The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines

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South Sudan T-72AVs, lost in combat in capital/near it

 

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T-72A Al-Fury!

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More of that separatists T-72 

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BMPT gunners hatches have enough space for armor packages.

 

 

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Knocked-out T-35:

 

[EnsignExpendable]

Broken down, more likely. The crew had time to remove the sights and machineguns.

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STZ T-34 awaiting restoration at Kubinka. This space was meant for the Maus restoration project.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

STZ T-34 awaiting restoration at Kubinka. This space was meant for the Maus restoration project.

 

Certainly a better use for the space than restoring the Maus.

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10th Guards Tank Division exercises.

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Broken down, more likely. The crew had time to remove the sights and machineguns.

 

Good point.

 

How reliable was the T-35?

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Not exceptionally. I haven't read anything about their reliability in interbellum exercises, but the vast majority of them got bogged down or broke during Barbarossa. I think only one unit ever actually saw combat. I think it's very telling that the Red Army didn't even bother sending any of them to Finland.

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Preparations for TB 2016

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BMP-3 from inside

 

 

 

 

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RUSHA STRNG

 

T-72BA

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All your pictures are broken.

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No they're not.

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Oh, it's an SSL error, they're using a cert issued to vk.com for vk.me. 

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BT-7 artillery replica being assembled

 

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BT-7 artillery replica being assembled

 

Nice, I will be posting that on my site.

 

Here is an interesting picture:

 

 

It's pretty hard to imagine the force required to toss that turret around.  Damn.

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Was this posted before?  I forget.

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Yeah, i think T__A posted it.

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BTR-82A

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Was this posted before?  I forget.

 

It was.

 

Anyway for some reason people claim that the IS-7 had poor ergonomics conditions for some reason, this isn't supported by actual testing:

 

 

I was given the best part, I got an offer to drive this wonderful tank. Hard to express feelings . At speeds over 60 km / h this heavy machine easily responds to the slightest forces applied to the levers and pedals. Gears are shifted by a small lever, the machine is completely submissive to the driver .

 

The S-70 gun (barrel #4) with an LKZ loading mechanism and machineguns was trialled. 671 shots were fired from the gun (308 with increased propellant), 3671 shots from the KPV machineguns and 64303 shots from the RP-46 machineguns.

As a result of the trials, the following were noted: comfort of the crew in the fighting compartment, good use of the turret basket and compressed air fume extractor, satisfactory work of the turret traverse mechanism and loading angle setting mechanism, stability of the tank when firing at all angles, satisfactory prevision, robustness, and reliability of gun mechanism and components.

A high rate of fire (5 RPM) was noted, and good work of the LKZ and Experimental Factory #100 loading mechanism, which had several advantages over the NIIAV MV mechanism, such as simplicity, ease of use, convenience when loading the racks, and better conditions for the loaders.

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TB 2016, second race soon, live