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  1. Beer
    If it's going to be used as unmanned, it will be commanded by someone sitting in the command post. IMHO we are very far from an UGV being able to command itself except or some very simple tasks such as drive along a given road.
  2. Beer
    StuG III...
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    That was roughly one week ago but the video is new.
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    Orsis T-5000 in China.
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    Another Harop wreckage on Iranian soil. Probably downed by Iranian AD. Remains of Izraeli long range guided artillery rocket Extra on NKR territory (third post in that twitter thread, don't know why it shows all).
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    Were those involved local Chechen FSB units or federal ones?
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    Four objects falling from the sky nearly in the same time and on the same place. Looking like 1-2 An-2-based decoys and 2-3 UAV, most likely kamikaze ones.
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    Divers in Poland started a five days long operation to defuse an unexploded Tallboy bomb. https://www.dw.com/en/polish-divers-to-defuse-wwii-earthquake-bomb-on-german-border/a-55238853
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    Spectacular video of modernized Serbian MLRS Oganj.
  11. Beer
    I was thinking about a scout vehicle based on BT-5 but I don't think I would have time to prepare anything meaningful for the contest
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    Dear God... Azerbaijani Ganja city hit by something absolutely massive. Scud missing its target? Allegedly 9 civilians died.
  13. Beer
    Yes, there is something but not that much. Calibre 47 mm L43,4; barrel length 2040 mm Mass 395 kg or 450 kg per source (for comparison the barrel + breech mechanism of the towed A5 (4,7cm KPÚV vz. 38) gun was 160 kg heavy and the whole gun including the carriage and the shield was 580 kg heavy and 488 kg without wheels - that was a feature to lower the silouette) Recoil 320 mm Semi-automatic breech mechanism (maximum ROF 25/min; aimed ROF 12-15/min), with original Czechoslovak ammo: APC 782 m/s with 1,65 kg projectile (2,79 kg complete round), HE 660 m/s with 1,5 kg projectile (2,6 kg whole round), per Czechoslovak tests in 1938 the APC round penetrated 35 mm @ 30° and 1500 m; 41 mm @ 30° and 1000 m; 48 mm @30° and 500 m; 54 mm @ 30° and 100 m. Max. range with HE round was 4000 m. In 1940 the towed A5 (4,7cm KPÚV vz. 38) got a new Pzgr.40 APCR round capable of defeating 59 mm @ 30° and 500 m; 100 mm @ 30° and 100 meters with projectile weight 0,825 kg and muzzle velocity 1080 m/s. I'm not totally sure if the ammo for A11 was same as for the A5 but I think so, so I guess this round could be used also in the A11 by 1942. The muzzle velocity for APC rounds of A5 and A11 was nearly same (775 m/s for the towed A5 and 782 m/s for the tank A11) so I guess the performance would be similar. In V-8-H and T-21 tanks the gun had -10° to +25° elevation.
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    I just found a little peculiar detail about it related to Italy. In fact Italy wanted to buy the Škoda T-21 tank armed with A11 gun but Škoda was too busy with Wehrmacht orders and could not deliver the tanks. Same story goes about Romania. In the end the license was sold to Hungary but they used their own (partially Škoda based anyway) gun 40M.
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    But it looks like the outer "Abramsish" turret panels are just made of thin sheets of steel - see the cutouts for smoke dispensers and APS (real?). The turret itself looks like a simple box inside them.
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    I suggest to add the gun which was used for exactly this in the real history. - 4,7cm KPÚV vz. 38, aka 4,7 Pak 38(t) aka Škoda A5, which was used in Panzerjäger I or Panzerjäger Renault R35(f); it was also used in large numbers by Yugoslavia as a towed gun Besides of that one Škoda produced huge number of guns for many countries including Italy with various modifications. Guns like A8 - 3,7 cm gun from LT vz.38 aka Pz 38(t) or weaker A7 from LT vz.35 aka Pz 35(t) aka R2 or even older A3 from Yugoslav tankette Š-I-D. Those were all serially produced and definitely available tank guns. For a tank like Renault R35 or Hotchkiss H35 even the oldest A3 is a great improvement, even though in 1943 this is still rather questionable if that was worth it. Another one which comes to my mind is more complicated. The reasonably more powerful A11 - 4,7 cm gun from ČKD V-8-H and Škoda T21 tanks. That was basically a largely improved tank version of the A5 with much shorter recoil etc. To my knowledge it was never mass produced although it was addopted and the production was prepared but... Münich treaty. For a thing like BT-5 even Zbrojovka Brno 15 mm ZB-60 autocannon may be useful if this fast but paper-thin tank is used as a recon vehicle instead of being a tank (which is probably better idea in 1943). This gun was mass produced and readily available.
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    UAV thread

    Beer replied to Toxn's topic in Aviation

    Czech MOD to buy several tactical UCAVs. Most likely IAI Heron Tactical, Heron or Elbit Hermes 900. Number of units was not disclosed (I guess it hasn't been even defined yet). https://www.armadninoviny.cz/nakup-dronu-heron-vs-tactical-heron.html
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    Why should it be from F-16 ordonance? What does that label mean? It's much more likely a light drone bomb like MAM series from Bayraktar TB2. Also the damage of the cathedral does not correspond with heavy aicraft bombs.
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    An interesting detail showing again that MAM-L hits cause often relatively small damage to the tanks but usually enough for mobility or mission kill.
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    Another Harop wreckage (falsly claimed to be Armenian) showing the same thing. I think it's really the launch booster. Azeri Dana-M1 SPH. First confirmed combat use ever. Source:
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    I don't know. Could it be the Harop launch booster?
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    Video from a media day in Tatra (Trucks and Defence). You can see some details from Titus and Pandur II production (and various special trucks) plus a media drive with Patriot II MRAP over part of the testing polygon (only "clean" part). Both Titus and Patriot II use typical Tatra tube chassis with independent suspension. One particularly interesting thing is what they mention about Titus. The Czech variants which are mostly various command and communication vehicles will be equiped with automatic position levelling system (I don't know how it shall be properly called in English, it means that when the vehisle stops the commander or driver can make it stand level in both axes by pressing a button).
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    Booster from 48N6 long range missile of S-300 somewhere in Azerbaijan. Could have been fired by either side, but more likely it's Azeri one used against Armenian Tochka or Smerch missiles.
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    Neither Azerbaijan, nor Armenia (nor US, Russia, UK, Israel, Ukraine, Syria...) signed the Dublin Convention on Cluster Munition therefore use of such weapons is legal. Very few counties which actually do wage some wars did so because from purely military point of view it's nonsense.
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    Azeri T-72 hit into the track by an ATGM.
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