Modelling armour in Ukraine crisis

Looks like the tank has some sort of skin ailment.

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Strong foundation; that’s all i have to say 'bout it.

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Is that a T-64?
I can’t tell with all of ā€œaddā€ on’s.

Which side Ukraine :ukraine: or the Russian invaders?

I’m thinking T-72B1

The roadwheels on a T-64 stick out.

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Procrastinators: The scourge of humanity

The thermobaric missile was nothing short of spectacular - went in through the window and created a huge fireball. The pilot said he had another but it was ā€œonlyā€ fragmentation. I told him to go for it, what the hell. Not nearly as spectacular, but yes, we effed up that upper story. Except for debris in the stairwell (in which he’d dropped a grenade right in front of me prior to this) there was no discernible damage to the lower floor. Nice houses in Iraq, which this was, tend to have concrete floors between stories.

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Wow.
I thought that is the point of the expensive missile-kill everything around it.

Ukrainian T-80BV

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It’s a T-72, possibly an AV… Large road wheels, IR Searchlight on the right side of the main gun tube, AA MG paints to the rear of the TC hatch, and the tracks don’t have the lightening holes as seen on the T-64 family.

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T-80BV has a different configuration for the smoke grenade mortars- banks of four on each side of the turret… also the AA MG points forward from the TC hatch, not aft.

You thought wrong then didn’t you.

Hellfire is a relatively small item of ordnance, first developed for anti-armour use and later developed for precision strikes against other target types, especially high-value targets, while minimising collatoral damage.

The Russians currently appear to have a similarly limited imagination, where ā€˜precision strikes’ seem something of anathema to them and ā€˜killing everything around’ is straight out of ā€˜Russian Military Doctrine 101’, Page 1, Chapter1, Paragraph 1.

Definitely a T 72AV with new tracks

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AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder Weapon Locating System

H.P.

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Never enough unditching logs :wink:

H.P.

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Looks like a B turret to me.

Definitely an A you can see the cheek armour, the B has a totally different turret face

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Woops, my bad I was looking at the wrong picture. Right you are.

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I’m guessing these are different to fascines.

Does any other Army use Fascines apart from the British Army?

new russian technical https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658872217432621060?t=VAfekm01-apKXg5G9NQ6Sw&s=33

I guess they’re out of ZSU-57-2s. Is this a ZSU-57-1? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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