An excellent squadron vehicle or tech tree for a Middle Eastern-themed tree. +1
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Yes, for more vehicles from asia and middle east.
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Ugly?? The thing looks slick to me.
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nah man, it is just a T-55 with extra T-80 armor strap on it, looks like a T-80 from wich.com. But still, i want to see it in the game
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Came across a photo of the Al-Faw variant featuring cool headlights, interesting camo and a set of smoke launchers.
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hell yeah, +1
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Looks like a large chestnut with a gunbarrel, +1
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This looks like a great vehicle to play, maybe around 9.0-9.3?
It sounds like it will be hell to fight with stock HEATFS. I am curious how much protection the armor does provide against kinetic pentrators
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It is said that the tank managed to survive a MILAN.
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I was just watching a video from the bovington tank museum on T-55s and they brought up this variant, even showed the inside of the NERA. According to them (though they provided no source) it would stop anything short of a hellfire missile (when it came to chemical munitions at least)
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Likely true, as the Russian study clearly demonstrated that you don’t need explosives to yield effectiveness from reactive armour.
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Still waiting for this tank and gaijin didn’t respond what if they know about t-55 with 170mm koksan artillery cannon or the rhino g6 tank with 210mm cannon ( they only made 2 but didn’t see a battle only in storage) Iraqi engineers crazy
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Btw it’s not a Rhino G6 but a Czechoslovak vehicle.
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My friend search for it they bought g6 from South Africa and modified the cannon and replaced it with 210mm you can search that
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The Iraqis couldn’t afford the G6 so they contacted the Czechs to purchase a chassis that was then modified to G6 specifications. This is on most sources for this vehicle, even the wiki says it.
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Oh yeah I searched and saw based on Czechoslovakian chassis also majnoon is similar to the regular g6
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It does not carry ammunition on its own and requires trucks to follow it (I may be wrong). And I doubt it can be used against tanks. It’s simply too big and bulky for such roles.
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Don’t forget that it requires a stationary position or the shot won’t be accurate… I wish there’s is more documents about the Iraqi - Iranian war and 1991 war I’m still researching about documents and don’t worry I’ll not leak anything in the forum lol…
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The 1973 variant (M1978) carries 2 rounds on board. The 1983 variant (M1989), which Iraq didn’t operate, carries 12. I’m not sure if the domestic Iraqi variant, with the 180mm on the BLG-60 chassis could carry any ammunition on board, but even if it could, no way it’s suitable for the game.
+1 for this vehicle though, very neat