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captain-price-unofficially · 3 days

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Significantly uparmored BTR-80

#BTR-80 #APC #russian armor #improvised armor #modern

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2022dirt · 7 months

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German armor from the 16th century.

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awesome-casuallyfamouscollector · 7 months

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Destroyed Russian BMD-4 airborne infantry fighting vehicle, Pravdyne, Kherson region, Ukraine, 2023. Source: ukr.warspotting.net

P.S. By 598 day of war, Russian imperialists had lost 9337 infantry fighting vehicles and APCs in Ukraine, most of their crew members are killed or wounded. Although Russian armored vehicles are of poor quality and cheap, these losses are generally very expensive for Russian war criminals...

#Ukraine #russian invasion #russian defeat #russian armor #BMD-4 #infantry fighting vehicle #ukrainian independence war #russian losses #military history #russian war crimes

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sebo96 · 5 months

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#medieval #history memes #russian armor #armored core #plate armor #female armor

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blueiskewl · 1 year

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A Russian T-90A tank is destroyed by Ukrainian forces on the front line.

#ukraine #russia #russian war on ukraine #the front line #tank #t-90 #armor #russian tank destroyed #russian armor #war #world at war #weapons #battle #fighting #the end

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reactor-four-official · 1 year

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The Only Successful Chernobyl Robot: The Toy Tank

Chernobyl is a notable example of the use of robots to clean up and scout out areas hazardous to human workers. The robots of Chernobyl are infamous amongst the Liquidators who worked with them for their unreliability and expense. Because of their cost and the way Soviet procurement worked, any robot that failed while being used had to be retrieved by the Liquidators. Since most of the robots died in high radiation areas, many men were 'burned' (met their radiation quotas) just to get them into relative safety where they could be repaired or scrapped. There is, however, one notable exception to this trend; the Toy Tank (seen in the photo above).

Purchased by a liquidator in Kiev for 12 rubles (~$5) in 1986 after the Chernobyl disaster, this plastic tank had a short cord attaching it to its remote controller. It could move forwards and backwards, turn, and rattle to imitate firing its gun. After being brought to the Chernobyl Zone, it was quickly retrofitted for use at the CHNPP. The controller wire was extended to ten meters, and the tank was retrofitted with a flashlight, thermometer, and dosimeter. Using these tools, the tank could be sent ahead of exploration teams in the warren of rooms and hallways of Unit 4 as a 'hunting dog' to do primitive dosimetric and temperature exploration. This allowed the Liquidators to move with far more safety and caution into the depths of Unit 4.

The tank was procured and used by the Chernobyl Sarcophagus Exploration Team, a group of scientists from the Kurchatov Institute tasked with locating and monitoring the uranium fuel of Reactor 4 within the Unit Block. Nuclear fuel gives off radiation and heat, and so the tank was used to keep the team out of any unexplored rooms that may have contained these hazards. The tank was by all accounts extremely effective, and as an added bonus was far easier to decontaminate than the complex robots provided by various science ministries.

The performed its task deftly and with great success until the spring of 1987, when it became impossible to decontaminate any further. It was entombed in the Sarcophagus which it so dutifully explored.

This may seem like an urban legend or a wacky story made up by a tour guide, but it is in fact corroborated by countless memoirs and interviews with Liquidators. Also, no discredit to the other robots that served admirably at Chernobyl. There were probably other, equally as effective robots used in the zone, but this is the one most people who worked at the CHNPP itself speak of with any form of reverence.

Borovoi, A. A. (2017). Chapter 5: Robots. In My Chernobyl: The human story of a scientist and the Nuclear Power Plant Catastrophe (pp. 68–69). essay, Piscataqua Press.

BONUS STORY!

The Toy Tank does have a big brother, three (some sources say four) ISU-152 self propelled gun that were used to demolish large buildings in the Chernobyl Zone.

Below: One of the ISU-152 'Demolition Tanks' used in the Chernobyl Zone. The New Safe Confinement covering Unit 4 can be seen in the background.

Click here for more info on the ISU-152s

#chernobyl #tank destroyer #radiation #history #toy tank #armored vehicle #accidents and disasters #russian armor #disasters #chnpp #sarcophagus exploration team #chernobyl hbo #autism #disaster #nuclear #kurchatov institute #alexander borovoi

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rew0205 · 2 days

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#digital art #artwork #drawing #illustration #fantasy art #cyberpunk #art #scifi #science fiction #cyberpunk aesthetic #armor #plate armor #armored core #shining armor #russian armor

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holygayrightsbatman · 5 months

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me turning up to the gay club embarrassed because i mistook what "bear hunting" meant

#siberia #siberian bear hunting #beat hunting armour #russian armor #armour #armor #history #1800s #russian history #jay.txt

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warcrimerapist · 1 year

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#z #russian soldier #russian armor

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 2 years

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The crew of the BA-10 armored car with a shepherd

📸 Emmanuel Yevzerikhin

#photography #WW II #Russian armor #Red Army #Soldiers #Dog Soldier #armored car #Crew #WW 2 #warfare #conflict #internacional #second world war #black and white photography #b&w photography

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head-post · 4 months

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Russia shelled Ukraine with missiles, the biggest attack in months

At least 10 people died and dozens were wounded when Russia fired drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities on Friday delivering the largest attack within the past few months.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that 110 missiles were fired at major cities, including Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv. He also stated that Russia had used “everything it has in its arsenal,” including drones, cruise missiles and S-300 surface-to-air weapon systems.

Yuriy Ignat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, claimed Russia launched a wave of drones followed by missiles. The shelling hit at least five other cities, including Lviv in the west and Odesa on the Black Sea coast.

We haven’t seen so much red on our monitors for a long time.

The overnight attack came days after a Ukrainian strike damaged a Russian navy warship in Crimea.