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T-90M
@T_90_M
🇷🇺 Russian main battle tank. 48 tons of steel and sex appeal. SAFO = Stalin Apologist Fellas Organisation. Aux. backup unit: https://t.co/GQaR8YrmqW
Apr 5, 2024 • 31 tweets • 15 min read
🇷🇺⛏️🇺🇦 Russia announced a great archeological discovery near Mariupol. A marvel of mechanical engineering by Kiyv's primitive tribes, once thought to be too primitive to achieve anything so advanced!

Here's the AZOVETS! 🧵
1/ Like most things in Ukraine, its history is wild, weird and shrouded in violence and corruption.
Development of the Azovets started in 2015 by the "Arei" Engineering Group (IGA), reportedly from crow-funding although IGA was known for receiving State-funds as well.
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Dec 20, 2023 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
Yesterday I've commented a good thread on the T-90M by @Sam_Cranny.
Today I'll do the same with a post I've been tagged under by a couple of my followers (you really hate me, don't you), from the worst defense expert on this platform: david D.
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CLAIM: "T-90M is 31 years old"

Tanks aren't as old as the year the hull was made (if that was the case, all NATO tanks would be +30yo), but when the last upgrade was done.
T-90M appeared for the first time at NTIIM's Staratel test range on Dec. 8th 2010: Image
Nov 24, 2023 • 48 tweets • 16 min read
As I've promised, here's a deep down on why @NicholaDrummond is wrong and why wheeled 8x8 assault guns won't become more popular after the war in Ukraine.

A thread🧵
@nicholadrummond 1⃣ "Tank-on-tank combat is a rarity rather than the norm"

False.
While being outpaced by artillery and ATGM, tanks are still routinely killing enemy AFV on a daily basis and both Telegram and Twitter are full of videos of Russian tanks succesfully engaging enemy armor with ATGM,
Sep 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
🇷🇺📡🇺🇦 So all it would have taken to Ukraine to sink "most of the Russian ships" in Sevastopol was StarLink?

I call this bullshit, and I think Musk is just clout-chasing the growing anti-Ukrainian sentiment in the West.🧵 The AFU already massively rely on NATO uncontested ISR operations over the Black Sea to plan and conduct their attacks against Russian targets. There's very little Musk could offer to Ukraine that the US fleet of Poseidon and Reaper couldn't match.
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Jul 11, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
A few days ago I made a poll asking my followers (+ some people I tried to bait into following me) why Leopard 2 had such a bad performance in Ukraine.

Now I think it's time to express my own opinion.🧵
(check images' source clicking the ALT badge) https://t.co/a7P7mlzXyo
Since Twitter doesn't allow more than 4 options, I had to stay vague and point to main factors, with the underlaying premise (as some have pointed out) that all 4 of them were somehow responsible for the debacle.

"🇺🇦 Bad tactics/strategy" ultimately won with 33,7% of the votes.
Apr 13, 2023 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
On the captured T-90A spotted in the US, on the tank itself and on what it could mean for US tank development.

A thread. 🧵

(as usual, sources listed at the end;
feel free to leave corrections or addendum, also at the end of the thread)

[1/20] Image On April 14th, a lone battle-scarred, T-90A "Vladimir" obr. 2004 loaded on a truckbed was spotted at a truckstop on the Interstate 10 (I-10) near Roanoke, Louisiana.
Pictures immediately surfaced on Reddit's /TankPorn/:

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Mar 21, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Some high quality video on the 🇷🇺 Russian T-90M switchology.

Not really super exoteric, since these systems are usually designed to be easy to operate for tankers trained on older models of MBT.

🧵 A thread.

[1/8] The 3-men crew is composed by the tank commander "Krepysh", the gunner "Karas" and the driver "Simba".

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Jan 31, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
🧵 Russian Telegram users are already sharing infographs on how to fight the Challenger 2 tanks, 14 of which will be probably sent to Ukraine in the next months. This reminds me of the small manuals the Allies published during WW2 on Tiger's vulnerabilities: it was mainly done to boost morale and grow confidence in the soldiers, but they also shown actual informations on how to quickly incapacitate the German heavy tank.
Oct 3, 2022 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
🇷🇺⚠️🇺🇦 After observing the Russo-Ukrainian conflict for over 7 months, I'm confident enough to express my personal theory on how most Russian tactical and strategic blunders were caused by a single reoccurring problem which keeps affecting decision-making in Moscow.

A thread.🧵 The problem I refer to is a particular behavior which could be observed since the very beginning of the conflict and which seems to guide almost all major Russian military tactics and political decisions, from troops movement to propaganda to diplomacy with the collective West
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