Saturday, June 20, 2020
Serbian M84-AS1 MBT
Thanks to Class BOSNIT for the link!
Notes included in the e-mail sent...
Notes included in the e-mail sent...
The new version of the M84-AS1 tank is a modernized M84 tank of the Serbian Army. It is expected that the Armed Forces will soon receive a donation from the Russian Federation in the form of modernized T72 tanks and by then we hope that AS1 will be in the arsenal of the Serbian army. The planned modernization of the M84AS1 tank will now enter the testing phase and we hope that the project will come to life soon. The novelty known for now on the M84-AS1 is the new ERO armor a new DUBS-M15 station and a new MS-2 metal sensor have been added. A new optoelectronic device has also been added. The inside of the tank ie the positions of all three crew members have been totally digitized. As part of the modernization the AS1 also has completely new caterpillars and the 125mm topaz tube itself is new. It has a diesel engine V-46TK of 1000 hp which is supposed to be only strengthened for now. The drive unit will probably not change. The M84 had an operating range of about 700km. The main tank is 1200l plus additional tanks of another 400l which are not seen on the new AS1 version for now. Its maximum speed is about 70km-h although it weighs over 40 tons. The planned modernization is planned to take place in two phases.Looks like a neat modernization but I can't lie. That armor package has my interest. Anyone have details on it?
Friday, June 19, 2020
I was worried about this. Atlanta PD has entire zones uncovered in sickout...
via Star Tribune.
Atlanta police officers called out sick Thursday to protest the filing of murder charges against an officer who shot a man in the back, while the interim chief acknowledged members of the force feel abandoned amid protests demanding massive changes to policing.Here
Interim Chief Rodney Bryant told The Associated Press in an interview that the sick calls began Wednesday night and continued Thursday, but said the department has sufficient staff to protect the city. It's not clear how many officers have called out.
"Some are angry. Some are fearful. Some are confused on what we do in this space. Some may feel abandoned," Bryant said of the officers. "But we are there to assure them that we will continue to move forward and get through this."
I was worried this was coming. Worse? I can see this going nationwide. The problem? Let's say that many LEOs in your dept decide to participate in this type of action.
You (assuming you're a LEO) know the deal and know that instead of backup being a few minutes away because your buddy will drive like Mad Max to get to you, you now know it'll be 15 minutes because the closest backup is across the city?
How do you walk into that snake pit knowing that reality?
Even worse? From my chair we've seen these "pop up" mobs (I make the distinction between protests and mobs that are surrounding police cruisers/assaulting police etc..) and you're asking a force that is already under staffed to operate in even MORE understaffed condition in this environment?
I have to admit that I saw the shooting in Atlanta as justified. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the prosecutor overcharged but the end result of all this will be the same.
You can expect ever major urban area to become even more unsafe than they are today. We're on the cusp of a major crimewave and at the end of the day the reasons are irrelevant.
T-90 tanks, Su-30 fighter jets, Mi-28 helicopters, Buk-M2 air defense systems on exercise in Algeria...
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China CAPTURED 10 Indian soldiers during the recent border clash!
via Bloomberg
China’s military has released 10 Indian soldiers captured on Monday during deadly clashes between troops from the two nations along their contested Himalayan border, senior Indian officials with knowledge of the matter said.Curious.
The Indian Government did not ever confirm the troops -- including two officers -- were missing. Instead it issued a statement on Thursday saying there were no soldiers missing in action.
Their release followed talks between senior military commanders in Galwan, the officials said, asking not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.
The skirmishes with stones, iron rods and bamboo poles wrapped in barbed wire laced with nails left 20 Indian soldiers dead along with an unknown number of Chinese casualties. The scuffle is the worst border incident between the two nations in at least 45 years, and signaled a sharp deterioration in ties between the two regional giants.
The violence broke out Monday afternoon and went on until midnight on the Tibetan plateau along the freezing Galwan river.
Indian Army spokesman Aman Anand declined to comment, while India’s spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, referred Bloomberg to the one-line statement denying Indian soldiers were missing.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t respond to a request for comment.
I really can't explain this except that is magnanimous behavior on the part of the Chinese AND it appears to be an attempt at de-escalation.
Gotta give credit where it's due.
This move plays to even a critic like myself of the Chinese govt so it should play extremely well in the court of international opinion.
On the other side of the table is the Indian govt reaction.
Surely they knew that their soldiers had been captured. So why no mention of it? Did they assume that the Chinese would kill them? I don't know but its curious indeed.
More to come. Obviously alot more happened on that mountain pass than we're being told.
Single Seat A-6 Intruder variant mockup, for the program to replace the A-4...via Reddit Weird Wings...
Never heard of this before. I'm rather intrigued. If they could have kept the same avionics and fuel carriage (which I seriously doubt with regard to fuel) then this thing would have given the A-7 Corsair II a run for it's money.
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