Teams Racing today >Kazakhstan Syria Mongolia Venezuela (already gone) >uzbekistan zimbabwe >Sudan Cuba Angola Vietnam
"wtf is this" >legit tank race held in russia annually with assorted countries turning up to compete. All use t72b except indian uses their t-90 Bhishma and china use their type-96b
rules? >Its a time race with a staggered start >Start with a Slalom >Then 3 main gun rounds at a tank target at 1600, 1700 and 1800 meters >Lap of the track >Pintle mounted hmg to shoot a helicopter target at 800-1000 meters >Lap of the track >Use coaxial machine gun to hit a man sized target at 600-800 meters. >finale lap and finish
>Crews must fully dismount before shooting and then load the ammo into the tank >Missing targets adds extra length to the lap after shooting. >Some sections of the course have black and white posts that if hit, have a stop for 10 seconds penalty >All hatchs must be closed for fireing excluding HMG of course (pleb crews seem to forget this alot) >Crews do get a reserve tank in case of complete mechanical failure
Highlights so far >Several african nations running the tanks in high gear and getting stuck or destroying the engine >zimbabwe cheer squad complete with drums and head dresses singing for an hour straight >Myanmar crashing into a ditch >Iran burning their tank down after forgetting to reopen the air intake after a water crossing >zimbabwe stopping an having an ambulance attend them (ruski chat guessed a hand got pinched by an auto loader but nothing serious) >zimbabwe some how opening the bottom hatch below the driver while traveling at 40 kmph >cuba going one better than both and flooding their tank and then on the next lap with thier reserve tank they flooded that one as well >And even better Sudan did the same thing in the same race all while dragging it out to 58 minutes (average time is 20min, Russian and Chinese normally hit 17mins) >tajikistan trying to go full nuclear for the whole world to see by loading their ammo wrong.
zimbabwe broke their tank on the starting line before moving then broke into song so my hopes are so high to see cuba and sudan drown 4 tanks between them again next race
If only we could combine it with SETC one day. Now that'd be a sport show.
Brayden Barnes
The US got an invite in 2013 and was thinking about it but then crimea happened. Russian MoD always shitposts @ nato members on twitter to compete but i doubt anyone wants to deal with the politics of going
Yeah its not teribly likely anytime soon. But it would be very nice.
Nathan Miller
they competed most years and even bought their own tanks but didnt come this year. Maybe cause of all the border memes with china the past year they didnt want to go?
Race finished >1st Uzbekistan 2/5 hits 27:45 >"2nd" Zimbabwe 0/5 hits DNF at 52:30 and 2 dead tanks
So that was a tank dead on the start, an ammo loading problem, cruising in first gear the whole course and then drowning their reserve tank at the 52 minute mark. Amazing
Next div 2 race is scheduled in 3 hours but there is no second race for 1st div to run in between so hopefully the just run it sooner
3rd and finale race of the heats and of the day is >Sudan/blue >Cuba/green >Angola/red >Vietnam/yellow Cuba and Sudan were next level retardation last time they went so im defiantly sticking around
2nd race 2nd div >1st Cuba 1/5 33:39 >2nd Vietnam 3/5 37:46 autoloader malfunctions >3rd Angola 1/5 hits 39:14 >4th Sudan 1/5 hits 1:02:32 (NEW RECORD)
based 2nd div rewards those who wait. Id comment on the rest of the race but im blank after sudan just tried to "youre pretty cool dont go the the spectator stand tomorrow"
Thats the last of the heats Semi finales will be in 2 days and will only be div 1 followed the next day by div2 semis
OP here i dont know what this round is theres nothing on the schedule about one on now and not ever these teams racing in the past. Perhaps a show match or a tie breaker?
