africaken:
where is the glorified TOW crew of latakia !

patches689:


Lol, now even Swaziland can afford one!

denisfidha:

Was thinking in that direction, but still think its weird, since all the planes were lined up out of that hanger on the right, you can count all of them, and then when you look at the end of the runway, there seems to be another hanger (or something) that has been white-outed too, why not hide the one housing all the f-5s, tucanos..... Weird

61mech:


Only US Gov can really force Google to white-out a sat image. (Google's market cap is 475 billion while Kenya's gdp is 55 billion.) Even Putin can't force them to block images.
So, most likely the US have planes operating there.

africaken:
Eotech holographic reticle lines up nearly perfectly with the front iron sight.

Henry240:
NNS Aradu at the IFR in Britain


NNS Aradu pennant = F89

patches689:


All ready knocked one out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JClrxrMqdbM

This is old news.

61mech:


Only US Gov can really force Google to white-out a sat image. (Google's market cap is 475 billion while Kenya's gdp is 55 billion.) Even Putin can't force them to block images.
So, most likely the US have planes operating there.

patches689:


Shorta has been abandoned in more recent T-90 builds - its practically useless.

Russia has accepted that the T90 is obsolete after it got thrashed in the Thai MBT trials by both the Chinese and Ukranian offerings.

Hence plans to upgrade all of them to T90AM/SM(export designation) and in doing so sacrifice funding for the new T-14

And yes, it is literally nothing more than a T-72. Hell, you could even argue that Tanzanian Type 59G's are better

If you are a poor country, and you arent buying the VT-4, you need to drag your generals outside and have them shot.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKge4ipJzC8

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syPXnOkjfsk

61mech:


Only US Gov can really force Google to white-out a sat image. (Google's market cap is 475 billion while Kenya's gdp is 55 billion.) Even Putin can't force them to block images.
So, most likely the US have planes operating there.

lionel4power:
i wanted to reply im with exactly your words but i decided against it.
.
if he doesnt know this then whats the point.

The EoTech + Iron sight gives you more accurate firing solutions.

patches689:


All ready knocked one out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JClrxrMqdbM

This is old news.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEdfCw0nsoM

africaken:
i could also say that's a T-72,who could say its not !

patches689:


It does not.

It obscures your sight picture.

Just because I did not reply does not mean I agree.

patches689:


- heavily sloped turret shape
- you can see the RCWS module.

aka: The only two ways you can tell a T90 apart from a T72

africaken:
[s]what is useless our resident expert,is that the reason india has opted to buy more T-90.tell us who has bought china made VT-4 tank ?[/s]

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKge4ipJzC8

patches689:


Dude, do you seriously want to get into this?

T72B3 is about as good as a T90 (any variant) and costs a fraction of the price - evidenced by the fact that the Russians are still churning out about 200 per year while they have ceased major production of the T90.

The most recent trials comparing "the best of the east" was the 2011 Thai Tank Trials.

T-84 Oplot thrashed the T90, as did the Chinese offering the MBT-3000 a.k.a VT-3. Sadly, the Ukranians could not match their production numbers (they could make only 5 per year) and so the contract stalled.

India buys the T90 because of political considerations.

VT-4 only recently became operational, and is a massive improvement over the VT-3 and employs many Western concepts, however, it is new hence its lack of sales.

According to you the T90 is better than the T-14 because nobody has purchased the T-14.

africaken:
listen here @#$%, i have america friends who buy this rifles and scopes like toys.who i consulted.

africaken:
uncle sam's M1 abram tank hit and ammo cook off

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEdfCw0nsoM

africaken:
heavily sloped bull s@#$ that tank was hit on the rear,thats why we saw ammo cook off .just the M1 abram i posted ,also one can clearly see the tank is heading the opposite direction from where the TOW's are

africaken:
basically you want to tell us that the 40 tanks thailand want to procure from ukraine ,should define a tank quality .when india is procuring in the hundreds !

patches689:


Blow out panels working exactly as designed.

You can see that the fire does not get into the crew compartment

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tno6Iq8yVCw

patches689:


Now, I want to tell you that the trials that compared the T-84, T-90 and VT-3 define tank quality.

The 2015 International Army Games, organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense and held on 11 different firing ranges throughout Russia, came to a close on August 15 with the Russian team winning the most prestigious competition of the 14-day games — the tank biathlon — RT reports.

“The Russians overtook Kazakhstan, which had led the pack earlier, at the beginning of the second stage, and remained in front till the end, clocking an impressive time of 1 hour and 14 minutes,” according to RT. “The Chinese team came in second for the day, with the Serbian tank crew completing the podium.”

However, at the end of last year’s competition, Chinese soldiers admitted that the[b]Type 96A is underpowered in comparison to its Russian counterparts[/b](See: “Russia to Host World Military Games: China Brought its Own Tank”).

africaken:
it does get into the crew compartment ! is it the reason that crew personnel is fleeing

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tno6Iq8yVCw

africaken:




http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/russia-beats-china-in-this-years-international-army-games/

patches689:


The personel flee because:

1. Their tank is now useless

2. THE TANK IS ON FIRE

If the fire was in the crew compartment THEY WOULD BE ON FIRE AS WELL (this is known to kill the tank crew)

The fact that they have the ability to flee says allot about the Abrams, and as I said, shows the blow-out panels doing their job.

africaken:
i have seen crew personnel flee from a burning T-72 you @#$%,thats just one crew member where are the rest !

patches689:


please dont get emotional

It obscures your sight picture, simple as that

africaken:

patches689:


Driving the tank as you see later in the video

Anyway, why are we talking about T-72's? I thought we were talking about T-90's?