AFV Recognition
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Recognition and Identification of AFV’s, mainly focused on 🇷🇺 armour
Joined February 2022
Russian T-72 variant with an improvised armoured superstructure, it appears it doesn’t have a turret due to the angling of the superstructure and the lack of any main armament protruding out of the superstructure, it also doesn’t appear to be a BREM (armoured recovery vehicle) or
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1/2 Russia installed the first 'Pantsir' Flaktürm on the premises of the infamous 'Patriot' military park near Moscow, thus making it the first-ever Russian SHORAD to effectively protect the Ukrainian military equipment which is on display there.
@Dmojavensis @kromark 36/y territoriya Park Patriot, Odintsovskiy Urban District (just in the south of the war cathedral, in the middle of the "Patriot Park") 55.568055, 36.817758 CS: 2025-05-25 TF: 2025-06-16 (I'm still not 100% sure, but it would be logic and in the line of the last towers⬆️)
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Warrior FV511 of Zulu Coy, 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1 RRF), 7th Armoured Brigade ‘Desert Rats’ destroying a mural of Saddam Hussein in Basra during Operation Telic 1. The Warrior FV511 is the command variant of the Warrior family, recognised by the double
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A rare specimen T-80U spotted on a transporter, posted in January, 2025.
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Ukrainian T-80BV out on mission in Toretsk, Donetsk region, Uploaded in August, 2025.(But it's most likely from earlier in the year or last year).
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Challenger 2 OES thread 1/ The OES Challenger 2, known in military parlance as the Operational Entry Standard (OES) – often synonymous with Theatre Entry Standard (TES) – represents an advanced tier of armoured capability, a step above the baseline vanilla model.
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2S19 Msta-S hull being fitted with T-72B turret. Conversion done by the 57th Separated Motorized Infantry Brigade, Kharkiv, Ukraine, August, 2025.
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T-72AV's of the 346th training tank regiment of 212th district training center in Peschanka, Early 1990's. (Very rare to find pictures of T-72AV's in Soviet Service).
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T-54-1/Obr. 1946 turret used for coastal defense on Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, 2010s.
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Ukrainian T-80BV getting a new barrel after the initial one suffered damage on a combat mission. Repair work is done by 50th Repair and Restoration Regiment, July, 2025.
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Russians dicking around on their T-72B's at the 1311th Central Tank Storage Base, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Central Military District, Russia. 2009.
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Ukrainian next to a Very Rare T-80UD with Kontakt-1 at the 184th Training Center in Starychi, Lviv Oblast, 2016.
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Russian soldier posing infront of a Rare T-80UD with Kontakt-1, 2010. At the 1311th Central Tank Storage Base in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Central Military District, Russia.
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Thread of Russian AFV's being Transported - 2024/25 Having gathered a varied amount of footage I thought it'd best to display in a concise manner. I'll simplify equipment type due to the exact model being difficult to ascertain. T-72B3M
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