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2 hours ago, SH_MM said:

 

 

This was only developed for the Arjun Mk 2/later Mk 1A. Original Arjun had no CABIS.

 

Yes, but Wiedzmin's plans are for Arjun Mk.II/IA not Mk.I

21 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

Turret sides are horrific, especially near that non-isolated ammorack. 

 The bustle ammo rack is isolated, it is using system known as CABIS- Containerised Ammunition Bin (with) Individual Shutter, rest of the ammo is also placed in CABIS derived fireproof containers.

2 hours ago, Serge said:

Otokar Brzoza

Does anyone knows if it will be part of infantry or cavalry anti-units or artillery (like the former Pereh Israeli AT system)

It will replace the BRDM-2 with Malyutka, in service with 14th anti-tank artillery regiment which is part of the rocket and artillery forces, so the answer is artillery, at least for that unit.

9 hours ago, mr.T said:

 

 

I see BTR were striped of their cage armor . probably so folks don't ask to much why Ukrainians have cage armor on theirs but Russians don't.

Those are BTR-3s, they don't have/use cage armor usually (to be honest i never saw a pic of a BTR-3 with cage armor, so i don't think they use it at all) BTR-4s on the other hand do use it extensively, you can see it in the background and it has screens on the turret attached

Well, we have first "combat" footage of the T-90M in Ukraine, if we are to believe the vid description this was taken near Izyum.

1 hour ago, Wiedzmin said:

made by person who doesn't know what he doing

true that, he was complaining that he can't move the gun but that was his own fault

Nice vid showing gunner position in T-72B3 (2011) 

5 hours ago, Beer said:

 

Definitely they don't have enough of them for all the mobilised units - while the army grew rapidly thanks to the mobilisation it also lost a lot of weapons and other machinery in the same time. Another question is ammo which is probably running low due to the sheer scale of the war. AFAIK only several factories in Czechia, Slovakia and Bulgaria are still producing WP artillery ammo and rockets and their production is not enough to cover the Ukrainean war effort. 

 

By the way at least some of the helicopters and planes are equiped with on-board sighting for loft bombing / rocket fire, i.e. it's not total spray and pray but of course the effectiveness is limited (for sure Su-25 Klen-PS targeting system has a loft-mode but of course at least the laser beam needs direct visibility of the target).  

Yeah, but still, even with computer calculating impact point and lead, S-8s ain't exactly the epitomy of accuracy when launched like that. Either way, it will be interesting to see if with introduction of M142 and potentially M270 we will see some of these problems go away. I honestly bet it won't change much but im ready to be proven wrong.

Also on the note of lost equipment, with lists like one made by Oryx you would be lead to believe that Ukraine now has more equipment than when the war started, ex. he lists 19 lost MLRS systems for Ukraine and 32 they "captured" from Rus forces, one can argue that making a photo of something doesn't mean it got captured and recovered by UA, but who would bother with such unimportant details. 

6 hours ago, Beer said:

 

I dare to say that it's probably more effective than the there-common loft-volleys of the same S-8 rockets fired from helicopters. From purely physical point of view this platform must be a lot more accurate albeit for the cost of signifficantly reduced range. 

Quite possibly, it is obviously more effective than just dumping rockets over ballistic trajectory and hoping they hit, tho it begs the question, if they are now jerry-rigging such contraptions, are they running low on traditional MLRS systems?

Seems Jihad Design Bureau is doing great with their brand new UkraineAkbar line of products

First T-90M confirmed to be lost in combat, nearly 2 weeks since first spotting the type in the field.

14 hours ago, Beer said:

 

I don't think that it's the main criteria. My few cents how I feel it here (not saying I am right of course). 

 

There are only three viable options - Leopard 2, Abrams, K2. IMHO Merkava or Leclerc are not on the table (despite our traditionally good relationship with Israel). Out of those three we can safely say that K2 has a chance only if Czechia is not alone in EU to buy it. After the failed bid in Poland the chances are slim. Maybe if Norway selects the K2..., otherwise no chance even though K2 would be for sure a very interesting option for the military because it has some reasonable advantages for us such as three-men crew or lower weight. Leopard 2 is for sure a sensible option from technical point of view but I think that the militaty would prefer cooperation with US (and Poland) rather than Germany. Just have a look on the stuff we are using. We are neighbouring with Germany but we use basically no German weapons, none of Euro projects lead by Germany, not even anything second-hand (we have a handful of Dingo II but that's it). The reasons are IMHO purely political. The new government leans even more towards US and at least for now it also stands with Poland. Now when Poland decided for Abrams the option to share the Polish service and mainteanance base with them and Americans is for sure very attractive (despite all the technical troubles the Abrams brings for us - mainly the excessive weight). On the other hand it's also possible that some sort of weapon deal with Germany may also go through in the future as a sort of friendly gesture. We'll see. 

