Currently raceing is >azerbaijan/blue >serbia/green >belarus/red >china/yellow
"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 >Sudan doing a reverse iran and not closeing the air intake covers and completely flooding a T72 >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)
I really do wonder, what most of the African Nations think when they compete. like holy fucking shit
Connor Smith
Every year, russia is accused of cheating by the chinks. What are the chinks claiming this year?
Nathaniel Foster
when is the next race?
Luis Fisher
I really do not like it, how they stop and restart the stream after each competition, preview/postreview that shits annoying
Angel Bailey
should be soon but like said they start and stop the stream each race which is infuriating. That channel is the official streamer of it to. The russian MoD had an uninterrupted stream yesterday but they seem to be having issues doing it today.
Myanmar doing a good job for 2nd division. Laos on the other hand got overtaken by god damn Uganda and hit 0 targets
Cant say when the next race is but maybe be the usual 30-40 minute wait. Ill post the link when it turns up. should be the second race of the 1st division which is >kyrgyzstan/blue >iran /green >russia/red >armenia/ yellow
Is there streams in other languages than russian ?
Ethan Wood
ive looked alot and cant find any unfortunately. Its hard enough to find it streamed in russian honestly. I thought of re streaming myself but my internet sucks
Ryder Moore
lmao at that guy, you can see he's had it. probably has a side bet going on with some other dude.
Jacob Smith
they are most likely having a two hour break and will be back 4-5 moscow time for the next to events. Ill post the links when they start.
Next 2 races will be 1st div Kyrgyzstan /blue iran /green russia/red armenia/ yellow
Oh shit, it's over Shame the other stream glitched out at the end
Caleb Lewis
cheers they were having trouble earlier and forgot to check up on them
Isaiah Lee
3rd Race finished >1st Russia 4/5 hits 19:12 >2nd Kyrgyzstan 3/5 hits 25:29 >3rd Armenia 0/5 hits 27:48 >4th 3/5 hits 28:37 Today we learnt when facing an armenian tank the safest thing you can do is stand perfectly still. Thoughts and prayers to the russian crew who missed a shot and hit a post, i hope the gulags arent to hard on you. Iran did better than last time even if they lost to a team how took literally every penalty they could.
Next race should be in 30 minutes or so and will be the 2nd race of Div 2 >kuwait/blue >tajikistan/green Recommend you jump over to the russian MoD stream for a more stable broadcast and no downtime between races youtube.com/watch?v=mPyqsGp_bXE
The finale race of yesterday treated us to 4 destroyed tanks between 2 teams so hopes are high for this one.
I would love to see an average joe team of random civilian tank enthusiasts. People who have never actually operated one but are knowledgeable on their operations. See how they stack up against some of the other nations. I'm sure it would be a wake up call for some.
Isaac Russell
What ranges are they shooting at? Because on one hand it seems to me that nailing a stationary, tank-sized target within a km or three shouldn't be all too hard, on the other hand some crews here apparently have a hard time driving straight ahead on flat ground...
Leo Cox
A very common misconception. It's not a secret that the average shooting range enthusiast shoots better than the average soldier. But shooting is only a small part of fire training.
The same goes for tanks.
Samuel Perez
1600 - 1800 metres
Ryder Gutierrez
for tank targets as said the helicopter target is at 800-1000 same for the infantry target
Camden Taylor
It's mostly the 2nd division teams that can't hit shit. If you look at the results from the 1st division scores ranging from 3/5 to 5/5 are way more common. Third world armies presumably don't even get that much training with their own tanks, much less with the T-72.
