Vanir Ausf B

Everything old is new again. Panzerfausts doing work on Russian armor in Ukraine.

This was brought up a while back. IIRC, the gist of it was that "light" infantry is simply non-mechanized infantry. The term says nothing about what type of weaponry they carry or use.

It cannot be overstated how important it was that the Russians were road-bound, making them predictable. In addition to all the strategic errors Steve listed, the Russians also committed the cardinal sin of attacking at the worst possible time of year. The Ukrainians placed ATGMs on the obvious routes, confident the Russians could not just go around. The ATGMs slowed the columns down, then artillery destroyed them.

I'm 99% sure you are right.

There's lot of guys standing around watching. I'd guess this is training.

That would explain the drop tanks.

Yes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-considers-alternatives-after-us-informs-howitzer-delay-2022-05-02/

They screwed up by not keeping the turret rotated towards the enemy while in LOS.

Nice work! I count exactly 40 dots...

Paging @Thomm

I was just looking over the Wiki page for the German Puma IFV. Unit cost $22 million, 2.5x M1A2 Abrams.

You said yourself that different sources give the cost of a T-90A as "1.5M to 3.5M". So does a M1A2 tank cost 6x T-90A or 2.5x? Who decides that and how is that not subjective? Wikipedia gives the unit cost of a M4A1 rifle as $700. What does Russia pay for an AK-74M? Wiki doesn't say. The unit cost of any manufactured item is also going to be influenced by how many of them are made because the R&D cost is spread over each unit and economies of scale. That has nothing to do with battlefield performance.

BMP-3Ms are fantastic. I buy them without hesitation.

It's called 3BM59 Svinets-1, and all Russian tanks in CMBS use it, which is overly optimistic since it wouldn't fit in the T-72 or T-90A autoloader.

Ok, thanks. Maybe it will get in. But don't hold your breath for the 2A82-1M. There are a lot of conflicting sources on that. https://www.armyrecognition.com/russia_russian_army_tank_heavy_armoured_vehicles_u/t-90m_model_2017_mbt_main_battle_tank_technical_data_sheet.html "The main armament of the T-90M Model 2017 Proryv-3 consists of one 125 mm 2A46M-4 smoothbore gun" http://www.military-today.com/tanks/t90m.htm "The T-90M is armed with a new 2A46M-4 gun"

400 points for an unkillable spy in the sky is a bargain, IMO. In my Black Sea-PBEMing days we banned them from QBs. If you made Tunguskas cost 1300 points I doubt anyone would ever buy one, although they probably are underpriced currently.

Yes. See if you can find that. There are lots of things in the game that were "speculative" that did not pan out in reality. Those units can't be removed, unfortunately. But my impression is that they are nevertheless not going to extend the time frame beyond 2017. So Ukraine will probably not get Javelins because they didn't until 2018.

Heck of a speed trap.

1.5M to 3.5M is a pretty big range. Try running your Stinger test against the Russian Zala drone. I tried looking up the cost of a Ural-4320 truck. I can't find what the Russian government pays for them, but in mint condition they go for $26,000. Per unit cost for a US FMTV A1R is $160,427. I think people may complain if US trucks cost 6 times Russian trucks https://fourtankmen.com/why-ural-4320-is-the-best-russian-military-truck/ http://www.army-guide.com/eng/product2211.html

The same was true of the T-90m in 2017. The first units were delivered to the Russian Army in 2020 or 2021.

Mmm, so assuming "ballpark" is good enough, why would this system be better than the current system?

As the manual states, the T-90AM is based on the T-90MS. Unless BFC changes their mind there will not be anything added from post-2017.