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1/23 1999 Serbian ground tactics thread.
This will mainly cover the Serbian ground perspective and things such as concealment, units, training and AA tactics, I won’t discuss aerial battles which are worth a separate thread (note they never ended well for Serbia VRS VSK)
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1/17 Armored Vehicle employment in Internal Insurgency Operations. This thread will cover two separate instances (1993 Waco Texas, 2004 Beslan Russia) when tanks and armored combat vehicles were brought in to support forces involved.
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M4(105) “Raiders” in Iraq short thread
This unique Sherman was repainted by American troops in a similar scheme to one used by the US Army in World War 2 after being found in Iraq in 2003, it was used as a morale boosting gate guardian at FOB Raider in Tikrit Iraq in 2004.
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These models have been created thanks to the help of
@oryxspioenkop
’s research and images, best of luck to you both! 1/2 countries included 🇦🇲🇺🇦🇬🇷🇹🇷🇹🇼🇲🇩🇸🇾🇷🇺🇦🇿🇳🇱🇰🇵🇵🇱 Transnistria, Chechnya and IS.
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Somewhat unrelated but in a light side of this story Zoltan, actually ended up meeting Darrell Zelko the downed F-117 pilot and they became friends here you can see them discussing event of the shoot down.
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The Luhansk aviation museum, quite a cool one. It features a prototype SU-24, SU-27, a rare 2 seat YAK-38, and a TU-95. It makes me sad these rare and historical planes just sit outside though.
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This made a lot of pilots think they were actually destroying vehicles (and they were) when in fact these were just towed and abandoned in positions. This shows problems with conducting an air campaign with minimal ground support. For instance an A-10 wasted 3 LGBs on this car.
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If you would like me to cover more topics on Yugoslavia do let me know, I hope you enjoyed this one as it is one of my favorite wartime topics and one I always enjoy discussion about. Thank you for reading!
250th Air Defense Brigade 🇷🇸P-18M4 Radar
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Likely a Smerch reloader in my opinion. I would expect atleast a few rocket tubes to remain intact and distinguishable.
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VRS did manage to down 2 MQ-1 Predators during 1995 Allied force but beyond that most of the time NATO aircraft were mainly targeting either confirmed artillery positions or suspected positions that were often decoys.
Some Serbian decoys can be seen old vehicles were often used.
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Serbian ground forces also operated in a way that really proved to work against the large aerial bombardment… The key to the whole thing is to spread out and hide worthwhile assets including making decoys of such assets. Ground units would typically operate in
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Serbian Land forces were able to survive the 1999 bombardment virtually intact thanks to well trained camouflage discipline and showed a high level of competence when dealing with such issues (though army units often lacked means in most cases to engage fast attacking aircraft)
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Small groups of 5-10 vehicles that would operate independently and be frequently moved around and concealed (while this prevented Serbia from launching large long ops they could combine these units for shorter ones that did not risk coming under air attack)
Last image is 🇷🇸2S1
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One Serbian commander who deserves to be mentioned is Zoltan Dani who was the commander of the 250th air defense brigade [4 SA-3 launchers] (responsible for nearly all the successful downings)
He attributed his success to effective radar training and fast redeployment of assets.
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Serbian ground losses included the following.
200 civilians
1000 personnel killed
5000 wounded
14 tanks
18 IFVs and APCs
20 Artillery pieces
Decoys inflate these numbers massively in loss stats. It is easy to see why NATO thought they had destroyed much of the Serbian Army.
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Typically an SA-3 battery would take upwards of 2 hours (min) to deploy. Serbia modified many of theirs (often at the discretion of the bat commander) to be able to disassemble faster, Dani’s battery could be ready to move or deploy in 15-20 minutes, this is insanely impressive.
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@oryxspioenkop
Pretty much everyone is giving almost all they can to Ukraine. Atleast Oryx goes to the trouble to actually do research, I’m polish and I don’t care if we sent 300 bmp or 42, I’ll trust oryx as only 42 were documented. The number will go up if/when more are confirmed.
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F-117s, B-2s, F-15Es, EF-111 Jammers, AH-64s, F-14Bs, F-18Cs, the aircraft here capable of carrying bombs can and typically always carried precision weapons, this was an immediate problem, VRS had faced NATO aircraft before in 1995, and been able to survive relatively intact.
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Serbian Army forces played little role apart from simply trying to survive (SPAAG systems typically saw more use as ground support) which they did effectively for the most part. Often surprising KFOR troops on withdrawal by still having most of their of equipment..
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Operation Allied force was a partially successful (withdraw part) NATO aerial campaign seeking to force a Serb withdraw from Kosovo due to alleged human rights abuses. The operation was notable for using many of the most advanced systems at the time including to name a few
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Now let’s talk about Serbian Air Defense Forces.
