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  1. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from TWMSR in Documents for the Documents God   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JDW
    Jane's Defense Weekly issues from volumes 1 to 29 (1984-1998) available at RSL
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JIDR
    JIDR issues between 1996-2007, available at RSL, were photographed again, now from cover to cover
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4VArmee - Motor
    Swiss magazine Armee -Motor, issues from 1958-1970
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/L'Armee
    Issues of French army's magazine L'Armee from 1962-1970 
     
    In some of those folders all full-page photos are renamed, but that's probably less then quarter of all pages and even smaller part of all folders
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/e8FD/JJQ1zgbtp
    Jane's books - several issues of Jane's Weapon Systems, Air-Launched Weapons, Armour and Artillery, Land-Based Air Defence
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/home/Articles/РГБ/_books - книги
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/vmUD/FEAbpSENQ
    Also, several books were photographed and uploaded - on 1969 Damansky border conflict, Soviet 1960s books on NATO armies armament, very recent book on development of AWD trucks from 1930s-60s, etc
     
    In case anyone wants to download that, in case there's something happening with Mail.ru cloud availability in following days
  2. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from LoooSeR in Documents for the Documents God   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JDW
    Jane's Defense Weekly issues from volumes 1 to 29 (1984-1998) available at RSL
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JIDR
    JIDR issues between 1996-2007, available at RSL, were photographed again, now from cover to cover
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4VArmee - Motor
    Swiss magazine Armee -Motor, issues from 1958-1970
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/L'Armee
    Issues of French army's magazine L'Armee from 1962-1970 
     
    In some of those folders all full-page photos are renamed, but that's probably less then quarter of all pages and even smaller part of all folders
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/e8FD/JJQ1zgbtp
    Jane's books - several issues of Jane's Weapon Systems, Air-Launched Weapons, Armour and Artillery, Land-Based Air Defence
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/home/Articles/РГБ/_books - книги
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/vmUD/FEAbpSENQ
    Also, several books were photographed and uploaded - on 1969 Damansky border conflict, Soviet 1960s books on NATO armies armament, very recent book on development of AWD trucks from 1930s-60s, etc
     
    In case anyone wants to download that, in case there's something happening with Mail.ru cloud availability in following days
  3. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Laviduce in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    from Andrei_bt tweet, color-corrected, upscaled
  4. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Ramlaen in United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Fcvh/d4Q66xNLH/ATR-EDS/ 
     
    Also, JIDR 1996-02 apparently has 3-page article on the subject, but RSL does not have it.
     
    Upd: Andrei_bt has this article, translated into Russian
    http://btvt.info/5library/electr_usa.htm
     
    Earlier issues of JIDR and of other magazines from 1994-1996 should have something too. 
     
     
  5. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Clan_Ghost_Bear in United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/Fcvh/d4Q66xNLH/ATR-EDS/ 
     
    Also, JIDR 1996-02 apparently has 3-page article on the subject, but RSL does not have it.
     
    Upd: Andrei_bt has this article, translated into Russian
    http://btvt.info/5library/electr_usa.htm
     
    Earlier issues of JIDR and of other magazines from 1994-1996 should have something too. 
     
     
  6. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from lutalica in Documents for the Documents God   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 8 (1974)
    Vol.8 done from cover to cover (well, with the exception of covers themselves (as they do not contain anything except "Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 8") and last page of dust jacket)
     
    all 4 parts of article on nightvision are available.
     
    ...
    27.06.20
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 1 (1966)
    Volume 1 (1966) done from cover to cover
     
    I've decided to decrease amount of "separately photographed" pics I take, as it takes simply too much time (~doubling it).
     
