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

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   Otoman 6x6 APC during drive tests

 

 

 

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pakistan supposedly

[Eliz]

On 5/14/2019 at 9:40 PM, TokyoMorose said:

 

I understand that, it's made clear in the article - but at 3'11" you're gonna have to be crouching - and I don't think that 19.5" per dismount is enough width to actually fit guys in - that's similar in size to notoriously cramped economy class airline seats, which aren't going to fit an infantryman, crouching, in combat gear.

3 feet 11 inches, about 120cm is normal interior height for most of the sedans.

70cm is absolutely enough for shoulders.

 

Why ifv are used like a troop transporter?! 

Why should you ask comfort or more number of dismaunts in a vehicle which is supposed to be on frontline taking hits from every direction.

 

Its disregard of soldiers life in favor or comfort and internal volume. Ifv should protect soldiers from more then just a bullets.

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   Stilet and Shkval combat modules for BMPs going through comparative testing.

 

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On 7/14/2020 at 2:47 AM, Eliz said:

3 feet 11 inches, about 120cm is normal interior height for most of the sedans.

IIRC sedans usually have doors to exit right next to passenger seats, not 5 feet away, and passengers usually do not seat with their back turned towards center line of the vehicle (or in opposite direction, with back turned towards left/right side of the vehicle).

 

On 7/14/2020 at 2:47 AM, Eliz said:

70cm is absolutely enough for

Depends on what kind of clothes or equipment people are wearing, and what they are doing (give everyone an RCV to control with some kind of joysticks, like MET-D demonstrator, you'll probably need more than 70cm).

 

But 19.5 inches equals to ~49.5cm

 

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Why should you ask comfort or more number of dismaunts in a vehicle which is supposed to be on frontline taking hits from every direction.

It's not about such vague thing as comfort, it's about basic necessity required to prevent dismounts and crew from getting too tired too fast (thus - reportedly -decreasing their combat effectiveness).

 

Small infantry squad has a problem of seriously decreasing its combat effectiveness with only 2-3 people killed, IIRC what US Army's studies said about that.

 

IIUC in order to make vehicle substantially harder to hit compared to regular vehicles, nowadays or anytime during last 50 years or so, one have to make it much, much smaller, as even 30cm difference in height would not make that much of a difference. 

One could look at 1970s-1980s experiments with external pod guns and very small profile turrets, designed this way to decrease enemy's hit probability among other things, - as regular tank turrets looked too big, too easy to hit -

and frontal area of those regular tank turrets from back then is much smaller than any infantry-carrying-vehicle's hull

[Beer]

First two Bulats allegedly received new NV, communication and navigation equipment.

 

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BMP based on 2S1 hull

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   The private company NPO Praktika (part of the State Union League of Defense Enterprises of Ukraine), as part of the 2020 State Defense Order, shipped a large batch of Kozak-2 armored vehicles to the Armed Forces. The transfer of vehicles took place on Saturday, the Day of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, which has been celebrated annually on December 12 since 1997.

 

   It is noted that over the years that have passed since the appearance of the first prototype, private company have made significant progress in localizing the production of this model.

   "We are especially proud that "Kozak-2" is 70% made of components and components of domestic production, which are supplied by a dozen Ukrainian enterprises", - noted the press service of NPO Praktika.

 

   Recall that the Ukrainian armored car produced by NPO Praktika was created on the chassis of the Iveco Eurocargo truck in 2015. Since then, the armored car has been repeatedly modernized based on the experience of practical operation in the combat zone in the Donbas. In general, more than 240 armored vehicles of this model have already been delivered to the armed structures of Ukraine. And at the beginning of 2017, after a full cycle of state tests, "Kozak-2" was adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

 

 

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   BTR-50 after modernisation at Malyshev's plant (KhZTM)

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[Beer]

This thing could go into the JDB thread as well... 

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   This is just great... from otvaga:

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   The pre-trial investigation established that officials of the State Enterprise "Design Bureau" Artillery Armament "(hereinafter - the State Enterprise "KB AO", Kiev, EDRPOU code 34297075) appropriated funds of the State Enterprise "Plant named after V.A. Malyshev" (hereinafter - SE "ZiM", Kharkov, EDRPOU code 14315629) in especially large sizes when supplying the latter with 125-mm Soviet-made tank barrels (model 2A46M, on the balance sheet of the SE "Kiev Armored Plant", hereinafter - KBTZ, g Kiev EDRPOU code 14302667) under the guise of new barrels produced by SE "KB" AO "(model KBA-3).

