AFV Recognition

Recognition and Identification of AFV’s, mainly focused on 🇷🇺 armour

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T-64's being dismantled at the 349th Central tank Reserve Base in Topchikha, Altai Krai, Russia.
This was a result of the reforms of 08.

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@M4RDUK_701 The Challenger 2E for these trials had a nice camouflage scheme

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@Chocolate_Bee16 @Volke__ I’d assume that’s in Smolino alongside some other oddities

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Modernized T-80UE-1 in the background of a interview.
Which could point towards the Russian actully putting it into production.

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That's one way to use a T-80's autoloader.

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@Combination_K Meanwhile BAOR just over the border

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@trip_to_valkiri Cap badge looks like the Coldstream Guards

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@SecondGetts2 @Remnantize @cecilie0019 Setup is definitely not typical line infantry of course, but see my reply in the thread showing RMP CPU, more likely to be them than 22 given the kit in my opinion.

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@DruganBogdan @Remnantize @cecilie0019 Looks more like RMP Close Protection Unit I think (pic attached). Most UKSF pics I’ve seen of them on Op Telic show them wearing US DCU rather than DDPM.

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T-64/T-72/T-80 at the 1311th Central Tank Storage Base, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Central Military District, Russia, 2021.

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@T_90AK Better than western OPFOR mock ups

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@T_90AK Very sad news indeed

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BTR-80 APC in service with Ukrainian forces during ATO Operations in Donbas, 2014-15 period.

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T-64BV drifting outside of the Malyshev Plant, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2010's.

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@T_90AK This is amazing, what a sound

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Let's talk about…

Vehicle Transportability

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A very rare Original T-80 exhibited at the Shostkynskyy Miskyy Regional Museum in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

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Just a simple visual guide of T-90 Variants.

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Challenger 1’s and CVRT’s of the 17th/21st Lancers in an aerial photograph with the tanks forming the shape of the ‘motto’ of the regiment, see image 2 for reference.

Challenger 1’s form the outlines of the skull and crossbones, the eyes of the skull formed by the regimental 2iC (Second in Command) and one of the Squadron Leaders. The nose of the skull is formed by the CO’s tank with 2x CVRT Sultan command vehicles on the flanks. The teeth of the skull being formed by the REME LAD (light aid detachment) with Chieftain ARV’s (armoured recovery vehicles), finally with Recce Troop’s CVRT’s forming the majority of the motto banner.

Unlike other armies, the British Army utilises regiment/squadron/troop nomenclature for tank/cavalry units, as do many other commonwealth nations, rather than the usual battalion/company/platoon terms used by other countries.