Karamazov

I have noticed that the twitter folks started to call it AWC aka Armoured Wagner Carrier. 

Temsah is clearly different vehicle. 

Eitan

It refers to M1 Abrams, but it's interesting nonetheless.
 

Probably M8 light tank in production

 

Probably M8 light tank in production

 

(Seemingly) new build M8 hull. 
 

 
 

Looks like MPF & OMFV from GDLS:
 
 

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The Legend of Wolfgang The Fast-Food Man
 

During the Cold War Wolfgang Meier became a legend to the BAOR (British Army on the Rhine).He owned a fast-food van and made a living following around British units on exercise.
No matter how distant or hidden a unit was Wolfgang managed to find them.

Soldiers thought he must have been a Soviet spy but turns out he was just bribing other soldiers with packs of Beer. 

https://warspot.ru/17005-teoriya-bronetankovyh-zabluzhdeniy-tanki-v-chistom-pole-i-amerikanskie-stanki
   Yuri Pasholok's article about some of myths about Soviet armor (1943-1944).
 
   1. Turret ring diamter increase problems
 

    Translation of text:
   Is there an ability to increase turret ring of T-34 tank? Yes, they are. According to preliminary assesment ring can be made wider by 200mm.
   Is it possible for production to make it? Yes, Mariupol factory doesn't have any problems with it, factory N183 also have necessary machinery
 
 
 

   T-34-85 with 1600mm turret ring instead of 1430 during testing.
 
 
 
   2. SU-76M is bad
 

   Manual river crossing of the ZIS-3 cannon. Those wishing to tell that the SU-76M was a bad self-propelled gun can mentally send themselves to the place of one of the numbers of this crew
 
 

 
 
 
   3. About ISU-122 existance: myth and reality.
 

   The main reason for the appearance of the A-19 as a weapon for tanks and self-propelled guns. The demolished Tiger turret is the result of an A-19 armor-piercing shell hit from a 1.5 km
 
 

 
 

   Thanks to the ISU-122s, it was possible to reduce the requirements for the production of A-19 for self-propelled guns to 100 pieces per month. Nevertheless, the cases when the plant No. 172 did not keep up with the orders are not rare.
 
 
 
   4. About IS tanks
 

   To the question of when the D-25 was created. The middle of July 1943, and there is already a project of Object 240. The fighting on the Kursk Bulge is still ongoing
 
 

   Distance - 2000m. R50 (half of shots) - 72sm, R100 - 130 sm. "+" is point of aim, central part of the group is 10 sm above and 100sm to the right from point of aim.
   To the question of the accuracy of the D-25T. And such accuracy was achieved during standard warranty tests.
 
 

   One of the tanks that participated in the battle of Ternopol. The vehicle was hit, but, as you can see, served in the Red and Soviet armies for more than a decade
 
 

   In August 1944, the mass production of the IS-2 began with a straightened frontal part of the hull, which was significantly stronger than the original design
 
 
/..../
   6. Optics
 

   Visibility from T-34-85. During the war years, Soviet observation devices and sights made a big step forward
 
 

   For comparison, the visibility from the Panther. Loader is blind, the gunner looks only forward, only the commander can look on the sides. For this reason, defeats on the sides were a frequent result of the combat use of new generation of German tanks.
 
 

During this period, the Leclerc MBT was not mature enough. 
But, French engineers who followed the Swedish tests came to the conclusion they were unfair. 
Swedish army tried to « destroyed » the tank. 
When you look at the mobility results, it’s tricky. It’s not possible to argue the Leopard’s got a good mobility. 

what time are these photos taken? is it a bradley with a new suspension?

There is a table on that on Lindström website.
I don't remember the specifics of the path they took and what they had to do but it gives you points of data.
 
 
Leclerc
Leopard 2 Imp
M1A2
Körd sträcka
3.000 km
3.730 km
3.800 km
Använt bränsle
41.400 liter
26.874 liter
56.488 liter
Bränsleförbrukning
138 liter/10 km
72 liter/10 km
148 liter/10 km
Avlossade skott
235
271
289
                                                                     

They probably were, not because of a specific range but to keep them topped off.

Yep. Mainly because distance travelled depends on the tactical situation. Bounding overwatch is slower & covers less distance than advance in column, for example. 

Planning figure I’ve heard is about consumption, not range. Plan 2,000 litres every 8 hours,  per tank. 
 

"MV 2200 m/s" ?? 
 
(2:28 min)
 

No, definitely a 1 or 2.
The merkava 3, 4, and Namer have individual swing arms, the mounts for which are these large bases built into the hull side. The lack of such mounts means it must be a Merk 1 or 2, where the arms are attached to the bogies which are mounted to the hull.

This is a Namer hull, but the idea is the same. There are a few pics of merkava 3s with the swing arm ripped off where you can see it more clearly but my Google fu is weak.
In the pic posted earlier there's no sign of these swing arm hub bases.

Not so simple. 
First we bought 30 or 31 T-72 from SU in 1978. In the early 80s, T-72M began to arrive from Poland and Czechslovakia, and a second batch some time after 1985. T-72M1 appeared only in small numbers, in the late 80s (from Poland). Total number: 138
And now comes the crazy part, where most of the confusion originates. In 1996, we bought another 100 tanks, from Belarus. 96 T-72A and 4 AV. And for some stupid reason, these are also called T-72M1 here! 
 
Now the fate of these tanks:
T-72: all destroyed and/or used for parts, except one or two in museums in extremely bad condition.
T-72M and the few M1: In 2004, the liberal regime in power back then donated 77 of these to iraq, for free. (a huge crime against the country, since our economy was about to collapse. What is even worse, that the regime do not only donated these tanks, they even refurbished them to perfect condition)
T-72A: In 2014, government sold 58+22 tanks to Czech republic (to the firm "Excalibur Army"). Most were T-72As, + the remaining few Ms
In the army we still have about 80 tanks, but only 25-30 of them are combat ready. The rest were cannibalized for parts. 

1975-76 Leopard 2AV trials, hull front penetrated by 127mm HEAT charge, and 107mm HEAT charge, details will upload bit later...

As far as I know, no. I seem to remember this was used as part of the marketing campaign for Blazer ERA, relativity primitive as it was.

" Zwar OT, aber vielleicht von Interesse: M.W. war man relativ überrascht, dass das Turmdach der T72 durch unsere PAL 2000 (die schwedische RBS 56 "BILL") nicht durchschlagen werden konnte. Gleichzeitig stellte man fest, dass es große Unterschiede zwischen den ungarischen und russischen T72 gab. Die Ungarn wurden als nicht so zuverlässige Genossen eingeschätzt und bekam daher T72 die nicht die selbe Panzerungstechnik hatten wie die russischen."
 
maybe somebody have more info on T-72 trials in Austria ? or more photos?