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@TankDiary
Apr 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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With a great deal of help from @VDV_Textbooks who sourced and translated a regulation VDV battalion tactical group order of battle I have made a few slides to illustrate the 712 man grouping Image
Compared to the OOB of a VDV BTG captured near Kherson several weeks ago we see that that particular unit was well below regulation strength, especially in terms of having no organic artillery support
Inset slides to give more detail to certain formations within the BTG: the VDV company
The 2S9 Nona-S battery
The Sprut-SD platoon - this is listed as part of the regulation OOB but I do not believe the Sprut has been fielded in combat in Ukraine yet and is only equipped in very small numbers
The MANPADS (Igla) platoon

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1. I’m going to add to what @naalsio26 has said on this topic and why I also think this is not a fake. I’ll eat whatever is left of his hat if it it’s wrong. Firstly, the “transparent” sight is the shadow from the ridge on the housing design


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2. The point on the headlights, this is not the only example of a single headlight tank being fitted with a second headlight beneath the driver’s view ports. Below is a T-55 example of the same thing
3. The headlights belonging to a T-90M - replacing headlights with that of a different model is nothing unusual, here a T-80U hull has T-80BV headlights.
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Nov 8, 2023
1/ T-90, Chocolate chip camouflage and a race to save Uralvagonzavod - the 1999 Russian delegation to India Image
2/ by the mid to late 1990s, Uralvagonzavod was in dire straits, its T-90 tank had not been taken up in large enough quantities by the Russian MoD and orders in general has almost entirely dried up.
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Mar 1, 2023
Tanks deployed on British streets - Motorman ‘72

Following Provisional IRA (PIRA) attacks throughout Belfast on 21st July 1972 known as ‘Bloody Friday’ the British government hardened its security strategy in Northern Ireland… Image
This led to the decision to eliminate ‘no-go’ areas that had formed in Belfast and Derry since 1969 and were used as bases for PIRA attacks. The plans put forward were Operation Motorman and Operation Folklore… Image
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May 9, 2022
Another victory parade was held in Verkhnyaya Pyshma where the town's military museum paraded a number of working ww2-era vehicles

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May 5, 2022
After the T-90M sightings recently and a lot of questions coming out about it I wanted to say this about the T-14 Armata: Image
The T-14 is still not in serial production and is still in trials with the 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division. We have no idea what the results of these trials have been, but trials are there to find problems and the fact it's still in trials isn't a good sign for the tank.
The tank has only been manufactured in low double digit numbers with perhaps only 20 having been delivered to the Russian Ground Forces. However, there are no set figures and the Russian MoD is quiet about it.
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Apr 12, 2022
As we know I'm a big fan of 4th GTD-watching, this T-80U appeared yesterday and it was claimed that it was a sign that the 4th GTD was already abandoning tanks in their newly assigned area of operation south of Izium Image
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It's worth keeping in mind as well that the 4th GTD would no longer be whitewashing their tanks either, and this tank still has signs of the whitewash that had been applied in February. Image
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