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Posted: 3/1/2023 8:22:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: I'm not counting on anything, but when they fuck up a planned propaganda launch it says a lot about their ability to maintain and deploy them effectively. It's a brand new system, Russia typically blows a few up before they get all the kinks worked out. Fuckin thing is a monster and rockets are hard. They'll get it sooner or later. Embarrassing as all hell though. |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 8:24:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: If you believe what they disclosed they could read newsprint on a clear day. I mean Hubble made a decent telescope...it's pretty much a KH11. |
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Posted: 3/1/2023 9:32:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: I went to a school that was really good at that stuff. I believe it. I mean Hubble made a decent telescope...it's pretty much a KH11. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By southerncross: If you believe what they disclosed they could read newsprint on a clear day. I mean Hubble made a decent telescope...it's pretty much a KH11. Yeah, weirdly enough, its almost like the Space Shuttle was designed for that particular satellite family and it's service needs... 
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Posted: 3/1/2023 11:59:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: Yeah, weirdly enough, its almost like the Space Shuttle was designed for that particular satellite family and it's service needs... |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 5:56:37 AM EDT
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 2S31 Vena, BMP-3-based 120mm gun-mortar system |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 3:21:43 PM EDT
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The floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov.
Originally built to power the Sevmash yards, it was re-purposed to power the grid in part of Siberia. The nuclear plant already there was decommissioned instead of refueled, as it was a mini-Chernobyl type RBMK reactor. Lomonosov has 2 x 150 MW(t) reactors, and has cogeneration to also allow waste heat capture desalinization and hot water production. In Murmansk, fueling c. 2019. The black-hulled ship is the Rosatom nuclear icebreaker “50 let Pobedy” (50 Years of Victory). One of the neatest ships in the world IMO.  Attached FileTowed 3,000 miles and installed in Pevek in east Siberia. Coincidentally, the area around Pevek had gulags where workers used to mine uranium for Soviet weapons production and nuclear research.  Attached FileGreenpeace is not a fan. (Lomonosov is background left, prior to final painting and completion).  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 3:50:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: The floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov. Originally built to power the Sevmash yards, it was re-purposed to power the grid in part of Siberia. The nuclear plant already there was decommissioned instead of refueled, as it was a mini-Chernobyl type RBMK reactor. Lomonosov has 2 x 150 MW(t) reactors, and has cogeneration to also allow waste heat capture desalinization and hot water production. In Murmansk, fueling c. 2019. The black-hulled ship is the Rosatom nuclear icebreaker “50 let Pobedy” (50 Years of Victory). One of the neatest ships in the world IMO. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/7274BBAB-7D38-4733-8385-1CE4D6E47DA0_jpe-2732378.JPG Towed 3,000 miles and installed in Pevek in east Siberia. Coincidentally, the area around Pevek had gulags where workers used to mine uranium for Soviet weapons production and nuclear research. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/876CC93D-B112-4D43-8CC3-47739267599B_jpe-2732382.JPG Greenpeace is not a fan. (Lomonosov is background left, prior to final painting and completion). https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/9DCE03EB-7A6B-454B-BB12-4513A1BBF832_jpe-2732383.JPG You know, i think the anti nuclear crowd are a bunch of fools, but in this case, they have a good point 
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Posted: 3/3/2023 4:04:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jm11513: You know, i think the anti nuclear crowd are a bunch of fools, but in this case, they have a good point I am a nuke power fan, but yeah I am scratching my head over this one, too. ;) To be fair, we tried it once also. Took it down to the Canal Zone. But that was the early days and not repeated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 4:07:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: I am a nuke power fan, but yeah I am scratching my head over this one, too. ;) To be fair, we tried it once also. Took it down to the Canal Zone. But that was the early days and not repeated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: Originally Posted By Jm11513: You know, i think the anti nuclear crowd are a bunch of fools, but in this case, they have a good point I am a nuke power fan, but yeah I am scratching my head over this one, too. ;) To be fair, we tried it once also. Took it down to the Canal Zone. But that was the early days and not repeated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-1A Soviet/Russian reactors regardless of where they are built are of concern, but being on a ship isn't a big deal in