Models were shown to Rogozin the new armaments Czar during his trip to various defense plants in the Perm region. He also got a look at the new PD-14 engine plant and RD-191 engine assembly (and a test firing) for the Angara.





Merkava style shaping in the turret and what looks like a mighty big automatic grenade launcher The turret is unmanned so the weird shaping is acceptable.

Like I said in the other thread.. Russians are looking more and more Western as time goes by.. nice to see them coming around...

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The "it needs more guns" thing though is uniquely Russian. Nobody outside the Soviet block is sticking auto grenade launchers on their tanks like this. The Czezhs or the Slovaks were the first to stick extra little cannons on their T-72's. There is 1 variant from that part of the world with 30mm AA guns hanging on the sides of the main gun if I'm remembering right. Overkill like that is a uniquely Eastern European thing.

Make that 20mm cannons for when you need to make extra sure something is dead

umm, ok? Anyway, it's nice to see them adopting the LAV design too...

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The "it needs more guns" thing though is uniquely Russian. Nobody outside the Soviet block is sticking auto grenade launchers on their tanks like this. The Czezhs or the Slovaks were the first to stick extra little cannons on their T-72's. There is 1 variant from that part of the world with 30mm AA guns hanging on the sides of the main gun if I'm remembering right. Overkill like that is a uniquely Eastern European thing. "

actually not only russians, Merkava tanks had mortars inside

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Looks like Otokar 8X8

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Griks In Despair

most Wheeled IFVs look kind of the same
well for Western IFVs at least



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I see Russian are still gonna be using Nona in the future, proved itself well in Chechnya

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"Make that 20mm cannons for when you need to make extra sure something is dead."

It makes some sense adding 20mm cannons to tanks, primarily for dealing with helicopters.

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Vini, Vidi, Vinci

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"Las Malvinas fueron, son y serán Argentinas"

It's Veni not Vini

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its veni vidi vici...



by the son of zeus,zyzz himself. Was one shredded sexi kunt.



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