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Currently focusing on the War in Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 also posts on other tank stories & history RT ≠ endorsement
Nov 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
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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Image 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
Nov 8, 2023 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
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.
Mar 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
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
May 9, 2022 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
Another victory parade was held in Verkhnyaya Pyshma where the town's military museum paraded a number of working ww2-era vehicles

1. T-34-76 2. TIZ AM-600 motorcycle with sidecar
May 5, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Apr 24, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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
Apr 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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 They may well be, but this particular tank is from most likely somewhere in Sumy Oblast on the 1st of March. Image
Mar 31, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A thread on this tank from earlier today