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   At the same time, in order to fulfill the aforementioned contract, the officials of SE" KB "AO", realizing the lack of technical feasibility of manufacturing barrels, entered into an agreement with SE "KBTZ" dated 22.09.2015 No. 057/247 for the purchase of barrels and artillery systems that were made during the Soviet era.

 

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   In a commentary for Zhurnalisticheskaya Pravda, a military expert, a reserve colonel, editor-in-chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Viktor Murakhovsky recalled that there is no possibility in Ukraine to produce tank guns; never appeared ... But Ukraine is unlikely to lose its tanks soon. Those tank guns that it has on equipping tanks have a fairly large resource.

   Secondly, there are mobilization reserves that were created in the Soviet army. But they failed to organize a new production. They exported tanks, including to Pakistan, to Thailand, usingf Soviet-made guns.

 

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   1 more Oplot will be build:

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   Kharkov "Plant named after Malyshev", which is part of the State Corporation "Ukroboronprom", will manufacture the tank "Oplot". According to Defense Express, the corresponding contract was signed in January with one of the concern's special exporters.

 

   The agreement provides for the production of only one sample in a short time.

 

   "Oplot", apparently, should be specially prepared for the parade on August 24, 2021, and then be used at international exhibitions. Considering that the import substitution program for Oplot, which currently has a significant part of Russian-made components, planneduntil 2023, this tank will have little to do with a real production model.

 

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   Somewhere in US

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Scenery reminds me of Arizona, New Mexico, or southern Nevada. Any context for why it’s in the US? 

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3 minutes ago, Lord_James said:

Scenery reminds me of Arizona, New Mexico, or southern Nevada. Any context for why it’s in the US? 

 

It's being used at Yuma Proving Grounds with Threat Systems and Target Simulation.

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12 hours ago, LoooSeR said:

   Somewhere in US

 

Nozh ERA on the glacis, I suppose.

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It's one of four "T-80UDs" (actually T-84s or something close to that) that were supplied to the US by Ukraine. They arrived at Aberdeen in Dec 2003, first publicly shown in the summer of 2004...

 

  

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   Ukrainian Armed Forces received the first batch of modernized T-72AMT

   The Kiev Armored Plant handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine another batch of five units of repaired T-72 tanks. The enterprise "Ukroboronprom" has modernized military equipment as part of a defense order.

   Its improved technical characteristics, a more powerful engine was installed - 840 horsepower, an improved chassis - a tracks of the T-80 tank. Now the vehicle has the ability, due to the 9K-120 complex, to fire a guided missile "Kombat" at range of 4 km. Improved viewing devices and reactive protection "Knife" - said Vladimir Sinyavsky.

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   Despite the fact that the messages did not indicate the name of the modernization, all external signs indicate that the first transfer of tanks in the T-72AMT version took place.

   True, in a somewhat "cropped" form. In particular, the transferred tanks do not have a power unit, which is located behind the tower on the right side, designed to feed the FCS and recharge the batteries.

 

 

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[Beer]

9K120 Ataka? Where is the launcher and the guidance antena? Isn't that just an error in text? 

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10 minutes ago, Beer said:

9K120 Ataka? Where is the launcher and the guidance antena? Isn't that just an error in text? 

   You are thinking of Soviet designations, which Ukraine may not use anymore. Missile is Ukrainian "Kombat" GL-ATGM.

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Some historical lulz... you can add Czechoslovak LT vz.34, LT vz.38 aka Pz.38(t), Panzerjäger 38(t) Hetzer, Marder III, ST vz.39 aka V-8-H, AH-IV tankettes and plenty of other TNH-based vehicles among Kharkov inventions because ČKD (BMM) chief designer Alexei Surin was born in a village near Kharkov.

 

It's time to finally find out that actually all tanks originate in Kharkov  

 

Surin was a Tsarist and White-Russian officer who emigrated to newborn Czechoslovakia and he was smart enough not to be arrested by Soviet Smerch in May 1945 like Czechoslovak and well known White-Russian general Sergei Wojciechowski (Vojcechovský) who died in Gulag in 1951 (with Beneš's Czechoslovak post-war government not giving a shit about his whereabouts). He was investigated for collaboration with Nazis though but cleared whe it was prooven he actively sabotaged the work. He was heavily involved in the new domestic MBT program and when it was canceled he was working on establishing T-34/85 production in Czechoslovakia.  

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There is a crisis situation at the Malyshev Kharkov Tank Plant. There are no orders, for several months people have not been paid their salaries. Therefore, workers are dismissed en masse; almost two hundred people have left since the beginning of this year. The plant is virtually bankrupt.

https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/1819241.html

 

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What the fuck is this horrifying abomination?