Lord_James

@SH_MM
 

 
which 105mm APFSDS is this ?
 
 

Regarding the A10's übergewehr being useless against anything more heavily armoured than the caveman-era T62, I would like to point you at the following articles, from 100% correct and unbiased sources:
 
https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-tests-a-10-cannon-against-modern-tank-armor-2022-5?international=true&r=US&IR=T
 
https://www.53rdwing.af.mil/News/Article/3022734/a-10c-munitions-render-explosive-reactive-armored-tanks-inoperative-during-test/
 
Thank you for your attention. Dont believe the lies. Hog has been willed into immortality by the congress itself. 

Bridging and mine clearing training involving the K1A2, K1 AVLB, and K600 CEV
 

 

Hero 120 on an LAV for the USMC.
 

 

DM13 and DM12.

It doesn't matter for whom Oryx works or whom he supports. The point is that majority of the documented losses on his blog are real. Most of them have gigantic letters Z and V written on them and a large part of the machinery is also exclusively used only by Russia. There is certainly a grey zone in which certain losses can be attributed to both sides (lostarmour.info for comparison) but that doesn't make the list useless because there is still a lot of undisputable facts which one can take from the database. See, the 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya tank division is the only unit in this war using T-80U family of tanks. Those can't be mixed with Ukrainean. They are Russian and they are of 4th division. That's a fact. This division which was considered one of the best in the Russian army beyond any doubt lost more than 1/3 of its tanks. It doesn't mattter who delivered the message but without Oryx's list we would hardly know that because lostarmour doesn't show Russian losses at all (perhaps is not allowed to do so). 
 
My previous point that there are most likely numerous Ukrainean losses missing in the database was not about the databse per se. It's natural thing done by the side which controls the territory where losses occur. See how many Azeri losses surfaces only after the 2019 war? We will never know how many never got on public. That's simply the advantage of the side which controls the battlefield and it will continue to be like that in any future conflict.  

Sasha Kots, military journalists who is currently working somewhere around Izyum in his telegram:
 
Oh, and more:
 
Would like to see a video of that for confirmation. 

First fours Serval (VBMR light) delivered to the army :
 

 
https://www.forcesoperations.com/le-ministere-des-armees-receptionne-les-quatre-premiers-serval/

Żółć may correct me but I believe there is a plan for having joint US/Polish repair and mainteanance facility for M1 in Poland adjacent to the new US forward storage base. I don't know how much of a real advantage it is to have Germany as a supplier of the Leos just over the border. The German foreign and military policy has been fickle and the tanks are produced in Greece anyway. 
 
I agree with the weight. Same issue for our eventual purchase. 

1996 video showing the famous Russian log in use (most likely at training):
 
First time I saw a video with the complete procedure shown actually.

Gulf states and Soviet Union. And Russia. 

That would be Object 787, which was developed the same time as the other pre-BMPT prototypes Objects 781 and 782 (the former being behind the 787 here.) It would basically be as you described.
 

Serbian Artillery


 

the smaller ones 122mm....the big boy 155mm
the big boy has been exported to Bangladesh already
 

In Ukraine

https://usnc.com/nasa-selects-ultra-safe-nuclear-for-ultra-high-temperature-testing-facility-sbir/
 
"division of Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC), announces it has been selected by NASA to receive a Phase II SBIR contract to develop a proposed ultra-high temperature material testing facility. The specialized equipment could provide an essential terrestrial environment for testing the performance of materials planned for use in space-based nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems.
The demanding requirements for NTP systems necessitate development of breakthrough refractory and ceramic materials capable of performing in extremely high temperatures. Phase II of the SBIR will enable USNC-Tech to construct and operate a system capable of conducting sophisticated tests to verify the performances of key materials in a prototypical environment."

That's exactly what it is.
 
The question is if everybody in Europe buy the F-35 what will happen when the need to replace the F-35 arrive in a few decades? Technically even France could buy the F-35 as well since there is a proper CATOBAR version (F-35C) (though there is the problem of our airborne nuclear dissuasion).
By the time the life cycle of the F-35 is at its end, indigenous aircraft manufacturer (Dassault, Airbus and Saab) will have completely lost all know how regarding fighter design because they haven't worked on anything similar for decades.
Choosing the F-35 and killing the FCAS is as good as destroying the capability of designing a high performance fighter in Europe for a long time, making us even more dependent on the US. Germany may be ok with that but their decision has an impact on the rest of us too :/

Well on one hand now that elections period are over both in France and Germany, there is now enough political stability to continue negotiations.
On the other hand the war in Ukraine kinda validated France position on the need of an effective European defense and Germany woke up noticing that their army is basically naked and that they can't do much to help their neighbour in case of an invasion.
Cue emotional response and German politicians put 100 billions euros on the table ... and the first thing they buy are F-35, CH-47 and the THAAD system.
 
Now I perfectly understand that those 100 billions are meant to plug in the holes with material that is available now, and on a lot of niches the American were the only one that could provide the material quickly. But frankly it sent a terrible political signal that at the first sign of trouble, Germany turned around and went toward the US.
 
Add on top of that the fact that even before the invasion of Ukraine Germany screwed up two major European program by buying PE-8 naval patrol aircraft instead of going forward with the MAWS program and then refusing to participate to the Tiger MkIII standard (Forcing France and Spain to downscale the number of helicopters that will be upgraded) and making noises that they would be interested by Boeing's AH-64 instead.
 
Between all of that, their dependency to Russian gas and the fact that their partners had to convince them (at least in the beginning of the conflict) to take meaningful sanctions against Russia and help Ukraine ...
Short answer, nobody in Europe have any kind of trust left in Germany regarding defence and military matters.
Sadly it is likely that all cooperation programs with Germany will be re-examined.

Best Korean NLOS ATGM carrier

 
 
Now it have little brother on tiny wheels

 
And their LOS ATGM vehicle

New paintjob

 
 

The SIMS are dangerous Nazi propaganda comrade
 
 
https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/russia-appears-to-confuse-the-sims-for-sim-cards-in-possible-staged-assassination-attempt/