Well yeah but let's be honest with ourselves, the Namer is just a tank without a turrey and seats in the basket and ammo compartments. There is also a Namer IFV version too
not really, the hull is loosely based on the merkava, but it's heavily modified and made from scratch for that. it's just extremely heavy for an APC.
there is only one functional namer IFV(out of 2 made) in the IDF and it doesn't seem they're planning in making more. the entire manufacturing line is the Namer MTU(aka namer mk2)
and the retrofit section's only work on the namer is either retrofitting Trophy systems on namers or converting old Namers to the engineering vehicle modification
Artillery and artillery forward observers arrayed across the battle space behind extensive fortifications for infantry personnel. The entire forward edge of the battle area and miles on both side of the FEBA is under 24 hour surveillance.
" It is typical for there to be between 25 and 50 UAVs from both sides operating over the contested area between the forward line of own troops (FLOT) and forward line of enemy troops (FLET) at any given time for each 10 km of frontage." Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies Special Report dated 19 May 2023
Air defense systems in depth and extensive enough to prevent Ukrainian air forces from attacking Russian artillery batteries.
Extensive mine fields that include anti tank mines mixed in with anti personnel mines.
Mix old tanks into the infantry fortifications. Photos of long train cars of old T54's being delivered to the Russian defensive area. Cue "HAR, Har dumb Russsies using 80 year old tanks."
As long as the Russians have forward observers and artillery arrayed across the battle space armor will not have a great effect.
Artillery trumps armor every time. As long as the Russians can prevent Ukrainian air to surface attacks on their artillery and have an artillery advantage the Russians will control the battle space.
Also consider a modern tank division that numbers 400 modern main battle tanks requires 600,000 gallons of fuel to operate every day. You are talking about 100 fuel trucks that only carry 5,000 gallons of fuel at a time operating near the forward edge of the battle space along with their support personnel and equipment.
As long as the Russians have artillery and forward observers and can prevent Ukrainian air forces from engaging their artillery the advantage is to the Russians, by a long shot. Meat grinder it is.
You do realise Rusi is a collaboration of experts that all report their own efforts individually and you can find anything from realistic analysis to borderline schizo theories right.
US ERA package used in Iraq is so heavy that it kills offroad mobility of Bradley. It simply overloads the suspension, you aren't driving over bumps when suspension is almost bottomed out by default.
Not enough kontakt
there was some confusion with a sign at Lviv airport that read NO BUSKING
>wooden logs on the side
fricking rad
Why no APS?
Because APS wasn't a thing in Desert Storm and Ukraine has been getting ODS Brads
Even the US's Brads don't have APS yet.
Not until 2025 at the earliest but no other mass fielded IFV has APS either. The US will be the first to mass issue it.
i know you said IFV and not APC, but the namer has hundreds of units made and most of them have trophy
Well yeah but let's be honest with ourselves, the Namer is just a tank without a turrey and seats in the basket and ammo compartments. There is also a Namer IFV version too
not really, the hull is loosely based on the merkava, but it's heavily modified and made from scratch for that. it's just extremely heavy for an APC.
there is only one functional namer IFV(out of 2 made) in the IDF and it doesn't seem they're planning in making more. the entire manufacturing line is the Namer MTU(aka namer mk2)
and the retrofit section's only work on the namer is either retrofitting Trophy systems on namers or converting old Namers to the engineering vehicle modification
Artillery and artillery forward observers arrayed across the battle space behind extensive fortifications for infantry personnel. The entire forward edge of the battle area and miles on both side of the FEBA is under 24 hour surveillance.
" It is typical for there to be between 25 and 50 UAVs from both sides operating over the contested area between the forward line of own troops (FLOT) and forward line of enemy troops (FLET) at any given time for each 10 km of frontage." Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies Special Report dated 19 May 2023
Air defense systems in depth and extensive enough to prevent Ukrainian air forces from attacking Russian artillery batteries.
Extensive mine fields that include anti tank mines mixed in with anti personnel mines.
Mix old tanks into the infantry fortifications. Photos of long train cars of old T54's being delivered to the Russian defensive area. Cue "HAR, Har dumb Russsies using 80 year old tanks."
As long as the Russians have forward observers and artillery arrayed across the battle space armor will not have a great effect.
Artillery trumps armor every time. As long as the Russians can prevent Ukrainian air to surface attacks on their artillery and have an artillery advantage the Russians will control the battle space.
Also consider a modern tank division that numbers 400 modern main battle tanks requires 600,000 gallons of fuel to operate every day. You are talking about 100 fuel trucks that only carry 5,000 gallons of fuel at a time operating near the forward edge of the battle space along with their support personnel and equipment.
As long as the Russians have artillery and forward observers and can prevent Ukrainian air forces from engaging their artillery the advantage is to the Russians, by a long shot. Meat grinder it is.
>that RUSI report
>mixed with peak oil schizo
>old vatnik cope subtly layered in
A work of art.
You do realise Rusi is a collaboration of experts that all report their own efforts individually and you can find anything from realistic analysis to borderline schizo theories right.
unironically we need a Prius Tank. or like an Abrams with a Hydrogen engine
>an Abrams with a Hydrogen engine
Retvrn.
looks dumb
halo is dumb
u dumb
kontakt-1 needs about maybe 30mm plating, anything thinner like M2 has, and you just bolted HESH to your vehicle
The Bradley has more than sufficient armor for ERA. I’d Google a pic for you but I don’t feel like it.
I know BUSK exists, yeah
Ukies got embarrassed by the memes of the guys slapping era onto everything.
they were positive memes though westerners fricking love it, as long as it's got proper backing armor
Beat me to it.
These are some good looking vehicles.
why not just make vehicle out of ERA
they're not cope bricks anymore?
No one ever adopted that besides vatniks, and they did it to try to counter "cope cages".
they're not useless all of a sudden?
even with ERA it's not stopping ATGM warheads so why bother
I am not sure ERA was used by US forces in Iraq. It's extremely rare in any case.
Pretty sure most used ERA.
US ERA package used in Iraq is so heavy that it kills offroad mobility of Bradley. It simply overloads the suspension, you aren't driving over bumps when suspension is almost bottomed out by default.
Probably not a good idea to have it with an infantry support vehicle.
More aesthetic without ERA