Scolopax

10 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Another T-80BV at Interaction - 2019 exercises.

 

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Is the Russian VDV getting T-80BVs now too?/s

36 minutes ago, SH_MM said:

 

A proposal from SAAB for the German NNBS requirement

x4 RBS-70s and a 12.7mm?  Gun looks a little small in the render.

I'm curious, what is the public opinion in Russia on their involvement in Syria at this point?

Export market? Or perhaps someone would want a smaller vehicle as opposed to the bigger 8x8.

I suppose it might be related to this:

So will this mid-life upgrade package produce a new variant name?  I would ask about the C2/Mk 2, but in looking this up I had come across some of you posting on the War Thunder forum regarding the matter.

2 hours ago, Roshindow said:

Singular is Freccia, plural would be Frecce going by regular grammar, but I don't know if a vehicle name gets changed like that or it it remains Freccia

 

Have some Ariete - Centauro II mix in the meantime

My initial reaction to the above was that it's a photoshopped image.  However, the lighting on it seems consistent across the vehicle.  Image searching doesn't bring up anything for it.

Assuming then that it's real, I don't really see what the point of it would be unless it was for some reason done just to test if it was even possible.  I suspect the Centauro 2's turret armor isn't anywhere close to the Ariete's, and the tank already has a 120mm.  I guess this would mean that the two vehicles have the same turret ring diameter.  Please share if you know more.

Mi-2 strongest helicopter of all time. Fearlessly carry 15-man Komandosi squad into combat.

I don't think there are any stains, it's just residual exhaust smoke hanging about.

"Italy deploys F-35 on first NATO Mission"

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The deployment, which includes an AMI Boeing KC-767 tanker, marks the first time a nation has committed the F-35 to an operational NATO mission.

7 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Rare thing spotted - BTR-T.

 

 

 


 

 

Would appear to be a BMO-T, if that is what you meant.  It's still an interesting vehicle. I didn't think the BTR-T was ever adopted by anyone, was it?

Also, sad BMD is sad.

A bit late, but the HMS Prince of Wales went to sea on the 19th.  That makes two floating flattops for Britain now.

Looks like they got a hold of one of the vehicles that was used in Red Dawn.

2 hours ago, alanch90 said:

Hello, i need help: what is this thing?

I can't say that I had seen this before. Of course, while looking it up, I then see that LoooSer had posted this here before several years ago (and I doubt you went back in this thread and saw it). He called it the Obzhimka, and it is an apparent mating of the experimental Object 934 hull and a turret similar in shape and armament to the 2S31 that would come later.  Here is a Livejournal post by user raigap that talks about it briefly.  Not sure if it is 100% factual.

While I was searching for this thing, I realized that the Obj. 934 had several other variants that I was unaware of.  Here are another two; the first testing a 152mm cannon and the second sporting more of a "BMPT" armament with autocannons and missiles(?).

32 minutes ago, totallyaverage said:

 

Your comment is broken.

The post and both twitter links in it work for me.  A problem with Twitter then?

4 hours ago, DogDodger said:

Going a bit old school in Virginia over the weekend:

 

Took me a while to figure it out, but the vehicle that first appears at 0:57 would seem to be UDI's test rig for the Advanced Assault Amphibian Vehicle, a project that would become the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (which GDLS won the contract to further develop.)  I am surprised this thing is still around and in private hands.

7 hours ago, heretic88 said:

BTW, why dont they use the (semi)autoloader? Much better, safer and faster than lifting those 46kg shells manually. Almost all videos featuring the Giatsint, they load the gun by hand...

I was wondering the same thing.  Perhaps they were training for the scenario in with it did not work, or maybe they just felt particularly inclined to exercise a bit more.

49 minutes ago, LoooSeR said:

@Scolopax

   Today i was close to Artillery museum and decided to have a look at that vehicle you posted. Sadly museum was closed at the time i got to it, on top of a fact that vehicle is located on closed part of exhibition, so decided to walk around it and try to see what was inside. I didn't planned to get there, so had only my old phone with me instead of good camera. After looking at sat. photos i can see one place from which we could get out eyes on area where that vehicle was located, but i don't thing anything more informative will be achived. Although there is another interestng thing i found out.

Nice of you to try and find it, guess next time you'll have to take an acetylene torch along.  I don't suppose the museum staff/curator would know anything about this particular vehicle in question.