SADF had a wide array of Radars at their disposal these included
P-18M4 (typically supporting SA-3 or 6)
Giraffe radars (modified for linkage to SA-7 as well as general surface support)
2S91 SURN (always used with SA-6)
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SNR-125 (always supporting SA-2/3)
PVR-16 (altitude radar typically providing general support when required by batteries)
AN/TPS-70 (modern but performed very poorly and were not used much NATO crews likely knew weaknesses of this system in particular)
P-40 (Used with SA-2)
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Serbian crews were very well trained in dealing with a SEAD environment they had seen lessons from Iraq in 1991 and Bosnia 1995 and trained crews to disassemble SAMs extremely fast, in the case of SA-6/9/13 this was not an issue but a massive one for the most numerous SA-2/3
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Serbia also had some unique AA-8/Praga conversion SAMs which likely contributed to the downing of a 4th Predator over Kosovo. (5 MQ-1s were lost over former Yugoslavia) these made use of the then grounded and hidden MIG-21/29’s AA missiles which would have no purpose otherwise.
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This becomes even more apparent when considering radars would often be set up, flicked on, forced to move and repeat the entire setup process again often even several times a day.
(Generic launcher setup picture, radar also had to be set up and everything concealed)
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Losses among AD units were fairly light among mobile ones, though heavy with immobile number of SA-2/3s, atleast one SNR-125 radar, and one AN/TPS-70 (the mobility issues we discussed previously being an obvious factor in SA-2/3 losses) these were lost due to AGM-88 HARM missiles
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If anyone has additional images of this BMP (particularly the rear section) I would greatly appreciate seeing them.
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Serbian crews would also never use the radars for a long time period and would only flick it on periodically (typically around 5-30 seconds moving immediately afterwards) or once they could hear an aircraft overhead/got a call from other troops of inbound jets.
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The most of effective of the radars listed were by far the paired support of P-18M4(used when available), and SNR-125 responsible for the destruction of an F-117, the damaging of another, 2 MQ-1 predators, an F-16 and allegedly even causing damage to a B-2 (we will never know)
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(🇷🇺Russian forces in Ukraine) Still a lot of work in progress here as I’m more focused on the Transnistrian army and Ukrainian aid, but I have added a few things since it was last seen. (I have to keep transport trucks separate as there are far too many)
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The tank was found along the highway near FOB Speicher with a damaged track after which it was repaired by 4th infantry division mechanics simply by welding a metal plate over the damaged area. Here is a picture at FOB Raider post repairs and repainting, on display.
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Unfortunately despite plans to bring the tank to America for display appear to have been abandoned and the tank was left (Im sad for the mechanics as they did a great job) it’s fate past 2006 is unknown but it was most likely stripped for parts or scrapped.
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@WarMonitors
Going to the border for photoshoot and afterwards it’s going to 🪃 back to Moscow for repairs to engine.
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🇧🇾 Army big thanks to
@oryxspioenkop
and
@AFVRec_
you can see many of the vehicles in the images in this excellent article below.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Object 14 tank destroyer, found abandoned in a Kharkov warehouse after a missile strike. Probably won’t be repaired, but it does have a very small chance due to some commonality with T-64.
I will definitely be looking for a way to make this one
Source
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Modeled Ukraine Aid currently includes the following nations 🇨🇦🇨🇿🇸🇮🇩🇪🇹🇷🇫🇮🇮🇹🇱🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇦🇺🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇵🇱🇩🇰
Note: this does not include every nation giving aid or model I have for this project just 1-2 per type, I plan to try and find one equip. type for each nation providing military aid.
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I haven’t had too much time to paint as of late, so enjoy these images of my painfully slow progress on the Ukrainian Army :)
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Raiders off base in 2006 (note the M8 Greyhound and old artillery piece)
If you enjoyed this mini story you may enjoy this thread about a M36B1 found in Iraq and how it ended up in Poland.
Thanks for reading.
Short thread on how an Iranian M36B1 ended up at a Polish war memorial. Picture 1 shows the pyrotechnic launcher in the barrel (likely it featured in an Iraqi propaganda film) this is shortly after the US donated it to Polands Army contingent in Iraq.
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Personal photos
Special thanks to Bojan Dimitrijevć & LT-Gen Jovica Draganič
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One of the most unknown YPR-765 operators is Serbia🇷🇸 with 1-2 reportedly in service with their gendarmerie, also Serbian Grizzly Apc, VBL, I will be modeling all of these vehicles. I might do the Saxon as well at some point but I don’t have any right now, all captured from UN.
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Tell me why I have to paint these for a war in 2022…
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🇲🇩 BTR-ZD, BMD-1, BTR-D W/73mm RR, 2S9. Massive thanks to
@oryxspioenkop
and
@BuschModelar
for their work documenting this equipment.