general. |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 4:38:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: How is it any different than the dozens and dozens of nuclear powered vessels in the Navy? I mean there are technical differences but they are all floating reactors. Soviet/Russian reactors regardless of where they are built are of concern, but being on a ship isn't a big deal in general. There is a slightly enhanced risk factor putting it in a hull. There’s a HUGE cost increase, and at the end of the day, there’s just no need, really. I’m not scared of well-designed Russian reactors of PWR type (VVER), with modern management. Many of them all over the world. It’s just the RBMK type that were so dangerous, relatively speaking. Also, recall that it wasn’t the earthquake that wrecked Fukushima - it was the tidal wave, and Siberia is plenty seismically active. TBH, it’s not the crazy high risk as much as the sheer lack of need + added risk. IMO, this falls in the “Massively cool, but not really needed, so what were you thinking?” Category. |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 4:44:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: There is a slightly enhanced risk factor putting it in a hull. There’s a HUGE cost increase, and at the end of the day, there’s just no need, really. I’m not scared of well-designed Russian reactors of PWR type (VVER), with modern management. Many of them all over the world. It’s just the RBMK type that were so dangerous, relatively speaking. Also, recall that it wasn’t the earthquake that wrecked Fukushima - it was the tidal wave, and Siberia is plenty seismically active. TBH, it’s not the crazy high risk as much as the sheer lack of need + added risk. IMO, this falls in the “Massively cool, but not really needed, so what were you thinking?” Category. Because it's cheaper to move a boat around than build a fuck ton of small nuc reactors 
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Posted: 3/3/2023 5:40:57 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack67]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By stoner01: Because it's cheaper to move a boat around than build a fuck ton of small nuc reactors It’s not. That’s the thing. That one off vs. using the existing plant infrastructure already in place is nuts from a cost perspective. It was not designed nor is it being used in a mobile capacity. It is a permanent replacement for two existing reactors. Just an engineering exercise and to keep Baltic Shipyards busy before the 2nd Arktika class got built. ETA: Oh, it’s a complete one-off built w/o a specific need; I did not make that clear. If there were to be a fleet for a need, it would make a lot more sense. Not trying to be negative (or I would not have posted it). I do greatly respect Soviet + Russian use of nuclear surface vessels and wish we did more of it. |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 7:43:21 PM EDT
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    PDP (561P)  
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Posted: 3/3/2023 7:59:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: It’s not. That’s the thing. That one off vs. using the existing plant infrastructure already in place is nuts from a cost perspective. It was not designed nor is it being used in a mobile capacity. It is a permanent replacement for two existing reactors. Just an engineering exercise and to keep Baltic Shipyards busy before the 2nd Arktika class got built. ETA: Oh, it’s a complete one-off built w/o a specific need; I did not make that clear. If there were to be a fleet for a need, it would make a lot more sense. Not trying to be negative (or I would not have posted it). I do greatly respect Soviet + Russian use of nuclear surface vessels and wish we did more of it. I know jack and shit about it so...... |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 8:00:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI think I saw that in Star Wars 40 years back. |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 8:42:14 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack67]
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryHoly cow. What a piece of kit. Originally Posted By stoner01: I know jack and shit about it so...... Yeah, no it’s interesting to ask and think. I didn’t know a lot about this a month ago but I’ve been on a project where I’ve been having to understand various reactor designs in more depth. I did not know about this particular towed powership installation before recently and was surprised by it. |
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Posted: 3/3/2023 8:50:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/sFQ1KZg.jpg 2S31 Vena, BMP-3-based 120mm gun-mortar system Torsion suspension? |
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Posted: 3/5/2023 10:28:37 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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 2M-3M on the MT-LB   on a "Turya class" torpedo boat.    Russian MT-LBs equipped with 14.5mm 2M-7 and 12.7mm DShK naval gun mounts. |
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Posted: 3/5/2023 10:33:19 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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  Russian tourniquets
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Posted: 3/5/2023 11:28:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/VD13nVo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/U1rHs39.jpg Russian tourniquets Well…if it works and looks stupid it’s not stupid? |
