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Wasn't this obvious? Althoug, they had a problem with whose patronymic would be given to a child. I agree that Caucasians are better at singing and cooking of meat. Other activities are not for Truetm Caucasians. [but Armenians are better anyway, Georgians are too stubborn and they did not created System of a Down ]

There are some problems with such placement of autocannons - their recoil can create a force, that can turn a turret by some degree, screwing up accuracy. Question about vulnerability to artillery shells fragments, small arms fire, collisions with terrain are also serious for externally mounted weapons.

To add to confusion - i am Armenian-Georgian.

That is one possibility. But in Russian army 30 mm shells are not hard to find either - BMP-2s and 3s, BTRs-80As/82s, MI-28s, Ka-52s, all use 30 mm rounds. Maybe thats why T-14 could be designed with 30 mm additional cannon.

23 mm sniper cannon, used by AFAIK Chalifate. Video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8CTVevijk

https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zwYtZXlAdi3U.kxOZIk95HGws Lost armor (map and pictures). Interesting thing. Blue is Ukrainian vehicles, Red are rebels.

Actions of other countries during 1918-1922 Russian Civil War does not make it something else than Russian Civil War. I was watching for situation in Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine pretty close using direct sources instead of media pre-made opinions that they spew around (thanks to understanding of Ukrainian and knowing Russian) and Ukraine had almost all civil war preconditions - current conflict between Eastern Ukraine and Western is not new, it moved from political field to military after several huge events, coup in Feb 22, Odessa massacre, 4-6 ministers seats filled with neo-Nazi/russophobes/racist far right activists, 7 attempts to ban Russian language by Rada, May 9/Victory Day National guards attack on Police in Mariupol with a lot of killed and injured protesters, etc. etc. Those events were sparks that created rebelion in the East, with center in Slavyansk. You can watch Vise news reports about early stages of that conflict, when new Ukrainian authorities were sending troops to Eastern part of Ukraine, and how they were met by crowds of locals. A lot of Ukrainian officers and soldiers changed their sides during initial stage of conflict. http://armamentresearch.com/Uploads/Research%20Report%20No.%203%20-%20Raising%20Red%20Flags.pdf This is not so bad attempt to research question of Russia giving weapons to rebels (pro-Russian is wrong term, BTW). Apart from several mistakes in tank section, part about VSS, and launchers, it is pretty well done compared to other PR crap. Western medias view that rebelion is controlled by Russian SF or Putin is simply stupid. Amount of stupid actions and errors, mistakes and crucial miscalculation, done by rebels, is huge, and painfull. If you want to separate from country you should start ot create your own state, which rebels started to do only 3-4 months after initial protests in March-May of this year. Rebels are still not united - a lot of separated groups of different rebels are presented there, but without central controlling structure or leader. Kozitsyn's cossaks, Khodakovskiy Vostok battalion (first battles of which were total failures with huge losses in manpower), Motorola "Sparta" unit, Givi's team, Mosgovoy's units, "Odessa's" team, groups of national-bolsheviks, anti-Putin activists, Limonov's gang, Ossetians, Chechens, French volunteers, Serbian Chetniks, etc. etc. are now trying to form united Armed forces of Novorosiya, with second meating of those forces leaders in December of 10. Logistical support is pretty bad on rebels side, same for medical support. Level of combat training o rebels is not very high, appart from some people with military backgrounds. From the start of Civil war Ukrianinian authorities claimed (officialy) something like 40 Russian invasions with 2000-2500 vehicles in total used in them (all of which Ukriane destroyed), 1 nuclear strike at Donetsk airport according to Heletey's briefing (Minister of Defence), 3 FSB-made protests at Maidan (yeah, i am serious, ask their Minister of Internal affairs why he claimed this on TV), and other smaller events. Results of "40 Russian invasions" and "1 nuclear strike" are: - Rebels lost Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and villages around them; - 3-4 months of battle for Donetsk airport without actually capturing it with one of rebel commander noting that they don't have tank crews good enough to fight in airport, which leave rebels without close fire support, which is main reason why they can't smash that VSU unit in Donetsk airport; - Huge damage to infrastrucutre, houses, electric networks, sewerage systems; - Huge damage to Eastern Ukraine economy; - Several big industrial companies fled Ukriane completely; - Several irreparable big mines flooded with water; - Rebels, after summer battles, now use artillery and mortars as their primary weapon simply because of high number of thermal imagers and NV systems in Ukrianian forces units, rebels have problems with closing in to Ukriane units without being bombarded; - General situation is stagnant - nor rebels nor VSU have upper hand; Only 2 real victory of rebels were South Cauldron (wich was done by mortats and artillery) and Illovaysk. Ukrianian reports and documents about Ukrainian forces defeat at Illovaysk were assigned level of secrecy "for internal use only" with Heletey claiming that all those, who ask for them to be published are Putin agents, i think that he just try to concela huge level of incompetence of Ukr. forces high command. Economical situation for Donbas region is not good, there is serious problems with food (24 deaths from hunger documented in November in Donetsk alone). Ukrainian forces now receive better equipment. Currently Rebels and Ukrainian military are trying to talk with each other on person-to-person basis with recent TV-Skype "bridges" between rebels commanders and their soldiers (Mozgovoy for example did such things several times) with Ukrainian soldiers and commanders. Rebels have different views on Eastern Ukraine future - and currently biggest idea between them is to be part of Ukriane but only as a autonomous Republic. I am really sick of all this, i understand when in T110 thread members are ruinning around and screaming about Russian Invasions of Ukriane and Putin being Bond movie vilian, about rebels having better equipment than Ukriane, about that there is no Neo-Nazis in Ukrainian forces, etc. etc. I expect that at least in this forum people are less affect by current PR group think. I simply don't see any actions that would show that something is really done in Ukriane by Russia. What i see is 2 forces, lead by incompetent people, clashing with each other without accomplishing anything serious, while leaving part of Ukraine in ruins. Ukrainian soldiers: Rebels SPETSNAZ GRU AND PUTIN GUARDS THAT ARE BETTER ARMED THAN UKRIANIAN FORCES! PTRS AND PTRD RIFLES ARE NEWEST RUSSIAN HIGH TECH RIFLES OF WESTERNERS DOOM! Not bad Youtube channel with Eng subs (form rebels side). http://www.youtube.com/user/wintersodomy/videos http://youtu.be/cFOFn8xTJyY

