Tanks in Syrian Revolt

[Siddar]

Firt explosion is standard AT mine under 3rd roadwheel. Looks like mantle cover cought fire somehow as after effect...

Shower of sparks during hit (it apears it hit front turret, where right SGD ckyster is) seems to be from L-4 searchlight falling apart.

Final explosion looks quite suspicious.

 

It's fake the blast at end is the initial blast of the videos smaller blast that hits that tank. It only lasts a fraction of a second but if you hit pause at just the right time you can see it. Video was edited to show the large blast happening latter as another entirely new explosion. Frame is frozen because you likely wouldn't even be able to see it if video didn't freeze.

[Jim Warford]

I've just finished watching several video clips showing shaped charge weapons hitting a variety of different tanks. The vast majority of impacts do not result in the shower of sparks that we see in this video. There certainly is a bright flash and a lot of smoke, but not the fireworks that we see here. Based on this quick bit of research, this doesn't look like a shaped charge impact...more likely another tank or even an anti-tank gun.

 

Shot at 2012-07-12

Edited July 13, 2012 by Jim Warford

[bojan]

IMO searchlight bulb exploded.

[Paul G.]

At first I thought the tank launched it's smoke dischargers...but then the obvious lack of smoke gave it away.

[Rod]

Regardless if the last frame was photoshoped or not it seems (from the limited video we have) that there is no infantry support which is kind of weird given the MOUT that the Syrian Army is facing.

 

I wonder if this is just a tactical mistake or if the Syrian Army cannot find enough men willing to charge into enemy territory to "clean-up" the area (rather wait for the artillery to flatten the entire village/city before moving in).

[Harkonnen]

IMO searchlight bulb exploded.

 

 

It is insane version by Fofanov?

[Harkonnen]

Regardless if the last frame was photoshoped or not it seems (from the limited video we have) that there is no infantry support which is kind of weird given the MOUT that the Syrian Army is facing.

 

I wonder if this is just a tactical mistake or if the Syrian Army cannot find enough men willing to charge into enemy territory to "clean-up" the area (rather wait for the artillery to flatten the entire village/city before moving in).

 

What if thay have a lot of armor and want to save infantry?

Edited July 13, 2012 by Harkonnen

[bojan]

...It is insane version by Fofanov?

 

???

I have seen few high-power halogen light bulb explosions and I have to say it looks pretty similar.

[Harkonnen]

...It is insane version by Fofanov?

 

???

I have seen few high-power halogen light bulb explosions and I have to say it looks pretty similar.

 

 

Not funny

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a7_1342200537

[bojan]

OK, watching on this better quality video it sparks do not look like sparks from exploding light bulb )sparks should be more blue).

Now what it is since I have never seen similar looking explosion?

[Djuice]

RPG hits on T-72...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYCNc1F2bNs&feature=player_embedded

 

RIP to the poor sod manning cupola MG.

[Jim Warford]

More Syrian tanks:

 

Syrian Army T-72 KO:

Shot at 2012-07-15

 

T-62 captured by anti-government forces:

Shot at 2012-07-15

 

Syrian Army T-72 on maneuvers:

Shot at 2012-07-15

Edited July 15, 2012 by Jim Warford

[Rod]

Seems to me that the situation is deteriorating quickly and Assad forces trained to fight a conventional war against Israel or to just ruthlessly put down unarmed demonstrators have no idea how to deal with a resourceful insurgency akin in Iraq. Seems that their combat tactic is to just pulverize an area with artillery then send tanks and the shabiha militia to indiscriminately murder anyone who could be a rebel or sympathizer.

[Djuice]

Syrian Army T-72 parked in Damascus

 

[L.V.]

Typical propellant fire and aftereffects.

But what is a vehicle? At first I was thinking it was a T-72, but looking again it looks wrong for it, more looking like APC (BMP-2?) but shape still looks wrong), in which case it was probably loaded with a lot of ammo.

As for cause it looks like EFP bottom attack mine.

 

The cook off was really violent and blew the tank into pieces. The tank in

seems to be loaded with a lot of ammunition as well and receives an ATGM hit, but what ensues is not an explosion but a rapid burning of the onboard propellant charges. What factors determine if the tank is really going to disintegrate or "merely" have its propellants burned? Edited July 23, 2012 by L.V.

[Galen.Wright]

Not tank-related per se, but some of the more interesting items that's turned up in insurgent weapons caches are Israeli-made 100mm HE rounds. One can only guess at how they got their hands on those. I'm unfamiliar with the details of Israeli AFVs - did they actually produce these type of rounds for domestic use in captured T-54/54s (before they were upgunned with the 105s), or would these be export only?

 

(on a side note, the mortars in the foreground are nearly identical, safe for the lettering, to the Iranian-made mortars recovered in Lebanon/Palestine, and in Iraq.)

 

Edited July 24, 2012 by Galen.Wright

[JW Collins]

Have any of the Republican Guard armored divisions been pulled back from the border with Israel? How likely is that to occur?

[crazyinsane105]

Have any of the Republican Guard armored divisions been pulled back from the border with Israel? How likely is that to occur?

 

I think Assad has pulled back the majority of his troops from the Israeli border to take on the rebels, last I read.

[bojan]

Israely 100mm HE probably originats from Lebanon.

Iranian 120mm mortar is copy of Israeli 120mm, licenced furing Shah times.

Israelis made 100mm ammo for 100mm BS-3 ATGs they had in service for a while.

[Simon Tan]

South Lebanon Army stocks taken in by the Lebanese Army, which is busy selling them out the back gate. Dont worry, the UN will soon have a man to track all this.

[Jim Warford]

Syrian Army T-55AMV_July 2012:

Shot at 2012-08-04

 

Syrian Army T-72 KO sequence_July 2012:

Shot at 2012-08-04

[Jim Warford]

Finally, we get a glimpse of the Syrian Army T-72 TURMS-T tanks. These images, along with the one apparently from the same group of tanks that Hark posted earlier, show these mysterious tanks for the first time. While photos of Syrian T-72s have histoically been very rare, photos of these upgraded tanks have been pretty much non-existent. I remember when the word got about about the deal between Syria and Galileo-Avionica for the upgrade of 122 T-72s (signed in 1998 according to Jane's). I've always wondered how well these TURMS-T tanks would do in combat...maybe we'll find out.

 

Shot at 2012-08-04

[Yalmuk]

That T-55 has more ERA than many Syrian army T-72's I have seen.

[Rod]

In the 1st picture, what is that tube to the left of the turret? An ATGM-mount?

 

Syrian Army T-55AMV_July 2012:

 

Shot at 2012-08-04

 

Syrian Army T-72 KO sequence_July 2012:

Shot at 2012-08-04

[Max H]

Deep fording snorkel.