Modelling armour in Ukraine crisis

[HeavyArty]

@Frenchy

They use US-made trucks…

The truck in the video is a 5 ton, 6x6, M1083A1 FMTV w/armored cab.

[Dan]

Does the truck carry ammo and the crew? Are there more trucks to carry ammo?
Thanks

[HeavyArty]

Each artillery section has one M777, one M1083 prime mover/crew carrier, and one M1083 ammo truck. Each Battery has six artillery sections divided into two, three gun platoons.

[loncray]

Are the Ukrainian artillery units set up and equipped like US/NATO units?

[BGT]

OK a new project has just arrived!

I’m looking for any feedback and or input on ideas. I’m not a rivet counter. I don’t really care if it’s a T72, T90 or any other variation. My goal is to build something that represents a destroyed Russian tank. It’s an interior kit so the turret will be partly off. It will be burnt. The challenge will be to get a destroyed look along with the correct burnt look.
Any photo ideas appreciated.
Oh an an entry point that came in through the tracks if possible.

I’ll start a new thread when I get going.

[Armor_Buff]

Supposedly near the Donbass.

What’s this? A T-64 variant w/rear turret boom?

[Frenchy]

“Upgraded” T-64BV of the DPR ???

June 2020 pics :

I guess there was a clearance sale on ERA blocks…

H.P.

[ruzzaa]

[Frenchy]

H.P.

[golikell]

I love the smiley on the last pic

[Frenchy]

Ukrainian “Twin-turreted” MT-LB near Kharkiv :

I guess this is the same variant (minus the bar armor) as this one seen in 2020…

Looks like the rear hull top superstructure comes from a BRDM-2.

H.P.

[Dan]

You’d be be better off with a T90

T-90A, Amusing Hobby 35A050 (2022)

[ruzzaa]

[ruzzaa]

I’ll Be Back

[Tank_1812]

Yep on a trailer all burnt up.

[loncray]

ERA blocks - more like fabric filled with egg cartons. I’m curious if any Russian ERA is real or if it’s all fake after the soldiers and officers sold the explosive blocks on the black market?

[Seanmcandrews]

This is a T-72B but pretty cool none the less & may be useful to you.

[GulfWarrior]

I knew I coulda been a gun-bunny AND and MI-puke!

[Frenchy]

H.P.

[Uncle-Heavy]

We have seen abandoned tanks.
Rules and procedures for abandoning equipment may have been followed
and the tankers have removed the explosive plates from those bags and only left
the spacers.
I’m not saying that they did it all the time or that all of those bags were provided
with explosive plates to begin with.
Having all those explosives hanging around unsupervised could be a bad idea
and since they weren’t going to a real war, only a special military operation their
commanders could have decided to not add the explosive plates to those bags …