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Leopard 2 at Allach KMW plant.
Pretty good angle on the hull add-on.
 

Brand new video on the Danish Leopard 2A7's:
 

Development of a 8-tonne reconnaissance amphibious tracked vehicle (ERAC) was launched in 1960.
The use of a fin-stabilized shaped charge projectile as main anti-tank round was deemed obvious given the performance achieved with the 90 mm shell.
The project consists of a D 739 gun firing a 105 mm projectile with a steel body designed to be fired under higher pressure (2100 kg/cm²) with a muzzle velocity of 850 m/s.
The static firing trials in 1962 and the ERAC prototype the following year fall short of expectations ; the accuracy is barely acceptable and the armor penetration is mediocre compared to the caliber.
Meanwhile, the ERAC project is cancelled and its successor, the ECA (Engin de Combat Amphibie : amphibious fighting machine) didn't have any more luck.
The AMX-10 RC also used a fin-stabilized shaped charge projectile but with a superior ballistic performance (1100 m/s).
 
-  MAREST, M, TAUZIN, M, COMHART T9 ; L'armement de gros calibre, Centre des hautes études de l’armement Division Histoire, Paris, 2008.

Some people know about the French ERAC (Engin de Reconnaissance Amphibie de Combat), not to be confused with Engin de Réaction Anti-Chars:
 
 
It's an amphibious light tank from the early '60s, but apparently it didn't end with this vehicle. New photos have been added somewhat recently on chars-francais.net of a second, albeit similar vehicle:
 
 
No additional information is revealed, but the mounted gun is quite obviously larger than on the first one. Both vehicles are labeled "ERAC 105mm", yet the website claims the gun to be the 90mm DEFA D 914.

what was the reason to put 30mm perforated plates on front of Raketenjagdpanzer ?

B3Ms during exercises in Rostov region

 
 

Some local TBs took place in different military districts. Somebody won, some lost, etc. At least those things generated few not bad photos.

 
 

https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/652/pdf/

Army apparently wants CR2 to fire gun-launched ATGM and have significantly enhanced protection.

Ed Francis has recently started a fantastic Youtube channel going over British vehicle design and development called Armoured Archives. He has plenty of unseen gems in his videos, including this bad boy:
 

 
I'll let his work speak for itself: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIgjPAYn253oyWLsYgiHDw

I have another big batch to post.
 
Some more crossing the line stuff. 






 
This one seems to be some other event, not the line crossing. 

 
I think this one is from Yokohama.

 
This one looks like it too

 
A huge crane. 

 
More Yokohama?

 
Since it looks like one of those Sailors is carrying a Pioneer box, I'm guessing Yokohama again. 

 
Also Yokohama?


 
Our old Friend DD-747

 
I have more to come!

Holy Shit. These are fucking amazing.
Grabbed some as wallpaper.
 
Hopefully I'll be able to post some from relatives of this quality soon.  Got more than a few who served many tours in Vietnam.

Marines farewell their tanks:
 
 

This is the version of the Leopard 2A7+ purchased by Qatar, i.e. the Leopard 2A7Q (aka Leopard 2A7 QAT). No idea if this is really identical to the variant ordered by Hungary, but compared to the German Leopard 2A7(V), it has the full armor kit (including additional roof protection), the PERI RTWL-B from the Puma in place of the PERI R17A3, a third generation thermal imager and improved LRF for the gunner's EMES 15 sight, cross wind sesnor and the FLW-200 RWS on top of the turret.
 
It is basically KMW's late Leopard 2A7+ demonstrator with minimum changes. Qatar purchased the best possible configuration, while Germany initially didn't want to spend as much money, only to implement some of the lacking features in the Leopard 2A7V (and possibly in the follow-up variant, because both a LRF for the commander and a RWS are still on the Bundeswehr's tank crews' wish lists...).
 
I don't think the L/55A1 tank gun variant was available at the time of the Qatari purchase, but this is just my speculation.
 
 

Recently refurbished NM-116 outside the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in Oslo:
 

 
Some info:
 
This vehicle is part of the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum's collection, and has been on display at Setermoen for several years, despite being in need of refurbishment. Major Geir Lyftingsmo (Chief of vehicles and engineering equipment at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museums) organized a collaborative project between Panservenner ("friends of armoured vehicles"), the Historical Military Vehicles Association (HMKF), Veteran meets Veteran and the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum, and on July 2, a newly refurbished NM-116 was handed over to the museum.

Torgeir Løvold, chairman of Panservenner, says the project was successful, and that over 400 hours have been spent on the job. The project required tenacity and patience. The museum would like to thank everyone involved for their efforts. A thanks also goes to the Norwegian Armed Forces competence center for logistics and operational support (FKL) for the transport of the vehicle.

Following the success of this project, the partners have already embarked on the next project, an NM135 which they plan to make ready for the next Veteran's Day.
 
http://forsvaretsmuseer.no/Forsvarsmuseet/Stridsvogn-paa-museet

...and more pictures on otvaga2004.ru http://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2020/07/blog-post_4.html
There was a demonstration with the A7+ variant we ordered.

 
 

Hungary
 

Technical analysis/evaluation of the VJTF 2023 configuration of the Puma has been finished at the WTD 81. Note the hull mounted cameras/thermal imagers for 360° coverage, mounted at the corners of the hull.
 

 
 

DPR, moded T-64BV

How absolutely gigantic T-15 is...
 

Puny BMP-2 and -3 behind Chonkganets.