>Welcome
Tanks, IFVs, tracked SPGs/SPAAGs etc
>Not welcome
Wheely bois
Will start of the thread by posting some pictures from Deutches Panzermuzeum I visited a few weeks back
Thread dedicated to tracked combat vehicles
Jacob Morris
Brody Fisher
2/?
Carter Thompson
Dylan Powell
3/?
Better picture of an East German T-55AM2B, behind it is a regular T-55A
Dominic Gray
>tfw even the WW2 Panther was better armored then a Leo 1
Logan Turner
Likely going to fail A-levels, might consider becoming a challenger 2 gunner. Any brit bongs in the armed forces that have any challenger 2 experience?
Ayden Foster
no
Isaiah Garcia
Inside of a Marder 1A3
Camden Roberts
Wyatt Collins
Just a heads up: Armatard is active at the moment, also has been active in the past days.
Ayden Bell
Michael Diaz
Perhaps not. I was inside a Leo 1 not long ago tho and it seemed rather poorly armored (yes, I know this was by design)
Jayden Price
For the level of threats it wasn't worse armored.
Matthew Wood
is he? what has he been posting this time?
Cameron Reyes
Thanks for the heads up, Ill keep an eye out for him.
Here is a Wiesel.
Nathaniel Reyes
Lincoln Bailey
Cameron Collins
Daniel Garcia
Here is a 113 with rubber tracks, apparently they offer a bunch of advantages for APC/IFV type vehicles.
Here is some information on them
soucy-defense.com
Leo Miller
Broken record of 'why are you seething?' and 'you are coping'. He is in the russian carrier thread at the moment.
Cooper Fisher
Matthew Moore
Joseph Allen
Thats pretty rad. Is it 30x113?
Wyatt Fisher
Gabriel Phillips
Justin Wood
Levi Baker
Matthew Bell
Here is a pretty rare variant. M113 painted in M90 splinter camo used as a testbed for an armored Rbs 56 vehicle
Post more rare M113
>Inb4 Sparks shows up
Jayden Ramirez
Are you allowed to touch/go inside some of the pieces in that museum? I'm considering going but it's a long drive.
Zachary Myers
Its this gun:
en.wikipedia.org
>Though recoilless, the RMK 30 has a higher muzzle energy than conventional 30 mm autocannons.
That is pretty neat.
Christopher Walker
Colton Edwards
I drove around 1200 km for it. The only fully open vehicle you could enter was a Leopard 1, but there are plenty of vehicles with their doors open that you can see the inside of. Overall it was a great museum tho, it had pretty much everything you could wish for.
I also highly recomend the "Wehrtechniche muzeum" (probably misspelled that massivly) in Koblenz.
Oliver Cooper
Kayden Adams
Thats really cool
Justin Young
Mason James
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James Parker
Blake Scott
Here is a pretty cool vehicle. A T-64 converted int an IFV by Ukrainian firm Kharkov BTRZ.
Very well armored and relativly cheap to produce due to the large number of left over T-64s in Ukraine. It also simplifies logistics by having a common Tank/IFV chassies.
William Baker
>fully enter Leopard 1
NUT
Ok I'm going.
Nathaniel Rogers
Daniel Reed
Xavier Price
I have plenty of pictures from the inside, but most of them include my hawt chink friend, and I dont want to accidentally doxx us.
Cramping three people inside was pretty difficult tho, but we managed it.
Owen White
Don’t forget the assorted creative variations on “amerishart”.
Leo Lee
Any clue why nobody else has deployed a similar vehicle to the AAV-7?
It seems to be a good concept and well liked by US Marines
Gabriel Sanders
The tank(s) you can enter also change once in a while. You can check which tanks are open on the official website.
William White
personal favorite
Ryan Martinez
Leonardo upgrade to the m60 by Italy
Nolan Richardson
>Any clue why nobody else has deployed a similar vehicle to the AAV-7?
The Koreans are building one, and the Turks have one, but most countries that have sizable marine forces just use the American AAV.
Owen Adams
something about it woos me
Lucas Edwards
That actually makes a lot of sense.
Liam Martinez
Jayden Allen
IDF has cool armor at the least
Kevin Gray
I like the look of that thing.
Leo Parker
Gives me a futuristic dystopian vibe, probably because its made by the Israelis.
Gavin Howard
M60 upgrades are always great.
Austin Carter
That's an odd looking firearms the guy is holding. Anyone here that can identify it?
William Miller
I cant really tell what that one is, but most crews are armed with m4 carbines in case their vehicle is disabled
Jeremiah Howard
I also guessed M4 Carbine first but that muzzle looks out of place. Maybe it's just me
Jose Flores
Big iron in tank form.
I'd love to have one of those, looks like it'd be a lot of fun just cruising around in.
Aaron Flores
They have their pro's and con's. We got them on the Cv's these days as well.
Matthew Ortiz
>M113 painted in M90 splinter camo
damn, thats some quality camo, cant even see the pic of it
Oliver Lee
Must have forgotten to include it, here it is.