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Posted: 3/5/2023 11:48:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/VD13nVo.jpg https://i.imgur.com/U1rHs39.jpg Russian tourniquets 
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Posted: 3/5/2023 1:09:55 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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Posted: 3/5/2023 1:11:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By -V-: Well…if it works and looks stupid it’s not stupid? I will agree with the sentiment but its still laughable if that is where they are at already. |
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Posted: 3/5/2023 2:14:17 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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Posted: 3/5/2023 2:42:13 PM EDT
[#25]
    Russian Army using cargo trucks as fuel transporters - fuel transported in cubic plastic tanks. Trucks is protected by steel add on armor on the sides and anti drone net on the top. |
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Posted: 3/6/2023 11:12:06 AM EDT
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    T-16 Armata Armoured Recovery Vehicle |
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Posted: 3/6/2023 1:58:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySome russkie drivers are going to learn a phrase known to American truckers for years: Suicide-jockey. |
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Posted: 3/6/2023 2:23:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/HMSBo0P.jpg 2M-3M on the MT-LB https://i.imgur.com/OvBehgF.jpg What in the name of Kerbal Tank program Jesus... |
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Posted: 3/6/2023 6:54:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/6GKaNbW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CA2YBTh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/di6vl5B.jpg T-16 Armata Armoured Recovery Vehicle Every time I see an open hatch now, I think about dropping a grenade in it from a drone. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 2:05:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Harlikwin: What in the name of Kerbal Tank program Jesus...  |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 4:29:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
[#31]
  Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov, satellite tracking ship Built 1966, In service 1967-1989  Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin, space control and monitoring ship Built 1971 In service 1971–1991 |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 4:44:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By m35ben: Looks like they started life as antitank versions. Yep. No chain-driven belly wheels. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 4:50:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rick-OShay]
[#33]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/PL5Z6NY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C5i5uen.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Li0DFE5.jpg Pictures taken by the UAF. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/PL5Z6NY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C5i5uen.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Li0DFE5.jpg A Russian 9A331M TLAR from the Tor-M2 air defense system was damaged by the Ukrainian army. Apparently whatever hit the vehicle failed to detonate leaving only the kinetic damage. Pictures taken by the UAF. Where's the KA-BOOM?  |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 5:26:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chairborne: Hey look! A nicer, newer, and likely much more capable AWACS than our geriatric E-3s.  Because nothing says "advanced super-computer and 3-D radar" like Russia. Besides, we Wedgetail now. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 5:31:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Rick-OShay]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jm11513: You know, i think the anti nuclear crowd are a bunch of fools, but in this case, they have a good point Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jm11513: Originally Posted By Jack67: The floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov. Originally built to power the Sevmash yards, it was re-purposed to power the grid in part of Siberia. The nuclear plant already there was decommissioned instead of refueled, as it was a mini-Chernobyl type RBMK reactor. Lomonosov has 2 x 150 MW(t) reactors, and has cogeneration to also allow waste heat capture desalinization and hot water production. In Murmansk, fueling c. 2019. The black-hulled ship is the Rosatom nuclear icebreaker “50 let Pobedy” (50 Years of Victory). One of the neatest ships in the world IMO. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/7274BBAB-7D38-4733-8385-1CE4D6E47DA0_jpe-2732378.JPG Towed 3,000 miles and installed in Pevek in east Siberia. Coincidentally, the area around Pevek had gulags where workers used to mine uranium for Soviet weapons production and nuclear research. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/876CC93D-B112-4D43-8CC3-47739267599B_jpe-2732382.JPG Greenpeace is not a fan. (Lomonosov is background left, prior to final painting and completion). https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/556465/9DCE03EB-7A6B-454B-BB12-4513A1BBF832_jpe-2732383.JPG You know, i think the anti nuclear crowd are a bunch of fools, but in this case, they have a good point Russia shouldn't be allowed to play with fission or fusion. In fact, Russia just shouldn't be allowed. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 6:34:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/7/2023 6:38:29 PM EDT
