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Some great M1 photos from Trident Juncture 2018
 
 

 

typical gas station in Norway during the NATO exercise #WhereIsTheFuelThereWeAre

Some great M1 photos from Trident Juncture 2018
 
 

 

Some great M1 photos from Trident Juncture 2018
 
 

 

I found it ! 
 
http://pogoarchives.org/m/ns/m1/appendix-d.pdf

So this is where we will get to post all those pictures of burned out Leo 2's belonging to Turkey?  Cool.

....ready to get kebabed

Trident juncture 2018 :
http://pds25.egloos.com/pds/201810/25/60/f0205060_5bd170b7830c6.jpg
 
http://pds21.egloos.com/pds/201810/25/60/f0205060_5bd170c6c3582.jpg

for some reason the hull looks like KV-1

About the last Soviet tank design, some sort of "what if ...." - http://btvt.info/2futureprojects/490_21vek.htm

Well, doing guestimates is ususally the best we can do about modern systems. But we have some data.
 

When it comes to protection analysis, hull armor is secondary to turret armor. As we all know, most of the shots in tank-tank engagement impact the turret. According to this guy
The tank has new armor on the hull. It doesnt mean thats to counter 125mm apfsds though.  But on the other hand, this upgraded armor package is the first one in almost 2 decades, im sure that they managed to make armor thats either more weight efficient (for the claimed protection against IEDs, for example) or more effective vs conventional threats, or both. To what extent is up for guessing. 

 
Both the Svinets 1-2 and Relikt have been introduced recently thats true, but that introduction was way long overdue. They were designed around the early 2000´s. While some improvements can be made, i would expect them to be negligible. Those designs are so old that there is data about their performance.
For the APFSDS rounds we have this table, supposedly from Tula which claims a penetration at a 60º target from 2km of 370mm RHA for Svinets 1 and 330mm RHA for Svinets 2, and at minimum double those figures for non-sloped targets (for some reason im unable to attach the table in the post). Both figures imply that they can defeat the original M1A2, but we dont know how effective would they be against the first SEP, let alone the SEPv3. However lets say that both Svinets would penetrate a maximum of 800mm, for the Abrams, having its armor upgraded up to that figure wouldn´t be much of a stretch after 2 armor upgrades and almost 3 decades for research and development (since the introduction of M1A2 armor package).
About the Relikt, usually its claimed to be twice as effective vs KE than Kontakt 5, so around 40 percent decrease in APFSDS penetration. Said ERA is so good that it renders M829A3 useless, and thats something admitted by ATK in the brochure about the new round while also claiming the capability to defeat Relikt with the A4:
 


 

@Ramlaen Not to mention, it also sports the CREW Duke v3 antenna (behind that black cylinder), which suggests they're different (as in, separate) systems.
 
I'm still not convinced it's the Multimodal Hostile Fire Detection System (to be included with Raytheon's Lynx offering), as the top of the sensor array sports a ring of flash-detecting optics: that black cylinder is clearly smooth with no set of apertures...and I don't think it's just a removable protection cap meant to cover the MFHDS when the latter is not in use.
 
 
EDIT: it's certainly one of the new AMPVs, probably the Mission Command variant.
 

 
You can clearly see that antenna pedestal in front of the CREW Duke.

Inb4 next WoT premium  

Abrams MBT deserves a topic of its own.

Wonderfull photos of polish "golden autumn" and tanks from 10 Tk Bde by press 11 "Lubuska" Armoured Division.
Photos made by Senior Staff Warrant Officer  Rafał Mniedło:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Hello
Is there any detailed photos or schemes of early split hatch cupola's race lock assembly?

It seems to be similar to later type in general, but looks different in details.

New photo of Object 195
 

 
Oh f*ck. Itsa awesome 

New photo of Object 195
 

 
Oh f*ck. Itsa awesome 

The answer is simple:
 

Could they be thinking of this? 
 
 
Because those still aren't Kornet's, they're Ataka's, and thus would still be very wrong. 

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

AUSA 2018 Warriors Corner #19 Long Range Precision Fires Cross - Functional Team Update with Col. John Rafferty, Col. Chris Mills, Col. Will McDonough and Mike George
 
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/embed/631880
 
58-caliber M109A8 test footage at the beginning of the video. Credits to Damian90 on AW forums.