General AFV Thread

[Mighty_Zuk]

JLTV with Spike LR ATGMs, mounted on a Samson RCWS.

[Ramlaen]

 

[LoooSeR]

 

[heretic88]

T.95 Ha-Go, restored in Poland. Awesome!

Quite nimble little beast, with great sounding engine. (driving at the end of the video)

 

[LoooSeR]

   Does it have original engine?

[heretic88]

1 hour ago, LoooSeR said:

Does it have original engine?

I guess the engine is original, check the video at 19:10. It is diesel, 6 cylinder, air cooled, and quite old style looking engine. Im almost certain that this is the original Mitsubishi A6120

[ZloyKrolik]

It is good to see one of these in running condition, but how'd it end up in Poland? That must be a tale.

[Militarysta]

.  This tank was restored more then decade(!) and it was taken from Truk lagoon.

And it's wonderfull restoration -even tehnical description in japaneese are present in tank. The engine is like orginal but based on post IIWW ones whit orginal Bosh eqipment.

To be onest -it's the best restoration I'v ever seen. It's greata. Milions of $$ and a lot of time to achive sucht result. Amazing!

This tank will be in Bovington Tank Museum not in Poland. Tank belong to MV collector from UK 

 

More about this:

https://forum.odkrywca.pl/topic/765516-hago-typ-95-tank-restoration-project-robert-lewszyk/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Hago-typ-95-Tank-Restoration-Project-1671671063107837/about/?ref=page_internal

[Scolopax]

Interesting that they're driving it. Bovington sealed theirs up because the Japanese put asbestos lining in for insulation. So as the vehicle aged, that lining has deteriorated and thus made the inside hazardous. I imagine the vehicle above would have had that asbestos removed during its renovation.

[Militarysta]

6 minutes ago, Scolopax said:

Interesting that they're driving it. Bovington sealed theirs up because the Japanese put asbestos lining in for insulation. So as the vehicle aged, that lining has deteriorated and thus made the inside hazardous. I imagine the vehicle above would have had that asbestos removed during its renovation.

Eee in Poland we are asbestosproof :D  ofc until lung cancer

[skylancer-3441]

I've stumbled across this photo of Boxer CRV while searching images from Linkedin via Google:

And it also includes poster with seethrough renders of both vehicle's hull and turret:

[heretic88]

13 hours ago, Militarysta said:

This tank will be in Bovington Tank Museum not in Poland. Tank belong to MV collector from UK 

Wasnt the plan to return this tank to Japan? 

 

I'd love to see more japanese tanks restored. Shermans, T-34s, Panthers are boring. Japanese tanks are unique. And cute Yes, main problem is finding parts. Even harder than getting stuff for german AFVs. But this restoration shows very well that it is worth the struggle.

[Serge]

 

17 hours ago, skylancer-3441 said:

It’s the first time I notice how an external coaxial machine gun pod interferes with crew vision. 

[LoooSeR]

   Serbian crews wasting their times in preparations for Tank Biathlon circus.

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

[Krieger22]

No I can't actually read a sentence of it beyond the machine translation, just posting for the video 

[Stimpy75]

it says BMC won the contract because they wanted 4 billion dollars while Otokar wanted 7 billion dollars. while they were negotiating the contract Erdo bargained another 500 million dollar cheaper!

[Mighty_Zuk]

Any differences in the contracts other than the price? 

Also, are they talking about a 1000 vehicle contract or only the first batch of 250?

[Stimpy75]

Does not say anything about the number of Tanks.

My guess it's the first batch of 250 vehicles

Because 1000 vehicles for 3.5 billion $ would be quiet cheap. We have to wait a bit more untill more information are available. 

I have also read that just first 40 vehicles will have MTU engine/Renk transmission

And after that ingenious engine transmission

Here again we have to wait and see

 

[Scolopax]

 

[LoooSeR]

   Cool pic of Nippon steel

[LoooSeR]

   South Korean K21s are pretty big vehicles.

[Serge]

Because of the flotation request. 

[LoooSeR]

7 minutes ago, Serge said:

Because of the flotation request. 

   I don't think so. They have huge addon bags for that. Also, BMPs are smaller than Bradley on that pic and BMPs floating capabilities are better than both of those vehicles on photo.

 

[Serge]

Yes. And BMP are armorless IFV.

[Priory_of_Sion]

The K21 is suppose to carry an extra 2 soldiers (9) compared to the M2, so I suspect that mostly explains the extra girth to the vehicle