, BTW.)

Maybe this one fits here:

-- Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening around him, for to live life well one must live life with awareness. -- Louis L'Amour

Right, the patented Russian EasyOut(r).

-- Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening around him, for to live life well one must live life with awareness. -- Louis L'Amour

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It is an awesome axe. I have two of those.

Maybe they are trying to adjust the setting on the fuze?

Wes

One for each hand on Halloween?

-- Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening around him, for to live life well one must live life with awareness. -- Louis L'Amour

Gunner Asch on Fri, 27 May 2011 13:41:40 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Why limit it to the Russians?

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Rusty? Corroded from not quite optimal storage?

Three guys recreating a Bug Bunny Cartoon?

W/o more data, one cannot know. Not knowing, cannot say.

pyotr