The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines

[LoooSeR]

I don't have photos of newer ammunition, just usual stuff. As far as i know newer toys are not showed to public. 

 

 

[LoooSeR]

Just some numbers.

[Mike E]

Thanks... Finding numbers on the newer rounds seems to be almost impossible.

[EnsignExpendable]

Baller as fuck.

 

[Tied]

Somebody is raising their kids right

[LoooSeR]

[LoooSeR]

T-80BV skirts from inside. As i understand those plates are they because of ERA on external part of rubber skirts.

[Walter_Sobchak]

Here is a fun old Soviet film about the T-80U.  

 

The best part is figuring out the background music.  Early on in the video they use an instrumental version of Olivia Newton Johns "Let's get Physical."  Later on, I recognized "Ghost Riders in the Sky."

 

 

[LoooSeR]

T-90S with Shtora in use by Azerbaijan.

 

 

Also, 

http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ea44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0173100004515001489

 

Our MoD what to buy a single T-90S for 103 187 209 rubles and 19 kopecks, including taxes and 307 439 rubles for delivery (+ taxes). Tank have interesting equipment with cage armor and 6 ERA modules per side + Shtora. TB 2015 prize? Last year an Armenian crew got a certificate for T-90 tank.

[Tied]

T-80BV skirts from inside. As i understand those plates are they because of ERA on external part of rubber skirts.

 

If there are two things a ural driver hates in this world, it is Armored Officers and T-80 crews 

 

drinks fuel like vodka 

[LoooSeR]

http://mil.ru/files/files/85vdv/virtual.html

 

Virtual excursion in BMD-2, BMD-4, Sprut-SD, Strela, Nona-S.

[LoooSeR]

No idea how it happened 

 

[LoooSeR]

Today (28.07.15) Kuwait team "delivered" (again). During preparation for this year Tank Biathlon managed to accelerate their T-72 to ~70 km/h and during turn tank made 2 "barrel rolls". Everybody is alive, tank is almost undamaged.

 

 

[LoooSeR]

cwjian90 in T110 thread linked to this video. Warning: AllakhuAkbar.

[Scolopax]

To respond to your comment there, the reason for driving backwards, from what all I've seen, is so that when a shot is taken and the tank's location is revealed, the tank driver can make a faster getaway.  The second part of that plan obviously didn't happen in the video, but I'm not sure if I would say it was due to miscommunication/lack of skill, or rather the tank crew didn't expected to receive retaliatory fire.

 

Another interesting video since we're on the topic and since it... has a Russian AFV weapon.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIUDxRdpoaE

[LoooSeR]

[Xlucine]

No idea how it happened 

 

 

They let the israeli's drive

[LoooSeR]

Look at this abomination! This is T-54/55 upgrade.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LoooSeR]

[Mike E]

First time I've seen that many pictures of the Ramses... Thanks LoooSeR

 

and yes....it is quite an ugly vehicle. 

[Sturgeon]

Why does the turret look so far forward?

[LoooSeR]

Hull was lengthened for "better" engine 

[Priory_of_Sion]

Yeah it looks like it has an M60's ass. Makes the tank look wonky. There are worse looking tanks though. 

[Walter_Sobchak]

heh, I was the one that originally posted those pictures.  They come from a rather obscure book I have called T-54 Modelers handbook.  I remember when I was a kid, Egypt sent a T-55 to Teledyne so they could upgrade it.  Funny thing, no one bothered to de-mil the thing.  The truck driver hauling the thing got pulled over and asked by a cop why the thing still had machine guns on it.  It was a bit of a publicity snafu.  I remember by dad talking about it at the dinner table, it was in the local media.  Wikipedia says that a bunch of these Ramses II tanks got manufactured, but that is incorrect.  The Getty Street plant never produced any 900 HP engines in the time period these vehicles were supposedly produced.  Also, i have found zero photographic evidence of the Ramses II ever getting beyond prototype stage.  From what my dad has told me, the Ramses II was mostly an excuse for Egyptian Generals to get a free trip to the US as "business."  

[Walter_Sobchak]

Hull was lengthened for decidedly better engine  

Fixed that for you 

 

Also, it has a completely new suspension and roadwheels.  Hydro suspension.  It actually outperformed the Teledyne Super 60 in mobility tests, since it was a lighter vehicle.