Most guides and quizzes I've made on IG have assumed a basic level of knowledge about Russian military vehicles - but for beginners here's some vehicle ID at a basic level with a quick description of ID points and capabilities. Also up on the website for digital download.

30 January 2024 Russian-occupied #Luhansk Oblast, #Ukraine Cat with a T-80U belonging to Russia's 4th Guards Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army, Western Military District.

They are alive!

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.

Трофейный Т-80У ВСУ с установкой дополнительной ДЗ «Контакт» на бортах и корме башни.

KamAZ-BMD-2

https://t.co/iV42Mx1oNw

Russian T-64’s of various models (A,B,BV) that have been pulled from storage, the 2000 T-64’s in Russian stock in 2014 were supposed to have been scrapped, I don’t believe that ever happened due to the amount of T-64’s I’ve seen come from Russia, or if it did it was a very slow

Video of a relatively rare tank duel between a Ukrainian T-64 tank and what looks like a Russian T-72B3 with a roof screen near Stepove. The Russian tank deploys a smoke screen as it retreats, and survives an FPV strike that apparently jammed its turret. https://t.co/ZfiDKAM7Ln

Captured T-62M in service within Ukrainian Territorial Defence, Fall 2023.

1/ The effects of rodents on AFV’s Rodents have long been a problem for infantry in the trenches, but a lesser known fact is the issue of rodents when they embed themselves in armoured fighting vehicles.

A video of a tank getting hit by an ATGM and surviving will always get far fewer views and retweets than when a tank is destroyed in a huge fire ball. This gives people a false understanding of the vulnerability of tanks, and often leads to poor analysis. Just a regular reminder.

Posting this to break up the news feed of the Super T-62M. Via @armenianarmymemes on Instagram

@naalsio26 8. “But Russians are saying it’s fake!” LostArmor and a lot of the large telegram groups claimed it was fake because of a strange line in the trees near the tank’s turret base. However, the problem with this is that this line is not present in the original photo @naalsio26 found

@naalsio26 7. The point that the sights are blocked by the modifications, and this is what is important to remember - just because it’s stupid doesn’t make it fake. I didn’t see anybody crying fake on this ridiculous mod of a BTR-82A where the main gun is blocked.

@naalsio26 6. People who claim “photoshop” don’t understand photoshop. You need a picture to work with - i.e the muzzle sensor. It is not the T-90M’s one mirrored, it has no bolts on the side and the hole is different. So where did this picture come from in order to “photoshop” it on?

5. The video @naalsio26 is referring to begins by saying that the untrained eye that does not know about tanks will think this is real. However, I am neither untrained in photoshop or tanks (a few months ago my fake Cr.2 made it onto a Russian news website and most TG groups)

4. The asymmetric placement of the ERA - this is exactly what you would expect ERA fitted to a cast turret to look like as opposed to the welded turret. Just look at the 1992 T-90 model as an example.

3. The headlights belonging to a T-90M - replacing headlights with that of a different model is nothing unusual, here a T-80U hull has T-80BV headlights.

2. The point on the headlights, this is not the only example of a single headlight tank being fitted with a second headlight beneath the driver’s view ports. Below is a T-55 example of the same thing

1. I’m going to add to what @naalsio26 has said on this topic and why I also think this is not a fake. I’ll eat whatever is left of his hat if it it’s wrong. Firstly, the “transparent” sight is the shadow from the ridge on the housing design