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  1. Beer

    Bash the Pak-Fa thread

    Beer replied to Tied's topic in Aviation

    Should be the first plane intended for actual delivery to combat units.
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    Another Kirpi hit.
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    An epic fail from Dutch ceremony of first F-35 delivery. What is Your opinion about the possible damage caused by the foam? How much can the chemical foam damage the engine, the stealth coating, the canopy coating etc.?
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    Ups
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    I know it's Namer on the video but I wanted to ask about Merkava Thanks anyway.
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    Which generations of Merkava have this turret mortar? Has it been used often?
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    Poland mimicing the mighty Saudi army in creating total logistical nightmare in the army? PS I know it's blasphemy to say that for a guy from a county with only one tank batallion...
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    Actually the same ATGM team hit two ACV-15 in that fight. Here is the second one with a shot which clearly ignited some ammo.
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    Go to mapy.cz portal. That's simply a Czech map server (the best one for Czechia by the way). There just use the classic Doom cheat codes iddqd and idkfa. After that use cursors and ctrl AFAIK this was a hidden joke of one programmer made many years a go but it stayed there forever as obviously no managers care.
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    Any info about the vehicle? It looks like it's a copy of Tatra 813 or 815. It clearly has half axles like Tatra trucks.
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    Is it normal to send a National Guard unit to a situation where they are basically alone in a hostile country and totally outnumbered if things go south?
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    Unfortunately You didn't get the point of my post. I wanted to say that it's extremely difficult to define what does it mean to be the best and that even one against one comparison is not a good one. Even the very same thing can be the best for someone and a pain in the ass for someone else. Of course I also didnť try to claim that the T series tanks are the best With the T-90A example I tried to show an example of a scenario where such tank works maybe better than for example Abrams. The use of Abrams by similar military of Iraq has been rather problematic mainly due to claimed very low serviceable numbers. Regarding the actual combat loses I would say in both cases most of them can be attributed to an incompetence of their users. I know some T-90A were destroyed in Syria but despite having thousands of ATGM strikes on youtube we don't have any of a catastrophic explosion of a tank of late Soviet or post Soviet origin in Syria while we have tons of them with old T-72M1 or A models. By the way no T-90A loss is documented in Donbas among more than thousand of documented destroyed armoured vehicles. Only several T-72B3 and 72B mod.1989 from the relatively modern tanks. From what I have read the T-90A were used only briefly during the summer 2014 ofensive in Lugans area where they defeated the 1st tank brigade of Ukrainean army equipped with T-64BM in a night fight. Sure I understand that the Abrams M1A2S and Leopard 2A4 spectacularly destroyed on the videos were hits from side onto a tank sitting in the open. However to claim that the reputation for crew survivability of Abrams stayed intact after that is a bit too bold claim. In that very case if the crew was inside it was sure killed by the explosion. I am not saying the tanks are bad, I'm saying that a large part of their reputation comes from the fact that they have been mostly used by very potent militaries. When they are being used by less competent users the story changes. I think some Izraeli general said after Six day war that even if the militaries switched their hardware the result of the war would be most likely same. Thanks for the info about Leclerc in Yemen.
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    I think that You can't say it even like this. The first thing is that you need to know your own doctrine and a way how you want to use the tanks. T-64/72/80 were built for completely different way of use than the western tanks. Comparing a one against one scenario is wrong for many reasons. We can see that T-90 and later models of T-72 were successful in Syria and suffered minimal loses despite the operational area being flooded with ATGMs, i.e. it looks like this tanks somehow work with the Arab armies which aren't known for being well trained and effective. As a result Uralvagonzavod won quite a lot of export contracts. On the contrary the reputation of Abrams and Leopard 2 was somewhat damaged in Yemen and Syria. Of course no tank is invulnerable and if it's sitting duck in the open it will be destroyed sooner or later in an ATGM-rich environment. However the long-built aura of invulnerability went to a trash bin. The media is a strong weapon today. Correct me if I am wrong but AFAIK there is no video of any catastrophic kill of T-90A from Syria. There are however several ones where T-90A or T-72B ob.1989 withstood direct hits from TOW 2 ATGMs to the turret and upper glacis covered by Kontakt-5. On the other hand the two videos with Turkish Leopard 2A4 and Saudi M1A2S exploding in a huge fireball after being hit by rather light Metis ATGM went viral very quickly. Interestigly there is no documented loss of Leclerc in Yemen (I remember only one damaged one by mine). Leopard 2 and Abrams are expensive, they have expensive mainteanence and need four crew members instead of three. The quantity is a quality of its own and no war ever was won by score of destroyed tanks or killed enemies. Also let's say that you are dealing with a civil war spreading over the whole country and the frontlines are thousands of kilometers long. Would you prefer to have 100 expensive and on paper fantastic tanks or 1000 old ones which cost few bucks and anyone can operate them? In this situation a T-62 can be a better tank than Abrams in the overal picture even though one against one the T-62 has zero chance.
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    What's going on? US convoy on the way from Rumeylan or Iraq through Qamishli somewhere to inner Syria. Tank trailers are empty.
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    I guess that with the Tu-22M3 the stars are not multiplied by 10x like with the tactical aircraft, right? 23 missions sound plausible while still quite high number but 230 would be way too much.
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    I would expect more artillery and more anti-aircraft assets. Are there really only five counter-battery radars or does it mean that only self-propelled ones are listed?
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    You are right, of course. Sorry.
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    Actually Dana does not have any sort of special chassis. It's a modified Tatra 815 chassis (the main modification is that it's driving backwards compared to the truck). New Danish Caesars have modified newer but essentially very similar Tatra chassis. Older Tatra 813 chassis (in principle still the same thing) was used for RM-70 MLRS or OT-64 SKOT. Anyway Tatra chassis are kind of an exception because their specific design and modularity allow them to be used for basically whatever purpose.
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    And an M-47 Low Rider edition next to it
  20. Beer
    It looks like coffin-equipped Type 69.
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    Another Kipri and Otokar ZPT lost Some massive bomb dropped by VKS on a building near Taftanaz supposedly hosting some HTS meeting. Thermobaric version of KAB-1500?
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    Funny incident with Ukrainean Su-27. Watch the organizers in the yellow vests :-D
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    Turkish MEDEVAC Blackhawk hellicopter crash-landed in Syria and was later destroyed by Turkish airforce. Photos of the wreckage I don't know what the description says but the video seems to show some TSK gear captured by YPG
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    The most hopeless Syrian ceasefire proposal of all hopeless Syrian ceasefire proposals for a change comes from US. Complete text of the statement. It basically asks SDF to surender. Meanwhile in the real world SDF/SAA retook several villages north of Ayn Issa (seven according to SOHR).
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    Kirpi destroyed in Tell Abyad
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