mr.T

31 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

 

Yeah, this is far from being optimal vehicle to deal with small UAVs and drones. Its like those people don't follow Ukrainian conflict closely. This thing is going to be spotted and shelled before it will be able to get into effective range of some of drones that are used in current war (like Matrice 30T). 

Wonder where they buy the tires for these things as these are not something you can buy in the West its either Russian or Ukrainian made for bazillion of swamp vehicles like Russian Sherp designs that are made  around these low pressure low ply tires , and the vehicle with no suspension and tire design with super low pressure is far from ideal for a stable firing platform

Looks like top attacks protection kit on a T72 with huge slat armor baskets front and rear to protect the hull and engine from bomblets and FPV drones

Kurganets future is likely being done in by BMP3 Manul , the front-engined BMP3 derivative with huge parts commonality with legarcy BMP3 .

IFV that can be built now , instead of in a decade and is in most respects a modern platform especially when paired with unmanned turrets like Baikal and Epoch and probably considerably more affordable than Kurganets.

Bandera akbar production  a T62 with BMP turret and artistic era placment on BMP1 turret that would probably colapse in case  Era block explosion.

Looks like demilitarised BRDM got remilitarized by Jaysh Al-Bandera 

Looks like Europe will end up on M1 as most of Euro tanks will end up being scraped in Ukraine . No one is going to be buying Leclerc or Leopard after Ukraine and honestly manufacturing in Europe is getting killed by green new deal being showed down every ones throats.

Putin Akbar design bureau S60 on T54 chassis

Ultimate cope cage Putin Akbar design bureau

On 4/16/2023 at 5:52 PM, Serge said:

What is Burlak ?

an ERA ?

Its was a Universal turret program, turret could fit ,T72 ,T80 ,T90 , much-improved armor and cannon .

It had a dual cycle loader so it could load longer rounds from the turret bustle greatly increasing its firepower due to APFSDS with much longer penetrator core. No rounds outside the autoloader, which pose the main threat in case of armor penetration were stored in the tank. Overall “Burlak” project was a backup for a technically risky T-95 project.(Black Eagle). It seems both projects were cut in favor of Armata.

Unlike popular myth , the rounds in the autoloader are fairly well protected,its the spare rounds all over the tank that are most likely to blow up if tank is penetrated.

Ukrainans doing some turret throwing

Refurbishment at UVZ T-72B to T-72B3M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUN8FusrQQ0&t=59s

ERA everywhere on a T-72B3M (T-72B1) mod. 2022  1PN 96MT-02 thermal imaging sight is used 

Leopards getting some soviet reactive armor to bolster rather thin baseline armor of a A4 variant

APU is installing the Russian  "Kontakt-1" 

Upgrade to LIDAR fuse ,so now things blow up even if they get entangled into chicken wire

* what is with the constant use of watermarks, they are used so extensively that they should be classed as a war crime.

From what i understand the T90 has priority on optics and FCS so other tanks get inferior sights , you can imagine no one is manufacturing 2-3 complete sets FCS per day.

Yes but US has stocks of old stuff that can be upgraded and sold or just supplied in short order , while in Europe they have been cutting Armored vehicles and tanks up into scrap metal since 1991 . One KMW owned junkyard alone cut over 17.000 armored vehicles since 1991

1 hour ago, Glattrohr said:

Any clues yet - will they be upgrading their old hulls or is the whole order newly buidlt?

New built ,Assembled in Germany , as Gemany has no tank production line , most of the Leopard 2 parts , including all hulls are manufactured in Greece these days as it has basically Europes only tank production line and its very low production capacity so tanks are practically hand built with corresponding quality issues  that come form such low rate production , like cracked turret rings that plagued Greek Leopard 2 order. Its also long wait for anything 2 years from metal being cut to first tank rolling off hence 2026-31 delivery timeframe.

At 31mio Eur per tank if you count the whole order with associated costs and spares its no wonder Korean K2 is a serious contender , they still have a hot production line vs butique Leopard production.

On 1/21/2023 at 10:11 AM, Pardus said:

 

Do you know what the specific requirements were? Also is Trophy capable of protecting against multiple simultaneous attacks like ADS ?

I guess its has a lot to do with the Radar emissions of APS , active Trophy can be detected tens of kilometers away  

Report (https://www.janes.com/defence-news/land-forces/latest/iav-2023-eurotrophy-set-for-silent-mode-capability) that the managing director of EuroTrophy GmbH (a joint venture of the Israeli company Rafael, KMW and General Dynamics to promote the Trophy active protection system developed by Rafael to the European market) Dan Kalfus said at the International Armored Vehicles (IAV) 2023 conference in London that a set of Othello passive electro-optical sensors is being developed for the EuroTrophy APS, which will allow APS to work without activating the standard Elta EL/M-2133 radar sensors for Trophy, thereby ensuring the secrecy of operation without radio emission. In 2021, the Ministries of Defense of Israel and Germany conducted successful tests of the Rafael Trophy APS on the German Leopard 2A7 tank, which opened the way for the development and promotion of the EuroTrophy variant

You forgot the ad point 7

7. where the fuck do we get new tanks.

US has been playing the Euros like a fiddle , instead of donating Abrams that is actually available in thousands , its forcing europeans to divest of their meager stocks ,  Britain , France, Germany each have only about 200 MBTs and no capacity to produce more in near term. Even US M1 that will be going to Ukraine will be on a very slow boat , new manufactured months after Leo2 start burning up 

If you google up supply so far US supplied almost no heavy armor nor SPG artilery , NATO europe is practically divested of artillery ,Denmark has no single piece left due to Ukraine supply.

4. is being set up , as unlike what folks imagine most of these tanks are fairly old A4 models that is armored even less than T72 monkey models and will go up in flames same as any other , its not like we are seeing tank duels , its mostly mines,ATGMS and artillery wrecking tanks.  

Great article on how US is making best of oprotunity to wipeout German competition on international arms markets.

https://www.nzz.ch/international/kampfpanzer-leopard-2-us-ruestungsinteressen-lassen-scholz-zoegern-ld.1722377

On 12/25/2022 at 6:06 PM, Renegade334 said:

 

Behold the birth of the Cope Net!

That camo net did not stop anything, a 12kg drone crashing in at 250+km/h is not stopping on camo netting 50cm above the tank also suicide drones do not have an contact fuse but and internal impact fuse so as long it stops abrupty with loth of negative G it will go off., was anything actually stopped or just staged for a vid is another question , lots of faked shit gets posted.

On 12/30/2022 at 5:01 PM, alanch90 said:

How many? 2? 4? IIRC the plan for this year was 4.

I seems SU57 scored it first air to air kill by downing an Ukrainian SU27 

So a grand total of 10x production SU57 are now officially delivered , the 11th one was lost in testing prior handover to the military.

Plane deliveries to RuAF in 2022    

4x Su-30SM2,

10x Su-34M

7x Su-35S

6x Su- 57 

2x Yak-130s 

5x Il-76MD-90A 

Shahed banderamobil 

Maxim machine guns  1940 model on the roof of one of the residential high-rises in Kiev. Meant for defense against Shaheds 

Jihaded JDAMSKI 

GPS guided extended range kits for cast iron.

There is hardly any point in deploying these to Ukraine considering there are notmany tank on tank engagements let alone any that T90 couldn't handle.