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

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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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𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 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.
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T-80UD/T-80BV/T-80B and more at the 206th Armored Repair Plant in Ussuriysk, Primorsky Krai, Far East Russia, 2006. This Armored Plant would go bankrupt just 6 years later.
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A Ukrainian 🙂T-64BV. Taken during the ATO phase in 2014.
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Pictured: Alvis Streaker, based on the CVR(T), a lightweight tracked load carrier. Do we need something like this now, a modern day universal carrier?
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Chieftain Mk.10 of the Berlin Armoured Squadron that had an accident with a car in Smuts Barracks, Spandau District, West Berlin.
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Original T-72 Ural in Service with DPR troops in October of 2015. Interestingly it's had the original TPN-1-49-23 night sight replaced with the newer TPN-3-49 seen on T-72A/B1.
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Images of Not a common vehicle, the British Army M270 repair and recovery variant
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LPR "T-64AV" and T-64BV's being withdrawn to Luhansk, October 2015. (Ive removed all the nonsense, so it's just tank footage and that glorious lawnmower engine sound).
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Captured T-64's of the 36th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade before being transferred back to Ukraine from Crimea, 2014.
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Russian May 9th Rehearsal and Parade Thread - March to May 2026 1) Two T-72B3 Obr.2025 at a Yekaterinburg Parade Rehearsal.
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Chinese ZBD-04A IFV on a demonstration exercise accidentally discharges a smoke grenade into a mound full of observers, likely officers and politicians.
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Are you feeling the "tension"??? Lots in defence media about Armd Veh Track Tension...so what is it? #tanktechnology While the transmission delivers torque and speed, it's the "running gear" that transfers this to the ground.
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BVP-M80A during the Yugoslav war, I believe it belonged to Republika Srpska (VRS), commonly known as the Bosnian Serb army. Clearly the crew supported Manchester United, which at the time won the league in ‘92, ‘93 and ‘95, as well as the FA Cup in ‘94.
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T-72AV of the 201st Motor Rifle Division, Tajikistan, 2004.
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1/ Short thread on the Rooikat CVED (Combat Vehicle Electric-Drive Demonstrator) is a South African technology demo based on the Rooikat armoured recce vehicle. This thread was made in collaboration with @ShombeReport who I recommend you follow him.
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8/ Sadly the CVED project was shelved, although as most would agree it was ahead of its time. End of thread.
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