    ...
    01.07.20
    Volume 5 done from cover to cover
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 5 (1970)
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/IDR/1975 vol.8/04 
    International Defense Review 1975-04 done from cover to cover
     
    ...05.07.20
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 3 (1968)
    Volume 3 done from cover to cover
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 7 (1973)
    Volume 7 done from cover to cover except p.129 and 131
     
    all pages with odd page numbers are uploaded in Vol.2 (except p.65, 79, and 193-207) and Vol.6 folders.
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/IDR/1975 vol.8/05
    International Defense Review 1975-05 done from cover to cover
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JDW/Vol.21 1994/
    1-10 issues and supplements of JDW 1994 (vol.21) done from cover to cover
     
    ...14.07.20
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/_tmp
    Two dozen issues of JDW from 1990, one issue of IDR from 1975, four from 1991 and 11 from 1990 plus supplements, two (out of two stored at RSL) issues of 1998 Jane's Intelligence Review plus supplement,
    along with several pages from Military Technology issues from 2000 and 2001, and pages from Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik Vol.2, Vol.4, Vol.6, Vol.12 were photographed.
    Unfortunately even basic processing (put_into_folder-rotate-delete_blurry_pages_and_doubles-rename_properly) takes too much time,
    so I've skipped "rename properly" part, and, in order to avoid confusion, put most of those photos into separate temporary folder - about 7Gb or ~6-7k files.
     
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch%20der%20Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch%20der%20Wehrtechnik%2012%20(1981)
    JdWT Vol.12 (which, thanks either to some glitch of my phone's memory or to me forgetting that copying several thousand small files takes a lot of time, especially on old memory card which could go as slow as 50kB/s, and removing memory card while some files were still copying, lost 28 pages, which will be fixed sometime later)
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/IDR/1975 vol.8/06
    IDR 1975-06
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/JIntR/1998 (10)/
    and JIntR 1998
    were renamed and put into appropriate folders, though.
     
    ...16.07.20
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik/Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik 6 (1971)/
    Jahrbuch der Wehrtechnik Vol.6 now available from cover to cover.

    Also following things were photographed and uploaded to _tmp folder:
    International Defense Review 1990-12 with supplement, 1989-01, 02, 03 with supplement, 04; 
    all 16 issues of Jane's Defence Upgrades 1997 (Vol.1) stored at RSL (out of 24 published)
    I moved all 1990 IDR issues with all pages renamed properly (01, supplement to 02, 05 and two supplements, 06 with supplement) into temporary "a" folder.
     
    ...17.07.20
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/_tmp/JDUpgr/1998 (02)/
    Jane's Defence Upgrades 1998 (vol.02) - 23 issues out of 24 published are stored at RSL, and were photographed and uploaded.
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/_tmp/International Defense Review/1989 vol.22/05/
    Only one IDR issue was photographed (1989-05), and only 2/3 of it. Also uploaded.
  7. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Ainen in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    from Andrei_bt tweet, color-corrected, upscaled
  8. Metal
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Gauntlet in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    from Andrei_bt tweet, color-corrected, upscaled
  9. Metal
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from LoooSeR in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    from Andrei_bt tweet, color-corrected, upscaled
  10. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Stimpy75 in Models and pictures of Soviet MBT designs from 80s. Object 477A, Object 490 Buntar and Object 299.   
    from Andrei_bt tweet, color-corrected, upscaled
  11. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Domus Acipenseris in United States Military Vehicle General: Guns, G*vins, and Gas Turbines   
    About two and a half years ago i've stumbled across some russian book about western IFVs, which apparently was a mere compilation of articles from western magazines translated into russian. There was a mention of some 58-ton heavy IFV, called SAIFV, which was described as vehicle baised on Abrams chassis, and they also claimed that a prototype was biult and tested. (which seems dubious to me now) Than, two years ago, I've stumbled across this article about SAIFV https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-army-wanted-to-replace-the-bradley-38-years-ago-dffb6728dd11 which has 3 drawings - "artist conceptions". Than, half a year ago I was reading some US DOD bidget hearings transcripts about MICV/IFV development, and stumbled across mentions of 50-55 metric tons $800,0000 - 1,000,000 SAIFV of Crizer study, and than I've googled a Mobility analysis of IFV task force alternatives (1978-07) report (which is allmost the same as Appendix D of that report which is described below). Unfortunatelly there weren't any proper pictures, (and also i've thought that those 3 drawings from medium.com article are modern "artist conceptions", not one from 1978). 
    Than several things happend in the right time and place, which invlolved twitter, AUSA-2018, NGCV-OMFV, and author of that arcticle at medium.com, and when I asked him about that article - it turned out that there is a report about SAIFV, which is readily available on the internet there http://cdm16635.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16635coll14/id/56079/rec/1


    884 pages, with 7 normal chapters and chapter 8 which consists of 6 appendices.
     
