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captain-price-unofficially · 4 months

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Testing the stopping distance for the 65+ ton Challenger 2 at full speed.

#challenger 2 #tanks #british armor #british tanks #modern

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tomorrowusa · 11 months

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^^^ from @DefenceU – Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence.

Russia has fortified its front lines with anti-tank “dragon’s teeth”. Ukraine is practicing conducting extractions.

Russia still feels that it can reverse its sagging military fortunes by bombing Ukrainian healthcare facilities.

Ukraine war: Russia destroys hospital in latest missile attack

There is little difference between the tactics of Russia and the tactics of ISIS.

#invasion of ukraine #challenger 2 #dragon's teeth #russia is a terrorist state #dnipro #vladimir putin #putin is a war criminal #владимир путин #путин хуйло #россия - террористическая страна #путин - военный преступник #нет убийцам #союз постсоветских клептократических ватников #россия проигрывает войну #дніпро #вторгнення оркостану в україну #україна переможе #слава україні!#героям слава!

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jcmarchi · 5 months

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Abrams Tanks May Have Some Problems in Ukraine - How Serious Are They? - Technology Org

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Abrams Tanks May Have Some Problems in Ukraine - How Serious Are They? - Technology Org

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are using a bunch of different types of Western tanks. Those include German Leopard 1 and 2 tanks, British Challenger 2 and, of course, at least 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks. All of these tanks have certain peculiarities about them and crews have to be prepared for each of these types individually. However, the Abrams main battle tank may pose the most serious problems.

Ukraine absolutely needs main battle tanks. The more the better. And the more advanced the better. However, the West lived in peace for so long that the tank reserves are not that great. NATO countries don’t have that many tanks to spare actually.

On top of that, the choices of which tanks to supply need to be made in a smart way, because Ukraine does not have any experience with the Western-designed tanks, there is no servicing or ammo supply infrastructure there.

M1 Abrams tanks are special in many ways. They also require special care. Image credit: Oregon National Guard via Wikimedia

And now the Ukrainian Ground Forces have a mish-mash of tanks, which have their own peculiarities:

The Leopard 1A5 is not only the oldest in its architecture, but also has a rifled 105 mm gun. This means that it needs special ammunition, which is not common in NATO anymore.

The Leopard 2s are the most standard, but Ukraine is getting a bunch of different versions of this tank, including 2A4s, 2A5s, 2A5s (Stridsvagn 122) and 2A6s. There are differences between these versions that need to be learned in training.

The Challenger 2 is of the same era as the Leopard 2, but it uses a rifled 120 mm gun, which also required special ammunition.

Finally, the M1A1 Abrams can share ammo with the Leopard 2, but has a multi-fuel turbine engine, instead of a regular reciprocating engine with cylinders and pistons.

Abrams tanks can burn any fuel – diesel, petrol, vodka, doesn’t matter. They are powerful and resilient. However, these gas turbine engines do need a lot of care.

Forbes writes that despite the engines in the Abrams tanks costing an unbelievable amount of money, they can succumb to dust and debris if the crews don’t maintain the filters very well. This is something crews learn during long months of training, but the Ukrainian tankmen had to learn this very quickly.

If the tank filters are not cleaned every 12 hours or so, the damage can be so severe that the engine and possibly the transmission will need to be replaced. Obviously, in a battlefield that could bring the tank to a tragic ending.

How do you clean the filters? Ukrainian Abrams crews will have to rev the tank’s engine to redline twice a day to start the pulse-jet system and blow air through the filters clearing out the dust and debris.

Power unit of the Abrams tank out of the hull. Image credit: Lance Cpl. Zachery Laning via Wikimedia

Even with the filters being kept up to, the Arbams will cause some issues to the Ukrainian Ground Forces. These tanks use a lot of fuel and require deep maintenance, which will have to be performed in Poland. Getting them there will not be easy either, because the Abrams is rather heavy at over 62 tonnes.

However, the effectiveness of the main battle tank mostly depends on the tactics. And if the defenders of Ukraine manage to exploit the strong sides of the Abrams well, these tanks will do a lot of damage to the Russian invaders.

Written by Povilas M.

Sources: Focus.ua, Wikipedia

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taiwantalk · 8 months

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sometimes, we need to enjoy a little irreverent over the top content to reinforce our support for ukraine.

notice the mission impossible background music. very funny.

