BTR-4E, 8x8 Ferocity
A newer video of a Ukrainian BTR-4E featuring cage armor to protect against drones. Vehicle could be of newer production.
A newer video of a Ukrainian BTR-4E featuring cage armor to protect against drones. Vehicle could be of newer production.
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The gravehawk is the mobile vehicle. The static site “the container” is called the MSI-DS Terrahawk Paladin and its used as a Short Range Point-Defence System to defend critical areas and infrastructure. The system uses an automatic gun with an ammunition programmer to destroy targets. As standard, the system is equipped with a 30-mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon with a possible caliber increase to 40 mm. The mobile Gravehawk system can use both AIM-132 ASRAAMs or R73’s, it carries 2 on the rails and 4 in reserve. The same vehicle can be equipped with 6 Brimstone launchers. This was trialled in 2023 by modifying a curtain sided box van to launch brimstones. I believe the UK is also putting these into service for themselves. The vehicle itself is the Supercat HMT made by MDBA UK.
Gravehawk SAM
MSI-DS Terrahawk Paladin
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Oh, interesting. You don’t see a lot of images of T-84s. I thought they were all withdrawn from combat, but I stand corrected.
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When you don’t have 1/3 for a full battalion size, obviously it’s not that much.
@Yontzee you forgot to censor the other hand, if this is a problem.
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The main reason I’m surprised is I haven’t seen a Oplot being used since the United24 crew interview in early 2023.
1/3 of a full battalion size, even, Thailand apparently has more.
Ukraine only has 6, so if one of their battalions is 31, it’s less than 1/5th of a battalion. 6 Oplot-Us. I’m not sure on how many Oplot-Ms they have still.
It’s not but thank you. I didn’t have to do the hand, I was bored lol.
On the other side of things…more (older) images of some Oplot’s and a T-64BM Bulat:
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Also some solid images of the Leopard 1A5DK(V).
Leopard 1A5DK(V), the Armor Spitter
- On top of the vehicle being layered in Kontact-1, the Leopard’s upper front plate is equipped with indigenous Nizh-1M ERA tiles which significantly increase its ability to withstand both CE and KE munitions. Nizh-1M is known to have superior performance when compared to Kontact-5. Overall, this is a serious revitalization of an old vehicle that’s been retired from the German military for around two decades.
- Tough vehicle to place a BR for but if I had to, I would place it at BR ~10.0 due to its new armor profile, good mobility, thermals, and DM63 APFSDS-T.
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where the hell do they get so much Kontakt lmao
Soviet stockpile
I believe they are still making it. If you search up Nizh-1M, you can find the website for the company making it and they are also producing 4S20U, which is a Ukrainian modernized version of Kontakt-1.
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I decided to look more into the T-84U above and found a bit about it. It’s name is Мурчик , or Murchik, which means “One who loves to purr.” It’s a common cat name. On the other side of the bore evacuator, a cat is painted on.
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Yeah this one from my understanding was used in heavy fighting initially before being moved to a promotional role for the UAF.
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Rumors are, this tank is still used as fighting machine, not only as a promotion steel box
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I mean it makes sense since there’s footage coming out on Telegram of it in specific locations. Interesting to see.
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