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An interestingly equipped Boomerang spotted: EOD equipment in the front, HMG RWS module, high air ducts for amphib w/ high waves?

AFAIK there's no BMD-3s in active duty units, maybe some in a Training Center or converted to 4s or some such. Also, -2M is a possibility (similar turret as on BMP-2M).

No idea, just a random vid I've found. Supposed to be a trailer for some 2018 movie or something, I'm not sure. I guess there's no bottom in the Ocean of the Human Stupidity after all. I wasn't joking about the coffee.

@1m12s - usage of self-guided antitank bombs RBK-500U SPBE-D (РБК-500У СПБЭ-Д) by Su-34 in Crimea, during this year's "Aviadarts" tournament.

A-10C has equipment equivalent to above mentioned President-S. It is called AN/AAR-47 MWS. It is also used on transport aircraft (I've heard about C-17 and Ospreys), but I don't know the details.

It so happens that I've stumbled upon this today. Warning! Keep coffee or any other liquids away from your keyboard/screen.

Bikini ERA? There's been this:

I hear "Agava". That's a TO1-PO2T "Agava-2" (ТО1-ПО2Т "Агава-2") thermal imaging sight.

Well, yeah, there's always a need for faster vehicles, but these are different roles we're talking about here. This role difference should be recognized accordingly, it is very important. And, speaking of mobility, I should say that Boomerang looks quite promising. Except that I haven't seen anything about possible increase of protection (ERA, APS) for it. There are certain mounting spots on the lower part of the hull, on the sides, that I think might be intended for side panel add-on installation, but it's only my wild guess, no info whatsoever. Technically, due to turret commonality, APS should not be a problem (the same one that Kurg has), the only question is if Boomerang can actually withstand such explosions near it. It looks quite vulnerable from the top hemisphere. Oh, and btw, here's a better picture of the Boomer's bottom hull, if there are any experts around. I should also remind you that military vehicles don't travel large distances on their own wheels/tracks much these days. They are transported by other vehicles/trains. Even light wheeled APCs. They would move on their own only in enemy territory, in the time of war.

Yeah, especially BMP-3 with all those 100mm rounds. I think I've already posted this image of BMP-3's turret from Chechnya. Speaks louder than words really. As for being too heavy, I dunno about Namer, really. But generally speaking, when you remove the MBT's turret, you free up quite a lot of weight, so I see no reason why a good tank-based infantry carrier should be worse mobility-wise than the tank on the same chassis.

Frankly, I've stopped paying much attention to the news regarding military developments after I've stopped collaborating with BFC in yearly 2015, so I had to do some digging now. And it turns out there's been an article in TASS (dated September 2015) that said that they've extended the R&D phase by another year, because the army does not like the size of the vehicle, saying it's too big of a target, and that field trials should start only in 2017. Dunno if it's another smoke & mirrors hoax or not, but I do believe that Kurganets has too little defense for its size and purpose. Any vehicle would, as long as it keeps its amphibious capability, there's no way around that with current technologies. And that's not surprising. I've personally become a proponent of heavy, tank-based, infantry carriers. IMO, if the vehicle is supposed to advance on enemy positions next to the tanks, it should have the same amount of protection as tanks, or, actually, more than that, because the amount of people inside. So there's that.

What makes you think that? On a contrary, Boomerang is at the end of the queue. If you'd look at this year's pictures, you'd see that Boomerang wasn't finished when they first showed it. I pointed it out right away. Now it's much better. For comparison: So these are still prototypes. Another reason for low priority is simple - this is still pretty much a light APC rather than IFV, so it's less valuable compared to medium/heavy IFVs and tanks. If you don't ask the boys who ride 82a's in Syria, of course. I'm sure they'll tell you otherwise. Other thing to point out - bottom hull pictures of Kurganets. Interesting hull shape where it's closer to tracks. Boomerang's bottom hull just for the sake of it. Boost is boost, but it still sucks tanky-wise.