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Netherlands Lynx 277 Captured during an abortive rescue operation near Sirte Libya FEB 2011, the results being 3 captured Dutch Marine personnel and the loss of the only helicopter on the frigate Tromp (which was on anti piracy duties but rushed to assist the op in Libya) ⬇️
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A Ukrainian T-72AMT destroyed a track on a BMD-4 and then withdrew before return fire could be conducted. Russian Forces unable to dislodge Ukrainian MG teams in the south begin using UR-67 line charges to strike houses providing the MGs with cover.
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The vehicles brought in included
2 M1A2 Abrams tanks
9 M3 Bradley’s (25mm not fitted, MG fitted)
1 M88 Hercules
4 M728 CEV
2 National Guard UH-1s (one written off)
1 ATF UH-1
3 ATF UH-60s
Several surveillance aircraft were
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Additional photos found during my search (I particularly focused on finding Abrams images as they are very rare and never appear in most well known documentary’s helicopters also tended to avoid showing them in photo passes though I found some rare pictures of them)
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When viewing Gyrumi Airport you can see this derelict MiG-25 and it has a rather interesting story. This aircraft was defected to Armenia from Azerbaijan by a Russian mercenary in 1993 after deserting a combat mission, rather unfortunate this interesting aircraft rots away.
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🇨🇿AH-1Z, Pandur II KBVP (scratch build)
Thanks to
@praisethesteph
and
@BuschModelar
for sharing images helping to make these ones.
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The only two pictures I have ever seen of a TZM 9T234-2 (the reloader vehicle) in Kuwaiti Service
Last two are a Belarusian Smerch and TZM in Belarusian service (Very rare to see)
Source
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The total deaths from this incident are as follows
Four ATF officers were killed in initial raid 16 more officers wounded both in the initial raid and through out the siege.
82 Branch Davidians died (including children)
300 weapons and 2 million rounds of ammo were seized.
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These did not fire on the compound until the main assault occurred in which several hundred .50 caliber rounds were fired into the building to allow tear gas to be pumped in.
(Images showing FBI/ATF surveillance aircraft used)
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Some rather rare pictures of a few BTR-Ds in service with the Russian Army in Croatia, a unique Russian KFOR BTR-80, and a few Armenian KFOR HMMWVs. (HMMWV is not deployed by Armenia outside of Kosovo)
Credit to Vladimir Vyatkin for the image of the BTR-Ds.
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Of interest one of two US Army National Guard UH-1 Huey’s was written off during this siege as a result of a hard landing near the site. This was the only US vehicle lost during the incident.
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This siege resulted in the deaths of 321 civilians (many young children) and 13 members of Russian security forces.
31 of the 32 terrorists were killed
(either during the siege or afterwards by angry crowds of both FSB and outraged locals)
One was captured attempting to flee
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DISCLAIMER 1/2
This will not go into the backstory of these events as they are extremely well detailed in numerous criminal reports (in both cases, which present the facts far better than I can on this site) I recommend you check them out if you want more context.
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CEVs also employed demolition charges via their armored cranes which were able to smash through the walls of the flimsily built structure. Tear gas was deployed via CEV cranes, but few Branch Davidians emerged, a fire with an unknown cause proceeded to destroy the building.
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PT 1 Waco
1993 an ATF raid on a heavily armed cult insurgent group turned into a stand-off government forces were unable to get close to the target compound and asked permission from the government to bring in heavy protected vehicles to allow them to operate near the compound.
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Some rather interesting photos of a DPR operated T-72B (Diesel Battalion), this one is very unique as it was crewed entirely by females (also note the unique markings)
I will be making this one in the future. The commander of this vehicle (circled) defected in 2019.
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PT.2 Beslan School Siege
In 2004 Chechen insurgents proceeded to attack a Russian school taking nearly 1000 hostages in the North Ossetian town. These terrorists were heavily armed with machine guns and assault rifles. Russian Government forces laid siege to the school.
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Unlike Waco Russian tanks were used to directly support the main assault with main gun fire with 7 125mm HE rounds being fired at the school from tank 325. These were used to punch holes in the walls to allow Alpha Group to enter the school and avoid trapped doors.
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Russian forces brought in the following heavy equipment
2 T-72B Tanks
1 T-72B OBR.1989 Tank
5-7 BTR-80’s
1 BRDM-2
1-2 MI-24s (alleged, I found no proof myself apart from claims of rocket fire, likely from RPO)
Several dozen RPO-Shmel thermobaric flame projectors.
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They demanded Russia withdraw from Chechenya (context 2nd Chechen war) in return for the hostages release. This was obviously untenable in the week timeframe the terrorists gave. As a result the Russian military began to bring in heavy equipment and weapons to end the siege.
