The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines

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Patrol MRAP

 

 

With jammers

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Typhoon MRAPs at Kavkaz-2016

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Laser sensors and smoke grenades launchers

 

 

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Sprut-SDM1

 

 

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So, Bronezhilet has been snooping around a sectioned T-55, attempting to obtain the secrets of Ural tank smallness to give to the West to help them design better tanks that they can then give to oppressive Middle Eastern theocracies and moderate head-choppers.  And he came across this curious device on the side of the hull:

 

 

As you can see, it's not a mounting point for a road wheel swing arm.  It sits higher than those do, and has a different device attached to it that is clearly not a swing arm.

 

 

It sits behind the last and second to last road wheel.

 

We puzzled over this for a time.  The most obvious thing for this to be would be a shock absorber, but we couldn't see any corresponding shock absorber behind the first road wheel.  Usually tanks have shock absorbers on the first and last road wheels, sometimes the first, second and last.

 

We did some digging and figured it out:

 

 

 

It is indeed a shock absorber, and there is indeed one behind the first road wheel as well.  But we discovered something that will make LoooSeR cringe with horror.

 

Look at the rearmost roadwheel and torsion bar, the T-54's last road wheel swing arm is leading!

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Yellow booklet is 150 by 105 mm, by the way.

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T-72B3 fires

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T-62 modernisation proposal (for export, i guess)

 

 

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Memorial in Armenia, NKR, T-72B obr1985

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BTR-90

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A bit of T-10Ms of the 9th separate Tank Battalion of the 115th Independent Tank Regiment, 3rd Field Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. 1968-70

 

 

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T-72AV and BMP-1s

 

T-72A with Kontakt-1 ERA, DPR

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BTR Rakushka and Khrizantema-S

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Sprut-SD 

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Tigrs during Peace Mission 2016.

 

 

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From Army 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

DP-10M transporters and Typhoon-K MRAP

 

 

 

 

 

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BT-3F

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Armata ballistics trials:

 

 

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Destroyed BTR-82 in Luhansk region, Ukraine.