BTR

Smoke screens. BMP mounted smokes were designed for offensive use giving you 50-80m of breathing space with 3D6M/3D17 smoke grenades protecting form thermal and visual detection.

Yeah, of course, if you say so.

Novaya Gazeta = Dojd TV. That's all there is to say about this .

40mm 3P is a little too sophisticated really. I think our 30mm doesn't have different programs, just airburst.

They've done so for tanks, and it seems like they've done so for BTR-82A. I hope that humble pie is tasty .

Not sure about other platforms, but TKN-4GA-03 sight installed on BTR-82 does have programmable distance input. Link.

Good to go. Just enough green toning and slight aging IMO.

That actually happened some years ago. The crew compartment weren't pressurized (or closed for that matter) and all crew were poisoned by CO2 which was not properly venting. No serious injuries though. That happened a few times at our battalion exercises as well. Not as severe as on the picture here though.

Pre-staging marines as part of a training group in Ukraine isn't something far fetched and would probably be done given the developments in CMBS. How can it be done? Land marines in Greece, and ship them over by train to Odessa via Bulgaria and Romania. This means no mass landings and no massive presence of US fleet in the black sea. That gets us a solid US force in Odessa securing a potential naval supply route and putting pressure on Crimea via a land attack route.

They don't have to be dropped Right on top ala WW2 to be effective and disruptive. Smacking them into southern Belarus on short notice to put pressure on Kiev could be something achievable given they leave Belorussian soil immediately after.

Looking slightly better. I did make it darker at one point, but it didn't differentiate enough from the RU vehicles like that though.

VDV roles in a conventional conflicts against a technically advanced force are pretty clear. Rear insertions and subsequent disruptive operations.

Bulats were already made by Keime, so I see no reason to touch the three color pattern. However at least a part of them was green at some point.

Thing is, they have three types of solid green. Older muffled soviet green, newer green that looks exactly like Russian green, and a slightly more vivid one found on T-64B1M's. I'll keep the muffled "salad" green for older equipment mixing in with "Russian" green, and I'll use the vivid one for Bulat's and newer domestic products. I think it makes sense, at least in my mind. PS: that salad green isn't final by any stretch of imagination, just showing what testing can be all about.

Hello there salad tank :

Counting what we know made out (same video posted by Steve): http://dragon-first-1.livejournal.com/22839.html

I've yet to see that cammo in battles, so far it's been that muffled green.

This looks to be standard for T-64BV's: Which is a variation of soviet green. Looks to be on those BTR-3E's as well.

I'm sorry, but nein.

Trying to identify Ukr camo pattern that would be most prevalent in 2017. I think it looks like this: Given its a variation of northern woods pattern adopted by soviet union:

126-th Coastal defense brigade has T-72B's. These babies replaced T-64BV's after the unit transferred over under Russian command:

Crimean marines are using T-72B's at the moment. OSA's are above the level of command we see in CM just the same way BUK's are, and Nona-SVK's available to MSV anyways I believe. Shilka's might the only piece that is proper marine at this point. Infantry equipment wise, it's nothing unique:

To be honest, RU marines won't add a yota of new equipment, you can already play them with BTR troops. VDV is a different thing.

Again, nothing conventional EMT attached to any KMT series minesweeper can't achieve. Example here (KMT-7 + EMT): I think the MOD didn't want to replace standard issue operational equipment with whatever toys thrown at it. B2 was a good testbed, but the juice of it was given to B3 with no additional cost. Relikt is operational, nakidka is operational, but up to this year, no strategic challenge required their use.

Relikt isn't much of an upgrade factor, since it can be pretty much bolted onto anything with K-5. For example, this Algerian T-72M1: