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This remind me that some people consider the battle of Kutná Hora (December 1421 - January 1422) as the first use of tank tactics. In this winter battle which took nearly three weeks (which is extraordinary enough for medieval battles) Jan Žižka allegedly used canon fire from a moving convoy of war wagons in a fashion later used by ships of the line. He used that in a successful night breakthrough from an encirclement. (interestingly Žižka was already blind by that time). In the end despite the initial setbacks Žižka crushed the second anti-Hussite Crusade. 

 

Nobody knows today if it actually happened that way. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. 

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Vehicle photos from the past few months from the US Army Armor and Calvary Collection:

 

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T-34. This particular vehicle was captured from the Germans, who had been using it as a test vehicle after capturing it themselves from the Soviets.

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T30, IS-3, and M3 Grant

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T28 and Chieftain

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Bonus T28 historical pic

 

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Is there a dedicated UGV thread? 

 

This is the new Czech army recon UGV-Pz. First two pieces were delivered to the army for experimental service with possible more aquisitions in the future. 

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It is developed by the Army technical institute (VTU) and uses the Toros 6x6 robotic platform from VOP CZ. It has two operators, one for the platform and the other for the sensors. It has optical (two dailight, one infrared cameras, laser rangefinder) and radar sensors (SQUIRE from Thales, also used on Czech Pandur recon variants). The platform has electric driven wheels with independent steering and torque vectoring and is said to be able even of a neutral steering or climbing the stairs. The whole system is transported to the operational area on a trailer behind Iveco LOV 50 B (Czech MLV). 

 

Whole article including many photos: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.armadninoviny.cz%2Fugv-pz-cesky-pruzkumny-robot-pro-armadu-cr.html

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   Iranian modernisation for T-72S up to Karrar standart. New turret, ERA, laser sensors, RCWS, new FCS and new gunner sight.

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   ERA blocks mounting points are visible near gun, but blocks were not installed for some reason. Also, laser sensors are mounted near them. Turret got some sort of big box on the rear, on top of which RCWS is placed. Driver received a block of cameras, probably day and night.

 

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