[#37]
 BMP-2 being reloaded with 30x165mm belts. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 7:12:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/ykStLBV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/UhrRvkp.jpg Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov, satellite tracking ship Built 1966, In service 1967-1989 https://i.imgur.com/JgZGPQd.png Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin, space control and monitoring ship Built 1971 In service 1971–1991 Wow. I have my late-evening browsing for tonight. Not familiar with those. |
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Posted: 3/7/2023 7:17:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Jack67: Wow. I have my late-evening browsing for tonight. Not familiar with those. We had similar looking ships for the same purpose. USNS Redstone wiki link  Attached File
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Posted: 3/8/2023 5:20:39 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 4xGM300m]
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  Translated from French by Google: 32 9N24 submunitions were secured by DSNS deminers following a crash of a Tochka 9M79 tactical ballistic missile of the 9N123K series cargo. Near the village of Dytyatky in the Vyshhorod region north of Kiev. https://twitter.com/eod205 << Follow recommended |
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Posted: 3/8/2023 6:10:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By xd341: I went to a school that was really good at that stuff. I believe it. I mean Hubble made a decent telescope...it's pretty much a KH11. They even made it nearsighted. Lots of excuses why they couldnt use it to take pictures of the moon, glare is one thing possibly damaging some of the sensors, but probably would've worked great in new moon phase |
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Posted: 3/8/2023 7:09:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/11/2023 6:13:16 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Prime: Sniper dugout and captured American large-caliber sniper rifle Barrett M82 and other tools for work  Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 3/11/2023 6:13:47 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Prime: These people love cats.  Attached File Attached File Attached FileAnd by “these people” I mean Russians. Not a dog picture anywhere. THERE’s the Russianness.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 3/11/2023 8:14:31 PM EDT
[#45]
    T-62M/T-62MV Obr 2022 with 1PN96MT-02 thermal sight. State of the art tech - in the 1980s.
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Posted: 3/11/2023 9:23:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/s2CLsMZ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4bFwcjF.jpg PDM-1M Seamine - Description Russians install anti-landing mines in southern Ukraine https://i.imgur.com/H1ROPIq.jpg Bulgarian version. |
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Posted: 3/11/2023 9:27:09 PM EDT
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Are there videos/picture of Russian tanks saved by all that Kontact ERA, or is this still the rubber sheet filled fake stuff?
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Posted: 3/11/2023 9:30:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/BPvJiv7.png https://i.imgur.com/OzIVESy.png https://i.imgur.com/6GTltXr.png https://i.imgur.com/HBj3WUd.png State of the art tech - in the 1980s. Against a Leopard 2?
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Posted: 3/11/2023 10:46:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 4xGM300m: [url]https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203719/44CC59E3-D91D-46AC-9C8A-D365DA3F0935-2741842.jpg/url] https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203719/DB15BD30-9944-49DE-8B8C-743843C746E5-2741844.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203719/D858E10B-135C-4A92-985B-71131E26B5BB-2741845.jpg JBL headphones and boom-tubes? |
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Posted: 3/12/2023 8:17:01 AM EDT
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    The side armor of the BMP-2 hull after the PG-9V grenade hited the ERA box. 1988, tests of NII Stali The ERA there is clearly can't protect nothing. This is clearly a VBIED with task to blowing up and destroy the BMP with crew and infantery team. I see no other reason for mounting a standard tank ERA on a thin armored personnel carrier. For back in 1988, on the NII Stali tests of a Kontact-3, (Kontakt-1 ERA adapted for BMP-2) remote sensing device with 4C20 ERA protection elements on the BMP-2, an unambiguous result was obtained: "Field tests of these complexes, however, showed their complete unsuitability for use in the protection of the IFV/APC. Thin armor during a joint explosion of a DZ block and a grenade, when the total mass of the blown up explosive reached 1,1-1,2 kg, simply broke, incapacitating the machine itself." https://thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2021/01/bmp-2-with-k-1-era.html |
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