Ukrainian armor - Oplot-M, T-64M Bulat and other.

[LoooSeR]

SAXON SMASH SAXON CRUSH

[Walter_Sobchak]

Because "roaming tank" is  the hero Ukraine deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A roaming tank.

 

http://www.voanews.com/content/ukraine-mysterious-roaming-tank-reportedly-takes-aim-at-smugglers/2887112.html

[LoooSeR]

Pro-Kiev forces.

[Belesarius]

Pro-Kiev forces.

Interesting.  First time I've seen those rocket pods on a land vehicle.

[Collimatrix]

I was looking at this picture:

 

 

So Yatagan was originally going to be a T-72 based vehicle?

[Scolopax]

Interesting.  First time I've seen those rocket pods on a land vehicle.

Mounting S-5 Rocket pods on technicals and trucks has become quite common in the Middle East.  I believe it was in Libya that they first start using them rather frequently.  The Russians had similar setups during their time in Afghanistan too.

 

The Strela-10 launcher does look kind of cool with the pods mounted in place of the missiles.

[Belesarius]

Mounting S-5 Rocket pods on technicals and trucks has become quite common in the Middle East.  I believe it was in Libya that they first start using them rather frequently.  The Russians had similar setups during their time in Afghanistan too.

 

The Strela-10 launcher does look kind of cool with the pods mounted in place of the missiles.

When you are too poor to even afford a BM-21...

[Tied]

Mounting S-5 Rocket pods on technicals and trucks has become quite common in the Middle East.  I believe it was in Libya that they first start using them rather frequently.  The Russians had similar setups during their time in Afghanistan too.

 

The Strela-10 launcher does look kind of cool with the pods mounted in place of the missiles.

 

didnt even notice the radar, i just thought it was a generic MT-LB

 

good eye! 

[LoooSeR]

UAF

 

[LoooSeR]

UAF T-72As.

[LoooSeR]

T-64BV.

[Walter_Sobchak]

I feel bad for the T-64.  Here is a tank that was an absolute stud when it was introduced, yet because it was never exported it never saw combat, unlike its cousins the T-72 and T-80.  And then, 30 some years after it is introduced, it's finally put into combat in a half-assed civil war.  These tanks sit around in Ukrainian tank graveyards dreaming of storming through the fulda gap, not fighting Russian "separatist" T-72s.

[Tied]

Same could be said for the T-80, these tanks dreamed of raping Abrams in Central Europe, not lobbing HE shells at Gronzy apartments 

[Walter_Sobchak]

I picture Abrams and T-80s sitting around in a salon, sporting beer guts and beer steins, toasting the days that could have been.  

[LoooSeR]

I feel bad for the T-64.  Here is a tank that was an absolute stud when it was introduced, yet because it was never exported it never saw combat, unlike its cousins the T-72 and T-80.  And then, 50 years after it is introduced, it's finally put into combat in a half-assed civil war.  These tanks sit around in Ukrainian tank graveyards dreaming of storming through the fulda gap, not fighting Russian "separatist" T-64s and T-72s.

Small corrections 

[LoooSeR]

More of Oplot-BM, photos are little bit old. IIRC those are first 5 Oplots, that Thai army received.

 

 

[Tied]

if these assholes were as good at fighting as they were filming Yutobe ivedoes we would be in trouble

 

Just kiddin, my beef isnt with the majority of Ukraine servicemen

 

fact is they arent to different from their Russian counterparts, I myself was in their shoes 30 years ago, thanfully got to enjoyings the absence of a large conflict

 

fuck man, if you filmed this somewhere in germany, with soviet flags and grainy quality, i would be out here Lementing the good ole days of Czech beer and German women 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qG1UBgEI1w&feature=youtu.be&t=2m30s

[LoooSeR]

Lviv tank repair factory. Look what they got there...

[LoooSeR]

[Tied]

Lviv tank repair factory. Look what they got there...

 

ah yes, T-55s

 

would anyone like to remind me how EUkraine is winning? I offer now is the time to bring that up 

 

Or is it just me that thinks the nation that birthed some of the most popular tanks in the USSR, being forced to use T-55, is a bad omen

[Mike E]

Lviv tank repair factory. Look what they got there...

Glorious Lyiv engineering is good for making Armata tanks burn!

[LoooSeR]

DPR T-72, tank was lost during summer of 2014.

http://lostarmour.info/armour/item.php?id=4860

[LoooSeR]

Rebels, reg. number says something like "scumbags".

[LoooSeR]

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[LoooSeR]

So, a very well known ukrainian censor.net portal published an article by Butusov about vehicle losses at Debaltsevo. Link to Butusov's FB post:

https://www.facebook.com/butusov.yuriy/posts/1030551086985187:2

 

T-64BV - 46 tanks

BMP-2 - 54

BMP-1 - 40

BRM-1K - 10

BTR-70 - 20

BTR-80 - 9

122 mm SPG Gvozdika - 16