Beer

Likely yes but I haven't seen any official confirmation. What else could it be? 

From what I have read on several websites the shown model is basically just a demonstrator which indeed has a lot common with Altay. The real K2PL may in the end however be a very different product. 

It turned out to be a large coordinated HRE attack on TSK and TFSA outposts using a lot of Metis ATGM. 

Something hit TSK base.

Russian OpenSkies An-30 over Prague Kbely airbase.

13 hours ago, David Moyes said:

Hungarian Government confirms Lynx KF41 numbers: 218 vehicles, 172 built locally

They buy also 9 Buffalo ARV. 

Based on the model the sloped roof isn't present on the K2PL. For the rest it's hard to say when the turret on the model isn't the same with the Korean K2. 

Usually I do 20-30 km in a day. Overall I am at 750 km this year and my target is to do 1000 km. 

Next portion of trips.

View from top of Velká Deštná mountain, directly on the Polish border, eastern Bohemia (German border before 1950). Mountains in the distance are in Poland.

The magnifficent Pernštejn castle, south Moravia. This never defeated fortress is preserved basically in the state of the late 30-years war in which it played its role in helping to defeat 1645 Torstenson's Swedish army attempt to take Brno city and advance to Wienna. The 200-strong castle garrison made several raids on the Swedish forces besieging Brno and took around 200 prisoners. It also managed to break in the city with supplies. As a result Torstenson decided to send 5500 men to take the castle but the 11-days long fight ended not far from the famous scene from Monthy Python's Holly Grail (French castle siege). The attackers armed with only 3-pdr field guns didn't manage to take even the outermost line of defence despite having a nummerical advanteg of nearly 30:1.  

Typical countriside of lowlands along the Labe (Elbe) river. East of Prague. 

Berounka river, western Bohemia.

View from Blaník hill, central Bohemia. Accoring to a medieval legend an army of knights is resting inside the mountain to rise up when the fate of the country is at stake.

Sázava river, central Bohemia.

15 hours ago, Beer said:

New turret or at least very reasonably modified as far as I can see. It will be intresting to see how much extra weight all that applique armor and extra volume of the turret front will add. 

Now I see that the hull is also redesigned because the driver is in the middle instead of the port side. 

A man in South Bohemia found a round from 2cm Flak 30 (SprGr L´spur m.Zerl - HE-T) and didn't have any better idea than to throw it in a fireplace in his holiday cottage. He was badly wounded but survived.

https://www.novinky.cz/krimi/clanek/adept-na-darwinovu-cenu-z-ceskokrumlovska-hodil-do-ohne-protiletadlovy-granat-40335669

New turret or at least very reasonably modified as far as I can see. It will be intresting to see how much extra weight all that applique armor and extra volume of the turret front will add. 

Can you post some information about that prototype for us who don't know it? Thanks. 

One TSK soldier was killed and another one wounded in an attack by gunmen in Idlib.

Primoco One 150 is not yet finished product but it's at this moment already used in Malaysia for border and coast guard (the certification process according to STANAG 4703 is underway). Not purely military equipment as it is designed to serve also a lot of civilian roles. It's Czech built and near completely locally developed (including two engine types) UAV with 150 kg MTOW and 15 hours endurance (with speciffic consumption of 2,2 l/hour) and 30 kg payload. Equipped with several equipment slots so that it can be used with multiple sensors at the same time. They claim it's the only drone of such weight class which can be equippped with SAR AESA radar (Imsar NSP-7). The integrated camera uses dayling LLLTV channel with 30x zoom and  thermal MWIR channel with 15x zoom with object tracking option. From other equipment there is for example a LIDAR option. It can be eqipped with GPS/Galileo/Glonass or Beidou navigation backed by an in-built innertial unit. The datalink range is 200 km. During one emergency situation one Malaysian drone was being flown in real time by an engineer sitting in Czechia, i.e. nearly 10 thousand kilometers away. Maximum flight altitude is 3300 meters. It needs 300 meters long runway and it can land and take off automatically. The wingspan is 4,85 m for an idea about the size.  

I have first time learned about its existence when I was bored during the spring Covid quarantine and watched the empty Flightradar24. There was something unidentified doing dozens of loops over Písek (South Bohemia). That was probably an endurance test. 

Photo from https://www.armadninoviny.cz

This has to go straight into the next epic fail compilation video...

Meanwhile I did hundreds of kilometers more on foot and took thousands of photos. I will post one or two from every trip in several batches. 

Česká Kamenice town viewed from the ruins of its castle. Northern Bohemia. In the far distance it's Saxony (one of the boxy cliffs is the famous gigantic fortress Königstein). 

The so-called Mácha lake (in fact a large pond built in 14th century and named after 19th century poet Mácha who loved to hike around the countriside). Northern Bohemia. 

Former artillery training range Jordán in Brdy mountains, central Bohemia. The heavy infantry cassemate on the picture was a testing object used for resistance trials (allegedly including 305 mm ammo but I didn't find any massive damage, who knows). 

View towards the western border with Germany (basically all the hills on the horizont). Radeč natural park near Plzeň (Pilsen), western Bohemia. 

View from Tetín cliffs, one of the oldest populated places in Czechia, on Berounka river. Central Bohemia. 

View from Milešovka mountain after the rain, northern Bohemia.

This time China with BMD-2 after the unsuccessful last year's attempt with their own airmobile IFV? 

8 hours ago, heretic88 said:

It was stated many times before that the 195 was almost ready. But here is the latest from UVZ itself.

http://gurkhan.blogspot.com/2020/08/95.html

Also it is noteworthy that one of the two prototypes passed 15.000km, and fired 287 shots. I doubt that all of Armata prototypes together reached this level.

And I do not think the 152mm is overkill. 125mm is at its limits, I think even the 2A82.

 

 

 

 UVZ is a manufacturer. Whatever they claim doesn't mean it was to be accepted by the army.

That text clearly states that the state trials, which were supposed to end in 2005, were stopped in 2008 without being finished. For me that clearly means that it was not a finished product. 

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"29 декабря 2008 года - Постановлением Правительства РФ государственные испытания опытного боевого танка "объект 195" были приостановлены и больше не возобновлялись.

As I said it's very hard to believe it would not suffer from situation awarness issues.

Allegedly one Kilo submarine was damaged by this... 

I would not dare to say that Objekt-195 was ready. How do we know? I seriously doubt that an early 90' project with unmanned turret would not have serious situation awarness issues. The development of optics, thermals and software made a huge jump since that time and even today we can see that the actual performace of systems depending solely on machine vision is still somewhat doubtful. Also at that time the monstrous 152 mm gun was a an overkill bringing only logistical and practical use issues. IMHO even today it's still not needed.   

Video from the grass testing was released today. They say snow testing will follow later. 

20 minutes ago, SH_MM said:

 

Just 20% higher according to Cockerill's old brochures. That would suggest a maximum chamber pressure slightly above 600 MPa.

Thanks, I thought so. 

120% higher, i.e. more than twice higher? Doesn't he mean 120% of the similar guns pressure, i.e. 20% more?