Met749

UAE moving Leclercs to Hodeida (Yemen)

 
 

Ryazan, somebody is doing an unauthorized cosplay of Jihad Design Bureau creations.

And, I found this :

 
that :

 
and this too :

 
If you want more :
http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/tracer.htm

Credits owed to Damian90 on the AW forums. Since there is some uncertainty as to what this truly is, I haven't posted it in the vismods thread (yet).
 

 

 

 

 

The German military currently has a lot of issues with the reliability of new equipment, maiinly because quality control and supply with new spare parts is sub-optimal. Last year 97 new large combat systems (vehicles and aircrafts) were delivered to the German army, of which only 38 (aka 39%) are combat ready. The largest number of new vehicles is formed by the Puma IFV, of which 71 were delivered in 2017, but only 27 are combat ready. One factor could be that for some weird reason (budget?) spare parts weren't ordered for all components at the same time, so when certain things break, a longer period of time has to be waited. There are also some teething problems that need to be addressed.
Furthermore 4 out of 8 A400M transport aircraft and 1 out of 4 Eurofighters delivered in 2017 were only combat ready, although in case of the Eurofighters that is related to an upgrade of the main computer that started shortly after delivery. 14 new helicopters were delivered in 2017 (seven UHT Tigers and seven NH-90s), but only 6 were combat ready (two Tigers and two NH-90s). That's quite a shame.
 
 
 

In the current issue of the InfoBrief Heer, there is an article written by the head of marketing of IBD Deisenroth. According to this, IBD has developed a new armor package for the Boxer, which provides the same protection level at 500 kg weight reduction. @2805662, do you know if the Boxer CRV will use this armor kit? Germany hasn't ordered it, but the Dutch army will make use of it.
A new armor package from IBD for the Puma has been qualified by the WTD 91, which would provide protection against RPGs and IEDs. It would replace the ERA kit from Dynamit Nobel Defence and stay more than 400 kg below the weight limit (so I guess that means it is lighter than the ERA?) while being cheap enough to fit into the budget of the German army. Given that Germany did order only 200 ERA kits for ~350 Pumas, this might mean that in the future IFVs will make use of IBD's NERA/NxRA instead. Maybe that explains the differences in skirt armor layout between the different prototypes.
 

Furthermore IBD is marketing the IBD Smart ProTech armor, they suggest that it would fit well to the Puma, the Boxer and the Leopard 2, allowing the base armor to be more optimized against KE rounds. For the MGCS, IBD Smart ProTech could be used, but IBD also wants to provide internal armor arrays and external add-on armor modules for the MGCS. The company has designed its own turret and hull concepts optimized for maximum protection.

https://defensemaven.io/warriormaven/land/abrams-tanks-sensors-will-detect-attacking-enemy-small-arms-fire-VyNT4PSkDkqvtwWDEjjeXg/

Leopard 2RI MBT

Liwa Al-Quds jihaded 2A42 30 mm autocannon on Toyota

 
 

Syrian Army T-4/Pz4

BRIXMIS photo...GSFG T-80BV:
 

 

More photos from Army 2018, BVM and U

 
 
BVM before going to show/expo firing range

 
 

Stolen from Yuri Pasholok's LJ

Armata IFV with 57mm canon, top view.

Toyota with ZiS-3 in Yemen, again

 

 
Also Yemen, fuel track based on Toyota
 

Supremacy of glorious T-72 over filthy Kharkovite tractor
 

Apperently Kurds also use ex-ISIS Jihad APC

Jihad design bureau made this heavy APC

 
 

D-30 in M113

FSA gave up this one

BMP turret as a module found in southern Syria, near Deraa city

From the Strong Europe Tank Challenge 2018. The dispersion of five round fired by a Swedish Strv 122 (at just 500 metres distance).
 

 
Interim results... note that Romania is missing (no show?).