#russia #ukraine #taiwantalk #challenger 2 #dragon's teech #mission impossible #youtube short #irreverent #over the top content

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warsofasoiaf · 5 months

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How come the British Challenger 2 tank has a rifled fun? And how come the United States, NATO members (excluding the UK) and pretty much everyone else use smoothbore guns for their tanks?

From what I know, rifled guns have a longer range and would it not make more sense to equip tanks with rifled guns?

Because the Challenger 2 uses (among others) a High-Explosive Squid Head round that requires a rifled barrel. But depending on the range and type of mission, no, you don't necessarily need to rifle your main gun barrels on your MBT's.

Thanks for the question, Dark.

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#tank #challenger 2 #technology #engineering

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main-battle-tank · 2 years

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#Challenger 2 #Warrior

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gadgetshowtech · 1 year

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Which Tanks are Germany, UK and the United States sending to Ukraine in hope to Change the Course of War

Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States are to send tanks to support Ukraine in the first phase of a coordinated effort by the West to provide dozens of the heavy weapons to help Kyiv counter Russian aggression as international reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront falls away. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy applauded Biden, commenting on Twitter that “the free world is…

#Army #Army Vehicles #battle tanks #Challenger 2 #Equipment #French #Germany #Leopard 2 #M1 Abrams #Marine Corps #military #news #Tanks #UK #Ukraine #USA #Vehicles #war

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memenewsdotcom · 1 year

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UK sending depleted uranium rounds to Ukraine

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#challenger 2 #depleted uranium #meme #memes #news #nuclear #Putin #russia #tank #UK #ukraine #united kingdom #weapons

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xh1dos · 1 year

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NATO exercises military trainings on Leopard 2, Challenger 2 and Leclerc tanks

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optimabatteries · 2 years

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Danny Thompson's OPTIMA Batteries-sponsored Challenger 2 land speed racing streamliner at the 2020 Mecum Auction in Kissimmee, Florida. Watch the video here.

#Danny Thompson #Land speed record #Challenger 2 #Mecum Auction

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captain-price-unofficially · 27 days

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British-supplied Challenger 2 MBT in service with the Ukrainian 82nd Air Assault Brigade, moving near the front

#challenger 2 #tanks #british armor #british tanks #modern #russo-ukrainian war

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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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From @oleksiireznikov – trolling Russia for having to use tanks built in the 1950s and 1960s to prop up its faltering invasion of Ukraine.

Commentators on state-run Russian TV were talking about deploying tanks currently used as war memorial monuments in Russian towns for WWII. 🫣

The UK is not only sending to Ukraine 14 sophisticated Challenger 2 tanks, it is giving Ukrainian tank crews advanced training on how to operate them.

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They will be opposing Russia’s Khrushchev-era tanks which have poorly trained and half-drunk crews.

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ladiesandgenerals · 1 year

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#challenger 2

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blackmetalbaker · 2 years

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Historically inaccurate camo

The machine gun on top is about one and a half pennies long and actually moves

Accidentally glued the gun in place

For being my first full airbrush paint job I'm absolutely thrilled with this

#challenger 2 #mbt #tank #modeling #models

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awesome-casuallyfamouscollector · 2 years

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Exercise Hedgehog: Multinational elite NATO training on Russia’s border

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Exercise Hedgehog is one of the largest military exercises to have ever taken place in the Baltics. Exercise Hedgehog sees 15,000 troops from 14 countries come together on the Estonia-Latvia border. The UK recently doubled its military presence in the eastern European country in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine(..)

#Estonia #defense of europe #UK #NATO #russian threats #russian invasion #Baltic States #Northern Europe #forest #Challenger 2 #hedgehog #Ukraine

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head-post · 2 months

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Ukrainian armed forces sank Challenger 2 tank right during demonstration run for The Sun

The crew invited The Sun to come aboard, and journalists sat on the turret as the Challenger 2 roared over the countryside and its cannon fired rounds. The squadron’s chief engineer, who uses the call sign Chol, said:

There are pluses and minuses with everything, and the minus is its mobility — its ability to manoeuvre across ground. They keep getting stuck in the mud because it is so heavy.

But journalists soon became convinced that the soldiers meant mobility when it plunged into the mire.

Kayfarick rebuked the rookies for driving too slowly down the ravine, although they said they drove slowly for fear of bumping the journalists. Another tank of the same type had to be called in to extract the Challenger from the quagmire.

However, Challenger Squadron told The Sun that only 7 of the 14 tanks handed over in March 2023 are still operational. Ukrainian soldiers recently drowned a British Challenger in mud near Robotyne.