[THREAD]
During battles in December 2023, Myanmar MNDAA rebels managed to destroy 2 Dongfeng CSK-131s.
Photos of their wrecks made rounds on the internet.
However, these vehicles are actually cooler (or less cool) than the articles made them out to be...

2021 Myanmar civil war

The vehicles had police license plates, but don't get fooled, Myanmar police is not known to operate Dongfeng Mengshi vehicles.
Instead they belonged to NE Myanmar Laukkai's ruler warlord/gangster Bai Yingcang, who acquired immense wealth through corruption, bloodshed and frauds.

[THREAD]
Russian Pantsir-S1 in camouflage for Iraq, March 2024, Eastern Ukraine.

Whether these Pantsirs are spare from allegedly cancelled Iraqi order or were redirected from the Iraqi deal is not known. But rumours and data might suggested...

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine





In October 2012, Iraq ordered some 42-48 Pantsirs from Russia, however later on information came out about alleged corruption and that the deal had been canceled. Then information that the deal is ongoing, in 2015 first public reveal of Pantsirs and by 2016 the deal was finished.

"T-72B, the least original tank in the world"

This will be 2 part series. Part 1 will look at my thought process on why I think T-72B is the least original tank in the world and some of the criteria. Part 2 will briefly focus on unoriginality of T-72B tanks around the world. Disclaimer: This thread is a satire, it's meant to be a complaint on unoriginality from modeler's perspective, so don't take it too seriously :))

Just because I say T-72B is unoriginal doesn't mean I hate the tank. Quite the opposite actually...

[THREAD]
T-80BV Obr.2022g:

Okay, I'm surprised no one proposed this earlier.
There is a number of new upgraded T-80 tanks that I believe are being misidentified as T-80BVM Obr.2022g.
I believe these tanks should be called T-80BV Obr.2022g instead and here is why:

One of the most significant parts of BVM upgrade is Sosna-U, however these tanks have instead 1PN-96MT-02 2nd gen thermal sight.
The T-80BV Obr.2022g also retains 1G42 gunner's sight (T-80BVM has PDT next to Sosna-U).

This indicates these tanks were actually made from T-80BV.

[THREAD]

Slightly different topic than my usual focus but still closely related to military vehicles...

Klin-1 robotic complex used in 1986 Chernobyl disaster: Disaster at Chernobyl power plant saw need for many specialised vehicles. Of those many were civilian, some military repurposed for a different task and some even from programme to land on Moon. And somewhere in between fits remotely-operated Object 032 and 033 of Klin-1 system.

Probably the first time Czech T-72 Avenger (modernisation of T-72M1) was spotted in Ukrainian service. Used on Kherson front and filmed by @CzechTV

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
@oryxspioenkop @Rebel44CZ @JTBcz @praisethesteph @CzechTV @oryxspioenkop @Rebel44CZ @JTBcz @praisethesteph However, in the description of the video is stated that this tank was provided half a year ago. There is no public information on when the tanks were first sent to Ukraine. Only thing known is that there was crowdfunding campaign for one of these tanks in October by @DarPutinovi