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Tanks of the 5th Canadian Armored Division's 5th Brigade in the Netherlands, May 23, 1945. Photo of the Library and Archives Canada collection.
 

couple of dozens of photos from NATO Days 2020
https://glos.live/Wiadomosci/detail/20ka_inaczej/0
including this one

 
There too
https://www.aeroweb.cz/clanky/7281-fotoreport-dny-nato-v-ostrave-2020
including this

 
from this article
https://www.securitymagazin.cz/defence/kdo-se-prisel-predvest-babisovi-vyrobci-bvp-a-stihacek-ukazali-sve-stroje-na-letosnich-dnech-nato-1404065805.html
two more:

 

T-80UD trying to drown itself because of shame of having Kharkovite engine inside.

   BTW, this image also can show problems for self-driving systems/AI - driver probably thought that this was a shallow puddle, not a hole into nearby flooded mines.

New mine-clearing vehicle on BMP-3 chassis was spotted during Kavkaz 2020 exercises.

   Looks like it can carry even more rockets than 5, judging by numbers of rockets on left side of the launcher (from vehicle pov). It also have electronic/magnetic mine clearing system on the front, AFAIK. Also, it have something that looks like APS, but i don't see radars.
 
 

"US Army scraps plan to compete in OMFV competition"
 
 

2PL in the field
 


 

In parallel universe, AMX-90, kek.

More US troops (approximately 100) are headed to Syria and are bringing Bradleys to take the MRAP chicken games to the next level.

Video on the story of the little-known Vickers Mk. 4 (a.k.a Valiant) MBT with some exclusive photos :
 
 

it look like smoke grenade fires after damage(which is quite dangerous)
 
pics from Fu_Manchu  
 
 
 
 

TV Zvezda show about BMPT. A bit from from it (24:30)
 

 
   "And not from German Panther or Tiger, but from our IS-3 Americans copied their M48".
@Sturgeon @Collimatrix @Scolopax
 
   Capitalist pigs were exposed by this totally accurate show! Explain yourself, decadent bourgeois! And stop copying our shit!
 

Following a very productive use of my time in an extensive investigation, I have made a discovery that could very well tear apart our beliefs concerning Frank Roosevelt's true allegiance during the Second World War.
 
Below is a photo of the bathtub meant to help accommodate the President aboard the battleship USS Iowa as he traveled to Tehran Conference in 1943.
 

 
 
A harmless enough scene.  Sudsy water, various toiletries, some reading material, and a few bath toys to play with. Let's take a closer look at that plastic boat though.
 
 

 
 
It appears to be a fairly realistic-looking design, a warship of some type for sure.  It does not look like the Iowa or any other ship used by the US Navy though.  Perhaps it could be a vessel of another nationality?
 
 

 
 
This here is an Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser (taken from World of Warships for the sake of a similar viewing angle).  These ships were constructed in the late 1930's by Nazi Germany and saw use during the Second World War.  With the exception of the main battery gun count, you will notice that the cruiser shares several details with the toy boat from above.  A fair number of details really...
 
 

 
 
What was the president of the United States doing with a model of an enemy cruiser floating in his personal bathtub, and of such a relatively modern (at the time) vessel at that?
 
 

 
 

KV-1

 
 

A great new indie game for all the cool kids to gush about: Patents, Please.

Some my photos of L2PL
 

 
 

from this article https://m.asiatime.co.kr/news/newsview.php?ncode=1065578054265027
6Mpix 3Mb image w/ 4 renders of K2PL:

Maybe me knowledge will suffice as well.
 
This is the VT-001 (Versuchsträger) prototype of the Marder 2 vehicle.
With the introduction of the Leopard 2 there was a need for a new IFV that could keep up with the MBT, both from a mobility and technology standpoint. The German army then put the „Kampfwagen 90“ to life. The requirements were then given to the manufacturers (KMW main contractor) to come up with an offer. Main requirements were for the vehicle to carry at least 7 grenadiers and to protect them against 30mm AP(DS) munitions on the frontal arc.
 
In theory the armor concept was to be modular, but due to the heavy weight (44t) this was wishful thinking. The armor made the vehicle immune to 14.5mm AP all around, with the already mentioned 30mm protection on the front. It also had a spall liner.
 
The main armament (found in the rather cramped 2 man turret) was the Rh503 35mm external propulsion gun.
 

 
An innovative concept with quite a lot of firepower for its time (even upgradeable to 50mm if the need arises) with then newly developed Oerlikon APFSDS rounds and just like the modern Puma it had a programmable HE round against infantry. While the Marder 2 for some reason had no anti tank missiles, a major upside compared to the Marder 1 was that the gun now was fully stabilized.
 
Powering the Marder 2 was carried out by the 1000hp MTU Ka-500 from the Pzh2000 and the same gearbox from Renk which is also used on the SPH. The propulsion allowed for top speed of 60km/h (which produced an unpleasant sound for the passengers). In contrast to the Puma the Marder 2 relied on a torsion bar suspension system.
 
The fire control computer was a modified version of the ATLAS FLT2 found on the Leopard 2. 
The gunner was supposed to use the PERI-ZTWL sight, which was very similar to the EMES-15 (Both with the same daylight cameras and WBG-X thermal imager).
The commander had the PERI-RT 60 periscopic daysight (No dedicated thermal imager, just access to the gunners view).
 
While the vehicle was technically ready for mass production, the end of the Cold War (like so often) ultimately was the reason for the cancellation of the program.
 
The only existing prototype now is displayed at the WTS Koblenz. A disappointing end to a maybe overweight and simple, yet very powerful and (in contrast to Puma) maintainable machine.
 

 
I hope i was able to portrait it in an interesting manner, if there are still questions about the vehicle that i cannot answer, i can ask a curator at the WTS 
 

photos of K2PL scalemodel from various twitter users

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.

Between trying to run each other down with MRAPs