Christopher Morgan
Yeah, there is loads of debate on them in Sweden these days after you guys (Im assuming you are norwegian) got them. Whats the main drawbacks?
Gabriel White
It is just 'up to' 25% less fuel, but still that is kinda a lot when you think of if.
Wyatt Evans
Yeah. I think that the reduced vibrations, noice and weight are more important to point out then the fuel savings. Its also safer to drive over mines with it they say.
Noah Russell
Strictly hypothetically speaking. How much pain and suffering can a battlegroup of 44 Leopard 2A7+'s, 12 Leopard 2A4's, 24 PzH2000's and 200 Pumas with panzergrenadieren armed with Cz Bren 2s cause? Especially if they are supported by 16 Airbus H225M and 20 H145 helicopters. Just out of curiosity.
Ian Roberts
well the biggest drawbacks are the extra work required when fixing a de-tracking. On a old steel track you can just split it and drive it back on (more or less). On the rubber track you often need to lift up the vehicle using an ARV or similar. It also has shit grip on ice/packed snow. While normal tracks use "snowshoes" to deal with that, the rubber tracks need chains or similar. These break all the time and dont give nearly as much grip as the old snowshoes.
There has also been some issues with durability of the track when you cross 30+ tons, but Saucy is getting better at making the rubber deal with the load and heat. Not sure if we will ever get to MTB-levels of weight though.
Now, on the plus-side you get better range, muuuuch less vibrations(30 mm ammo vibrating so hard that shell and casing separated a few times), less maintenance on the day-to-day basis, a bit better psi and mobility, less noise signature (but still some, we dont fuck up hard-top roads as much as before, and less damage to road-wheels and sprockets.
About the noise, when we first got rubber tracks on the CV90 Mk1's as a test, the drivers kept talking about "all the strange noises and sounds" that they kept hearing and they wondered if things were broken. Turned out that it was just the normal engine sounds (turbo, transmission and so on) that they were hearing for the first time, as the rattle and banging of the old metal tracks had covered them up.
Nolan Bennett
>Whats the main drawbacks
As of now, they're only really suitable for vehicles of 40 tons or less, though this is being worked on. The US future tank program from the mid 90s was going to use them.
I've noticed you like asking this often- probably one of the best equipment set-ups in Eastern Europe.
Landon Young
Leo Kelly
So now mods are deleting posts that warn others of Armatards presence and activity, that is a whole new low for the already very low moderation quality.
Samuel Ward
Suck it nerds
Robert Kelly
And at the very same time Armatard is shitting up threads unharmed.
Jackson Foster
T-50 light tank, so cute!
Lucas Jones
This dude used to be a Challenger 2 mechanic. Immigrated to Canada and now works on Leopard 2s. Does pretty cool videos about Jow Forums related shit.
Cooper Carter
Looks like a babby T-34.
Daniel Young
Love me some Finnish armor. Simple as
Evan Harris
Erm... Yes it was.
>Panther
Well protected from the front from the most common allied and russian tank guns of its time (75mm M3 and 76mm F-34) and the hull offered good protection vs later weapons (76mm M1, 17pdr, 85mm etc)
>Leopard 1
No effective protection vs common tank and anti tank weapons of its time (100mm, 115mm AP(FS)DS, HEAT shells + ATGMs). Designed to be protected Vs older weapons such as 85mm. 1A3 was designed to be protected Vs 100mm AP from 1000m
Carter Watson
Eli Harris
Christian Murphy
Michael Nelson
Noice, thanks for the info
Dominic Parker
Samuel Williams
Jose Wilson
>asking this often
It's worth discussing, no? Hungary has been gearing up like crazy while almost everyone else in Europe is downsizing their militaries.
Brandon Campbell
someone post centurions... please....
Jayden Taylor
>Hungary has been gearing up like crazy while almost everyone else in Europe is downsizing their militaries.
In Western Europe yes, but Former WARPAC nations have been bloatmaxxing their armed forces as of late.
Jaxson Rodriguez
Caleb Gray
Ethan Carter
but they are bipedal not tracked... please.. the british centurion...
Bentley Jackson
Benjamin Sanders
PLease I just wanna see the tank my grandfather rode in...
Hunter Flores
Grandfather. That's different, very well. From mud, through blood, to the green fields beyond.
Noah Cooper
thank you! I love it so much.
Elijah Russell
REEEEEEEEE
Blake Harris
Nicholas Lewis
Sexiest tank ETA: now
Kevin Lopez
Wrong
Michael Anderson
>76mm gun with hvap was both accurate and deadly
>HVSS increased flotation and mobility
>scavenged armor made its hull able to withstand hits from long 75mm AT guns
>battle hardened and experienced crew inside
the sherman thunderbolt variant is one of the most under appreciated vehicles
Jeremiah Nguyen
>variant
It's a one-off vehicle
Blake James
they made about 70 of them, and they standarised the kit despite its ad hoc nature