Crisis In Ukraine-The Photos

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Edited August 24, 2014 by h18w777

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[Tony Evans]

"Batalyon Vostok" ("Battalion East")!? Cute.

 

Politics aside, I find the prominence of BMDs intriguing.

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Couple of these are from the Independence Day parade practice.

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These photos look like what the Liaison Missions were taking in East Germany. If so, time for your briefing!

 

A freight car loaded with self-propelled howitzers is seen at a railway station in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the border with Ukraine, August 24, 2014.

 

Russian soldiers are pictured next to a tank in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the border with Ukraine, August 23, 2014.

 

Freight cars loaded with self-propelled howitzers are seen at a railway station in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, near the border with Ukraine, August 23, 2014.

 

A Russian soldier guards a mobile radar near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region, August 23, 2014.

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[Gavin-Phillips]

That's a big radar setup for it being a "mobile" unit. Truck & trailer mounted then?

[Tony Evans]

Purely guessing, but one wonders if the Airborne, as in the Russian Army, have received greater resources than the ordinary line outfits. Or maybe the BMDs are just easier to get parts for.

 

It will be interesting to learn when all this is over, how combat effective (or not) they have been. I cant say I like the idea of being in one that is on fire, but its not like a BMP is great for that either.

 

I think it may be that the airborne are just better more competent -- by whatever standard of competence applies there -- so they tend to be frequently committed.

 

Riding around in lightly armored AFVs carries with it the risk of finding yourself in one that is on fire. At that point, I would think that the BMD is better than some. A lot more hatches, for one thing. But, in any case, APCs are always full of ammo, so I wouldn't look at one particular model as being more risky than another.

[Gavin-Phillips]

Re: radar. I've taken a look on Google Images of the Big Bird system and it looks like the array on Big Bird is larger than the one on the Russian border with Ukraine; that is unless the actual arrays themselves can be different sizes depending on what they're scanning for? Of course the angle of the picture and the tarp cover doesn't help with identification either.

[geronimo]

That radar is the 1L119 "Nebo-SVU". It's usually associated with SA-11/17 and SA-12 systems.

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Screen grab from an interesting video. It is jerky and fuzzy, but the experts will be able to use it for recognition. Link to video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-yofb3HzU

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[jmcmtank]

Screen grab from an interesting video. It is jerky and fuzzy, but the experts will be able to use it for recognition. Link to video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-yofb3HzU

Is anyone able to confirm from this shot that the tank is T-72BA? If so it cannot have come from Ukrainian stocks, they have some B models.

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[Bzdziuchanson]

 

 

Nice Kontakt-5.

[bojan]

Is anyone able to confirm from this shot that the tank is T-72BA? If so it cannot have come from Ukrainian stocks, they have some B models.

 

One on pic? Bog standard T-72B1.

[Roman Alymov]

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Members of Ukrainian volunteer battalion Dnipro stand in a truck covered in steel plates near the small southern Ukrainian city of Novoazovsk, Donetsk region, on August 27, 2014

 

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[Roman Alymov]

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There are literally hundreds of photos on Twitter. Presently I am having some difficulty capturing those images, but here are a few showing destroyed and captured equipment.

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