Most guides and quizzes I've made on IG have assumed a basic level of knowledge about Russian military vehicles - but for beginners here's some vehicle ID at a basic level with a quick description of ID points and capabilities.
Also up on the website for digital download.
30 January 2024
Russian-occupied #Luhansk Oblast, #Ukraine
Cat with a T-80U belonging to Russia's 4th Guards Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army, Western Military District.
Challenger 2 OES thread 1/
The OES Challenger 2, known in military parlance as the Operational Entry Standard (OES) – often synonymous with Theatre Entry Standard (TES) – represents an advanced tier of armoured capability, a step above the baseline vanilla model.
@chrisschmitz T-72 with leopard tracks, T-90A smoke launchers, kontakt-1 boxes all different sizes, gunner’s sight looks like a regular camera and not a thermal sight - the AI makes me feel ill
@TallbarFIN Germany helped Finland in 1918 as well, although having its own motivations in both instances Germany was the only outside power Finland could leverage to keep its independence.
@ChungTzuW@RALee85 So not all T-80s then, interesting - either way that is still not a T-80 in the video owing to the smoke coming from an exhaust on the tank’s side
Russian T-64’s of various models (A,B,BV) that have been pulled from storage, the 2000 T-64’s in Russian stock in 2014 were supposed to have been scrapped, I don’t believe that ever happened due to the amount of T-64’s I’ve seen come from Russia, or if it did it was a very slow process.
These tanks will likely replace the DNR military tank losses, the DNR’s army mainly operate T-64’s.
Video of a relatively rare tank duel between a Ukrainian T-64 tank and what looks like a Russian T-72B3 with a roof screen near Stepove. The Russian tank deploys a smoke screen as it retreats, and survives an FPV strike that apparently jammed its turret.
https://t.co/ZfiDKAM7Ln
1/ The effects of rodents on AFV’s
Rodents have long been a problem for infantry in the trenches, but a lesser known fact is the issue of rodents when they embed themselves in armoured fighting vehicles.
A video of a tank getting hit by an ATGM and surviving will always get far fewer views and retweets than when a tank is destroyed in a huge fire ball. This gives people a false understanding of the vulnerability of tanks, and often leads to poor analysis. Just a regular reminder.