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    This turkish intervention at Saraqib is an interesting one. Did they occupy the entire town? I wonder what does this mean to SAA, do they have to just bypass the town and continue advancing along the highway, or they have to stop operations in this area, and begin the liberation of the areas west to Maarat an Numan instead? Also, the fact that Turkey is so openly supporting terrorism, and at the same time, they are a significant member of NATO raises questions, not only about them, but about the entirety of NATO itself... Just my opinion...
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    Arent M-46 guns still in reserve? Or maybe the Bereg's gun is incompatible with the shells used by M-46?
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    Just wondering... what is the point of the Bereg system today? 23km range is quite miserable, only landing ships may come closer than that, and there are better weapons for destroying those (like the Rubezh). But on the other hand... The gun carrier is quite impressive, good gun, rate of fire, fire control and very high offroad mobility for a wheeled vehicle. Why wasnt this adopted for army use? All it would need is an itegration to army command & control systems, and of course better ammunition.
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    Thats a little bit of exaggeration... In the case of Volvo A60H: Unloaded weight is 43750kg, payload 55000kg, total weight is 98750kg. Straight from the brochure. Mining trucks are vastly different than military vehicles, with completely different distribution of weight. Apples to oranges I think.
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    They should also replace that peashooter 20mm too.
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    I think 2s35 will be used parallel with Msta-S, not as its replacement. The old Gvozdika, Akatsia, Giatsint will be replaced by them.
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    Syrian girl's video about the iranian retaliation. She is completely right. Plus some footage about the missile impacts.
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    Isnt it obvious? Its a truck with a trailer, and something covered with tarpaulin, with a pipe sticking out of it No, seriously. I think it may be a T-64, T-64R or an earlier T-64A, going to a museum or exhibit. The tank's rear plate seems to be flat, that rules out T-72. The towing hooks are mounted low, that rules out T-80.
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    A little bit of Challenger-2
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    Both USA and Israel want war with Iran. Probably saudis too. All these are attempts to provoke Iran to do something that can be used against them to justify a full scale conflict, of course to destroy the "evil iranian dictatorship", and export "democracy" to them.
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    Do not make the mistake of comparing the T-55 to modern tanks. It was fine in its time. The ammo wasnt stored all over inside the turret. The loader had 2 rounds next to him, and another 5 behind the gun, this was all that he had in the turret. These rounds were easy to reach no matter where the turret was rotated, and allowed fast reload speed (as low as 6 seconds). In the hull ammo was stored everywhere, advantage is that loader always had access to easily reachable rounds, disadvantage is that these were easy to hit. But lets see other tanks: M-48/60: The loader had 8 rounds in the bustle, and ~10-12 next to him. The rest was in the hull, on both sides of the driver. M-60A1/3: 21 rounds in the bustle, 16 in the ready rack, the rest on both sides of the driver. Huge amounts of ammo in the turret, advantage is very fast reload speed (~4-5 seconds), disadvantage is that the tank was very prone to ammo detonation, its not a good idea to store large amounts in the turret, unless there is safe ammo storage, like in the Abrams or Leo-2. Leopard-1: 18 in the ready rack, next to the loader, rest next to the driver in a huge rack. Fast reload speed, but the tank had virtually no armor, and was cramped inside, old fashioned 100mm full caliber AP hits from T-55 would almost always result in penetration (from any range), and catastrophic kill. Centurion: 4-8 rounds in the ready rack, rest in the hull next to the driver and some below the turret in a not very accessible position.
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    Fits in the picture. There are rumors that jihadists may surrender Maarat an Numan without fight. What are they thinking? Maybe a bloody last stand in Idlib city? Are they so desperate? Or maybe the Sultan recognized that Idlib is lost, and redeploys the jihadists to Lybia? https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/early-reports-of-ongoing-talks-to-have-the-jihadists-surrender-key-city-in-idlib/
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    Meanwhile Russia sent another ship, with Kalibr missiles https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russian-warship-armed-with-cruise-missiles-heads-to-syrian-waters-photos/ EDIT: sorry, wrong picture
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    Looks like main target of this offensive is Maarrat Al Numan. There were lots of airstrikes around the area in the past few days according to this: https://syriancivilwarmap.com I hope SAA liberate the city quickly. Terrorists deserve some serious ass kicking!
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    The movie is just terribly bad
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    So, basically a huge missed opportunity... It could do almost everything the Bumerang can, was (probably) much cheaper, and was ready for production... Sad.
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    Quite sad. It was extensively covered here too in the news. It was also mentioned that the guy shot with incredible accuracy, most were headshots... Where did he train for that?
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    Absolutely sure. The Kolarms factory was even visited by the hungarian gun magazine "Kaliber", with a very good report about the developments there. DSKM is called "MG1270", with minor modifications and modern production methods (CNC). Website: http://waffen.sk Something interesting is that on the website, the DSKM is fitted with the normal muzzle brake, but in the gun magazine, on all photos you saw a simple welded brake, like the one you see on the nigerian armored car.
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    And it has slovakian produced DShKM (evident from muzzle brake). Yes, the old gun is still in production. The vehicle itself seems to be quite low quality, at least it is my impression.
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    Well, not just him. Not long ago such rumors also appeared in german media. Knowing how crazy Sultan Erdogan is, these rumors might be true actually.
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    There are more and more rumors about Turkey handed over some Leopard-2s to jihadists. SAA and Kurdish tankists will be in a big trouble if they want to face these tanks with T-55/62/72, their only chance is a surprise flank attack. But hopefully the Leopards will be taken out by ATGM teams soon. http://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_4.html
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    The agony continues... Chelyabinsk plant in deep trouble, in addition to bankruptcy, they are unable to manufacture engines for T-14/15/16. Source: http://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2019/11/blog-post_30.html
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    What about this? Well, not movie tank, not even a vismod. But a quite original, home-made "tank" They built it in 2 weeks, using a skid steer loader engine and hydrostatic drive, some car parts for suspension, and fully self designed tracks.
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    Yes, but there were rumors a while ago that syrian crews are almost finished training on S-300. Looks like it was fake.
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