Russian Photos (updated on regular basis)

[GeroyiDnepra]

Raden, after seeing so many of your posts, I always wonder, what does the number mean in things like this "Thursday 65"

[Raden5]

The first series was called "The Russian army, and other strange things..."

[Andy_UA]

Interpolitech-2011

[JCR]

Exactly the right footwear for shooting

[Maximmmm]

I love this plane. I used to have a beautiful metal model of it, with the left wing broken off, when I was a kid. Somewhere, somehow I lost it...

[Khathi]

it's getting pathetic. MoD is like a guy who drives lada and thinks that other cars are too complex and expensive. Is Russian weapon makers are so desperate that everything that they produce is too complicated and too expensive or MoD is just playing a r3tard like in early 90ties? How in the sane mind you would think that BTR-90 doesn't have big advantages over btr-80/82 ?

No, it's called "budget consciousness". One genuinely good thing about Serdyukov is that the man knows his accounting. And that he finally put a kibosh on an industry's widespread practice of rolling out mediocre tech, usually just slightly restyled Soviet one, putting an exorbitant price on it and bragging around like no tomorrow. That infamous "has no analogues in the world" shtick has long became old, y'know. Industry still uses it, but no one buys anything on it alone anymore. BTR-90 might be uparmored and upgunned, but in its core it is still very much the same old BTR, and its mine resistance is still nothing to write home about. However, it costs literally several times more than old BTR-80, and there's simply nothing in it to justify this expense. So its problem is simply in not being good enough for its list price.

[JCR]

Has there been any attempt to upgrade existing BTRs?
Like the Fuchs A8 uparmored mine protected vehicles german ISAF forces use, for example.
The Fuchs is similar in concept so if you can get one old war horse up to date, you might do it with a BTR as well.
Sofar all the updates I have seen were adding a 30mm turret, but not armor.

[Elbs]

All new 5th generation Russian hottie revealed.

[GeroyiDnepra]

The first series was called "The Russian army, and other strange things..."

Okay... so what does the number stand for?

[Rubick]

[Aenique]

Has there been any attempt to upgrade existing BTRs?
Like the Fuchs A8 uparmored mine protected vehicles german ISAF forces use, for example.
The Fuchs is similar in concept so if you can get one old war horse up to date, you might do it with a BTR as well.
Sofar all the updates I have seen were adding a 30mm turret, but not armor.

I believe the BTR-82 and -82A are the latest BTR-80 updates, both of them equipped with the unmanned BTR-80A turret (-82A with the 20mm and -82 with the 14,5mm gun), new engine and new electronic gizmos including improved night-vision capability. Not sure about the protection issues though, those'll probably have to wait 'till a new vehicle arrives.

[Raden5]

Okay... so what does the number stand for?

Interesting question. Probably - 65th thursday.

P.S. It's a bit - 1625 photo.

[void]

it's getting pathetic. MoD is like a guy who drives lada and thinks that other cars are too complex and expensive. Is Russian weapon makers are so desperate that everything that they produce is too complicated and too expensive or MoD is just playing a r3tard like in early 90ties? How in the sane mind you would think that BTR-90 doesn't have big advantages over btr-80/82 ?

The BTR-90 had several dis-advantages. I think it had a higher silhouette than the BTR-80, it had a Rube-Goldberg suspension, and it was expensive.

[GeroyiDnepra]

Interesting question. Probably - 65th thursday.

P.S. It's a bit - 1625 photo.

Ohh.. okay. Thanks

[Rubick]

New medium weight APC is being developed so no point in buyig BTR-90 now or years ago when the army finaly had some money to buy something.