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Iranian Vasilek? 

First photos of Ukrainean Neptum ASM installled on Tatra chassis (replacement of KrAZ which seems to have gone bankrupt). The system may be ordered as well by Indonesia according to some sources. 

Taliban captured 9th provincial capital (Fayzabad) and also two military airports (Kunduz and Sheberghan) with plenty of machinery including several (some possibly working) helicopters, among them at least one Mi-24V (ex-Belarus, ex-India). There are rumors some pilot(s) defected. 

Several other major cities are being fought for (Laskar Gah, Kandahar, Ghazni, Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat) 

Why not to test the heaviest possible configuration? I mean Trophy or TUSK equipped vehicles are heavier than this one. 

A policeman in Doksy, Czechia, caught (by hand) a small drone flying next to his head over a parking lot. It turned out that the drone was carrying a bag of meth (photo under the link) 

https://www.idnes.cz/liberec/zpravy/drogy-dron-doksy-policie-straznik-pervitin-dealer.A210810_094205_liberec-zpravy_lav

Czech army recently received first 65 Land Cruisers (of 1200 ordered 500 will be supplied this year) to replace ancient UAZ and somewhat never but still old Land Rovers as a general utility vehicle.

Taliban keeps steamroling through Afghanistan capturing 8 province capital cities in some 5 days. 

Oryx keeps track on visually confirmed losses of ANA machinery. In some two months... 

10 helicopters, 11 tanks, 681 HMMWV (!), 745 Ford Ranger, 292 Navistar 7000, 38 M1117, 6 MaxxPro, 32 D-30 howitzers and plenty of other stuff.

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/06/disaster-at-hand-documenting-afghan.html

20 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Joint exercises with India ("Indra"), Indian crews and soldiers in Russia, driving T-90A and BMP-3.

 

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I would expect India to send well equipped soldiers for an excercise abroad but these are equipped like in 1980'. 

1 hour ago, Ramlaen said:

 

TBH it looks like one of the design requirements was as high center of gravity as possible. 

15 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Forpost UAV was shot down over Idlib, possibly with use of Turkish AA missile

 

It could have been shot down also by SAA. There is this footage from Aleppo area from the very same day. Pro-SAA sources first claimed it was TAI Anka, later switched to MQ-4C Triton (WTF?) but no wreckage was shown. 

What is the reason for the divided tracks? 

Alleged exploding TOS-1A of the Azeri army. Massive fireworks... and a launch of Azeri Lora.

18 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   VDV got new air droppable ATGM carriers - Kornet-D1 recon and command vehicle, Kornet-D ATGM carrier.

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   Camera quickly moved to other vehicle, so only this quality is avaliable. Not much place left for Sprut light tank.

The up-armored front is also interesting when normal BMD-4M don't have it.

Another T-90S destroyed during the conflict. 

And this 

BE-200 doing its job in quite a crazy way... Recent wildfires in Turkey.  

Czech army held recently an interesting excercise using Vera-NG passive tracking systems. The excercise focused on tracking systems using continuous wave communication signals. According to military spokesman the system was able to detect and track various UAS up to micro-sized drones at ranges of dozens of kilometers through the whole flight right from the take-off. The system was able to distinguish two UAS flying side by side as well. They say they also proved to be able to detect and track various other signal sources such as Tahles Squire battlefield surveilance radar or Mi-171Š radio altimeter. 

https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/ceska-armada-rozsiruje-sve-schopnosti-v-detekci-bezpilotnich-prostredku

13 hours ago, SuperComrade said:

I wonder if the Chinese intend to transition towards bustle-style autoloaders like the West or are they satisfied with the carousel autoloaders?

Of all the western tanks only Leclerc has bustle autoloader. 

The time schedule seems to be impossible to me.

I read elsewhere that there is an internal bay for 3x RVV-SD (or 2 AGM/bombs) and two small internal bays for one RVV-MD each and that the target running cost is on Gripen level, i.e. super cheap. Can you confirm? 

A new detail about Czech Spyder acquisition. The number of batteries is four as already announced but now we know that each battery is going to have three Python-5 launchers and one Derby launcher together with one Elta EL/M-2084 radar. The complete system will be mounted on Tatra 815-7 vehicles but that's hardly a surprise (moreover when Spyder was already addapted for Tatra chassis in India). 

One more video from Czech IFV trials. 

52 minutes ago, mr.T said:

Looks like actual rolling air frame not just wooden mock up 

 

Sukhoi is the only game in town if this budget cut gen 5 for export is any good. ,Mig can close down its Mig 35 /29 operation 

 

 

It won't take less than ten-fifteen years before it will be operational. 

1 hour ago, Rico said:

Relax guys. I do honestly think that it is something good for NATO and Europe as well. 

It is a clear statement towards Baltics and all neighbours and a clear message towards Russia.

Doesn't't matter if EU partly paid for this (including myself) or not.

Actually it's also a message to Germany. 

Not only that. Besides the unit rotations the US Army is also building an Army Prepositioned Stock-2 in Powidz in central Poland (next to a Polish AF transport airbase). This storrage base shall permanently house 82 Abrams, 130 Bradley and 16 Paladins.