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G'day Mate Sad day indeed, I am offering my condolence to all the victim, dead or wounded, their family and the people in France. Although I do not generally comment on topic outside military related topic, I just want to say to those people who blame France for the tragic incident that. We...

G'day Mate In any situation that require a tank to stop, if the tank is occupied, this would require both the loader and commander to turn out, and maintain a 360 degrees perimeter. Like in the picture below. Had the tank not occupied, the crew have to either camouflage the tank by putting...

G'day Mate May I ask what is the point of this thread? Davos

G'day mate To most tank rat, IED on the ground is the biggest problem. The top armour is still thicker than the belly armour, or more possibly, the same thickness, but with a unique way a tank built, everywhere near your own tank is a blind spot. I can still scan threat on top of me if I was...

G'day Mate Tanks or Armoured Vehicle can be and did use in urban warfare, more specifically close quarter combat (CQC). But when used in CQC, tank will not be used alone, but also with accompanied infantry, artillery, air support and combat engineer. Tank were mainly used to provide cover for...

G'day Mate That was a controlled demolition of an unsalvageable M1 Tank Which is basically a locker cook off by combat engineers Davos

G'day Mate We have those tank too, usually outside the local RSL club, we gave away all 100 Leopard I to be a museum piece to the local RSL. Originally we had plan for more Abrams, a whole regiment of 120 tanks were ordered, but it kept trimmed by the federal government and finally we went...

G'day Mate Funny enough, DPCU or AUSCAM worked, but only to Australian Landscape DPCU or Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform were designed in the 70s and 80s after the US duck hunter pattern. The colour scheme is selected by geologist by aerial photography. The DPCU which uses a disruptive...

G'day mate; Depending on which country you are asking for, it is useless for western doctrine, but standard and essential complement for Russian or similar doctrine. In the west, mostly the United States, armoured warfare doctrine assume armoured vehicle would operate under air supremacy...

G'day Mate I am not saying Chinese Trade are peanuts, but it wasn't as essentially as the former member said Australian are totally depends on it. Foreign trade only made up about 20% of GDP, and nearly 70% goes into service sectors, and about half of those trade between China and Australia...

G'day Mate Australian economy is largely independent to China, and certainly not junk. We are the fifth richest country per capita in the world, and Australia has a median wealth of 4 times of that to the United States. Mining Boom is over for almost 2 years, the driving force of Australian...

G'day mate I guess the Russian tank can probably defeat the A1 or A2 version, which actually been done by the British and rumour has it is that the relikt exposive armour on M90S can deflect a DU A2 variant. But I think it would be a bit bleak that the relikt can defeat an A3. Also, the...

G'day mate That's depends on the weight of the crew and the turret. All in all, normally a tank is quite heavy on the back, the engine and ammo locker is quite heavy and you cannot put more armour up front to balance it too or the tank will dig in while you are on the move Davos

G'day Mate; First of all, thank you for tagging me with your question. From what I have read in the past 2 hours, the AKKOR system works with in 3 parts, a sensor that sense the target, an interceptor that smartly intercept the target and the HE projectile that destroy the target. And it...

G'day Mate; Indeed. That crews seems to mistime their acceleration and the tank then got stuck. Bear in mind there are usually 4 gears forward and 2 gears reverse, there are not much room for mistake, usually the driver lined up the tank with the thread and then ram the back onto the...

G'day The tank in the video is beached. It's like you hit an anti-armoured ditch. The back of a tank was the heaviest, that's where the ammunition, armour and engine were. If you hit an angle rear-ending the tank, the tank will beach. And you don't generally load a tank from the front too...

G'day Mate It's a lot more complicated than that. Are bigger tank gun more powerful? Not necessarily. What the gun can do is only limited to how fast the muzzle velocity and also the trajectory. The term power is not determined by the gun itself, but the round instead. For example, the...

G'day Mate By save up I meant it would spare a man to operate other vehicle. I did not mean it will literally save a man. So, for a 12 men company, the Russian can operate 4 tanks or 3 tanks plus one mobile SAM instead of NATO's 3 tanks formation. Davos

G'day Mate Being used by many of the country does not means the system is without flaw, there are traditional flaw associated with known autoloader design, being used by many country would not change that fact, it's just means that those country see that the benefit outweighed the flaw...

G'day Mate It's quite depends, we don't know if the Russian are simply using an improved version of autoloader, like the one Leclerc is using at the moment, or they have developed a brand new system altogether, judging from the schematic and the size of the tank, I doubt the Russian is using...