Captain_Colossus Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) best guess is 100mm APCBC shell still available from russian stocks Edited January 19 by Captain_Colossus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted January 19 Members Share Posted January 19 I can only see a hole that I would attribute to "a" subcaliber kinetic energy round. I wouldn't dare to call caliber and sub type. It does, however, not look like a 100mm full caliber hole to me. I've heard that steel sabots create wider holes than late tungsten or dU designs, so maybe that's what we're looking at. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Colossus Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) you have me beat- i seemed to remember what was claimed to be 100 mm perforations on a t-54 range target at a tank museum and i would not have ruled that out based on the camera angle and the text overlay over the whole when the camera zooms in for a closer view. i went purely on memory of what that looked like Edited January 19 by Captain_Colossus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iarmor Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 (edited) A short Israeli Armored Corps promotional documentary film from 1971: https://jfc.org.il/en/news_journal/51230-2/113891-2/ 0:00-1:21: Armor School graduation ceremony. M48s and Centurions shoulder to shoulder. 1:21-6:39: Centurions on desert training. Rare M48 AVLB use (the IDF had just one of these) on 4:28-5:29. 6:48-7:38: Armor School training. 7:38-8:07: Centurions in an ordnance depot. 8:07-9:01: Centurions on gunnery range. 9:02-12:14: Desert training again, with live fire. An ordnance team (on a crane-mounting halftrack) fixes a Centurion track on 9:58-10:17. 12:14-12:43: Night firing. 12:53-13:04: M48s patrol the eastern bank of the Suez canal. 13:06-14:06: Centurions in different locations, including Mount Hermon from 13:49 and on. Live enemy is portrayed by Tiran-4 tanks (note the Israeli-modified fenders on 9:21), painted in outdated Egyptian colors. Target practice is carried-out on 1967 war booty AFVs: T-54/55, IS-3, SU-100, ZSU-57x2, T-34/85. Edited January 20 by Iarmor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankHunter Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 NLAW engagement 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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daskal Posted Saturday at 11:16 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:16 PM M1 Gunner handle used inside an acrade machine! check at 1:32 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Colossus Posted Sunday at 06:13 AM Share Posted Sunday at 06:13 AM this illustrates that even the serious business of war- which it is, a business, which is why we use metaphors such as 'the business end' of an m1 tank- still we find something in all of it to fun to play i guess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Lawrence Posted Monday at 05:07 PM Share Posted Monday at 05:07 PM New video from the WSJ. Overall not too bad of a comparison for MSM. The only major issues I noticed were the vague implication that the Leopard 2 doesn't have composite armor, and pronouncing the BMP-2 as "bump-2" 🤦♂️ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Colossus Posted yesterday at 05:21 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:21 AM (edited) where it gets interesting is the fact that if poland is going to be a base for supply, then support trains must travel hundreds of miles to follow the armor in ukraine- which means vulnerable to russian interdiction. i wonder how this is being planned when large formations are already at risk for artillery or drone or air attack as it is right now. this is not desert storm where the coalition controlled the airspace and iraqi artillery was generally removed from the equation, assuming a few to several hours of maintenance and resupply necessary at a minimum to for every one hour of action, this seems like a challenging requirement for operating these tanks. they can make comparisons as they seem to like doing, but the problem is that it certainly does not have to play out like that if the russians played the game not like that. furthermore what i've heard from some of the americans fighting in the foreign units there is that there a fair amount of corruption in the ukrainian military where some units will keep supplies meant for other units, it can be rather undisciplined and up to the discretion of local commanders to decide if they want to be generous- in other words it's not as organized, disciplined and regulated like the us military would be Edited yesterday at 06:00 AM by Captain_Colossus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSe419E Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago These aren’t aircraft. They will probably get many hours of use before “hours of maintenance” are needed. Checking fluids, end connectors and track tension doesn’t take that long. More meaningful maintenance takes place away from the front lines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Colossus Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago -this isn't peacetime operations either; this also includes not just repairing damages but ammunition and fuel requirements, or recovery stricken or disabled vehicles - at the rate of ammunition consumption for an attacking force, which it is assumed ukraine will either attack towards the crimea in the south or towards the east, this would be challenging for anyone under similar conditions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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