K2 hasn't failed any bid in Poland yet, we bought Abrams outside the Wilk MBT programme as a replacement for rapidly aging T-72M and M1s. The main future MBT project is still ongoing, and K2PL is the favourite so far. Thing is, it doesn't exist, and who knows how long it will take to build it, and even then who knows if politicians won't change their minds.

Well, we have first pics of T-90M in Ukraine, screengrab from Rosgvardia vid around Kharkiv.

10 hours ago, TINDALOS said:

I also suspect the missing turret era and side fuel tank fire were from different attack attempts by RPG-7 or Konkurs ATGM. Can we identify wether this T-72 is B3 variant or simply 1989 variant? Another 1989 variant I saw today was not as lucky as this one.

On the picture i posted it is a T-72B obr.1989 you can very quickly verify that by the fact it has the IR emitter on the right side of the barrel. As for why the K5 is missing there. NLAW has a directional downward facing warhead. So when it detonated on the metal contraption the stream passed thru frontal K5 that we see missing, the weakned stream damaged the fuel tank igniting it, and so we got that photo instead of a new photo of a T-72B wreck.

The entire idea with these "roofs" is just an extremely cheap way so that the tank has those "slighlty higher" chances of survival against modern anti tank solutions. And while it won't work every time, it is so cheap, that if it works once in 10 times it is good enough.

2 hours ago, TINDALOS said:

I think these cages are actually useful against NLAWs due to NLAWs fly pattern (look closer you will find out those turret top ERAs didn't suffer much of a damage, I could be wrong), but maybe kind of useless against Javleins? Besides, I didn't see a single Javelin launch video or UKR troop carrying Javelins over the internet yet... I wonder did they ever managed to use those?

Yeah im pretty sure it was attacked by NLAW, as on picture we can see that the projectile came from the side, not from top, as for Javelins, indeed they didn't seem to appear yet. Quite interesting why we see no footage of em.

Seems the cages aren't that useless in the end, it detonated the top attack missile before it could reach the crew compartment and so only the fuel tank next to turret got ignited.

8 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

Budget cuts 3 with Arena-M and Nakidka radar a nd therma tank blanket, heh.

 

 

And still no CITV 

Is there any real reason why they still don't give the B3 a proper commander night sight when they put APS on it?

On 12/20/2021 at 2:44 AM, Sturgeon said:

Well you do need to have discord.

Funny, but i do have a discord obviously.
And the widget doesn't seem to have any invite link.

Sooo, how can you join the discord server? Clicking on the banner sends you down to the discord download homepage.

8 hours ago, Zadlo said:

And the high quality photos of Rak-G

 

I've always wondered, why HSW never bothered to change the road wheels to something that isn't screaming "im related to MTLB" on their modern more budget products like the LPG, wouldn't it make more sense to standardize them with Borsuk for ease of production and easier logistics during repairs in the future? When BWP-1 is hopefully gone from polish service? (hopefully considering Borsuk still hasn't finished the trials it was supposed to finish in june)

4 hours ago, Dominus Dolorem said:

Did they fix this on the T-90M?

That depends with your definition of a fix, it is better protected with ERA and the turret seems to have a bit diffrent shape there, but the base protection is still only 70 mm of steel.

Also the cables seem to be arranged way better instead of just lying on top of the turret.

3BM60 Sviniets-2 penetration presentation

Rostec vid bout "Checkmate" i kinda cringed when i heard the name, but overall looks really neat.

Well someone from the show crew leaked photos of the plane. It looks quite interesting imho.

4 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   That burst at 0:45 with rounds landing everywhere around target, kek. This means that for effective use of 30 mm against point target this vehicle will need to get close, close enough that even light ATGMs with limited range (like ~2km) will be able to reach it.

I were wondering many times, aside this thing being stupid in probably every aspect, wouldn't just making new muzzle break that doesn't interfere with the 2nd gun make them more accurate during rapid fire? Like it ain't rocket science to figure out that the current accuracy during burst firing is bad.