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curator and military historian, world war 2, air warfare, military and technology, PhD on german fighter force in world war 2 #jagdfliegen
May 12 8 tweets 3 min read
In Verkhnaya Pimscha was a parade on 9th May 2024 with some real and rare highlights of military technology of WW2. Some I have never seen driving.

Here are mine:

T-35 rebuilt and search light with female crew.
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BT-7 driving on wheels (not tracks). Image
Apr 14, 2022 9 tweets 3 min read
Man stelle sich vor, die Ukraine sollte Leopard 1A5 Panzer erhalten? Wie könnte man sie nutzen?

Imagine if Ukraine received Leopard 1A5 tanks? How to use them?
#panzer #leopard1 #ukraine #UkraineKrieg #UkraineRussiaWar Image Wie zuvor getweetet: Die Panzerung ist sehr dünn und die Kanone schwächer als die genutzten 125 mm Kanonen der T-Panzer.

As tweeted before: The armor is very thin and the gun is weaker than the 125mm guns used by the T-tanks.
Mar 6, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
UKR-RUS-Airwar:

Yesterday both sides reporteted heavy clashes and losses in the air. A thread about the situation in the air according to official numbers of both sides. 1/12
#UkraineKrieg #ukrainewar #ukraineairwar The Ukrainian Airforce (UAF) reported yesterday the shotdown of
- 1x Su-30SM
- 2 Su-34
- 2 Su-25
- 2 Mi-24/35
- 2 Mi-8
- 1 UAV
What‘s striking: The could present a lot of material. 2/12