General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.

[Serge]

Yes. They have MRAP, but they HMG, mortar and ATGM on wheels too. 

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Another soviet-era artillery designer died - Nikolay Makarovets. Some of his works were Uragan and Smerch MRLS, Tornado-S and Tornado-G.

 

 

[Mighty_Zuk]

I think it's mostly an evidence of corruption within the Russian MIC and MoD, or a great deal of inefficiency.

They have a good amount of R&D centers for all sorts of weaponry, systems, sub-systems, and technologies. They have the production capability to put out quite a lot of modern equipment in service, and the budget to do so at a good rate.

But a lot of it is being wasted on absolute nonsense. These technicals and other sorts of impractical weaponry, are all just there to divert more of the budget to the R&D centers even when it's not needed. Give them work when there isn't any.

 

Inefficiency is the plague of all state-owned companies. It's time Russia makes the right decision and privatize at least most of its MIC.

In Israel we're suffering from the same problem. IAI and Rafael are extremely big. IAI is the largest defense company in Israel, yet makes less the Elbit. 

IMI was brought to the point of constant net losses and had to be privatized.

Now there are talks about merging IAI and Rafael and privatizing them.

 

So until Rostec loses at least most of its assets, we will probably keep seeing this sort of shit. 

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Smerch at parade preps

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New toys of Saudi Arabia arrived.

 

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[Collimatrix]

The Russian government has stooped to giving weapons to the Houthis, I see, by laundering them through the Saudi armed forces.

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Spotted that thing few days ago.

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Algerian Grads and TOS-1As

 

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   18 Apr - RIA News. South Korean military experts believe that on April 17, the DPRK tested new tactical guided missiles with low altitude and short range, but with high speed, reports Rehnhap on Thursday.

   According to the South Korean military, the DPRK could had tested ground-to-ground missiles with a range of about 20 kilometers, or cruise missiles.

   Earlier, the agency reported that the DPRK conducted a test of a new tactical-guided weapon; the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was present at the test site. The test of weapons was the first in the DPRK after the second summit of Kim Jong-un and the president of the United States Donald Trump.

   In 2010, the armed forces of South Korea deployed their own “Spike” missiles weighing 70 kilograms with a range of up to 20 kilometers in the north-west of the country, designed to destroy enemy artillery. It is assumed that North Korea has created its own system with similar missiles.

   Probably this system:

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   Serbian ALAS

 

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   Msta-Bs during exercises.

 

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Msta-S

 

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More of Serbia Strong:

 

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Msta-S on parade rehearsals

 

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Rehearsals of Victory parade in St.Petersburg:

   Tornado-G

 

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Bal, Bastion AShM systems and Bereg SPGs.

 

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   2S4 Tulpan 

 

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   Ekaterinburg. TOS-1A with RPKs and Msta-S.

 

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[Zadlo]

The accurate deflection of new Polish 120mm HE round for Rak (Crayfish) self-proppelled mortar.

These numbers are for 10800 meters (11800 yd) - Rak's current maximum range.

 

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Anti-tank systems 9P133 "Malyutka-P" captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the Doomsday War. 1973.

 

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[Mighty_Zuk]

Those Malyutkas were later in service with the IDF for a short time, forming approximately 1 AT battalion.