     

    cost figures from Appendices F and B:


    things like those cost figures, coupled with deceiving percents like this (Ch. IV p.17):
    (there were also other versions mentioned in Senate hearings of FY1978-1980s - 91.6%, 92%, 95%, and also they've mentioned soviet motorized rifle division instead of tank regiment)

    apparently saved Bradley. Although in 1979 those $370,000 turned out to be $472,000 (in same FY1978 dollars), - and later according to FY1983 bidget hearings - $1,350,000 (which is about $880,000 in 1978 dollars). 
     
     
    ...
    btw, GAO's report  "Army's Proposed Close Combat Armored Vehicle Team" (12 dec 1977) has following thing on page 23:

    and that was BFV project manager's responce (hearings on military posture and h.r. 10929, part 2 of 7, p.183) several mounths later (somewhere in feb-apr 1978):

  12. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Serge in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    Finally, in this video
    this Chinese HIFV model was filmed from close distance, and in 1080p

     

  13. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Laviduce in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    Finally, in this video
    this Chinese HIFV model was filmed from close distance, and in 1080p

     

  14. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Scolopax in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    Finally, in this video
    this Chinese HIFV model was filmed from close distance, and in 1080p

     

  15. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Scolopax in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  16. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Stimpy75 in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    Finally, in this video
    this Chinese HIFV model was filmed from close distance, and in 1080p

     

  17. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from CrappyHead in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  18. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Clan_Ghost_Bear in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  19. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Stimpy75 in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  20. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Beer in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  21. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from LoooSeR in Vehicles of the PLA: Now with refreshing new topic title!   
    From IDEX-2021 - what looks like updated model of that HIFV first demonstrated on IDEX-2019 (VN-50?) - now with somewhat different turret
    No luck for me in finding better pictures, even using Chinese and Arabic. And unfortunately with nothing but rather slow phone at my reach, I can't use Topaz Gigapixel or other means to increase resolution and quality.
     

     

     

     

     

  22. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from David Moyes in Britons are in trouble   
    that M1 Abrams for GB ad was published in Defence magazine 1990-12
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Defence/1990-12/
  23. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Ramlaen in Britons are in trouble   
    that M1 Abrams for GB ad was published in Defence magazine 1990-12
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Defence/1990-12/
  24. Tank You
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Clan_Ghost_Bear in Britons are in trouble   
    that M1 Abrams for GB ad was published in Defence magazine 1990-12
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Defence/1990-12/
  25. Metal
    skylancer-3441 got a reaction from Stimpy75 in Documents for the Documents God   
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/_tmp/Soldat und Technik/
    Issues of Soldat und Technik from 1988-98 were photographed from cover to cover, and uploaded (duplicates were deleted in all folders),
    and sometimes files were renamed properly, sometimes not (yet)
     
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/Royal Tank Corps Journal/
    two issues of Royal Corps Tank Journal from 1937
     
    https://cloud.mail.ru/public/9dEX/djuwzbp4V/The Tank/vol.29/1946-10 (330)/
    one issues of The Tank magazine from 1946
     
    also, couple of Russian books were uploaded into books folder - 5 volumes on GABTU 1929(1918 or 19 actually)-1953, book on T-64's designer A. Morozov, textbook on tank design, and German book on 1943-1957 AFVs from across the world translated to Russian and published in USSR in 1961,
    two textbooks on how to design wheeled APC (from 1958 and 1964), and two books on tanks - from 1925 (translated from German) and 1933
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