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I often do not get the opportunity to show just how small these models are, today I had a chance. V-100 model compared to real vehicle. :)
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DISCLAIMER 2/2
This thread is meant to educate and show rare images of vehicles in these operations, I will not at all go into anything political/social regarding these instances.
If you want to cover that make your own thread
(this is about vehicles used in these operations)
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Here is my complete Wagner Group (likely winding this one down, maybe a few more additions) thanks to
@BuschModelar
@AFVRec_
@ArchieIrving2
@Banzinou_
@Weapons_Illust
@redsea_def
@JonHawkes275
@jpokeefe
for their help in making this group possible.
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1/2 Macedonian army images from some of my research.
T-72AK (only 1 AK version was received from Ukraine by Macedonia), BMP-2, M998, BTR-70, BTR-80.
I will be making these (except the 170😔) periodically.
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🇷🇺IFVs, IMVs and Apcs, (also some additional variants of these vehicles)
Still some painting to do on a few of these ones, primarily weathering and windows.
Thanks to everyone who has shared images of these vehicles.
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Sudanese RSF BTR-70MB1’s on route to Midi Yemen 2015.
These vehicles (according to the source) were part of a larger group that reportedly took heavy losses due to a Houthi attack on the RSF column.
The source is a closed Russian site.
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M-87 Orkan in Iraqi service
Source: (excellent source for Iraqi vehicles including many rarities) (
@BuschModelar
and
@aaronjc81
you may want to check this one out if you haven’t before)
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1/3 Thread for some new 🇮🇷Iranian Models
Thanks to
@IranDefense
for sharing images of some of these vehicles in service.
Toofan Mrap, Karrar MBT, M-47M (with upgraded side armor)
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1/3 New model thread 🇷🇸1S91, 🇺🇸M88A2, 🇯🇵Hawkei, 🇺🇸M60 AVBL with two M58 Line charge launchers
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1/2 🇷🇸Thread for eight new Serbian models some will be Yugoslav wars related, some more modern.
T-55A, 2S1, T-34/85, M53/59.
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1/4 New model Thread
🇸🇩Shareef-3, 🇸🇩BTR-80, 🇲🇲 Shaanxi SX2190 (based off a recently captured example) , Thanks to
@elmustek
and
@BuschModelar
for sharing real images of these vehicles, and be sure to check out their project
@ArmadaRotta
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Images of the T-72BMS “White Eagle” in Nicaraguan service, not the most crazy camouflage but I don’t think very many people have seen or know about these tanks other than armor researchers.
@AFVRec_
@BuschModelar
you may find these images interesting.
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17/17 Sources
Getty Images
Personal archive
I also used some closed Russian sources for Beslan T-72 images which are hard to find.
Please note many of these sources show very graphic content.
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Syria Campaign
Hezbollah SA-6/KS-19 SPG, 🇷🇺T-90A, 🇷🇺BPM-97, 🇷🇺Typhoon-K
Thanks to
@BuschModelar
for real pictures of a number of these vehicles.
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RT-2PM Topol (also OTR-23 in the background)
Personally I liked them a lot better when they had actual paint schemes, not just green.
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🇺🇦🇩🇪Skynex anti aircraft system. Thanks to
@deaidua
for images of this vehicle.
(Will be making a few more of these with a lower turret base)
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🇺🇸 Syria campaign models
🇺🇸Cougar 4X4 with TOW missile, M-ATV with minerollers, M2A3.
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Thread for 7 new 🇰🇵 models
Sinhung APC, BRDM-1, Songun-915 w/ add on rubber skirts and roof cage. Chonma-216
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Also has an MI-6 which looks to be in excellent condition.
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🇺🇦🇩🇪Leopard 2A6 with cage armor on the turret thanks to
@deaidua
for sharing a video of this one with me.
Video can be found here
@AbraxasSpa
@DI_Ukraine
@Militarylandnet
A Leopard 2A6 donated by Germany to Ukraine with additional grille protection in the turret area. So far, Germany has delivered a total of 18 Leopard 2A6s to Ukraine.
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Will have a lot of new models up tomorrow, but here’s a 🇦🇺Hawkei today.
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1/2 🇺🇸 Syria Campaign model thread
AGMS is a custom build (3 more were added two with TOW)
This group is complete for now.
M9 ACE and HMMWV are also new.
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@oryxspioenkop
Pure bravery on his part, it is unfortunate someone died. Hopefully all the wounded recover quickly.
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🇧🇾T-72BM2, 🇸🇾T-72 Mahmia, 🇷🇺Object 195 (T-14 included for comparison)
Thanks to
@AFVRec_
for images of the T-72BM2.
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🇷🇺Wagner Rebellion BMP-1P, BMP-3 and unrelated scratch build Chekan (prototype) I am fairly happy with it considering I had nothing even close before.
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