Ukrainian armor - Oplot-M, T-64M Bulat and other.

[LoooSeR]

Rebels T-72

[LoooSeR]

8 T-80BVs are given to UAF 95th airmobile brigade 

 

[Belesarius]

Darn it, LoooSer beat me to it.

 

http://www.janes.com/article/53010/ukraine-receives-first-modernised-t-80-mbts

 

Edit: 3 freaking minutes. LOL.

[LoooSeR]

Darn it, LoooSer beat me to it.

 

http://www.janes.com/article/53010/ukraine-receives-first-modernised-t-80-mbts

 

Edit: 3 freaking minutes. LOL.

Janes failed. "First" and "modernised"/ 

 

This is T-80UD, captured by rebels last summer.

 

Those T-80BVs were not modernised in any way, just repaired to make them actually work.

[LoooSeR]

BTR-70 "modification".

 

 

 

 

[LoooSeR]

Ukrainian vehicles in Dnepropetrovsk, moving to Donbas.

 

[Tied]

Ukrainian Soldiers Reposition Their ZU-23-2 to a New Location on the Frontline, July 2015 

 

Mothballed T-80 Gun Turret Being Prepared for Installation in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 2015

[LoooSeR]

Cossacks in tanks, lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=114&v=_y4omIHSH58

[LoooSeR]

UAF truck after some work done by locals from Verbki village.

 

 

 

[LoooSeR]

More HMMWVs now in hands of UAF, were delivered trough Odessa.

 

 

[Tied]

Hum-V's arent bad vehicles, but they are sorry compared to the older stocks of pretty much any BTR, and melt like butter to 14.5mm

[Walter_Sobchak]

Hum-V's arent bad vehicles, but they are sorry compared to the older stocks of pretty much any BTR, and melt like butter to 14.5mm

To be fair, they are a truck, not an AFV.  

[LoooSeR]

 

 

UAF T-64BV near Yasinovataya

[LoooSeR]

UAF modified T-64BV, as i understand.

 

ERA mounted right on top of the cage armor.

[Collimatrix]

LoooSeR, do you have any information on 125mm gun "Vityaz" or 140mm gun "Bagira?"

[Mike E]

Both went nowhere with development most likely being cancelled. Bagira was to be an extremely long (55 caliber) 140 mm that could achieve over 900 mm of penetration firing a 7 kilo round at just over 1800 m/s. In all honestly that isn't very impressive considering the round only weighs 7 kg. Vityaz is more...in the air so to speak. Little to no information on it, except for that it could fire a 5 kg rod at around 2000 m/s. My guess would be that it is similar in theorey to the 2A82-1M; uses a long barrel, higher pressure chamber, and more powerful propellant to up penetration.

The important part here is that no current or planned vehicle uses them (they aren't even marketed...) and as such, both have been cancelled IMO.

For now Ukraine continues to use the KBA-3, which is just their indigenous 2A46M.

[LoooSeR]

LoooSeR, do you have any information on 125mm gun "Vityaz" or 140mm gun "Bagira?"

Not vey much, Mike already gave some info. Bagira and Vityaz are projects that collect dust.

[LoooSeR]

Rebels, BRDM

[Collimatrix]

Both went nowhere with development most likely being cancelled. Bagira was to be an extremely long (55 caliber) 140 mm that could achieve over 900 mm of penetration firing a 7 kilo round at just over 1800 m/s. In all honestly that isn't very impressive considering the round only weighs 7 kg. Vityaz is more...in the air so to speak. Little to no information on it, except for that it could fire a 5 kg rod at around 2000 m/s. My guess would be that it is similar in theorey to the 2A82-1M; uses a long barrel, higher pressure chamber, and more powerful propellant to up penetration.

The important part here is that no current or planned vehicle uses them (they aren't even marketed...) and as such, both have been cancelled IMO.

For now Ukraine continues to use the KBA-3, which is just their indigenous 2A46M.

 

 

Thanks; that's about what I'd heard before.  Nothing on breech pressure, whether the guns used unified ammo or two-piece, or other essential technical data.

[LoooSeR]

Ukrainian tank industry is well know for presentation of Soviet projects as Ukrainians. Both those guns were very likely based on Soviet counterparts, which were under development for Soviet future MBTs in 80s. And because those MBTs are still secret, information about guns will also be non-existent outside of state offices.

[Collimatrix]

It's possible, but I don't recall having heard of any Soviet 140mm gun projects.  There was that gigantic 152mm.

[Xlucine]

7kg projectile at 1.8 km/s is more like a 105mm, 7kg penetrator at 1.8 km/s is impressive (Assuming ~6kg of DU in M829A3, that's 60% more penetrator KE than M829A3 which fits the calibre^3 progression of gun power I worship)

[Mike E]

It would be impressive if the gun wasn't 140 mm. The other European 140's could fire longer projectiles, faster, with more penetration. 2A82-1M also matches its ability (if not surpassing...) while being much smaller in length and caliber.

[LoooSeR]

It would be impressive if the gun wasn't 140 mm. The other European 140's could fire longer projectiles, faster, with more penetration. 2A82-1M also matches its ability (if not surpassing...) while being much smaller in length and caliber.

2A82-1M abilities are unknown. We still don't know actual perfomance of ammunition for this cannon. 

[Mike E]

But claimed figures have pegged it to be ~20% more powerful than 2A46M variants and the L/55 120 mm. Vacuum information suggests it will penetrate at least 900 mm of RHA at two kilometers, through 2A82-1M.