Worked like a charm, thank you very much!

Is there a place where I can download this mod other than from here? http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/?p=2193 I'm getting really lousy speed there, and it drops dead before I can even finish loading.

Secret. As far as I'm aware, this is as far as you'd be able to get: http://militera.lib.ru/manuals/0/pdf/zaritsky_harkevich01.pdf

This information was known a year ago, actually. I did post it in this very same thread. The initial order is ~100 of each chassis type (for Armata = T-14+T-15+T-16), or, in other words, "бригадный комплект" - a brigade compliment. Yeah, what Haiduk wrote is kinda not what the article actually says. Bias or just reading diagonally? But the article is pointless anyway. Listening to the talking heads is no good.

The guy with the classic white garden gloves just HAD to ruin everything, huh? Not surprised with generals being greedy and not giving the ACUs for 82a-s. But I kinda get it, why bother with ACUs if the guys keep riding outside. Feel bad for the crews tho.

Load of bull, I say. Playing with words/terminology. What is true is that they've just produced 22 freshly new BMP-3s (in standard configuration). There's a vid, that also shows Kurg-25s, and the factory does indeed looks miserable, as per all the talks about bankruptcy. As I've predicted, the order for new BMP-3s is more of an attempt to let the factory stay afloat than anything else.

Sovereign my... couch Just to let you know, since you've brought it up, people from Republic of Crimea (yeah,everyone always forgets to call Crimea a Republic, especially the full title, with "Autonomous" in the front, but that's what it is), or from Eastern Ukraine, they are not allowed to vote in Ukraine. Found out about this yesterday. Nicely adds to everything they've done to us so far. My love to that "sovereign nation" grows day by day! Glory to Ukraine, and all that. That's literally the first thing they've said in the episode. I've been seeing signs of that for quite a while. Still skeptical about their will to go on with everything. It should be clearer by the end of 2016 as to how serious about this they are. My point always was - if it can't "tank", then it is not a tank, but rather a tank-destroyer. And, most likely, only hard kill system will make that difference on T-14. Like I've said, there's been no mention of APS whatsoever. There's been a fresh interview, but I haven't actually watched it myself, just saw the numbers.

I see what you did there! Ha-ha-ha! Oleg Sienko says that T-14 costs ~250-300M (in rubles).

ewww

Highlights Engine and gear box are a single unit, which allows much faster equipment swaps in the field 8 forward and 8 backwards gears Initial batch comes with 3 versions: MBT (T-14), IFV (T-15), BREM (T-16) Not much said about defenses: stealthy paint & materials, ERA, multi spectral smoke, but as with previous episode on Kurg, not a word about APS IFV is pretty infantry-friendly: 3 crew, 8 passengers, 1 reserve seat (12 max), ramp+door, tank-infantry telephone outside, ACU, a lot of empty space BREM armed with 12.7mm RWS Factory lines are dual-purpose & adaptable to allow civilian and military production without much switching effort Visual locator/auto tracker (just like you have on aircraft)

Armata episode (unfortunately, pseudo-720p) Better quality highlights: To sburke I've addded you to my ignore list. Bye!

sburke You can't possibly turn this into off-topic, bring up Crimea and then accuse me of not replying and taking it personally. I come here to discuss vehicles with other gamers. If you want to say that Russia can't possibly scrap some money together to produce new IFVs, then that's your opinion, and I'm not gonna rob you of it (is that a correct term? I'm improvising). The basic math says they can. Whether or not all that money is gonna end up stolen, or if Putin's gonna get hanged tomorrow, that remains to be seen. But instead of speculating about how bad everything might turn out, I'd rather have fun and stay on topic. You are not the person I'd rather have such discussions with anyway. There's another modification of BMP-3, much more simple than others. BMP-3 "Vityaz". New digital FCS and optics. More pics here: http://vestnik-rm.ru/news-4-12721.htm