Tank need to carry a lot of MG rounds simply because tankers use them much more, and i think reason for this is low effectiveness of MGs against infantry in cover. Especially in urban combat, 20-30 mm autocannons would have much better perfomance in those situation, which can decrease amount of 20-30 mm caliber ammo that tank need to carry. In fact T-14 model was showing some kind of autocannon, mounted on turret, which is indication of designers and army view on how next Russian MBT should be armed.

Yeah, indeed. Sorry for not posting about Ukrainian MBT performance in civil war, i am little bit too busy currently.

Why not both? Uncle Shipunov would have been happy.

For some our experts it seems that Obama is trying to not get involved too much in outside problems, but he can't really stop all this huge amount of politicians, who want to continue old Bush/neocons politic.

Russian intellectuals were trolling political leaders from Tsarists times, we even have a statue that was made specifically to troll Emperor, which he approved by himself, lol.

Problems with BM Oplots are not special for that tank, they are usual for Ukraine. You can see same thing with Ukrainian BTRs for Iraqi army 1-2 years ago - not a single vehicle was adopted by Iraq without repair or more waiting that planned. Quality is subpar, corruption (which is i think main reason - people "around" factory want to have a piece of that deal), etc. create majority of those problems. Kharkov could produce about 40-50 tanks per month in Soviet times, now Ukraine can't do the same with 50 tanks and 3-4 years. Ukrainian industry was underfunded and was robbed for 20 years, after all.

Why Russians have a belly laugh over this news? Can somebody explain, i am not into flying things. Except when they are nuclear powered Soviet strategical bombers.

T-64E. I didn't added it in first page because it is minor T-64 variant. Only real difference is turret busket with interesting idea of mounting secondary weapons. Video with this thing, that you maybe saw already:

Just BM Oplot photos from Thailand.

Yatagan added. Next would be T-64E.

I watched an interview with one of scientists from Soviet nuclear weapon programm. They basically were able to meet in person with some European scientists, who worked on US atomic bomb. AFAIK, several those scientists were trying to give atomic bomb secret to anybody else, to balance power in future.

From what i know, Duplet is miles better than Nozh ERA. I don't understand why they still use Nozh on T-64BMs.

Well, Bumerang APC would not be presented on Victory Parade. I hope same thing would not happen with T-14. Coalitsiya SPG based on Armata chassis: Can't say about T-14.

Oplot-M commander now have sight big enough to block his HMG from shooting at targets to the left of it. I still like how it looks.

Ok, i will select photos from those links and make imgur album. Why Obama censored those sites for you is beyond me

They work for me just fine.

T-84-120 "Yatagan" "Yatagan" MBT (Object 478N, also known as T-84-120 and KERN2-120) - tank developed in 1999-2000 by Morozov design bureau. It was modification of the T-84, adapted to NATO standards with a 120 mm smoothbore tank gun and new autoloader inside of new turret bustle. It was created to participate in the Turkish tender for new MBT. Yatagan was equipped with communication system made by French company Thomson, Belgian MG (FN Herstal), and other components of European manufacturers. On different photos Yatagan can be seen with at least three different 120mm gun (different barrels are give-away) of various designs, which at various times have been tested on this tank (rumors are speaking about Swiss Ordnance Enterprise Corp. being one of producers of the gun barrels). As the winner of the 2-years long tender was Leopard 2, Yatagan was not produced and currently exists only as a prototype. It had pretty powerfull 1200 HP 6TD-2 diesel engine, wich gived to it good mobility (weight was 48 tons, so ~25 hp/t). But most interesting part of that vehicle was turret bustle mounted new autoloader. Autoloader was created because of one-piece nature of NATO 120 mm tank ammunition. 22 shots were stored inside of turret bustle, with 14-16 rounds in hull autoloading mechanism + small non-mechanized ammorack for 2-4 shots. RoF was up to 10. Ammunition was standart NATO rounds, with addition of Ukrianian-made 120 mm GL-ATGMs. Tank also was armed with coaxial 7.62 GPMG and remotelly controlled 12.7 HMG on a commander hatch. Vehicle had thermal imagers, stabs and all other sorts of electronics you can expect from 2000-made MBT. But as i said, it didn't won tender, and never was produced. It is possible that Yatagan gave to engineers a basis for creation of the BM Oplot. Here is albums of this vehicle. Crew compartment photos: http://imgur.com/a/SNsl2 Up-close pictures: http://imgur.com/a/EFcdn PR iamges: http://imgur.com/a/UwQ9m

Ukrainian civil war - Ukrainian MBT perfomance (prt3)