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I didn't really believe the whole "Ukraine are neo nazis!!!" thing and dismissed it as propaganda, specially when there's stuff like this in Russia.

That's just... why aren't they even arrested?

I know the Ukrainian Army has Neo Nazis and Chechen fighters in it, but I thought that they would not be known/in few numbers..

Some more:

767-300 Flight Crew Operations Manual For Norwind Airlines - Document Number D632T001-36NRW - Revision Number: 9- Revision Date: August 16, 2013

Polkarpov Po-2 technical manual 

TECHNICAL MANUAL, ENGINEERING HANDBOOK SERIES FOR AIRCRAFT REPAIR, GENERAL MANUAL FOR STRUCTURAL REPAIR T.O. NAVAIR 01-1A-1 - 1 APRIL 2015

NAVAIR 01-245DB-2-1.2 (6-1 to 6-49) part 1

No. Only static display.

Oh well.. Thanks for correction.

Those T-80BVs were Yemen's army (or Republican guards) tanks from Belarus, AFAIK. Those tanks are like 20 years old. Plenty of them were simply abandoned.

 

Oh, OK. Thanks.

Still though, my point was that training is the key in tank performance not the tank itself. (though there are some tanks which just can't do good right now even with exceptional crews. mainly very old ones.)

Koalitsiya-SV was only located at static display. Vehicles belong to MoD, i don't remember MoD giving permission for using their new AFVs in the show.

Didn't they say they'll do a show with it on Twitter or something?

Neo-Nazi regiment of Kiev officials. Part of Ministry of Internal Affairs Of Ukraine.

Real Neo Nazis?

T-80s in UAE? I saw only Leclercs in Yemen. BMP-3 was destroyed by AT landmine.

There was a picture of a destroyed tank that looked a lot like a T-80 in Yemen. I'll try to find it again. I found it very strange because I didn't think UAE bought T-80s. 

For the BMP-3, there was also an incident when an ATGM crew managed to ambush a BMP-3.

So uhh.. did the 2S35 do a show today? photo.rae2015.ru wasn't updated today.. I thought RAE 2015 is from 9 September to 12 September?

What is Azov?

An "elite" tank force? A factory? An engineering team?

Welp. Time for the Military - oops - American Heroes Channel to redo their Top Ten tanks list.

UAE T-80s and BMP-3s also exploded nicely when used improperly.

That thing saw combat? (Or, better to say "was presented at battlefield")

Yes. T-55 Enigma. Iraqi upgrade for T-55/T-55A. It has ceramic spaced armor (no idea if this is better than normal spaced armor). The idea might not seem impressive to you, but it's actually very good vs Iran because at the time the Enigma was made, Iran was doing nothing but spamming HEAT shells.

Anyone got any good info on 50's American Tank designs and prototypes? Like the TV-8 and whatnot?

Sure thing.

(both are different books)

Yeah, I also heard same thing from different sources. Is there any direct evidence or interviews about that subject?

Which subject? Chrysler XM1 being chosen? Or XK1 being based on GM XM1/Chrysler?

If it's the former, I can give you one.

But the latter.. no. K1 development is very hard to follow.. only Korean books talk about it sadly. Maybe a few French books too, but I don't know how to speak French.

And I strongly suspect that the GM XM1 became the K1.

Kind of. The K1 takes inspiration from both the Chrysler XM1/M1 and the GM XM1.

Holy shit, we got our first minority poster in SH

 

welcome my friend! 

Hi.

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"Russian Falcons": (that fake canopy camo is 10/10)

The Chrysler became the M1, not the GM... 

Oh, that's what you meant. The T-34-76 had a periscope for observation. If you really wanted to stick your head out, there was an opening in the hatch meant for flares or grenades that you could look through, not to mention the gap between the hatch and the roof.

Oh, OK. Thanks.

What is "MO7S", precious?

"SLOW" but rotated.

Which T-34 cupola are you talking about? I can't recall anything about the design that blocks visibility.

It's not a cupola per se, it's more of a steel block... Hatch? It blocks frontal visibility, but protects you from frontal small arms fire. T-72 is the same, but it has glass in the middle so you can see.

I'm starting to dislike this photo, after seeing it so many times. Those are (L) T-90A and T-80U ®.

Oops, didn't know it was posted before.

Not RAE 2015, but cool pic. T-80U(D?) and T-90A.

Does this count?

Iraq.

M1A2 vs MiG-25. My friend (he's that guy with the camera) said that they were surprised to see it actually looking good after this. Obviously it was ruined, but it looked in OK condition for being run over by a 70 ton tank (I know the official weight of the M1A2 is much lower than that, but they carried more than average loadout there).

People keep ragging on about commander's cupolas being such a German advantage, yet why don't the Jagdpanther, Jagdpanzer and Jagdtiger have them ?

 

They didn't need them. They were meant to be used as ambush/defense tanks. You are meant to know where the enemy was comming.. Most of the time anyway.

German crews did like German cupolas, though (and tbh, their cupolas are much better than the T-34 "hatch". Should've used T-72 style hatch with glass in between. The early T-34 one protects you from fire, sure, but it also blocks visibility). If I am not wrong, it was Otto Carius who designed the Leopard 1's cupola. 

Further cementing the StuG as the best German tank.

It's not a tank though.. At least by German classification. (though the StuG IV did replace Panzer IV losses funnily enough. along with the Jagdpanzer IV)

I don't know much about the Kanonenjagdpanzer, but it seems to use StuG III Ausf. G style cupola? 

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