General AFV Thread

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Or drivers got used to desert and sand so much that now they are doing this?

 

 

 

I'd wager a bet those are the platoon leaders tanks. 

 

Lt - "Driver, forward and hard left"

Driver - "Sir, we ca..."

Lt - "Go. Now!"

**BOOM* 

 

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Romanian BMP with Samson turret by Rafael (IIRC) and TR-85M1 Bizon.

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Have some rusty old tonks

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Victory Day Parade

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K30 Biho AA system.

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Not on Stryker yet.

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AMX-30B

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Barracuda MRAP

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Article on US WW2 tank interphone systems.

 

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This picture is glorious.  Where does it come from?

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Is this Assad Babil?

 

[Bronezhilet]

This picture is glorious.  Where does it come from?

Found it on the WoT subreddit. Apparently it's from a news article on Sudan.

[Mike E]

Is this Assad Babil?

No such thing

I'm not completely sure, but they might be the Object 172M-E2 of which Iraq purchased a few hundred of (in the late 70's).

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No such thing

I'm not completely sure, but they might be the Object 172M-E2 of which Iraq purchased a few hundred of (in the late 70's).

UFP visually feels much thinner than normal B models. Or my eyes are playing with me.

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UFP visually feels much thinner than normal B models. Or my eyes are playing with me.

This is no B, it is an early-export T-72 (not A or . 

 

It does look off, maybe Iraq modified the glacis somehow. Their "tank factory" could not build any tanks (hence the Asad Babil is debunked), but it could work on them.

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   "Bridgelayer". French "bridgelayer". 

 

   One more:

 

   KruppShtall road-maker:

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Copy/paste from otvaga.

 

 

From left to right:

120mm as used on the Conqueror. Separate charge and projectile.

120mm Separate combustible rigid charge bag and projectile

110mm. Experimental semi combustible case with brass base stub. This comes as a fixed round.

105mm. Fixed round

20 pounder. Fixed round

17 pounder/77mm. Fixed round

17 pounder/77mm short case as used in the Comet. Fixed round

6pr7cwt. Fixed round

2 pounder littlejohn Mk 2 fixed round

for 77mm and 17 pdr penetration are incorrect, but they've been copied so many times they are regarded as true!

 

   For example, the RAC Tank Museum's Fire & Movement booklet quotes penetration at 1000 yards/30 degrees for APCBC as 110mm for the 77mm and 118mm for the 17 pdr. This makes no sense given the difference in power. Many years ago I researched this and dug out various other sources. As a result of which, I found that the true figures seem to be around 100mm and 134mm respectively. Figures for APDS are similarly distorted (F&M gives 165mm for the 77mm, 170mm for the 17 pdr!). I can only assume that the performance of the two guns in F&M was measured under different conditions, e.g. using different qualities of armour.

 

   By comparison, figures in F&M for the German APCBC equivalents seem much more realistic: the 75mm L/48 tank gun (which is slightly less powerful than the 77mm) penetrates 90mm, the long 75mm L/70 in the Panther tank (marginally more powerful than the 17 pdr) is credited with 141mm.

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VT-1A of Bangladesh army.

 

Serbian Nora B-52 155 mm SPG

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M1A1 AIM with XM-19RAT ERA.